Heirloom Tomatoes Grow to Giant Tomatoes

Look at this one: Rodney Dunn uses ladder to harvest his heirloom tomatoes. The former real estate agent turned gardening entrepreneur has 2.5-meter tomato plants in his garden.

And his secret to giant heirloom tomatoes — six liters of worm “juice” every fortnight.

The dark amber juice is the product of about 12,000 worms furiously eating away at food scraps and garden waste.

The worms live in big bath-tubs Mr Dunn has converted into worm farms.

He lines the tubs with weed mat so the juice can filter through into a bottom cavity that flows into a tap where the bath plug used to go.

The two tubs produce six litres a week and Mr Dunn dilutes that 30:1 then pours it around the base of the tomato plants.

The pumpkins, corn, lettuces and beetroot plants also get a slop of worm water.

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