Tomatoes - A Grower's Guide - Jean Martin Fortier - Paperback Bog - New Society Publishers - 2025 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Description

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.