Contents:
Chapter One:
The Amazing Xtomati … Or Love Apple … Or Mad Apple … Or Rage Apple … Or Wolf Peach … America’s Favorite Vegetable … Or Fruit … Or Berry
Chapter Two:
Their Infinite Variety: Choosing the Best Love Apple For You
Chapter Three:
From the Sahara to Siberia: Sunlight and Soil. Needs for Tomatoes Everywhere
Chapter Four:
The Easy Way: Four Tomato Growing Shortcuts
Chapter Five:
Containing ‘Em: Soils and Containers for Growing Tomato Seedlings Indoors
Chapter Six:
A Sowing Primer: Starting Tomato Seeds Indoors
Chapter Seven:
Precocious Tomatoes: Gambling for the Early Ones
Chapter Eight:
The Best and the Brightest: Setting Out Main-Season Tomatoes
Chapter Nine:
To Stake or Not to Stake: Staking, Pruning, and Planting Companion Crops between Tomatoes
Chapter Ten:
Feeding ‘Em - Including Composting Special Fertilizing Problems, and Vitamins
Chapter Eleven:
Love Among the Love Apples, Watering, Weeding, Propagating, and Pampering Tomatoes
Chapter Twelve:
The Worms at the Heart of the Rose: Controlling Tomato Insects and Pests
Chapter Thirteen:
Battling the Blights and Other Tomato Diseases
Chapter Fourteen:
The “Outa Space” Tomato Patch: Twenty-Five Space Saving Ways to Grow Tomatoes
Chapter Fifteen:
Tomatoes Under the Christmas Tree … Extending the Tomato Season: Outdoors, Indoors, and In the Greenhouse
Chapter Sixteen:
Reaping the Rewards: Harvesting Tomatoes and Saving Seeds
Chapter Seventeen:
Putting Them Up: Salting, Drying, Freezing, and Canning Tomatoes
Chapter Eighteen:
Making It: A Love Apple Cookbook
Recipes Include:
Beefy Tomatoes with Basil
Organic Tomato-Vegetable Cocktail
Country Tomato Soup
Gazpacho
Captain Sam’s Clam Chowder
Unusual Tomato Health Salads
Roasted Tomatoes
Herbed Cherry Tomatoes
Short-Cut Stewed Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes
Easy Stuffed Tomatoes
Stuffed Tomatoes a la Sicilienne
Stuffed Tomatoes a la Provencale
Stuffed Tipped Tomatoes
Tomato Surprise! (with asparagus plus)
Tomato Omelette
Italian Tomato Sauce Maggiore
Two Ways to Make Candied Tomatoes
Tomato Catsup
Five-Minute Tomato French Dressing
Chili Sauce
Chutney
Piccalilli (cabbage & sweet peppers & onions with seasonings)
Green Tomato Mincemeat
Yellow Tomato Conserve
Green Tomato Marmalade
Bloody Mary
Tomato Wine
Appendix I
Over One Hundred Early-Ripening Tomato Varieties
Appendix II
Main-Season and Late Tomatoes
Appendix III
Developing a Tomato Variety Just for You
Appendix IV
Sixty Tomato-Seed Sources by Region
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