Tomato Care & Repair

Most tomato plants are like demanding prima donnas. Everything needs to perfect all the time, otherwise they will play up. Add to that Tasmania’s fickle climate and you find that even the most experienced food gardener struggles at times. This blog post might help you make things ‘just right’ for your tomato plants or improve things if they tell you that they are not happy.

Twelve simple food-gardening practices

I have grown vegetables for many years and read many books on the subject, but until half a year ago I was not aware how central microbes are to growing vegetables and fruit that are nutrient-rich.  This blog post briefly discusses why soil microbes are important and then offers a range of simple things food-gardeners can do to improve the quality of the fruit and vegetables they grow.

And now improve your soil biology

Tasmanians Steve Solomon and Letetia Ware have a lot of expertise in soil biology and creating healthy soils. They have different approaches to it, but we can learn a lot from both. In this blog post I compare their approaches and come to the conclusion that they are really part of one and the same soil biology triangle.