Fruiting Vegetables - Jean-Martin Fortier

Master the art of growing tomatoes, peppers, squash, and other fruiting vegetablesBursting with flavor and packing a powerful nutritional punch, fruiting vegetables produce their prized bounty after flowering. This essential guide covers everything you need to know to cultivate more than a dozen of the most popular species including tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, melons, beans, peas, and a selection of lesser-known horticultural treasures.This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color reference contains:An introduction to the Market Gardener Method—a proven formula for successful, small-scale biointensive microfarming suitable for everyone from hobbyists to professionalsAn overview of the characteristics, history and uses of the major families of fruiting vegetables such as curcurbits (gourds), fabaceae (legumes), and solanaceae (nightshades)A detailed cultivation manual featuring Jean-Martin''s favourite varieties, covering sowing, transplanting, crop maintenance, harvest, storage, and more.Grower''s Guides from the Market Gardener is a collection of practical handbooks designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned farmers with information to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier''s principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.
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