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  • Tomato Growing Secrets: How To Grow Great Tomatoes In The Vegetable Garden Or Containers

    Douglas Green

    eBook
    The Real Things You Need To Know To Succeed At Growing TomatoesYou can grow massive crops of great tomatoes and this succinct ebook will give you the tools for success. Planting - where, when to how - all the details you really need to understandSpacing for maximum harvests depending on garden spaceGlossary - all the strange terms nurseries useHow to improve your soil for tomatoes (and other vegetables too)Growing tomatoes in containers: pro tipsWhy you really want to mulch your tomatoesOrganic mulches versus plastic mulchesPruning for maximum harvestsStaking versus cages versus growing without supportHow to feed your tomatoes for maximum harvestsThe role of organic matter in the life of a tomatoGetting earlier crops than the neighborsTomato problems: from insects to disease and their solutionsProblem summary charts to make it easierQuestions readers have asked over the years. Doug Green has been in the gardening and nursery trade for over 30 years, growing just about every kind of plant you can imagine. For more years than he cares to admit, he grew a fall crop of tomatoes in his greenhouses for sales to local stores. His own gardening is organic and this was how he grew his plants - safe to eat for his family and neighbors. Green learned the tricks of the trade from the professionals and turned many of these techniques into home garden practices increasing his backyard yields to feed his own family on smaller numbers of plants and to increase his reputation as a lazy gardener always looking for maximum yields with minimum work.