Tomato Production in Miami-Dade County, Florida

This document is HS-858, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date June 2001. Revised April 2006, November 2017, August 2021, and February 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. This document is written specifically for growers in Miami-Dade County as a supplement to Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida (SP170) (https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_vph). We thank many colleagues, growers, and representatives from seed and chemical companies and grower services for reviewing the document.

Y. C. Li, professor, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center; W. Klassen, professor emeritus, UF/IFAS TREC; Mary Lamberts, retired Extension agent IV, UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County; Teresa Olczyk, County Extension Director and Extension agent IV, UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County; and Guodong Liu, associate professor, Horticultural Sciences Department; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.