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Author Adams, William D., 1946-

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 Handbooks and manuals
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Adams, Deborah J
ISBN 9781603442404
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1603442391
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