Tomatoes

Nutritious, versatile, and bursting with flavor, tomatoes are a perennial favorite of both home gardeners and market farmers. Tomatoes: A Grower’s Guide will help you ensure a plentiful and profitable harvest using “The Fortier Method,” Jean-Martin Fortier’s proven formula for successful, small-scale, biointensive gardening and microfarming.

This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color handbook features:

u A celebration of the humble tomato and its fascinating history — from an exotic curiosity ton a dietary staple.

u An inspiring collection of truly outstanding heirloom and hybrid tomato varieties, selected for attributes such as taste, yield, appearance, and hardiness.

u Strategies for planning, preparation, and propagation, including sowing techniques suited to every grower, from amateur through professional.

u Comprehensive guidance on cultivating your tomato crop — covering soil management, transplanting, fertilizing, mulching, watering and irrigation, pruning, staking, disease prevention, and dealing with common pests — all using organic and sustainable methods.

u Tips for picking at the peak of freshness, extending the harvest, and processing ideas so you can enjoy that homegrown tomato flavor all winter long.