Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.