50 Fabulous Tomatoes for Your Garden
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50 Fabulous Tomatoes for Your Garden presents 50 favorites to plant and enjoy in your salads, sauces, and soups, or preserved by dehydrating or canning. The book includes a little background history on each heirloom or hybrid, a description of the tomatoes and their uses, and sources for seeds or plants. Full color images of each tomato allow you to see what the tomato looks like, although your results may vary according to your garden and climate. A full how-to-grow section completes the book, with instructions on starting seeds indoors, preparing the garden, transplanting outdoors, and water and fertilizing instructions. Novice gardeners will find this information essential as they start growing their own favorite tomatoes.
Among the essential hints, tips, and tomato growing knowledge shared in this book, is the little known fact that the "days to harvest" listed on the tomato package indicates the days after you plant your seedlings in the garden. Add six to eight weeks (42 to 56 days) to those days to find the full amount of time from when you plant the seeds to harvesting your first ripe tomato.
The favorites described are old-time favs, such as 'Mortgage Lifter' and 'Cherokee Purple' as well as hybrids like 'Green Zebra,' 'Sun Sugar,' and 'Sub-Arctic Plenty.' Whether you prefer sweet cherry tomatoes, giant beefsteaks, or novelties like 'Reisetomate,' there's a tomato to suit your taste.
Ruth de Jauregui
Ruth de Jauregui's latest book, published here on Smashwords, is the crime meets urban fantasy, "Bitter." Her other Smashwords titles include "50 Fabulous Tomatoes for Your Garden" and "The Soul of California - Cooking for the Holidays". She is also the author of "Ghost Towns" and "100 Medical Milestones That Shaped World History."A graphic artist and writer for more than 30 years, Ruth maintains several blogs and is currently working on a second Bitter novel. She has several associate degrees and has been contemplating returning to college for her Bachelor of Arts in visual communications.Ruth has written numerous how-to and informative articles for a variety of websites, including SFGate, AZCentral, TheNest, PawNation, TheDailyPuppy, Mom.me and eHow.Ruth always has a project or two around the house, whether it's installing that white picket fence that she bought on Craigslist, planting yet another fruit tree or renovating her vintage trailer.Besides writing, Ruth has a little website, Alien Star Books [dot] com, that features Science Fiction and Fantasy books for Teens and Young Adults of Color. It features protagonists of color, but there's room for all since it's all about inclusion, not exclusion. The intention is to include teens of Color, including her own teens, in the fantastic world of science fiction and fantasy.
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50 Fabulous Tomatoes for Your Garden - Ruth de Jauregui
50 Fabulous Tomatoes
for Your Garden
Ruth de Jauregui
Copyright 2016 Ruth de Jauregui
Smashwords Edition
ISBN: 9781310824364
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50 Fabulous Tomatoes for Your Garden
I love tomatoes. I love growing them and I love eating them. Every year, I look for seeds and plants of unusual varieties. I usually look for heirlooms, although 'Sun Sugar' was Dad's favorite and I grow them in his memory. I eat those sweet golden-orange cherry tomatoes straight off the vines too, just like he did.
This book was inspired by my Mom. One day she was picking me up to do lunch and go shopping. She saw my tomato vines and asked me what those black things were. When I told her they were tomatoes, she jumped right out of her truck to go look at them. 'Indigo Rose' is actually a small purple and orange-red tomato, but where I grow them, they look black until they start to ripen. The bottom half turns green and then reddish orange. She was fascinated -- and thus this ebook was born.
After seeing how interested Mom was in my little tomato garden, I started collecting beautiful, unusual, and delicious tomatoes for the garden. It's impossible to list every variety; there are literally thousands of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes. I've selected varieties from the tomatoes I've grown, friends' recommendations, and some that just plain caught my eye.
I hope you love tomatoes as much as I do, because I've found 50 favorites for your garden.
Table of Contents
History
Before You Start
50 Fabulous Tomatoes
How to Grow
Seed and Plant Sources
Photo Credits
Acknowledgements
History
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a tender perennial that overwinters in USDA plant hardiness zones 10 and 11. In U.S. gardens, it is usually grown as an annual, as it does not survive freezing temperatures.
Tomatoes are New World natives, grown by the Native peoples of South America and Mexico since ancient times. The earliest evidence of tomato cultivation dates to 500 BC.
The tomato was initially thought of as poisonous; it belongs to the Nightshade family, Solanaceae. In addition to the classification by botanists, according to Smithsonian magazine the upper classes used pewter plates. Pewter is made of lead, and thus the acidic tomatoes leached the lead from the plates and poisoned the diners. In general, tomatoes were considered ornamentals and used as table decorations.
The earliest European mention of the tomato as an edible fruit was in a book about herbs, written by Pietro Andrea Mattioli in 1544. The tomato's arrival was probably much earlier, although it is uncertain whether Christopher Columbus took it to Italy in 1493 or Hernán Cortés to Spain in 1521. In any case, Mattioli called the blood red or golden fruits a new type of eggplant
that could be divided into sections, seasoned with salt, black pepper, and oil, and cooked.
By the early 17th century, tomatoes were on the menu in Spain. The Spanish took tomatoes all over the world, from the Mediterranean