Publisher's Synopsis
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. Tomatoes: A Grower's Guide will help you ensure a plentiful and profitable harvest using "The Market Gardener Method," Jean-Martin Fortier's proven formula for successful, small-scale, biointensive gardening and microfarming. This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color handbook features: A celebration of the humble tomato and its fascinating history—from an exotic curiosity to a dietary staple. An inspiring collection of truly outstanding heirloom and hybrid tomato varieties, selected for attributes such as taste, yield, appearance, and hardiness. Strategies for planning, preparation, and propagation, including sowing techniques suited to every grower, from amateur through professional. Comprehensive guidance on cultivating your tomato crop—covering soil management, transplanting, fertilizing, mulching, watering and irrigation, pruning, staking, disease prevention, and dealing with common pests—all using organic and sustainable methods. Tips for picking at the peak of freshness, extending the harvest, and processing ideas so you can enjoy that homegrown tomato flavor all winter long. Tomatoes: A Grower's Guide is a keystone title in the Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener series. This curated collection of practical handbooks is designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned horticulturalists and farmers with the information they need to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.
