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GtrsRGr8 · 02-28-2015, 01:46 PM

For those of you in the Deep South, the book's about pickin' out and raisin' 'maters.

I'm listening to an audiobook entitled Tomatoland. It's an interesting book. It laments the sorry state of the tomatoes that we (in the U.S., at least) are sold in the stores nowadays, and how it got to that predicament. (An example of why the commercially-grown tomatoes are so awful-tasting, if they have any taste at all: they are picked green and gassed with ethylene gas to make them red and appear ripe. Ack!) Well, growing your own seems like a viable alternative. This book looks like it'll do a great job of telling you how.

Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time. By Craig LeHoullier. Rated 5 stars, from 31 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $19.95; digital list(?) price $9.99; Kindle price now $3.99. Storey Publishing, LLC, publisher. 256 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Epic-Tomatoes-...es+of+All+Time.

Book Description
Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes — from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to the various pests and diseases of tomatoes and explains how best to avoid them. No other book offers such a detailed look at the specifics of growing tomatoes, with beautiful photographs and helpful tomato profiles throughout.

02-28-2015, 01:46 PM	#211
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	This 5-Star Rated Bargain Book Will Tell You about Selecting and Raising Tomatoes. For those of you in the Deep South, the book's about pickin' out and raisin' 'maters. I'm listening to an audiobook entitled Tomatoland. It's an interesting book. It laments the sorry state of the tomatoes that we (in the U.S., at least) are sold in the stores nowadays, and how it got to that predicament. (An example of why the commercially-grown tomatoes are so awful-tasting, if they have any taste at all: they are picked green and gassed with ethylene gas to make them red and appear ripe. Ack!) Well, growing your own seems like a viable alternative. This book looks like it'll do a great job of telling you how. Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time. By Craig LeHoullier. Rated 5 stars, from 31 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $19.95; digital list(?) price $9.99; Kindle price now $3.99. Storey Publishing, LLC, publisher. 256 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Epic-Tomatoes-...es+of+All+Time. Book Description Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes — from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to the various pests and diseases of tomatoes and explains how best to avoid them. No other book offers such a detailed look at the specifics of growing tomatoes, with beautiful photographs and helpful tomato profiles throughout.