Table of Contents

Overview

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 A Brief History of Tomatoes

Chapter 3 Selecting Your Seeds

Chapter 4 Preparing Your Soil

Chapter 5 Timing Your Tomatoes

Chapter 6 Starting Your Seeds

Chapter 7 From Seedling to Transplant

Chapter 8 Hardening Your Plants

Chapter 9 Transplanting Into the Garden

Chapter 10 Protecting Your Plants

Chapter 11 Mulching Your Tomatoes

Chapter 12 The Power of the Megabloom

Chapter 13 Pruning Your Plants

Chapter 14 Staking and Supporting Your Tomatoes

Chapter 15 Tomato Pollination

Chapter 16 Fertilizing Your Tomatoes

Chapter 17 Watering Your Tomatoes

Chapter 18 Estimating Tomato Weight

Chapter 19 When to Pick Your Tomatoes

Chapter 20 How to Store Your Big Tomato

Chapter 21 Tomato Diseases and Physiological Disorders

Chapter 22 Saving Your Seeds

Chapter 23 Crossing Tomatoes

Chapter 24 A Basic Composting Plan

Chapter 25 Are you growing a cover crop?

Chapter 26 Aerated Compost Tea

Chapter 27 Interpreting Your Soil Test

Chapter 28 Growing Degree Days

Chapter 29 Hot Weather Tomato Protection

Chapter 30 Common Grower Mistakes

Chapter 31 The Mycorrhizae Story

Chapter 32 Gordon Graham's How To Book

Chapter 33 Growing in Containers

Chapter 34 Growing Tomato Plants from Cuttings

Chapter 35 Charles Wilber, Growing Organically

Chapter 36 "How to" for a Beginning Grower

Chapter 37 Germinating Old Tomato Seeds

Chapter 38 Grafting Tomatoes

Chapter 39 MacCoy and the New World Record

Chapter 40 A New Kid in Town

Chapter 41 Domingo

Chapter 42 What next, a Ten Pounder?

Chapter 43 Summary

Chapter 44 Some Repetition and a Few More Tips

Chapter 45 Question and Answer

Appendix 1 Recipes

Appendix 2 The Anatomy of a Tomato

Appendix 3 Tomato Basics

Appendix 4 Plant Pruning and Support

Appendix 5 The Great Tomato Hunt

Appendix 6 Suppliers

Appendix 7 Contributors

Appendix 8 Glossary

Appendix 9 Testing Labs

Index

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