A complete guide to the tomato industry, including over 50 full colour photos on tomato diseases and other vital elements. It is a book needed by all tomato and tomato products packers, growers and anyone involved or interested in packing, processing and production of tomatoes and tomato products.

Forward; Temperature and precipition data; Foliar fertillizer trials; Nitrogen nutrition of processing tomato cultivars; Pre-transplant conditioning of plug transplants; Plug transplant storage trial.

Temperature conditioning of plug transplants; Plug transplant storage trial; Improving earliness of processing tomatoes; Plant populations for processing tomato cultivars; Nitrogen nutrition of processing tomato cultivars; Processing tomato starter fertilizer trial; Influence of Fall vs. spring beds and Drip irrigation on processing tomato yield.

A reference for beginning to experienced growers, this book contains information needed to grow plugs and transplants. It covers such topics as selecting structures, production systems, understanding seed physiology, and scheduling plugs.