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Fruiting Vegetables

A Grower's Guide

Jean-Martin Fortier author Laurie Bennett translator Flore Avram illustrator Pierre Nessmann editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Society Publishers

Publishing:7th May '26

£14.99

This title is due to be published on 7th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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  • Co-op available
  • Galleys available
  • National advertising, print, and excerpts:
    • Mother Earth News, Hobby Farm, Growing for Market, Growers & Co, Acres USA, The American Gardener, Food Gardening Magazine
  • Online/social media campaign:
    • Facebook/Instagram Live event and giveaway with author & influencers
    • Outreach to author's 141k Instagram followers, Market Garden Institute's 49k followers, and Growers & Co.'s 27k followers
    • Promotion on New Society Publishers' social media platforms
  • General tour info
    • The author speaks extensively across the US. Will update with specific cities as they become available.
  • Promotion through the author's website: www.themarketgardener.com

Bursting with flavor and packing a powerful nutritional punch, tomatoes, peppers, squash, and other fruiting vegetables produce their prized harvests after flowering. Fruiting Vegetables covers everything you need to know to cultivate Jean-Martin Fortier's favorite varieties using his biointensive method.

Master the art of growing tomatoes, peppers, squash, and other fruiting vegetables

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.

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 professionals
  • An 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.

Jean-Martin Fortier has done it again! Incredibly beautiful, this series of pragmatic and professional instructional manuals makes it easy for anyone to start market gardening at a professional and regenerative level with a tailored focus on each aspect.
—Matt Powers, author, Regenerative Soil and Regenerative Soil Microscopy

Applying a market gardening mindset to your home garden will improve your yields and greatly reduce the amount of work involved. To do this, look no further than this series from Jean-Martin Fortier, who is a pioneer in regenerative, biointensive, and organic market gardening.
—Rob and Michelle Avis, Verge Permaculture / 5th World and co-authors, Building Your Permaculture Property

ISBN: 9781774060193

Dimensions: 178mm x 133mm x 8mm

Weight: 138g

128 pages