Top 10 Steps & Tips how to Best plant and grow Tomatoes version 2 in Just Fall Leaves/garden. BEST GROWING TIP – composting leaf mold. Harvest this beautiful tomato from just leaf mold in a raised bed gardening 101 vertically on a cattle panel outdoors gardening hacks.
VIDEO: TOP 10 TIPS & STEPS how to BEST plant and grow tomatoes version 2
Top 10 Steps & Tips how to Best plant and grow Tomatoes version 2 in Just Fall Leaves/garden. BEST GROWING TIP – composting leaf mold. Harvest this beautiful tomato from just leaf mold in a raised bed gardening 101 vertically on a cattle panel outdoors gardening hacks.
Excuse me, will the leaf mold eventually leads the plants to improve the soil underneath?
In growing my soil, do leave last year’s roots in the bed or pull them out at the end of the season?
This is an amazing demonstration! Utterly convinced that this is the way to grow. How in the world do you harvest in such lush foliage? I want to use your technique for a market garden-
Mark, at the end of season how will you re-work the row in prep for another planting?
Does leaf mold work better than wood chips? Also seeing as how spring is upon us, is it too late to plant tomatoes in leaves now?
How far apart do you space the plants when you plant them in this style?
I have tons of acorns in my yard, would this hurt the leaf mold?
Lol,' so glad I found your channel. What year did you start working your farm? I got 3 Sycamore London Planetree Hybrid growing… looking forward to the fall leaves to fall!!!!
I can shorten your tutorial:
1) pile leaves in a row on ground
2) Plant maters in leaves next year
3) Pick a ton of maters
Can't get any easier than that! Nice job!
Great video, Mark!
Mark, great video as always, very informative. I just have a couple of questions:
1 – Just to clarify, you're planting your seedlings in the leaf mold only, and not in the soil below the leaf mold?
2 – I wouldn't have thought that the leaf mold could supply enough nitrogen to the plants? But it obviously has for you.
I live in Canada, I'm going to give it a try next year. Thanks.
I ended up growing my tomatoes like this this year. It's AMAZING! I won't grow em any other way again. And the cherry tomatoes are huge. I've grown sungold cherries for a few years now but they have never grown as big as they have this season. Thanks Mark!
Do you leave the tomato plants after the season, or chop and drop?
Good job. I do basically the same thing with great results.
How can I use leaf mold in container gardening?
I was using a leaf mulcher on my leaves and picked up some animal poo. Is it ok or do I trash the entire batch?
I vouch that info in this video seems correct . Due to me taking on more projects than I can handle I allowed my tomatoes to grow low to the grown . I had no problem with the leaves or fruit laying on the grown. I allowed weeds to grow among the tomatoes. I live in a similar climate to our host . Manassas, va
My tomatoes were grown in forest topsoil , not leaf mulch . My only problem was ground hog help itself . His den was amongst the tomatoes. In that patch of tomatoes in shade till 12 to2 o'clock rain at least once a week . Or once a day . Summer of 2018. I never saw the effect of those green tomato worm things . The tomatoes were not diseased . No noticeable cracking. I ate a few . They tasted like store bought tomatoes .beef steak early girl and other pop variety. I bought them ( edited plants) at a farm stand in Greenwich va in May. $1 and fifty per plant. Oh I mostly left the sucker grow . . I dont like a big tomatoes so if the ones on suckers were not award winning . I didn't notice
For some odd reason gardeners like to play too big of a role and doing the most simple thing in life and that's just growing plants you will be surprised oh how well nature take care of its own I really enjoyed your video and not to overthink gardening
Interesting
I can see this is an older video but I want to add my kudos to you for the leaf mold usage. Leaf mold has been a magic ingredient for me in my organic garden. I don't have a city delivering truckloads but I do have many neighbors who delivery giant bags to me from their fall cleanups. I have a very large leaf bin that helps to decompose the leaves faster. I use them all throughout the garden but especially for potatoes and tomatoes. Nature sure knows how to use a valuable resource for us gardeners.
Where do I buy the fence that is in you r video. Thanks
I'm very happy that I can plant in the same spot, I'm going to be a lot more skeptical of the things that "everybody knows" about vege growing.
What a great episode on growing tons of beautiful, healthy tomatoes! So funny…all your tips are: don't water, don't prune, don't fertilize… basically plant in leaf mulch and leave them alone. Thanks for showing us another way!
What is your growing zone? I'm wondering if I could get the same results here in Utah zone 7a?
how do you deal with tomato horn worms when growing like this if birds don't like to come into all the foliage?
I'm just curious how you harvest tomatoes when the plant spreads out like that. That is a lot of leaves, it really looks like a line of blackberry bushes in Oregon!
Mark – what kind of spacing do you use between plants? Also – do you plant both sides of the cattle panel or just one? Have you grown both determinate and indeterminate varieties this way? Same spacing for both?
Love how you completely change the conventional paradigm. How do you control tobacco hornworms, Bt?
thank you for clearing those issues up as I have always wanted to plant like this but so many videos were saying otherwise. Its nice to know someone thinks like me. Beautiful tomatoes, I wish I had 1 acre…..lololol
This is such a wonderful way of growing tomatoes, but in a backyard garden, I don't have 10 feet on either side of my tomatoes to follow that system. I don't have a space where I can let them grow that big on either side of the trellis. In that case what would you suggest how to grow tomatoes? Also, every winter is different so one year the leaves might be broken down a lot more than other. How can I tell that my leaves have broken down enough to plant right into them? As always, thank you for your wonderful videos. And if may ask, how is your son doing after the loss of your dog (sorry, forgot his name).