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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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
Circa l’autore
Flore Avram is a freelance artist and graphic designer specializing in scientific and botanical illustration. She has collaborated extensively with the French language children’s publisher Kilo Watt Editions, and with Inserm Magazine, a quarterly journal which explores health and biomedical research. She is based in Paris, France.
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