Growing tomatoes is easier than you might think, and can be done in a variety of spaces, including on a balcony, indoors near a window or outside in pots. Versatile, cost-effective and delicious, there are loads of reasons you should give growing your own a go.
The Tomato Grower’s Handbook covers everything you need to grow your own and enjoy your plants year on year, no matter what space you’re working with, including:
- Preparing the soil
- Sowing seeds
- Transplanting young plants
- Watering and feeding
- Pruning and propagating
- Tips and tricks to boost your harvest
- Troubleshooting advice for when things don’t go to plan
There is also information on different varieties to try, as well as simple recipes and ideas for preserving a glut, such as homemade passata, green tomato jam, a tomato salad that promises to maximise flavour and even a whole tomato pasta that makes use of the fruit, leaves and stems.
The Tomato Grower's Handbook
By Holly Farrell
A beginner-friendly guide to growing tomatoes, covering different methods of growing according to your space – indoors, outdoors, on a balcony, in a pot – as well as simple recipes and information on different varieties.Material available
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing / Pub date: February 2026 / Format: 210 x 148mm / Extent: 144 pagesAbout the Author
Holly Farrell is an award-winning garden writer and author of books including Healing with Plants: The Chelsea Physic Garden Herbal; RHS Plants from Pips; Growing Herbs (Kew Gardener's Guides); RHS Get Growing; Grow Fruit; and Garden Media Guild Award finalists RHS Gardening for Mindfulness and The Jam Maker's Garden. Her most recent titles are The RHS Little Book of Wild Gardening; The Herb Almanac (for Chelsea Physic Garden); and The RHS Little Book of Cut Flower Growing. She is a frequent contributor to The Simple Things magazine and an RHS Wisley-trained horticulturalist (she holds the Wisley Diploma and RHS Certificates in Horticulture). Before moving to Guernsey, Holly was a judge on the Vegetable Forum at RHS Bridgewater.
