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When you're a city slicker and first time gardener, you need expert advice and good financial resources to grow tomatoes from seed. Learn how to grow big red all American Midwestern tomatoes by following these eight steps. See how it's done first time out. This method also helps prevent every creature created by GOD (deer, rabbits, birds and ground moles) from eating your crops. Planting guide with photo illustrations.









This is our guarantee. On any given day, you will be seated indoors or under the patio umbrella sipping your favorite beverage by 4 PM.

EIGHT STEPS TO GROWING TOMATOES

1. Start a photo journal
2. Buy seed, starter soil, humus, and manure
3. Borrow big tools, buy small tools
4. Invest in hats, gloves and Vuarnet sunglasses
5. Important: follow the advice of a real farmer, the older the better; take pictures of his or her tomato plants or scan from the family album

6. Locate and measure your sunny location
7. Fence and stake your sunny location
8. Plant your tomatoes

FEEDING FIVE THOUSAND

My prayer is that by August 10th, you will be slicing your own tomatoes from the vine, all 5,000 of them. What? Three seed packages yield 100 plants. Got canning jars?

Details to follow.

Darlene Dranda
Publisher for Prayerful Gardens