Today, Ben and I are going a little tomato pruning in the garden.
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You can make things yourself of metal wire. Cut a piece (3 inches), make a hook at the ends and hang it on the trelis with the plant in behind it. You can use them for hundreds of years.. you're welcome..
You look lovely in red Jess!
Yor garden went Kaboom. Mine so slow ….but i have one This year
So Yippee for me
Where do you get your cute dresses?
I use old shoelaces as ties.
GREAT VIDEO
Large ladies nylons at a dollar store cut into strips make awesome ties for your tomato plants. Can reuse each year!
Thanks for this reminder. Pruning and suckering tomatoes rarely makes it on my to-do list. Trying to do better this year!
How about Roma tomatoes? Do you prune them?
Ben is my hero !!!
I love how you said you were sorry to your plants. I kiss my plants and tell them to go and grow for the customers that buy them. I feel connected too. You look amazing, I'm loving this shirt on you. Thank you for this video, it's great.
9A in Texas. I use concrete reinforcing wire with 4 inch squares in a roll that is about 4 1/2 feet tall and cut sections to make a 2 foot diameter cage. Six feet long from the roll of wire as I recall. The squares make for excellent areas to lay branches through as the plant grows and provides flow through of air plus it's easy to reach in and pick fruit and for keeping an eye on development/inspection of the plant and fruit. I always put down a Coastal Bermuda hay mulch to keep weeds at bay and mitigate rain/dirt splashing on the lower leaves. This year I followed the instructions for transplanting; 12 inch hole, whole chicken egg, fresh garden dirt with a bit of peat moss (vs compost). I do start before the last frost date in early April. The tomato plants are put in the ground, but the cages are left to the side of the raised bed in case I need to cover the tomatoes with frost cloth. Then mid April I set the cages in places. My tomato plants are 7 feet high!! I'm going to have to figure out a way to extend the top a bit!! Never had this problem before. Thanks, Jess!! I am going to a milk and molasses mix to feed all of my veggies this year. AS I am already ahead of the game following the Roots and Refuge dirt formulas for seedlings and plants, I am going to try to improve still more with this organic concoction.
That looks like floral tape that you use on your tomato plants.
How do you prevent Blossom end rot?
I am so impressed with Ben's pruning! Great job little guy!
my husband compares your garden to mine and says Im a bad gardener because i dont have things producing.
Jessie I bought that rose you have on the arbor I love it,great video.
I work a full time job that starts at 7:30am and I am home by 5pm usually. I am looking forward to retirement from that job so I can be available to walk in my garden in the morning with my coffee surveying my gardens progress and pulling the tomatoe suckers off and pulling the weeds out. No rocking chair for me, no way!!!
Omg thank u soooooo much!!! We moved to Clarkston, WA 5 years ago and it's ridiculously humid here (the Snake & Clearwater rivers converge here) and our tomatoes have been soooo hard to grow! Between switching to different varities, and this video, it has given me hope for a more successful harvest this year!!! So thank you from the bottom of my tomato loving heart. Lol
I didn’t prune mine enough this year. It’s a wild mess! Except the bottoms. I don’t want snakes. I prune off everything a foot down on tomatoes and beans.
Good morning, love your videos.
First time gardener, how are you treating Aphids?
Welcome to South Carolina! We are in Berkeley county, near Charleston.
My wife and I live in north central Arkansas and have very much enjoyed your videos. I have been a gardener all my life and my mother before me and yet I found your videos super informative. We hate to see you leave the state but we will follow you. My daughter and her family live in this area also and she is a huge fan. Keep it going on.
It really helped me to see Ben do it. Not sure why. Now I have a better idea of what to do.