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Homegrown Tomatoes: The Step-By-Step Guide To Growing Delicious Organic Tomatoes In Your Garden
Todd Heft has been a gardener since he was in middle school, starting as many do when his mother assigned him the task of taking care of the family garden. When things you could eat started magically appearing from the soil, just by adding water and grass clippings, he was hooked.
Now decades later he grows food, especially tomatoes, in copious amounts in his family vegetable garden. When he's not busy weeding, planting, harvesting, cooking, or eating, he shares his expertise with thousands of readers each week on his website,Big Blog Of Gardening.
His first book, Homegrown Tomatoes,walks beginner and intermediate gardeners through every step of growing tomatoes organically and sustainably, from seed or seedling to harvest.You'll learn:
- the basics on soil and compost
- how to get your garden bed or containers ready
- how to start tomato seeds
- how to plant your seedlings for deeper rooting
- how to feed your tomatoes for maximum size
- how to prune your tomatoes to produce more fruit
- different ways of supporting your tomatoes
- how to get your plants through a heat wave
- how to use companion plants to fight pests
- different ways to preserve your tomato harvest
- indexes on the most common insect pests and diseases and how to treat them organically