Fruiting Vegetables

<p><strong>Master the art of growing tomatoes, peppers, squash, and other fruiting vegetables</strong></p><p>Bursting 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.</p><p>This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color reference contains:</p><ul><li>An introduction to the Market Gardener Method—a proven formula for successful, small-scale biointensive microfarming suitable for everyone from hobbyists to professionals</li><li>An overview of the characteristics, history and uses of the major families of fruiting vegetables such as curcurbits (gourds), fabaceae (legumes), and solanaceae (nightshades)</li><li>A detailed cultivation manual featuring Jean-Martin''s favourite varieties, covering sowing, transplanting, crop maintenance, harvest, storage, and more.</li></ul><p><em>Grower''s Guides from the Market Gardener </em>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.</p>