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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Mate, you're going to have tomatoes coming up from that patch FOREVER
Seems like a win to me
This last season I grew about half my tomatoes like this. I can't say it was more prolific but it did seem like it. I live in a hot and arrid climate and this tends to result in a lot of blossoms drying up and losing fruit this way. Keeping the plants low allowed for cool temps from the grass cover. The only problem I had was that I lost a LOT of good tomatoes to pill bugs. I will just be staking all my plants this next season like usual. Definitely worth a trying yourself.
So you don't have to worry about rot or disease?
Tomatoes grow better on the ground not staked up
They will start to root out of the stems into the ground they grow better
I gave up on cages years ago
I'm definitely going to try this. I stopped growing tomatoes because I didn't have the time to control them. This method would prevent branches from snapping too.
Lawn. You need to mow once every month at least lol
I followed some of your tips and grew a tomato plant that completely took over a whole corner of our yard. We got somewhere around 110 tomatoes off of it. Huge Romas. Thanks for your tips and tricks Mark. You are one of the best doing this
Actually been doing something similar for years. Only thing I do is use collapsible tomato cages, pulled out like fencing, to keep them off the ground. They form like caves under the plants and make it easier to pick. I don’t prune I don’t stake. With the indeterminate verities like Juliet I get pounds of tomatoes off of 1 plant. Do get horned worms but the wasps have started to take care of them. The biggest issue a groundhog it seems to love the tomato canopy, to dig it’s burrow under. I do have raised beds and that’s the reason I like to use the fencing so I can walk between the beds.
So glad he added shorts. I love this guy's garden, hope he keeps vlogging. He has really helped me start seed saving.
I had a tomato forest this summer, all from volunteers! They grew into a big mass and the cherry tomatoes liked going down to the mulch where it was warmer to ripen.
Mark you keep me cheered up to see greenery during these cold Alaskan winters. 5 feet of snow this week and now it’s -15F. You’re the king of the garden. Those little tommies look amazing.
Tommy toes?
Looks gorgeous and amazing. A new way of growing tomatoes I guess.
Deadly nightshade
I wonder how many would survive in my yard… With all your wildlife I'm amazed they aren't cleared out!
We're in winter season -12c rn and my father still gets a bowl of tomatoes every week in his green house, just cut stems in a vase lol. Meanwhile me with fertilizers in the summer caring for them all day got nothing at all. I guess greenery just hates me
Nice plants protected from the sun they have thrived.
Tommy toes
I grew a few varieties last year in the beds that were pruned and towering but found myself under my deck and noticed a completely healthy and fruiting grape tomato plant growing by the foundation….I didn't plant that there and haven't watered it or nothing. They really can grow anywhere and in just plain dirt with limited sunlight
Ever heard of a stake ?