Tantalizing tomatoes
Subtitle: smart tips & tasty picks for gardeners everywhere
By: Karan Davis Cutler, guest editor.
Contributors: Cutler, Karan Davis.; Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Series: 21st-century gardening series ;; handbook #150; Brooklyn Botanic Garden publications
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Tomatoes.
Description: "From planting tips to pruning hints, from instructions on starting seeds to scrumptious recipes, this indispensable guide includes everything you need to know about growing America's favorite vegetable. Whether you live in Jersey City, Jacksonville or Juno, whether you garden in containers or on a quarter acre, you'll be harvesting plump, juicy, mouth-watering - and pesticide-free - tomatoes in no time." "What's Inside: The tastiest tomatoes for your area, natural pest and disease remedies, the secret to trellising tomatoes, deciphering the important information on seed packets, and an extensive list of suppliers of the hardest-to-find heirlooms and the most disease-resistant hybrids, and more." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 104) and index.
Table of contents: title: From wolf peach to outer space: tomato history & lore / Karan Davis Cutler; title: Tomato terms: or, what is an F1 hybrid, anyway? / Karan Davis Cutler; title: Off & running: getting started, outdooors & in / Shepherd Ogden; title: In the garden: keeping things growing / Paul Dunphy; title: What's at stake:  six ways to trellis tomatoes / Jane Good; title: Protecting the crop: natural pest & disease remedies / Barbara Ellis; title: In extremis: coping with difficult climes / et al.; title: Pick of the patch : the experts' choices; title: One tomatoe, two tomatoes: a guide to cultivars; title: Delayed gratification: using the harvest.