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Home Gardening Made Easy is a practical, informative, and inspiring guide that introduces readers to the many benefits and techniques of successful home gardening. The book presents gardening as more than a pastime, describing it as a pathway to food security, sustainability, environmental awareness, and personal satisfaction. It systematically covers all the essential stages of gardening, beginning with selecting the right location, understanding soil conditions, planning the garden layout, and choosing suitable crops, before moving into important topics such as natural pest control, composting, efficient watering, fertilization, plant care, harvesting, and storage. One of the book’s major strengths is its emphasis on organic and eco-friendly practices, encouraging readers to use compost, crop rotation, companion planting, homemade fertilizers, and biological pest control instead of depending on chemicals. In addition to basic gardening methods, the author also provides valuable advanced information on seedling production, grafting, plant breeding, disease management, and techniques for inducing flowering, making the guide useful for both beginners and more experienced gardeners. The inclusion of vegetable varieties suited to Trinidad and Tobago and advice tailored to tropical conditions adds local relevance and makes the book especially beneficial to Caribbean readers. Overall, Home Gardening Made Easy is a well-organized and comprehensive handbook that combines scientific knowledge with simple, practical advice, showing that anyone can develop a productive and sustainable garden regardless of the size of their space or their level of experience.
About the Author:
Dr. Musa El Sharief Mohamed, Ph.D., is a distinguished agronomist and researcher specializing in vegetable crops. He served as a vegetable agronomist at the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, and Fisheries in Trinidad and Tobago, where he was stationed at the Centeno Research Station for seven years. During this time, he conducted groundbreaking research on tomatoes, peppers, and pumpkins.
Among his notable achievements was the breeding of an ornamental sweet pepper, which was featured by journalist Debbe Jacob. He also introduced a dwarf tomato variety from foreign selections and a locally recognized pumpkin known as “Sweet Mama.” His research on bacterial wilt—a devastating disease affecting tomatoes—formed the basis of his Ph.D. thesis, focusing on breeding for disease resistance.
In 1990, Dr. Mohamed joined Caroni (1975) Limited as an agronomist and was later promoted to Director of Research in 2000. He oversaw operations at the Waterloo Research Station in Carapichaima until the company’s closure in 2003.
Transitioning to academia, he joined the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. He played a pivotal role in teacher education, instructing science courses at the Valsayn and Corinth campuses and teaching horticulture at ECIAF. His research in tomato and pepper breeding has been published in internationally referred journals.
Following his retirement from teaching in 2016, Dr. Mohamed contributed to agricultural literature with his book Home Gardening Made Easy.
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Home Gardening Made Easy is a practical, informative, and inspiring guide that introduces readers to the many benefits and techniques of successful home gardening. The book presents gardening as more than a pastime, describing it as a pathway to food security, sustainability, environmental awareness, and personal satisfaction. It systematically covers all the essential stages of gardening, beginning with selecting the right location, understanding soil conditions, planning the garden layout, and choosing suitable crops, before moving into important topics such as natural pest control, composting, efficient watering, fertilization, plant care, harvesting, and storage. One of the book’s major strengths is its emphasis on organic and eco-friendly practices, encouraging readers to use compost, crop rotation, companion planting, homemade fertilizers, and biological pest control instead of depending on chemicals. In addition to basic gardening methods, the author also provides valuable advanced information on seedling production, grafting, plant breeding, disease management, and techniques for inducing flowering, making the guide useful for both beginners and more experienced gardeners. The inclusion of vegetable varieties suited to Trinidad and Tobago and advice tailored to tropical conditions adds local relevance and makes the book especially beneficial to Caribbean readers. Overall, Home Gardening Made Easy is a well-organized and comprehensive handbook that combines scientific knowledge with simple, practical advice, showing that anyone can develop a productive and sustainable garden regardless of the size of their space or their level of experience.
About the Author:
Dr. Musa El Sharief Mohamed, Ph.D., is a distinguished agronomist and researcher specializing in vegetable crops. He served as a vegetable agronomist at the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, and Fisheries in Trinidad and Tobago, where he was stationed at the Centeno Research Station for seven years. During this time, he conducted groundbreaking research on tomatoes, peppers, and pumpkins.
Among his notable achievements was the breeding of an ornamental sweet pepper, which was featured by journalist Debbe Jacob. He also introduced a dwarf tomato variety from foreign selections and a locally recognized pumpkin known as “Sweet Mama.” His research on bacterial wilt—a devastating disease affecting tomatoes—formed the basis of his Ph.D. thesis, focusing on breeding for disease resistance.
In 1990, Dr. Mohamed joined Caroni (1975) Limited as an agronomist and was later promoted to Director of Research in 2000. He oversaw operations at the Waterloo Research Station in Carapichaima until the company’s closure in 2003.
Transitioning to academia, he joined the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. He played a pivotal role in teacher education, instructing science courses at the Valsayn and Corinth campuses and teaching horticulture at ECIAF. His research in tomato and pepper breeding has been published in internationally referred journals.
Following his retirement from teaching in 2016, Dr. Mohamed contributed to agricultural literature with his book Home Gardening Made Easy.
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Home Gardening Made Easy is a practical, informative, and inspiring guide that introduces readers to the many benefits and techniques of successful home gardening. The book presents gardening as more than a pastime, describing it as a pathway to food security, sustainability, environmental awareness, and personal satisfaction. It systematically covers all the essential stages of gardening, beginning with selecting the right location, understanding soil conditions, planning the garden layout, and choosing suitable crops, before moving into important topics such as natural pest control, composting, efficient watering, fertilization, plant care, harvesting, and storage. One of the book’s major strengths is its emphasis on organic and eco-friendly practices, encouraging readers to use compost, crop rotation, companion planting, homemade fertilizers, and biological pest control instead of depending on chemicals. In addition to basic gardening methods, the author also provides valuable advanced information on seedling production, grafting, plant breeding, disease management, and techniques for inducing flowering, making the guide useful for both beginners and more experienced gardeners. The inclusion of vegetable varieties suited to Trinidad and Tobago and advice tailored to tropical conditions adds local relevance and makes the book especially beneficial to Caribbean readers. Overall, Home Gardening Made Easy is a well-organized and comprehensive handbook that combines scientific knowledge with simple, practical advice, showing that anyone can develop a productive and sustainable garden regardless of the size of their space or their level of experience.
About the Author:
Dr. Musa El Sharief Mohamed, Ph.D., is a distinguished agronomist and researcher specializing in vegetable crops. He served as a vegetable agronomist at the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, and Fisheries in Trinidad and Tobago, where he was stationed at the Centeno Research Station for seven years. During this time, he conducted groundbreaking research on tomatoes, peppers, and pumpkins.
Among his notable achievements was the breeding of an ornamental sweet pepper, which was featured by journalist Debbe Jacob. He also introduced a dwarf tomato variety from foreign selections and a locally recognized pumpkin known as “Sweet Mama.” His research on bacterial wilt—a devastating disease affecting tomatoes—formed the basis of his Ph.D. thesis, focusing on breeding for disease resistance.
In 1990, Dr. Mohamed joined Caroni (1975) Limited as an agronomist and was later promoted to Director of Research in 2000. He oversaw operations at the Waterloo Research Station in Carapichaima until the company’s closure in 2003.
Transitioning to academia, he joined the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. He played a pivotal role in teacher education, instructing science courses at the Valsayn and Corinth campuses and teaching horticulture at ECIAF. His research in tomato and pepper breeding has been published in internationally referred journals.
Following his retirement from teaching in 2016, Dr. Mohamed contributed to agricultural literature with his book Home Gardening Made Easy.
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