If you can grow only one crop, make it tomatoes because only by growing your own can you enjoy the very best-tasting varieties and be certain to pick fruits at their most delicious. 🍅
Tomatoes are incredibly rewarding to grow and it’s easy sail through to harvest – but only if you know how! Watch on as Ben share’s his top tips for growing strong, healthy plants that yield a bountiful harvest. Trouble-free tomatoes are yours for the picking!
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Thank you Ben xx
Stick the suckers in the soil, and you’ll get more plants.
I love your advice and I’ve been using it for quite a while I appreciate that then I think to myself what do you do for fun just kidding
Hornworms are heinous creatures. Here in Missouri, US we have rather large red wasp, or hornet that eats them. Also wheeled assassin bugs eat them.
Side shoots (suckers) can be rooted to have more tomato plants.
Don't throw away those side shoots (suckers), stick then in a small pot of compost, water well, and in a few weeks you'll be able to plant out another tomato. I grow a blight resistant variety outdoors, Crimson, they have several styles, cherry, plum, beef, and they have survived the worst blight outbreaks down my allotment.
Tomatoes are the one crop that have always been trouble free for me. It seems most other plants have had one problem or another.
Ben, why counterclockwise when winding your tomatoes on a hanging string?
Hi Ben, Thank you for another informative video! One question: one of my tomato plants has yellow leaves toward the bottom. Can you suggest a fix? I've read that it could mean a lack of potassium, but maybe it just needs more compost. It's rather confusing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙂
One thing I've just done is to "thin out" my tomatoes. It's my first year growing them and I missed some of the suckers on my indeterminates/vines so I've just broken some off (the bigger ones) and put them into their own pots in the shade. They'll sprout their own roots and I'll keep these ones smaller and keep an eye on them a bit more. I'm on limited growing space in my mini "El Cheapo" plastic greenhouse from Amazon and now we've got this heatwave here in the UK (I'm in east Devon) one I did this to a few days ago is doing extremely well.
Ben…please help!
I planted my first vegetable garden this year and I've tried to do everything you have suggested. I have a lot of green tomatoes coming, I've pinched off all the suckers, been using Monte's fertilizer, worm castings, worm tea, etc., but my plants are not a lush dark green and I have quite a bit if bottom end rot. I just gave them their first dose of Cal-Mag Plus and added hay for mulch. They are in pots, I use Coast of Maine soil & their lobster mulch in the beginning.
Ta mate toes – lol
I love your videos! Thank you for all of your hard work for the gardening community. We have your GrowVeg Garden Planner (which we love!) Quick question about crop rotation (in regard to nightshades as well as other plants) — is an every other year rotation good enough, provided there is good fertilizer/compost added to the soil? Or do we really need more years than that in between plantings? We are trying to plan our next year's (2023) garden and not sure if we can plant our peppers and tomatoes where they were LAST year (2021). We are container gardeners for the moment and don't mind doing SOME soil replacement, but would prefer to not replace all the soil, if possible. Any thoughts you can provide would be helpful. Thank you!
Great video
Can you use last falls leaves for mulch?
Any tips or ideas on how to get the green tomatoes to turn red? My tomato plants are loaded with green fruits, but I'm worried there's not enough summer left ( located in the Pacific Northwest) for them to ripen before the cold, wet weather comes rolling in.
I really love your channel. I have big on growing flowers but have never grown any sort of veg before. We have 2 tomato plants our first ever and they are starting to put on lots of fruit which is exciting but we are worried we will have lots of waist.
How do you store yours please? We will only really be using them to make pizza source.
But I wanted to know if I could freeze them or should I make the source and then freeze that??
Sorry for the newbie questions
Sorry if this has been asked but you mention not wetting the leaves but what about rain? The leaves are going to get wet? I loved the video, I’ve learned a lot! Thank you 🙂
Why grown the Marigolds with tomatoes?
My worst enemy is the leaf miner. I have to admit, they are winning.
I like to root the suckers for many quick new plants. This makes thriving, productive and free Tomatoe plants. Michael
Love tomatoes but they are a lot of work and with a shortish growing season is it economic ?
How is this guy such a legend?
Hey there Ben, long time watcher and a gardening beginner here.
I have a question about the blighted plants, last year blight absolutely ravaged my plants and I took them out and put them on the compost heap.
Is this compost and the soil in these beds going to be safe to use for planting tomatoes again?
As a side note, I have overdone it with the size of the bed so there is more than a ton of soil in there and second one is we have slow compost that is being broken down over many years at this point which I will rebuild into a regular compost in the spring.
It’s all about the air movement! To stop blight! I think multch is very very underrated in the garden! But then it’s much much about luck with the weather lok
Ben you are extremely well informed and your videos are informative and fun
To encourage growth of healthy side roots which enables the tomato to be planted deeper to produce a more abundant crop, I put a toilet roll collar filled with compost around the stem during the final potting-on. I have found this to work very well indeed.
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Any suggestions on how to get rid of white mealy bugs naturally.they once destroyed my tomato and papaya tree. i'm scared to grow them again