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About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access Tomatoes by Jean-Martin Fortier,Flore Avram, Pierre Nessmann, Laurie Bennett in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Horticulture. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: A Few Words About My Background
- What Is the Market Gardener Method?
- Using This Guide to Successfully Grow Tomatoes
- Tomatoes: The Essentials
- Jean-Martin Fortier’s 20 Favorite Tomatoes
- Growing Seedlings
- Planting And Early Care
- Maintenance, Harvest, And Storage
- Tomato Enemies
- Acknowledgments
- About New Society Publishers