Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

by Craig LeHoullier

Paperback, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

635.642

Publication

Storey Publishing, LLC (2014), 256 pages

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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Dokfintong
Who could be better suited to write an authoritative book on tomatoes than Craig LeHoullier, the tomato guy at Seed Savers Exchange? This book contains all the information you could possibly need on choosing and growing heirloom tomatoes.

Mr. LeHoullier's prose is a bit stilted but who cares? Blame
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his editors at Storey Publishing for not helping him. Blame them too for the awful book design. Squint a bit to get past the jarring font and color choices and get on with planning your 2015 garden.

I received a review copy of "Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time" by Craig LeHoullier (Storey Publishing) through NetGalley.com.
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LibraryThing member 2wonderY
This is the perfect book for anyone and everyone who loves eating and growing tomatoes. It contains all kinds of practical information, photos and reference materials. It discusses a multitude of tomato varieties as well. Lovely format and cover!
LibraryThing member murderbydeath
A gorgeous book all the way around with beautiful photography, brightly coloured backgrounds and eye-catching layouts. The information regarding growing tomatoes is solid but will appeal more towards those amateur growers who want to expand into breeding their own tomato plants. There's plenty of
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good information for rank beginners too, but the bulk of the book talks about breeding and how anyone (with patience and space) can do it.

My disappointment with the book was small: I had been hoping for more information about what tomato plants should look like towards the end of the season because mine always look bedraggled beyond belief and I want to know if that's normal or if my plants are getting diseased. There is a good section on diseases here, but it could have been beefed up with photo examples of what the affected plants look like: most lacked any photos at all and descriptions only go so far.

I picked up a lot of good information though and I'm already looking forward to next spring and the chance to try out new techniques, new ideas and new tomatoes.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

256 p.; 8.5 x 1 inches

ISBN

1612122086 / 9781612122083
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