How to Grow World Record Tomatoes: A Guinness Champion Reveals His All-Organic Secrets

Chemical free growing, is the most important way to grow today, and in this book, you will find all of the best information you will ever need.I have researched for years, and although this is a small book, it is a Power House of information. For me, it was not about growing the biggest tomato plant ever, it was his research, study, and a lifetime of learning and practice, that gave him the ability to grow world class tomato's. He EARNED it. We can take a lifetime of information and use it ourselves. That was his goal, to pass on the information. He said "It is my sincere wish that some reader of this book will set the next world record" Records or not, it's still the best method of the use of plants to feed your soil, and good soil means great crops. Look into each plant he suggests, and you will see, the man knows his gardening. Great book, you will get a lot out of it.

I just took this book out of the envelope. Got here fast. I just looked through the book and table of contents. I am so excited!!! He is a Guiness record holder. Lots of pictures and text that tell and show you how to do everything. He tells you all his secrets. I will start reading tonite. Looks like the best tomato growing book I will have ever read. Buy it!!

Thank You Charles Wilber! This is the information I have been looking for. For over 50 years I have known in my mind that there had to be a better way of doing things. In this book, if followed religiously, are the many secrets to soil fertility. This gentleman has put all this knowledge at your fingertips. Hint: don't omit any of the steps he describes. They all go together like the parts of a finely tuned race car. This book taught me that the soil is a living organism full of life. If you keep your soil alive all year the results will be astonishing. I keep mine damp all year. Gardening starts with planting the green manure in the fall. It's a mistake to wait until Spring to start planning your garden. Charles Wilber: Thank You for waking me up. I can now grow the biggest, healthiest fruits and vegetables in the country. He takes all the work out of it and makes it understandable, fun, and rewarding. Buy it. You won't be sorry. I bought this book 4 or 5 years ago. The proof is in Pudding.

Enjoyable read some good pointers. However there is one confusing point to be mentioned. The author favors Better Boy for its high yields. He gives instructions for selecting the healthiest plumpest seeds and extols quality of home saved seed. But- Better Boy is a hybrid variety and not open pollinated, so saved seed is a crap shoot and he does not touch upon this aspect. Did he end up creating his own variety...?

As I was planting my tomato seeds inside today, I got to thinking of this book. My husband and I purchased it several years ago as we were growing vegetables for market. My husband had a green thumb already, but the knowledge gained from this book has been extremely useful and we are still applying it today, now just for ourselves.The year we started using his methods, there was a drought all across the Midwest, yet we had absolutely terrific tomatoes! The yield was incredible and the tomatoes just kept getting taller and producing more. Yes, we were picking them with a ladder and that is not far-fetched at all. Everyone should know that you don't have to follow all of the advice in the book to get the results. We didn't.Buy this book! It isn't a fairy tale just solid information on how to grow great tomatoes. Read it and apply what you can.

This is an amazing book for the home gardener who wants to maximize production for his or her tomato plants. After reading ten pages, I had difficulty in believing the author’s claims. However, I reminded myself that Barbara Pleasant, a well-known and exceptional writer of books and articles for the home gardener, wrote a preface to this book and she had nothing but wonderful things to say about the author and his growing system. After I had read the entire book and thought through all of the author’s instructions for his methods, I came to the conclusion that while many of his methods echoed the work of other tried-and-true methods advocated by numerous gardening experts, this author had built upon that foundation with some clever enhancements that truly maximized the production of his tomato plants. None of his instructions seemed questionable. On one hand, I’m not sure that every home garden will be able to duplicate the results this author claims to have enjoyed. On the other hand, if a reader should follow this author’s recipe for success, I have no doubt that the reader will enjoy a harvest of tomatoes unlike anything that person has experienced before. Long after I had finished reading this book, I found myself marveling at its insights.

The best thing about this book is it shows an easy way to garden with out tilling any soil or weeding!I didn't use these methods for tomato's, I used them on peppers. I only used his hay mulch and compost system, then I got busy and ignored the garden. The results were phenomenal anyway. My pepper plant stems were as thick as my fingers, and they were loaded down with peppers all year (they still are). I also cut corners planting the garden- I didn't kill the grass, I just laid the hay right on top of it.Where I live, it seems like nothing kills the grass that takes over the garden. I have used round up, I have spent hours hoeing, nothing last for long, the grass always comes back. The mulch method used in this book is the only thing I have seen that keeps the grass down all season. It is now November, and the garden I planted in May is still mostly grass free, and I have never weeded it.My garden was planted in almost pure sand that was used to level out the foundation for an addition to our Fire House, and after the initial planting the only fertilizer I added was some coffee grounds from our morning coffee at the Fire House. In past years I would use a lot of Miracle Grow, and got OK results, but nothing like this year. I also used to put a lot more time into the garden.

I have grown tomatoes for over 50 years using just mulching now I will add cages and switch plants to indeterminate and see how much we get next year.

The writer is (was) a rightfully proud man. He gives a brief and interesting account of his life and then dives right into his growing methods. He is all organic (I am not referring to his earthly remains) and his results are very impressive. It relegates chemical farming to the amateur pile. He also showcase other vegetables, flowers and trees that also exceed anything I have ever seen before, in size and growth rate. I'm sold, I am going to copy his methods this year and see how well I can do in my much shorter growing season in Southern Ontario.

アメリカに良くある横長の、１２１頁の本でフニャフニャしていて読みにくいですが、ウイルバーさんのトマトの秘密を知りたくて必死で読んでいます。ウイルバーさんのお名前を知ったのは動画サイトにアップされた、ウイルバーさんの”一株で世界一収量の多い、オーガニックトマト”でした。スキャフォールディングの上に高い脚立を乗せて６メートルにもなったトマトの樹、２株の間に立ったウイルバーさんのかなり古めかしい写真とトマトのウイルバーさん流の剪定方法が載っていました。動画をアップされた米国の方は”kudzu”をご存知なかったようですが、これは日本の葛が１９３０年代に米国に渡り蔓延ったものです。これを使い、堆肥を作っていらっしゃるのがどうやら秘訣の様である事もprefaceには書かれています。これだけの情報を私は半年温めて、季節を待ち、自分で発芽させたトマト（昔風の味が大好きなタキイの米寿）で挑戦し、ＧＷ前に定植しました。ＧＷに出回るヒーターで育った、すでに黄色い花を着けている苗と比べ、winter-sowing流に２月から外で発芽させたトマトは１０センチになったかな、と言う程度でした。しかし、中見検索で確り読んだ苗の軸の直径は確り太いものを選びました。日本の園芸書に書かれている脇芽を摘み取る方法で３本、ウイルバーさん流で二本育てて二か月半が経ちました。二か月になる前に既に逞しさに違いが出て来ました。５本の両端に植えたのは育てた中でベストと２ndベストで、いずれも甲乙付け難い苗でした。株元には収穫した後のキャベツが今も生きて居たり（野生では５年位生きるらしい）、団子虫に食べられる苺、ペパーミントが蔓延っている花壇です。ウイルバーさん流苗は一番上の葉を残し後はカットし、やや深植えにしました。既に確りと大きな実が着いたウイルバーさん方式の二本を見て、欲に目が眩みすべてをウイルバーさん流に変更に至るとともにもっと内容を知りたくて、本書の購入に至りました。トマトと題された本ですが、ポイントは葛を使ったコンポストにあるようです。私も葛以外は日本の草を使い、秋には同じようなコンポストを作って来年に臨みたい、と思っています。また、ウイルバーさんの世界記録トマトの２０年に渡る研究を本書では公開し、中からworld record トマトを作れる人が出て来る事を望む、とintroductionにありましたので、そこまで行かなくてもウイルバーさん流トマトが少々ダウンサイジングしても（志はあくまでも高く）作れれば嬉しいです。私が読んでいる直ぐ先には哺乳瓶で餌遣りをしている３０ポンド超えの鯉が出て居たり、１８ポンドの胡瓜が写真で掲載されています。追記します。07092016追記：　どうしても理解したい処から、何十年振りかで確り取り組んでいます。実に面白いです。勿論、米国の農家と、堆肥を置いておく場所にも事を欠く日本の狭小住宅では、同じ様には行きません。しかし、狭い庭は狭い庭なりのやり方があるので、自分で工夫しています。勿論、ウイルバーさん流のコンポストも45リットル袋で作っています。庭のトマトも直径5センチ位になって来ています。07192016追記：　確り向き合っているのは私にとって先ず必要な第3章のみで、後は流し読み状態ですが、p.27で？？の場所が出て来ました。これは意図的！？それとも読者に自分で探求せよ、と言う意味？…ではないと思いますが、青い葛の入れる順番と厚さが出ていませんでした。勿論、その前の部分には園芸書に出て来る乾燥材料と青草の比率とか、著者が使う材料は出て来ます。日本の本なら、訂正の付箋が付いてくる処です。秘密は無い！！と著者は言いながら、偶発的に秘密になってしまった処が出て来ました。ここは自分たちで模索しましょう。07232016追記：　「定植」の部分を読んでいますが、表層の土と堆肥を混ぜたものを植穴の奥に入れる等、用意周到な定植に驚かされました。

The best that I have read on compost worth the money

very good