You Bet Your Garden Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes: How to Grow Great-Tasting Tomatoes in Any Backyard, Garden, or Container - Couverture souple

Mcgrath, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1565237102 ISBN 13 : 9781565237100

Editeur : Fox Chapel Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Why grow your own tomatoes? Because you just can't beat the taste! Learn all about:

• Choosing tomato varieties
• Germination
• Planting
• Staking and caging
• Food, water, and maintenance
• Pest control and diseases
• Harvesting

Inside You Bet Your Garden(R) Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes, organic gardener Mike McGrath shows gardeners of all skill levels how to grow a wide variety of great tasting tomatoes anywhere you have a place to plant seeds! From backyards to terraces, this deliciously funny little book is also a serious guide on how to start and nurture an heirloom tomato patch.

Master gardener and radio host of the nationally syndicated hit You Bet Your Garden(R) on Public Radio, Mike McGrath has a growing legion of fans who love his trademark irreverent wit. In this book, McGrath doesn't disappoint, delivering both sound advice and plenty of laughs to help gardeners beat the heat and have a great tomato harvest!

Tomatoes are the most popular home garden vegetable crop, and heirloom tomatoes are older, open-pollinated varieties that have stood the test of time. More and more gardeners are finding heirloom vegetables to be superior in flavor, color, and disease resistance to the more common hybrid commercial varieties.

Based on McGrath's personal adventures in tomato-growing, You Bet Your Garden(R) Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes directs would-be gardeners through choosing seeds, germinating, planting, staking, caging, nurturing, watering, and harvesting homegrown tomatoes. You'll also get tips on how to control pests and deal with disease. Along the way, Mike weaves in fascinating tomato lore and expert tips and techniques, all while keeping you laughing!

If you appreciate the enhanced flavor of heirloom tomatoes—or just want to grow disease-resistant hybrids—the techniques explained in this book will allow all varieties to thrive. Whether you have an entire backyard to work with or only a terrace, McGrath explains why you should grow your own tomatoes in the first place: You just can't beat the taste!

This is a book for everyone who loves to laugh, loves to eat, and loves to grow beautiful tomatoes!

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mike McGrath is editor at large for Organic Gardening and is the former editor in chief. He writes a monthly column, 'Mike McGrath's Tall Tales' and answers questions on the magazine's website. McGrath's 'You Bet Your Garden' airs weekly on National Public Radio. He has made frequent guest appearances on NBC's Weekend Today and NPR's 'All Things Considered'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1565237102
• ISBN 13: 9781565237100
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible