Title The Texas tomato lover's handbook / William D. Adams ; photographs by William D. Adams and Deborah J. Adams

Edition 1st ed Published College Station : Texas A & M University, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : color illustrations, color map Series AgriLife Research and Extension Service series AgriLife Research and Extension Service series. Contents 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 Notes English Print version record Subject Tomatoes -- Texas -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Tomatoes -- Breeding -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Tomatoes -- Diseases and pests -- Control -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Tomatoes -- Texas -- Pictorial works GARDENING -- Fruit. Tomatoes Tomatoes -- Breeding Tomatoes -- Diseases and pests -- Control Texas Genre/Form Electronic books Handbooks and manuals Pictorial works Form Electronic book Author Adams, Deborah J ISBN 9781603442404 1603442405 1603442391 9781603442398

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