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February 2, 2019
A great resource for Australian gardeners and cooks.
October 18, 2025
2025: I'm raising seedlings of Livingston's Golden Ball, Pearly Pink Cherry, Blue Beauty and Tassie Tiger. Hopefully they do well 🍅
2024: Stunning colour photos. Highly recommended for curling up with in front of a winter fire and dreaming about what tomatoes to plant in spring. This year I'd like to try Livingston's Golden Ball and Pearly Pink Cherry.
2021: I was expecting to just dip into this, but have now read the first section by Karen Sutherland word for word. I particularly enjoyed the snippets about different gardeners and food producers around Australia.
Legendary gardener Peter Cundall is correct - this is the ultimate book on tomatoes. It is beautifully laid out and edited, and contains information on an array of gardening styles including vegan gardening and gardening by the moon. There is also a profile of the bush tomato, which is native to some of the arid areas of Australia and is a distant relative of the true tomato.
The second section by Penny Woodward describes over 200 different heirloom tomato varieties (originally called "love apples"), and the final section by Janice Sutton contains recipes and instructions on preserving tomatoes.
Penny Woodward presented "The Joys of Herb Gardening" at the Yinnar Community Garden (of which I am Secretary) in 2013, and Karen Sutherland gave advice on the original YCG Vision Plan. It is lovely to encounter them again in this impressive "tomato encyclopaedia".
2024: Stunning colour photos. Highly recommended for curling up with in front of a winter fire and dreaming about what tomatoes to plant in spring. This year I'd like to try Livingston's Golden Ball and Pearly Pink Cherry.
2021: I was expecting to just dip into this, but have now read the first section by Karen Sutherland word for word. I particularly enjoyed the snippets about different gardeners and food producers around Australia.
Legendary gardener Peter Cundall is correct - this is the ultimate book on tomatoes. It is beautifully laid out and edited, and contains information on an array of gardening styles including vegan gardening and gardening by the moon. There is also a profile of the bush tomato, which is native to some of the arid areas of Australia and is a distant relative of the true tomato.
The second section by Penny Woodward describes over 200 different heirloom tomato varieties (originally called "love apples"), and the final section by Janice Sutton contains recipes and instructions on preserving tomatoes.
Penny Woodward presented "The Joys of Herb Gardening" at the Yinnar Community Garden (of which I am Secretary) in 2013, and Karen Sutherland gave advice on the original YCG Vision Plan. It is lovely to encounter them again in this impressive "tomato encyclopaedia".
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