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Growing Tomatoes With Soil Secrets

A few years ago one of our customers at the Trees That Please Nursery dropped in with a photo of him on a step ladder with his tomato plants.  He was impressed by how large and healthy the plants got.  This is not an  uncommon thing to see and in fact Bob McClendon at McClendon Select in Arizona once complained to us that we did not warn him this could happen at his organic certified farm making it hard to harvest his crop.  Now that we also have the best mycorrhizal product in the industry and the best Consortium soil probiotic (BioPack) in the industry I'd love to see what would happen to the vigor, yield and taste of this man's tomato crop if he would use those products along with the high energy dipole moment molecules of the carbon matrix of TerraPro combined with the amino acids of our Protein Crumblies product. 

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