Binding: Turtleback Dewey Decimal Number: 635.6427 EAN: 9780761114000 ISBN: 0761114009 Label: Workman Publishing Company Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 246 Publication Date: July 01, 1999 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Sales Rank: 58810 Studio: Workman Publishing Company
I carry this book with me!
I have a small greenhouse and sell organic heirloom tomato plants. Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden is my tomato bible! I am growing many of the plants she lists. Some I already knew about, some will be new this year, based on the information in Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden. In addition, Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden contains the simplest and clearest instructions I have found for saving seeds.
Her pictures - well, they are REAL! What a concept! Instead of pictures of these pristine tomatoes that were probably airbrushed, the pictures of her cherry tomatoes show a little crack here and there, and she unabashedly shows scarring and other blemishes. She shows top views, bottom views, and each picture shows a cut tomato so one can see the flesh. For a tomato grower like me, this is great ... Read More
Inspiring.
I love thumbing through Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden. I buy most of my seeds from Seed Savers Exchange so it is especially fun because several of the varieties I was already growing, are featured in Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden. Plus I have been inspired to try a few more. Well laid out. Beautiful book.
Will inspire you to grow tomatoes
I received Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden as a gift, after my small 4-plant tomato plot fared disastrously last summer. 1 of the 4 plants produced decent tomatoes, while the rest died unceremoniously. This year, following the recommendations in Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden, my 4 plants are all doing great, and I already have little tomatoes-to-be on 3 of the 4. For that reason alone I would recommend Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden. I wish some of the planting and tending suggestions were a little clearer; you have to piece some of them together for yourself. Nevertheless, just two of the express recommendations on their own have made a world of difference for me.
The photographs and descriptions of the different heirloom varieties are fantastic, and will inspire you to pick out some different ... Read More
100 Heirloom Tomatoes
Wonderful book written by Dr Carolyn Male. If you don't own or have not read Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden, then you really are found lacking in life!
Great Book
Enjoyed the book enough to buy another to give to my tomato-growing son. Also hooked me to the point of buying three other tomato books from Amazon. The author posts regularly on various tomato websites. Great photographs. For the price that Amazon sells Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden - you cannot go wrong.
