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1100 tomatoes on 1 Maxitom at one time, Mrs Phyll Long, South Island record holder, tells how she won $lOOO. "To get the best from your Maxitom prepare the soil with plenty of compost and mulch again in Summer. \ You see, tomatoes are shallow rooted plants." We v asked her how much time she spent on her Maxitom. "Certainly you need effort to win the big prize but Sjh? | Maxitoms need less time than ordinary tomatoes | when you consider the crop, and they are very good f avoure d- Losing 3 weeks when I was- in hospital concerned me more, I missed tending my Maxitom very much." Mrs Long reckons there's nowhere else Mrs Phyll Long, but Gardenway where you can buy so much fun and lady champion. fruit for only 99c — she's right. We also stock massive supplies of "Well Rotted Compost" in the large jumbo bags $1.99. Mrs Long's plant when judged had 935 fruits over 2cm diameter growing on the plant. A few weeks after the competition closed the number had increased to 1100. A photograph of her winning Maxitom is shown at all Gardenway branches with a description of how she trained the plant. And all from a 99c Maxitom from Gardenway. Maxitom grafted tomato plants outcrop all other tomatoes, competition records since 1977 record the facts. With just ordinary care you can expect hundreds of medium-sized fruits of good flavour from your Maxitom, that's our promise. Prize winners confirm that kilo for kilo Maxitoms are less work and easier to look after than "ordinary" tomatoes. No one has disclosed a magic formula: they use compost, often Gardenway's "Well Rotted Compost" and common sense. The information is all in "Maxitoms without tears," the leaflet you receive free with Maxitoms. , Tomato huts assure you earlier crops, heavier yields, x LM| For the earliest crops we advocate a glasshouse or warm sunny wall, but this isn't always available. However, a plant in the open tas the advantage that it can be trained in all directions to give the heaviest yield. Mrs Long and f’-l others have proved this. In Canterbury, plants in the open | 1 , are checked by chilling Easterlies not to mention killed by frosts. That's where tomato huts are indispensible. Use I them for your 'Maxitom' and other valuable fruit crops • such as cucumbers, peppers, pepinos, pumpkins. Tomato huts 79c ea. Maxitucker brings out the best in tomatoes and other high yeilding plants. ) Maxitucker is a concentrated, balanced plant food I / containing Magnesium, especially helpful in growing tomatoes and some other plants such as roses, you can use Maxitucker on all high yielding plants whether grown for fruit, leaf or flower. Maxitucker is made from the best quality ingredients and only costs $2.49 for a 3kg pack. Growers agree, the flavour's in the feeding. 1977-78-79-80-81-82-83... Maxitoms still only 99c. Em—--7 days. 9 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. Gardenway ALL STOCK INCLUDING? isj ocomplete.l m'i I etween 9.30 am I ■ or 3 hours of !■ iness at our |l Jl » f* i ...Q-drf* Sa "J 1 1 I1 1 Welcome Visa and Hankcard PfICC