{"id":4437,"date":"2008-05-21T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:11:26","slug":"book-report-the-book-of-tomatoes-by-national-gardening-association-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/book-report-the-book-of-tomatoes-by-national-gardening-association-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Book of Tomatoes by National Gardening Association (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book because I was going to put in some tomato plants.  Of course, I didn&#8217;t read the book until I&#8217;d already done several wrong things with the tomato plants, but what&#8217;s a guy to do?<\/p>\n<p>This book is a supplement to the National Gardening Association&#8217;s regular materials, apparently.  It covers the gamut of tomato raising, from selecting the right variety between the determined\/indetermined growth varieties, natural resistance to disease and insects, and onto fertilization techniques, planting considerations, and finally into canning tips and recipes for tomato dishes.<\/p>\n<p>I learned a lot from this book and hope that next year I can put its lessons, coupled with the big ones I&#8217;m learning this year on my own, into practice.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000GD3KJ4&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book because I was going to put in some tomato plants. Of course, I didn&#8217;t read the book until I&#8217;d already done several wrong things with the tomato plants, but what&#8217;s a guy to do? This book is a supplement to the National Gardening Association&#8217;s regular materials, apparently. It covers the gamut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5598,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}