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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.

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

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Epic Tomatoes How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

Epic Tomatoes How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

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