The Tomato Grower's Handbook: Everything you need to know, from seed to harvest and beyond
Feb 2026 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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144
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About this ebook
Homegrown tomatoes are cost-effective and delicious, and The Tomato Grower's Handbook will show you how to grow varieties that will elevate your dinner, drinks and cupboard staples.
Learn techniques such as preparing soil; sowing seeds; transplanting young plants; watering and feeding; pruning and propagating; boosting your harvest; and saving seeds for next year. Complete with:
- Varieties to try, from cherry and plum to beefsteak and oxheart
- Simple and delicious recipes for food, drink and preserves
- Essential troubleshooting advice.
Grow the ingredients for homemade Ketchup, Bloody Mary and All the Greenhouse Pasta – where even the leaves are used! Preserve your glut with recipes for Green Tomato Jam, Indian Kasundi and Slow-dried Tomatoes in Olive Oil.
The Tomato Grower's Handbook will not only get you growing, but enjoying your plants year after year – no matter what size space you're working with. This book is perfect for those wanting a little taste of nature in our fast-paced world.
Give grow-your-own a go!
Learn techniques such as preparing soil; sowing seeds; transplanting young plants; watering and feeding; pruning and propagating; boosting your harvest; and saving seeds for next year. Complete with:
- Varieties to try, from cherry and plum to beefsteak and oxheart
- Simple and delicious recipes for food, drink and preserves
- Essential troubleshooting advice.
Grow the ingredients for homemade Ketchup, Bloody Mary and All the Greenhouse Pasta – where even the leaves are used! Preserve your glut with recipes for Green Tomato Jam, Indian Kasundi and Slow-dried Tomatoes in Olive Oil.
The Tomato Grower's Handbook will not only get you growing, but enjoying your plants year after year – no matter what size space you're working with. This book is perfect for those wanting a little taste of nature in our fast-paced world.
Give grow-your-own a go!
Homegrown tomatoes are cost-effective and delicious, and The Tomato Grower's Handbook will show you how to grow varieties that will elevate your dinner, drinks and cupboard staples.
Learn techniques such as preparing soil; sowing seeds; transplanting young plants; watering and feeding; pruning a...
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About the author
Holly Farrell is an RHS Wisley-trained horticulturalist, award-winning garden writer and author of books with the RHS, RGB Kew and the Chelsea Physic Garden, including The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs. Her most recent titles are The RHS Little Book of Wild Gardening, The Herb Almanac (for Chelsea Physic Garden) and The RHS Little Book of Cut Flower Growing. She is a frequent contributor to The Simple Things magazine and was a judge on the Vegetable Forum at RHS Bridgewater.
Holly Farrell is an RHS Wisley-trained horticulturalist, award-winning garden writer and author of books with the RHS, RGB Kew and the Chelsea Physic Garden, including The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs. Her most recent titles are The RHS Little Book of Wild Gardening, The Herb Almanac (fo...
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