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This antiquarian book contains a concise yet comprehensive guide to growing tomatoes, and includes information on such topics as soil, harvesting, tools and equipment, pests, diseases, fertilisation, and more. This easy-to-digest and novice-friendly guide will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in growing tomatoes, and would make for a great addition to collections of antiquarian literature of this ilk. Although old, the information contained herein is timeless, making it as useful to modern readers as it was to those contemporary with its original publication. The sections of this text include: 'Diseases', 'Mould', 'Wilt', 'Root Rot', 'Outdoor Tomatoes', 'Blight', 'Ripening the Fruits', etcetera. This vintage book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.
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A Guide to Tomato Growing from Seed to Harvest - George E. Whitehead
A Guide to Tomato
Growing from Seed
to Harvest
by
George E. Whitehead
CONTENTS
Tomatoes
Greenhouse Beds
Seedling Raising
Varieties
Potting Seedlings
Ventilation
Heat and Water
Repotting
Supports
Disbudding
Pollination
White Fly
Wireworms
Damping Off
Virus Diseases
Mould
Wilt
Root Rot
Outdoor Tomatoes
Blight
Ripening the Fruits
Final Note
TOMATOES
THE beginning of this book is being written in a corridor leading to several greenhouses that contain tomato plants in various stages of development. Tomatoes have been grown in this range for several years. Some of the crops have been better than those I see at the moment, and some have been definitely disappointing. Some have come and gone without afflictions, whilst others have been smitten by all sorts of diseases and attacked by all sorts of insects. I have learned that there is only one drastic way to counter the main troubles and difficulties that confront the modern tomato grower. Of course, such things as White Fly
and Blossom End Rot,
and similar troubles are likely to appear in the best regulated nurseries, but many of them are less likely if the cultivation of this fruit is carried out by the most efficacious methods.
Beginner’s luck
generally comes to everyone, but the snag of continuous cultivation is that results get worse and worse unless it is realised that fresh or refreshed soil must be provided every year. Soil is the key to constant success. Tomatoes, when in good health, yield more fruits in weight than any other crops and these fruits contain minerals that have been taken from the soil. Large-scale growers have tried to overcome soil-exhaustion by elaborate sterilisation processes combined with the addition of fertilisers, but they seldom meet with the same degree of success as those who tackle the laborious job of exchanging soil after every crop.
A description of my own and other systems of soil management may be helpful in promoting ideas in overcoming this major problem. I combine the growing
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