| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : color illustrations, color map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
AgriLife Research and Extension Service series
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AgriLife Research and Extension Service series.
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| Contents |
History of the garden tomato -- Must-have tools for the tomato patch -- A recipe for the perfect tomato crop: basic cultural needs -- Locating the tomato patch -- Growing your own transplants -- Grafting tomatoes -- Preparing the soil -- How to build a raised bed -- Growing tomatoes in containers -- Growing tomatoes in a greenhouse -- Tending the tomato patch -- Planting and protecting new transplants -- Cages or stakes for support -- The row-cover benefit -- Maintaining soil fertility and foliar feeding -- Irrigation: not an option -- Cleaning up for the next crop -- Tomato varieties -- Hybrid varieties: medium to large fruit -- Open-pollinated and heirloom varieties: medium to large fruit -- Cherries and small-fruited varieties -- Insects, diseases, weeds, and varmints -- Tomato pests -- Insect pests -- Beneficial insects -- Trap crops -- Tomato diseases and environmental stress -- Organic and low-toxicity sprays that really work -- Pollination -- Tomato-snatching critters -- Weeds -- Tomato relatives -- Peppers -- Eggplants -- Tomatillos -- Potatoes -- Tomato source list. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tomatoes -- Texas -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Tomatoes. |
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Texas. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Subject |
Tomatoes -- Breeding -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Tomatoes -- Breeding. |
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Tomatoes -- Diseases and pests -- Control -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Tomatoes -- Diseases and pests -- Control. |
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Tomatoes -- Diseases and pests. |
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Tomatoes -- Texas -- Pictorial works.
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Illustrated works.
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Author |
Adams, Deborah J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adams, William D., 1946- Texas tomato lover's handbook. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University, ©2011 (DLC) 2010029555 |
| ISBN |
9781603442404 (electronic book) |
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1603442405 (electronic book) |
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1603442391 (pb-flexbound ; alkaline paper) |
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9781603442398 (pb-flexbound ; alkaline paper) |
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9781603442398 (pb-flexibound ; alkaline paper) |
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