Book Review: The Texas Tomato Lover’s Handbook

This book is a must-have reference for any tomato lover.

“ A garden - grown tomato , slice and lay across a grill hamburger . . . Sweet , chubby cherry red tomatoes in a crisp , fleeceable salad . . . Sauce made from fresh tomatoes , ladled over a steaming bowl of alimentary paste . . . Spicy tomato salsa . . . Savory tomato soup . . . ”

Tired of schmaltzy , half - fleeceable , tasteless tomatoes from supermarkets ? If you already mature tomatoes , are you tired of growing a mediocre crop every yr ? … or miss the battle with diseases and pests?The Texas Tomato Lover ’s Handbookcould be your answer . William ( Bill ) Adams is a retired Harris County Texas extension agent with thirty year ’ experience at the AgriLife Extension Service . Do not let the Texas deed of conveyance deflect you . Practically all of the information given in the Good Book lend oneself to tomato cultivator everywhere .

start out the book is a chapter on must - have tools for the tomato spell . William lays out “ a formula for the perfect Lycopersicon esculentum crop ” in the next chapter , which include great info on select a positioning , spring up your own transplantation , graft , preparing the soil , planting , caging , building a raised bed , and growing tomatoes in container and greenhouse .

Tending the Tomato Patch , is again , a chapter full of helpful information . He talks about the best means to implant and protect new transplants , building a alloy batting cage and other support system of rules , using a fiber row masking , fertilizing and foliar - feeding , setting up an irrigation system , and finally how to cleanse up finished tomato plant for the season .

The next chapter , the expectant in the script , is a Brobdingnagian inclination and description of several tomato varieties . Each form is name with its disease impedance , rough sidereal day to harvest , and a helpful description written in a very personal timber . That is , I almost felt as though the author was describing them to me directly .

A brief digression to spill about photography . By far , the picture taking in this book ( taken by William and Deborah Adams themselves ) is some of the honest I’veeverseen in a volume on gardening , period . What I really enjoyed about it was the pic selection . The photos showed you exactly what was needed to really serve you understand the content .

worm , diseases , locoweed , and varmints are discussed in the next chapter . As William says , “ gardener are not the only one who love Lycopersicon esculentum . ” Several helpful garden provision tip are talk over , and then he fall out with insect pests , beneficial dirt ball , and disease . in the end , he blend in over constituent cuss control spraying options .

The book concludes with a chapter on tomato relatives – peppers , eggplant and Physalis ixocarpa , as well as a rootage lean for tomato seeds and works .

If you are a big Lycopersicon esculentum rooter as I am , The Texas Tomato Lover ’s Handbookis a must - have reference that will greatly assist you in deliver a bumper crop , year after year .

The Christian Bible is published by the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Service . It is available throughAmazon(starting at $ 17 ) , or through theTexas A&M University Press($25 ) .

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