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Let's Grow Tomatoes

by Dr. Jacob Mittleider

Let's Grow Tomatoes

Paperback: 165 pages

ISBN: 1929982011

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Growing Tomatoes

The best instructions available for growing tomatoes with great yields, either outside or in a greenhouse. Seedling production, transplanting, close planting, vertical growing, automatic watering, proper feeding, weeding, and pruning are all covered with hundreds of pictures to reinforce the important lessons.

This is a must-have if you ever wanted to know how to grow tomatoes and not have to worry about tomato deficiencies or tomato diseases.

Also available in Russion. Please contact us if you are interested in the Russian version.

Pictures of Tomatoes

After using this book, the biggest problem you'll face is figuring out what to do with all the tomatoes. Take a look at what you can expect:

Careful Pruning is Key

Careful pruning is the key to firm tomatoes of uniform size and quality.

Vine-ripened tomatoes

Vine-ripened tomatoes are the grower's reward for accuracy in fertilizing and providing loving care throughout the season.

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Garden Doctor
More than 800 color photographs enable you to match your plant's deficiency symptoms and see how healthy plants look at different stages of development.

"I was a newcomer to the area of gardening…This book allowed me to grow an incredible harvest with step by step instructions."

Tatiana Tsynkouch
Moscow Russia

Read a Chapter

Download Chapter 11: Pruning, Staking, Tying (PDF, 252 KB) and learn how you should really be pruning your tomatoes.

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Importance of the Tomato
  3. What are Grow-boxes?
  4. Grow-Box Soils
  5. How to Get Plants
  6. Fact to Know About Seed
  7. Transplanting Seedlings
  8. Constant Feed Method
  9. How to Keep Plants from Growing Spindly
  10. Producing Large-size Plants
  11. Pruning, staking, Tying
  12. managing Single-stem Vines
  13. Spacing Tomato Plants in Grow-boxes
  14. Transplanting Procedures Illustrated
  15. Pruning Fruiting Tomatoes
  16. Daily and Weekly Care
  17. Watering Tomatoes
  18. Fertilizers
  19. Flower and Fruit Set
  20. Nematodes
  21. Fertilizer and Soil Problems
  22. Insects and Soil Maggots
  23. Plant Diseases
  24. Wather Problems and Vibrating Plant Vines
  25. Cracked Fruit
  26. Blossom-End Rot on Tomatoes
  27. Harvesting Tomatoes

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Tip of the Day

It's Spring Planting Time! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, March and early April are the time you need to be preparing your soil and planting the hardy vegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.

The freeze/thaw cycles of winter have broken up and loosened most soils, so as soon as it's not muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly this early gives you the upper hand, and is very important.

If you grew a Mittleider garden last year, your beds will be easy to re-make. Just apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area, then till them in, place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.

Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!

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