After busting some tomato myths, it’s time to look at tomato growing tips that ACTUALLY work. Join @Jacques in the Garden @Fluent Garden and Kevin as they get into some of their favorite tips for juicy, sweet tomatoes.
00:00 – Intro
00:24 – Use Less Nitrogen When Fertilizing
01:21 – Fermenting Tomato Hack
02:56 – Ethylene Ripen Fruit
04:04 – Stagger Harvest Windows
05:31 – Planting Deep
06:44 – Topping Tomatoes
08:06 – Large Fruit = More Sun
08:57 – Cloning Your Tomatoes
10:18 – Growing More Varieties
11:18 – Bonus Hack
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Hi I have a question will you ever try to grow oats to make oatmeal
Can you guys show a setup for growing the indeterminate tomatoes single or double leaders? By that I mean the support structure you use to hang it from?
I tried it this year with those 6-8' canes and it just isn't strong enough to support the weight, or tall enough really since you have to bury a good portion of it to support. I'm trying to figure out what to build for next year, I want some kind of beam to go across with vertical supports. But idk whether I should use electrical conduit (which has been suggested to me) or using just lumber with treatment to last from weather.
I grew dozens of tomato plants this year, but none of them produced fruit due to the heat.
Thanks for this 🙂 .
Our soil up here is primarily sandy soil. When I put soil in my community garden bed, I use bagged mixes. It can be expensive; but, nothing grows in the native soil other than the native plants, like sagebrush, wild violets, and if I go further east, I can find cacti. Native grasses also grow pretty good. They are especially drought tolerant.
I have tried cloning my tomato plants; but, the cuttings all died. But, if I do not stake my plants and let them sprawl, they will sort of clone themselves.
I was just looking at the seed packets for the different tomato varieties and they all take about 80 days to mature. Of course, there is the volunteer plant that is growing in the bed. It has two tiny green tomatoes. I have one tomato plant that is growing in a fabric pot next to my garden bed that his one tiny green tomato on it. Since our first frost can come at the end of September to the first week in October, I don't think that I will have to worry about having too many tomatoes. I do like to dehydrate ripe tomatoes, though. They get crispy like potato chips and I can eat them just like that or I can crumble them up and put them in soup or stew. Dehydrated ripe tomatoes have the same flavor as sun-dried tomatoes.
You’ve got mites on you cherry tomatoes
What do I do after the seeds are in the jar for the seed fermentation process?
Regarding fermenting tomatoes for seed… you just squeeze the juice in a jar and then?? …put a lid on it and put it on your counter??
WHAT! 6:46
Thanks for the tip on stagger planting the tomatoes. I'm going to try it next year!
I have some questions regarding the fermentation of the tomato seeds, etc in the jar. I was wondering, do you put the lid on the jar? Where do you put the jar during fermentation? And, for how long do you ferment the seeds?
Thank you always such great tips I'm a better gardener because of all of you!
I water my tomatoes on drip for about an hour every 7-10 days in spring. It forces the roots down deep and the plants can sustain themselves for long periods of time but the time summer rolls around. I no longer get BER because once the plant is producing I have no need to water often and the threat of the plant wilting is almost non-existent. And no cracking either!
Getting a bit click-baity… more “tips” than “hacks”, but still good ones.
Hack #11: spread your half-finished worm compost over the garden early spring. You will get a forest of healthy tomatoes (assuming you eat them!)
You can use a thick layer of wood chips while dry farming to limit surface evaporation to nearly zero.
those banana trees behind you are absolutely massive
Loving these tips! Especially the dry farming aspect. California remains in a drought, and dry farming is the way of the future. I’m not quite ready to do that either, but definitely want to head towards that direction.
LOVE that you mentioned that philosophy in viticulture of “stressing the plant out” a little bit… it’s kind of weird, but if the plant senses it might not make it, it will put all its energy into producing fruit that will hopefully sustain the species. I guess it works. Plants have us trained
I live in hawaii, and everytime I grow tomatos, it gets destroyed by spider mites, please help…..I spray and spray, but they just come back
Thank you!
I share the extra harvest and my neighbors love me.
As soon as I saw the sunflowers I remembered that under strong ultra violet light they have really cool patterns and my brain went off to "if I had a large enough green house it would be one of the best blacklight raves at night"… I might have to re-watch to pay attention to the tips lol
Please…do a video on dwarf tomatoes!!! I have been doing a ton of research on dwarf tomato varieties and created a spreadsheet with the information. I decided next year, I am going to grow dwarf tomatoes only. Shorter plants, less maintenance and same size tomatoes as the big plants. I have a small backyard and can't do an in-ground garden, so I use a couple of GreenStalk vertical planters and some grow bags. I live in zone 8b, TX. My garden was a bust this year due to the 100°+ temps since May. Last fall/winter crop failed, this spring/summer crop failed, so I am a little burned out gardening and will wait until next spring to garden again. I need to amend my soil next spring anyway before I start over.
I think the dry farming hack is also really great for creating new drought tolerant disease resistant varieties of all plants: If you sacrafice one or two growing seasons, of mass production, but manage to get one or two fruits each year of successive plants and save the seeds, genetically the next generation of plant will need less water because it managed to survive without water.
Great video! The only thing it's missing is a Total Recall clip @ 5:20 😀 TWO WEEKS!!!