The Texas tomato lover's handbook /
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| Author / Creator: | Adams, William D., 1946- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | College Station : Texas A & M University, ©2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : color illustrations, color map |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | AgriLife Research and Extension Service series AgriLife Research and Extension Service series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11262099 |
Table of Contents:
- History of the garden tomato
- Must-have tools for the tomato patch
- A recipe for the perfect tomato crop: basic cultural needs
- Locating the tomato patch
- Growing your own transplants
- Grafting tomatoes
- Preparing the soil
- How to build a raised bed
- Growing tomatoes in containers
- Growing tomatoes in a greenhouse
- Tending the tomato patch
- Planting and protecting new transplants
- Cages or stakes for support
- The row-cover benefit
- Maintaining soil fertility and foliar feeding
- Irrigation: not an option
- Cleaning up for the next crop
- Tomato varieties
- Hybrid varieties: medium to large fruit
- Open-pollinated and heirloom varieties: medium to large fruit
- Cherries and small-fruited varieties
- Insects, diseases, weeds, and varmints
- Tomato pests
- Insect pests
- Beneficial insects
- Trap crops
- Tomato diseases and environmental stress
- Organic and low-toxicity sprays that really work
- Pollination
- Tomato-snatching critters
- Weeds
- Tomato relatives
- Peppers
- Eggplants
- Tomatillos
- Potatoes
- Tomato source list.