The Complete Guide to Growing Tomatoes: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide Including Heirloom Tomatoes (Back-To-Basics Gardening)
In this back to basics guide, the Georgia-based author offers tips to help gardeners maximize the quality, yield, and diversity of the tomatoes they grow. With an emphasis on organic methods, Everhart (PhD, chemistry) discusses heirloom vs. hybrid varieties, cultivation strategies, pest management, and how to extend the growing season. The guide includes case studies, illustrations, recipes, resources, a glossary, and garden log template. --Â©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, ORMany people are turning to their agricultural roots in order to become self-sufficient by growing and preparing their own food. Atlantic Publishing has a Back to Basics series of books that teach you Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply. Three handy books out of several in the series include The Complete Guide to Growing Tomatoes: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide Including Heirloom Tomatoes, Growing Healing and Medicinal Herbs: and Growing Vegetables, Flowers, Fruits and herbs from Containers. Growing Tomatoes by Cherie H. Everhart explains the juiciest to the smallest and easiest to grow strains of tomatoes as well as the benefits of growing heirlooms (more variety of colors, flavors, textures and shapes which is nice if you are a foodie as well as promoting agricultural diversity which helps protect food supply monoculture is a dangerous concept since a single insect or disease can wipe out an entire crop and even strain) to saving seeds and getting bigger yields. Natural and organic gardening tips are included like natural pest and disease control(insert a carrot into the ground close to your tomato plant and see if worms attack the carrot; diluting a solution of aspirin and spraying it on tomato plants helps fight fungal infections like blight). The information and tips in this book provides invaluable advice. --New Living Magazine August 2011 Edition