You Bet Your Garden Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes, Second Edition: How to Grow Great-Tasting Tomatoes in Any Backyard, Garden, or Container

by Mike McGrath

Overview

Whether you have a backyard or only a terrace, you bet you can grow beautiful heirloom tomatoes! From the host of PBS’s You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath will teach you everything you need to know about choosing tomato varieties, germination, planting, staking, caging, food, water, maintenance, pest control and diseases, and harvesting. You Bet Your Garden: Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes is filled with expert insight, fascinating tomato lore, and Mike’s signature witty and conversational tone, making this essential guide to tomato gardening even more fun to read. Understand all the benefits of growing your own tomatoes and learn tips and techniques to doing so from the leading authority in the field!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497100756
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mike McGrath is editor-at-large for Organic Gardening and is the former editor-in-chief. He writes a monthly column, "Mike McGrath's Tall Tales," and answers questions on the magazine's website. McGrath's "You Bet Your Garden" airs weekly on National Public Radio. He has made frequent guest appearances on NBC's Weekend Today and NPR's "All Things Considered".

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Am I Doing This instead of Enjoying My Summer? 10

Chapter 1 "Picking" Your Tomatoes 14

(Do all of these things have funny, rude, or mysterious names?)

Chapter 2 The Joy of Germination 34

(Or, Killing Your Own Tomatoes from Seed)

Chapter 3 The Art of Tomato Planting 48

(You want me to bury them?)

Chapter 4 Staking and Caging 64

(And no, that's not staking or caging. It's staking and caging!)

Chapter 5 Food, Water, and Basic Keeping-Alive Skills 76

(Oops-you mean I shouldn't have watered them each and every day?)

Chapter 6 Pest Control and…

(Am I the only creature around here not eating my tomatoes?)

Chapter 7 Dealing with Disease 90

(Can't we just take them to the hospital?)

Chapter 8 The Harvest and Beyond 102

(Aren't they supposed to stop being green at some point?)

(So this one here cost me about forty bucks, right?)

(Can the kids use the green ones to play Mr. Tomato Head?)

Cool-Stuff Sources 111

Index 117

Photo Credits 120

Editorial Reviews

With the help of "You Bet Your Garden Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes", novice gardeners will understand the benefits of growing their own tomatoes, going well beyond the obvious fact that they taste better.

Midwest Book Review

This is a book for everyone who loves to laugh, eat and grow beautiful tomatoes.

Sioux City Journal