The Texas tomato lover's handbook:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, William D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station Texas A & M University c2011
Edition:1st ed
Series:AgriLife Research and Extension Service series
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
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Item Description:Includes index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 189 p.)
ISBN:1603442405
9781603442404

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