Tomatoes: A Grower's Guide

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.

© 2025 New Society Publishers (ebook ): 9781771423946

traductores : Laurie Bennett

Fecha de lanzamiento

ebook : 8 de abril de 2025