Tomatoes

A Grower's Guide

Nutritious, versatile, and bursting with flavor, tomatoes are a perennial favorite of home gardeners and market farmers alike. Tomatoes: A Grower’s Guide is packed with everything you need to know to guarantee a successful, plentiful, and profitable harvest using Jean-Martin Fortier’s biointensive techniques.

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A complete guide to tomato cultivation from seed selection to harvest.

Nutritious, versatile, and bursting with flavor, tomatoes are a perennial favorite of both home gardeners and market farmers. Tomatoes: A Grower’s Guide will help you ensure a plentiful and profitable harvest using “”The Fortier Method,”” Jean-Martin Fortier’s proven formula for successful, small-scale, biointensive gardening and microfarming.

This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color handbook features:

  • A celebration of the humble tomato and its fascinating history—from an exotic curiosity to a dietary staple.
  • An inspiring collection of truly outstanding heirloom and hybrid tomato varieties, selected for attributes such as taste, yield, appearance, and hardiness.
  • Strategies for planning, preparation, and propagation, including sowing techniques suited to every grower, from amateur through professional.
  • Comprehensive guidance on cultivating your tomato crop—covering soil management, transplanting, fertilizing, mulching, watering and irrigation, pruning, staking, disease prevention, and dealing with common pests—all using organic and sustainable methods.
  • Tips for picking at the peak of freshness, extending the harvest, and processing ideas so you can enjoy that homegrown tomato flavor all winter long.

Tomatoes: A Grower’s Guide is a keystone title in the Grower’s Guides from the Market Gardener series. This curated collection of practical handbooks is designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned horticulturalists and farmers with the information they need to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier’s principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.

About The Author(s)

Jean-Martin Fortier is a farmer, author, educator, and advocate for regenerative, human-scale, profitable agriculture. For over 20 years he and his wife Maude-Helene Desroches have operated les Jardins de la Grelinette, a successful 2-acre microfarm. His bestselling book The Market Gardener, which has sold a quarter million copies in nine languages, describes the biointensive principles used at his micro-farm. In 2015, he established a research farm, la Ferme des Quatre-Temps, where he trains apprentices and develops new strategies for market gardening, including year-round production. His methods of production are taught to a worldwide audience through the Market Gardener Masterclass, an online course of the Market Gardener Institute, which is tailored to small-scale food growers. He is the founder of Growers & Co., a tool and apparel company which celebrates sustainable, local, and equitable food producers. Jean-Martin farms and lives in Quebec, Canada.

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Book Specifications

ISBN: 9781774060056

Page Count: 128

Dimensions: 5.25 × 1 × 0.31 in

Publication Date: April 08, 2025

Images: Full Color

Translated by: Laurie Bennett

Illustrator:

Flore Avram

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