Grow Fruits and Vegetables the Way They Used to Taste

by John Festus Adams

Remember those succulent tomatoes, those luscious strawberries, the fruits and vegetables that tasted so delicious “back in the good old days? Today the search for longer shelf life and greater transport durability has led big growers to develop hybridized seeds. While the produce we are forced to eat today looks better, it is often tasteless, texture less, and more expensive. Now there is a solution that you can easily undertake. John F. Adams has written the book for the amateur gardener who wants to convert any patch of land, even a window box, into an heirloom garden. Here’s all the information you need to grow your own flavorful produce, where to obtain high-quality heirloom seeds, easy accessible growing instructions and tips for raising healthy, productive plants in any climate zone, grafting, budding, and propagating techniques, a complete mail-order directory of nurseries that specialize in heirloom seeds and seedlings catalogs, easy step-by-step illustrations to create and keep a bumper crop of fruits and vegetables the way they used to taste.

207 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1988