Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier provides everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes, from planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to various pests and tomato diseases, explaining how best to avoid them. With beautiful photographs and intriguing tomato profiles throughout, Epic Tomatoes celebrates one of the most versatile and delicious crops in your garden. From Cherokee Purple to Green Zebra, midgets to giants, solids to stripes, explore the how-to of growing, harvesting, and enjoying flavorful tomatoes, including author Craig LeHoullier's picks for the top ten tastiest varieties.
Craig LeHoullier is the author of Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales and Epic Tomatoes and the tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange. In the last 30 years, he has trialed more than 1,200 tomato varieties and has introduced more than 100 varieties to the trade. He lectures widely, from local Master Gardener groups to Monticello, the Philadelphia and Northwest Flower Shows, and Seed Savers Exchange. Preface
Introduction
1 The Origins of Today's Tomato
2 Anatomy of a Tomato
3 Planning and Planting
4 Growing, Maintenance, and Care
5 Harvest Celebration
6 Saving for the Future
7 Breed Your Own Tomatoes
8 Q & A
9 Troubleshooting (Diseases, Pests, and Other Problems)
Recommended Tomatoes
Resources and Sources
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
Sweet Success
Grow and harvest the best tomatoes ever with this practical and beautiful guide by tomato expert Craig LeHoullier. Along the way, you'll learn about this fruit's fascinating history and meet 33 of LeHoullier's favorite varieties. 2016 GWA Media Awards Gold Medal Winner - Best Overall Book
"All the descriptions and growing information, enhanced by the book's snappy cover art, engaging design, and clever interior layout, make it easy to see how anyone could be smitten by this remarkable and quirky fruit."
- The American Gardener
"A must-read for all serious tomato growers…you'll want to read this cover to cover as soon as you get it."
- Sunday News Herald
"The ultimate in-depth and practical ode to heirloom tomatoes. ... Gardeners will find it a mouthwatering read, and the photography will make you yearn for scratch-sniff-and-taste paper."
- Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
"Revel in the amazing variety of tomato colors, tastes, and textures … LeHoullier's book is a treat for the senses."
- HGTVGardens.com
