If You're a Tomato, I'll Ketchup With You

Tomato Gardening Tips and Tricks

Rosefiend Cordell

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English

Rosefiend Publishing.
12 December 2020

Plant pathology & diseases; Gardening; Gardening: plants; Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables; Organic gardening

Series: Easy-Growing Gardening

The National Gardening Association has found that, among vegetable gardeners, tomatoes are their favorite plant to grow. One in three Americans have a vegetable garden, and 9 out of 10 of those gardens have tomatoes in them.

Tomatoes range in size from gigantic beefsteak tomatoes that can weigh up to a half-pound, to the smallest cherry tomato about the size of a marble. You can grow heavy-yielding hybrids or open-pollinated heirloom varieties in different colors, shades, and sizes. You can choose early varieties that set fruit when it's cool outside, mid-season varieties, and late-maturing varieties that will give you the biggest fruits but take 80 to 90 days to do it. Sometimes you'll need about 120 days to get a decent harvest, but hey, at least you get tomatoes!

Tomatoes are so versatile and so good. You can cook them a million different ways or you can eat them, sun-warmed and delicious, straight off the vine. Some people grab a cherry tomato, a leaf of basil, and a slice of mozzarella cheese, and eat them like that.

Welcome to the world of tomato gardening.

There's nothing as sweet and good as a sun-warmed tomato fresh from the garden on a hot summer afternoon. It's no wonder that tomatoes are the most popular vegetable in America (though botanically, tomatoes are a fruit). Cordell's book walks you through the steps in raising tomatoes - through starting tomato seeds, planting (and tricks for planting tomatoes early), and staking and caging tomatoes. Readers learn how to fight off diseases and insect pests, decipher the mysterious letters on a tomato tag, how to harvest tomatoes, and how to dry, can, or freeze tomatoes for next year. With plenty of information for advanced gardeners, ready help for beginning gardeners, lots of expert knowledge, and a smidgeon of wit, If You're a Tomato will guide you in the ways of the vegetable garden with a minimum of fuss and feathers. And also with a minimum of weeding. Nobody likes weeding.

By: Rosefiend Cordell
Imprint: Rosefiend Publishing.
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 163g
ISBN: 9781953196132
ISBN 10: 1953196136
Series: Easy-Growing Gardening
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 12 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rosefiend Cordell (aka Melinda R. Cordell) has been a municipal horticulturist, and has worked as a greenhouse manager, a perennials czar, a landscaper laborer, and a landscape designer through her career, and she ran a public rose garden with over 300 roses (mostly antique roses). Now she writes books (it's easier on the back) about what she's learned over the years in gardening. The maple that she's posing with in her author photo is one she planted in the parks system in the late 1990s. Good times! Rosefiend Cordell is her gardening book pen name; she writes epic fantasy with dragons under her real name (you can read those as well, hint hint).

Reviews for If You're a Tomato, I'll Ketchup With You: Tomato Gardening Tips and Tricks

For the last three years, I have been plagued with some sort of blight. (Not me personally, my tomatoes) So, as my way obviously isn't working, and after reading both Melinda's vegetable and rose books, (the latter being very good) I read through this and decided, I've nothing to lose by trying it her way. Everything has been prepared using tips from this book, along with the added safeguard of bug bombing the greenhouse. So Ms. Cordell, the proof of the tomato will be in the eating. (No pressure). I really enjoy Melinda's gardening books. They are packed with straight forward advice and information from one passionate gardener to another. Not only is the name adorable but the book is wonderful. It's book three out of six in the Easy Growing Gardening Series. I found this book to be an extremely valuable resource about tomatoes. Everything you want to know about tomatoes is in this book. Types of tomatoes, how to plant, protection from insects, how to save seeds, etc. You name it and it's most likely in this book. As a master gardener and a tomato lover, I really thought that this book would be a waste of time. Well I was wrong, big time. A wonderful addition to your gardening book collection.