In this video, I show you the easiest way to grow tomatoes at home without staking, caging, or trellising. This method of growing tomatoes is so easy you’ll go red with envy…
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Best tomatoes I ever grew was by mistake. I chucked a piece of tomato out of a roll into the comfrey bed. Next thing, the biggest most prolific tomato plant ever! Didn't feed it, stake it, trim it, actually, it was only when I was picking some comfrey for tea when I realized it was there! A lot to be said for Rogue tomatoes.
I might try integrating these in my food forest, if they self seed and work well near other plants like that grass, maybe it'll do well there
I had the same happen in one of my raised beds. Similar kind of tomato grown the same messy way.
But the harvesting was such a pain in the backside that I only picked the easy to reach ones and left the others to rot.
My Grandma called cherry tomatoes, Tommy Toes.
My son and I love your channel! We're in the US, so it actually helps us plan next year's garden better when we can see what you've been experimenting with six months before us. Thank you for all the accessible, great ideas!
I've been doing tomatoes this way for several years now. We don't even need to plant them anymore!
It's sad seeing neighbors spend hours and hours of work on beefsteaks only to have them fail half the time, while getting 300-500g of cherries every day for several months!
I would think with ALL the creatures you have there in Australia,there would be nine left. Here in south Fla. I loose a lot to birds, iguanas,and racoons,when I tie them up and TRY to protect them.
This vids makes me happy, and you sir make me smile ty ahahaha
I'm growing myself cherry tomatoes too, after failed growing normal tomato cause not fruiting, i tried cherry tomato and i see they are more tough and easier to give fruit xD
also helped by white bug that looked like flour covered bug, my cherry tomatoes now become non pesticide tomatoes
We used to have a compost bed that was at the end of one of our veg beds. Every year I would just pull it over the whole bed and up would come hundreds of tomatoes both big and cherries. I didn't stake them or tie them I just let them go. We used to get around 2-3 Kgs of tomatoes every single day for 3-4 months!!! and after they were done the pumpkins and butternut squash used to come up wild as well. We used to grow enough from that one bed for enough tomatoes for us for the year including making sauces and sun dried tomatoes and using them fresh AND pumpkins for the year with enough left over to give the neighbours and friends as well. Honestly it was the best veg bed I ever had and I literally did nothing but add kitchen scraps and grass clippings and a few leaves to the compost heap every year. We didn't pull up the old plants just let them do their own thing.
Cheers Mark, really appreciate this video, as I too have been experimenting with tomatoes here in Townsville. Definitely going to try flopsy tumble lazy methods.
Keep up the good work.
Not a good idea if u are in a country like danemark
Mark your audio in the last few vids have all been lopsided. Just incase no one has told you =D
just make sure you was the dog pee off before you pop it in your mouth lol
I grow my cherry tomatoes like this cause they just pop up everywhere…..but I don't really like growing stuff on the ground due to foragers rules…..anything below the knee you leave for the animals.
That's my kind of gardening Mark lol love ya work
You sir are a bloody legend.
I have beef tomatoes in the garden, pruned and staked, and red pear cocktail (a vigorous grower) up a trellis. With my left over seedlings I have put them one to a pot, and I am allowing them to grow side shoots. When they set a stalk of fruit I snip the shoot off at the top so the tomatoes are growing as a bush. It has been raining non stop in NZ this spring so I am hoping the extra foliage doesn't promote blight. I'll see which method works best for me.
Thanks mark good and interesting video
The best tip for tomatoes i have ever heard is if you are growing tomatoes in a greenhouse you are better off growing on a double corden, so letting one of the side shoots develop so that you have 2 growing stems on indeterminate varieties. This reduces the upward growth and gives more tomatoes per plant. The other thing is that if you love gardening and spending time in your garden then why would you want a low maintenance garden? It's about making the garden that matches what you want out of it.
good idea mate
Hi Mark,
I love your videos, I have watched you for a long time, It's the best garden show,
I live in Stanthorpe so we are much colder here.
Mark I have been trying to find tree onions and hard neck garlic, but I'm not having much success,
do you know where I could obtain them please.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, and stay safe.
I wanna eat lazy tomatoes. They look so tasty!