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by Amy Goldman
Amazon Price: $23.10
Customer Review: I was not sure about this book, but was interested in possibly growing heirloom tomatoes. The Heirloom Tomato turned out to be a surprisingly good book. Outstanding photography of all the varieties, plus detailed information on each tomato, its history, flavor, appearance and use. Information on raising heirlooms, saving seeds, and even breeding is included.Tomatoes have never been so interesting. Definitely a worthwhile investment, even if you don't grow any.
by Carolyn J. Male
Amazon Price: $12.89
Customer Review: This book got me hooked on vegetable gardening at the age of 62. It is simple, strauight forward,and encouraging. Dr. Male's book introduced me to heirloom tomatoes and the explantions of what to expect and how to solve or avoid problems made me feel comfortable to go forward. I bought the book two years ago, and I still go back to review and look up things that I forgot. The book also has great pictures of the tomatoes that she writes about.
by Mimi Luebbermann
Amazon Price: $11.53
Customer Review: This is a fantastic book if you love tomatoes, especially heirloom tomatoes. It has so much information inside of it. Wines to go with them, salads to make out of them, chutneys & how to make preserves, soups, salsas, bruschettas to make out of them the list goes on. They also have a chapter on "growing and cultivating". I've only had one salad out of this book since I just received it and it was delicious. If you're a tomato lover you probably would like this book of recipes too. Enjoy it!
by Amy Goldman
Amazon Price: $16.50
Customer Review: I am very happy with this book. Has nice photos and talks about how to grow melons.
by Lawrence Davis-Hollander
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Customer Review: I have read this book from cover to cover and can't wait for my tomatoes to ripen. This is my first year of growing hierloom tomatoes and "Tomato Festival Cookbook" is and excellent resource with a lot of great recipes. It also includes several lists of various people's favorite heirloom tomato choices. I am sure, some I planted will not be my favorites and will be replace by other varieties mentioned in "The Tomato Festival Cookbook" next year. What a great gift for a tomato lover, cook or tomato gardener. Even better if a person is all three!
by Lynn Coulter
Amazon Price: $20.47
Customer Review: I find myself going back to this book for reference so often while I'm researching plants to consider for planting our garden of around 1860.
I just love to read the discriptions of the plants and where they originated.
by Benjamin A Watson
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Customer Review: As an organic gardener and lover of vintage, especially within my garden beds, I found this book most helpful. It gives just the amount of info needed, not too much to read, but crucial info even for the novice gardener. I like that it lists a few companies where one can purchase heirloom seeds and I found that most are still current despite the 1996 copyright date. The photos of the dry beans are especially lovely. Combine this book with Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening and Patricia Lanza's Lasagna Gardening and you will be set.
by Rosalind Creasy
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Customer Review: When I purchased this book I thought it would help me plant a garden but it was more of a discription of each plant. It was interesting reading but didn't really help much on how to go about gardening.
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Customer Review: I decided to try growing my own garden for the first time ever this year, and I chose several varieties of unusual seeds (Rainbow peppers, purple cauliflower, ect...). Eight of the ten seeds came up, I gave away six and transplanted two, and after that, I have done extremely little with them. Pests didn't seem to care for them, the less I watered them, the better they seemed to be, and while everything else was suffering in the extreme Mississippi heat and humidity, these were thriving. I had to build two trellis/fences yesterday to contain them, as the vines were far outgrowing the melon patch and headed for the road and neighbor's yard. I have at least 12 adult sized melons, 6 in various s...
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Customer Review: The shipping time for this product was wonderful. They are now growing and we can hardly wait until they are ready to eat. Thanks.
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