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A complete guide to tomato cultivation from seed selection to harvest.
Nutritious, versatile, and bursting with flavor, tomatoes are a perennial favorite of both home gardeners and market farmers.
Beautifully illustrated and highly accessible, this succinct guide from renowned market gardener Jean-Martin Fortier brings you his pro tips and tricks, ensuring a plentiful and profitable tomato harvest. Coverage includes:
A celebration of the humble tomato and its fascinating history
An inspiring collection of outstanding heirloom and hybrid tomato varieties for you to grow
Strategies for planning, preparation, and propagation suited to every grower
Cultivation methods including transplanting, fertilizing, irrigation, pruning, trellising, disease prevention, and organic pest control
Picking at the peak of freshness, extending harvests, and processing ideas to let you enjoy that homegrown tomato flavor all winter long.
Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener is a collection of practical handbooks designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned farmers with information to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.
Contents
Introduction
A Few Words about My Background
What is the Fortier Method?
Preface
Tomatoes: The Essentials
Chapter 1: Jean-Martin Fortier's Top 20 Tomatoes
Chapter 2: Growing Seedlings
Seeding
Transplanting
Chapter 3: Planting and Early Care
Preparing the soil
Planting
Trellising
Mulching
Chapter 4: Maintenance, Harvest, and Storage
Irrigation
Pruning
Fertilization
Harvest
Chapter 5: Tomato Enemies
Bibliography and Acknowledgments
