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Paid $150 for a 'premium' tomato growing guide that was just basic gardening tips from 1985
I spent two months last spring following this expensive digital course on growing heirloom tomatoes from some guy who claimed he had a secret method. Turned out the PDF was literally just a scanned copy of an old Sunset magazine article with some typos added. The author wouldn't answer my emails after I called him out. Anyone else blow money on a hyped-up gardening guide that was basically free info?
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theas289d ago
Did that "secret method" involve not watering them during a drought or something equally obvious? Sounds like you paid for vintage clip art with worse kerning.
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gavin_kim8d ago
Read somewhere that those old Sunset guides are literally being resold as "proprietary methods" by like 50 different online gurus these days. The real trick with tomatoes is just picking the right variety for your zone, which is free info from your local extension office. My buddy paid $200 for a "masterclass" that was basically the same as the YouTube video the guy posted for free three years ago. These folks bank on people thinking expensive means better, when really they're just good at making a basic landcare booklet look fancy.
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