Growing Tomatoes Like A Pro: How to Grow Juicy, Colorful, Tasty, Organic Tomatoes in Your Backyard & in Containers
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"Would You Like To Learn How to Grow Organic, Juicy, Mouth-Watering Tomatoes In Your Own Backyard?"
It may surprise you but growing tomatoes at home is not the easiest thing in the world. In order to get the perfect crop, many things must be done at just the right time. Missing any of these crucial steps will cause your efforts to go down the drain and ruin your tomato crop.
Fortunately, most of the things you need to know aren't rocket science. It's just a simple know-how. In "Growing Tomatoes Like A Pro," you will learn everything you need to know to produce big, juicy, colorful, and tasty organic tomatoes in your own home or backyard. You will learn the best way to grow them, how to care for your plants, how to avoid pests & diseases, and the best way to harvest them.
Here are some of the things you will learn in "Growing Tomatoes Like A Pro":
- Basic needs & requirements - soil, fertilizer, sunlight, water, & support...
- How to grow tomatoes from seeds...
- How to grow tomatoes from seedlings...
- How to prepare soil to maximize your success...
- How to identify unhealthy tomato plants...
- How to prevent diseases and pests...
- How to treat tomato pests if you do find them...
- Common growing issues...
- WARNING: 3 things you should never do when it comes to growing your own tomatoes...
- Best time & method to harvest your tomatoes...
- And much more...
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Growing Tomatoes Like A Pro - Joan E. Hixson
Growing Tomatoes Like A Pro
How to Grow Juicy, Colorful, Tasty, Organic Tomatoes in Your Backyard & in Containers
Joan E. Hixson
Copyright© 2013 by Joan E. Hixson
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Growing Tomatoes Like A Pro
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Basic Needs & Requirements
Soil
Fertilizer
Sunlight & Water
Support
Chapter 2: Growing Tomatoes
From Seeds
From Healthy Seedlings
Tomato Plant Spacing
Scheduled Planting Time
Soil Preparation
Planting Process
Chapter 3: Harvesting Your Tomatoes
When to Harvest?
Chapter 4: Diseases, Pests, & Growing Issues
Identifying Unhealthy Tomato Plants
Prevention
Common Diseases
Common Tomato Pests
Treating Tomato Pests
Other Common Growing Issues
Appendix I: Most Popular Hybrid Tomato Varieties for Home-Growth
Appendix II: Most Popular Heirloom Tomato Varieties for Home-Growth
Appendix III: Main Tomato Disease Resistance Codes
Glossary
Introduction
If you are reading this guide, you are clearly interested in growing your own tomatoes. This book is not just intended for those who have very little knowledge about the process of growing tomatoes, but it will give a beginning tomato farmer all the information needed to get started. It is also a great resource for those already growing tomatoes. It can give you a quick refresher on growing if you need it, it can help pinpoint some ways to increase your crop yield, and/or it can help you troubleshooting growing issues you may be dealing with such as annoying pests and diseases.
You may also fall into the curiosity
category and just have an idle interest in growing tomatoes and wondering about the benefits of doing so. You might be thinking, Why grow your own tomatoes?
The answer to that is people grow tomatoes for many different reasons that usually include one or more of the top five reasons: nutrition, price, contamination from pesticides, availability, and flavor quality with variety.
Nutrition – A medium ripe tomato contains a long list of nutrients including calcium, iron, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamin, lycopene, and riboflavin. No wonder they are so good for you! And since tomatoes are about 95% water with only 22 calories per medium-sized tomato, consuming fresh tomatoes regularly is highly beneficial for your health.
Availability – With tomatoes being so nutritional, the easier it is to get them, the more you can enjoy their health benefits. Growing your own tomatoes will make them all the more available on demand without having to run to the grocery store whenever you need some.
Pesticides – Chemical pesticides used by commercial tomato growers expose consumers to a variety of toxins with significant health threats. This is currently a matter of much debate among the experts. You are safest when you adopt the age-old life recommendation…better safe than sorry
. Growing your own tomatoes and controlling their environment ensures you will not be consuming toxins unless you choose to use the same chemical pesticides.
Price – The price for purchasing fresh tomatoes at your local grocery store varies according to season as well as shipping costs. They are available year-round throughout the country whether grown fresh in natural growing seasons or grown in greenhouses out of season. You will pay