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So glad I came across this video. Several youtubers suggest pruning all the suckers. Everytime I prune my tomato plants they don't do so well. I was taking all of the suckers off.... too much I think. This year I still killed one plant already and decided not to prune the suckers. I have several plants with flowers growing from the sucker stems. They're all looking very happy... me too! 😊🌱☀️🍅
Last year I had tomato rot.i forget the name of it.mabey this year I buy lime and dead fish! I think its called bosses and rot. Could it be from too much water?
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) I agree. How did you become so knowledgeable? Are you self taught just by learning as you went or were/are you in this line of work or...? I'd be interested in knowing. I am learning a lot from you. Thank you. I used Epsom salts the other day. I don't have a lot of extra no ey to spend on all kinds of fertilizers tho. I do have some 10 10 10 and Epsom salt. Do you think that will be enough for my garden?
I'm in 5B and I just planted like a week ago and had some seeds come up. I grew 8 plants I bought from a fundraiser last year by adding in lime and Dr Earth fertilizer, some in ground watering close to roots with a soda can with holes in put in the ground, and fertilized on a schedule. I have clay like soil too. I'm doing something different this year to try out, and I do have different granular fertilizers. My own seedlings didn't fare well with hardening off. I only had 3 to plant. I have 2 or 3 spoon seedlings still growing in their pot.
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Thank you Gary! Good information about fertilizing. I've got to get some work castingsnandnan organic fertilizer too. I'll watch for your updates on the tomato challenge!
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Don't count your tomatoes yet Gary. Althought Ive not made the video yet I am still in this comp and think you will both be surprised at what the UK has to offer. The video will be very soon as I am weeks behind both of you due to the real bad weather and the fact I hadnt sown beefstake tomatoes. I sowed them about a week after I spoke with you both about joining this challenge. You are both so sure you will win, I hope you know that this record is coming to me ;)
Gary I never thought of regular scissors but I will try Thanks for teaching me Sir. Someone told me to trim the growing tips near freezing in the fall to give growth to finish the tomato harvest and I will always do it now.
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My dad grew some beefsteak tomatoes one year that weighed over three pounds each, they put his picture with them in the Teamster newsletter. The next year he used to much fertilizer and had humongous plants but not many tomatoes. After that he became a constantly good tomato gardener. One technique he used was a metal pipe for a stake. He drilled holes in the pipe where the roots would be when driven into the ground. He used liquid fertilizer and poured it in the pipe. Worked great just don't overdo the fertilizer. I personally like Tomato Tone , Epson salts, egg shells pulverized and a little lime, also liquid fertilizer when I plant and again in about 2 months.
Great idea on pipe and slow and steady with fertilizer is best as you can get great leaved plants and more, but smaller tomatoes, with too much nitrogen. Visit my blog, The Rusted Garden Journal, for the written DIY recipes and more garden information: therustedgarden.blogspot.com Thanks... Here is how you can support me, more videos, and The Rusted Garden... The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop: www.therustedgarden.com/
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I vermicompost year-round in the basement. When doing final sifting, removing andvreturning worms bscknyonthr bins, I blend in 50% coconut core. Its for personal use and enables me to fond smaller worms. Makes it easy to blend into the garden too. Very effective tip.
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I plant in February in lousiana and i let the lower branches go until temps start to approach 80 degrees generally. As i see yellowing begin to occur i begin to prune those lower branches, but i often get first fruits down very low, and then higher up as the plant progresses. I do use the fish emulsion, epsom salt, and organic calcium, and i like Jobes specific for tomatoes.
I highly recommend putting fish in the hole. I always have but didn't this year and my tomatoes didn't do guite as good as the last 8 years. I think it gives them nutrients but also draws in earth worms around the roots and that is really good for the plant. By the way my tomatoes do so well that the neighbors call me Mr Tomato Man.
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My tomato plants have flowers and are huge I'm in GA zone 7 too the weather has been crazy, I already have zucchini and squash almost full size to harvest, my melons are producing flowers for fruit I can't wait to harvest this season
Hi again Gary! I know it is early in the season. I really enjoy all your videos but am equally interested in your favorite recipes to make with things for your garden. If you can for later use, do you have any interesting combinations you like? I thought this might be fun new videos to see from you in the future. Happy gardening!
After watching a few video's on determinate and indeterminate tomatoes, I finally gave up on what to do, so what I will do is just trim the bottom leaves, most video's say sucker the indeterminate, and don't sucker the determinate, I could go crazy deciding what plant to sucker and what to leave alone, so my plan is just to leave the sucker's on and trim the bottom leave's. My decision is due to this video, you make more sense than most of the video's. thank's
that's what i'm doing, I got panic when I saw my leaves curling on the tomato plant's, looked on some video's and all kind's of thing's could do it. too much water, too hot, insect's, none of it applied except our 90* weather, so I got that under my belt. I'm use to having my garden way in the back, it's fenced in and I have a watering system. just plant it, water when needed, and once a season pull a few weed's, not use to babysitting plant's, but this yr, had to resort to pot planting, not so bad, but way too much work for me. thank's for all your advice, especially the hot coffee compost, mine is on the 14th day and doing good. Just love all your video's.
I started using azomite as well for trace minerals, and if i have them i do add fish down 6-8 inches deep, and worm casting if i can find them locally, and i top dress with a wood chip/ leaves and twig mulch. , that has been run through a chipper., and this is just to create nice aeration and a nice protective canopy to hold moisture, and nutients in.
Gary H I have 2 that I started months ago indoors but when Calikim talked about this challenge I started 5 more to play along. I have the best one of those 5 set aside just for the challenge. Will se what I get, if any. I tried tomatoes a couple years ago and didn’t do too good. But I spent the winter watching Calikim and Gary’s video’s, so maybe I will do better this year 🤞🏻
:O My Mom would always have us remove all the suckers, and we would all be so confused as to why we didn't have a lot of tomatos!!!! Now I am doing my own garden and this is so good to know!!
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Great video. I love the way but you and Cali Kim keeps everything simple. I will say being from the northeast I am rooting for you, but I wish you both good luck.
Hi just a suggestion when you plant your tomatoes plant them deeper ..remove the bottom leaves and dig a hole and plant them .as they grow top the soil up like potatoes then you get a good root system .plants are healthier stronger and weather resistant and better tomatoes
Not as bad down here in coastal VA, but still rainy and humid. Despite pruning lower stems, mulching, and weekly baking soda spray (adding aspirin every other week), yesterday I discovered what looks like leaf spot on all my tomatoes. Got rid of affected stems and sprayed again with baking soda. Crossing my fingers.
Well, today the sun was out so I checked on my tomatos and peppers. I think I may have dodged a bullet. I am convinced the weekly BS sprays (and two additional sprays during this rain) and bimonthly aspirin saved my bacon. My plants are looking very healthy today and remaining leaf spots are actually regressing. Prevention is huge. Thanks to you, Gary.
Thanks So Much For The Information On Pruning And How To Fertilize! Now I Know Why My Tomatoes Look Like Skeleton Every Year. Its Because I Clip The Suckers! Not Going To Clip Them This Year To See What I Get. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
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Love your videos! They have REALLY helped me out in my garden and get much better production!!! Could you tell me (us) where we can get that tomato cage? I can't seem to find a decent cage without spending an arm and a leg. I know you tend to be cost effective, which works for me! So, I assume they do not cost too much! Lol Thanks again!
Gary v. CaliKim, huh? This will be fun! I couldn't help but grin during the 1st minute of this video. It's expected to hit 100 degrees here in TX next week, and all tomatoes are pretty much played out for now. Got a ton of fruit off my Cherokee Purple & sudden wind gust blew it over (in container). Noticed some had BER, so have found that I'm having to use gypsum as often as liquid fertilizer. MUST water every day. Determinate toms still full of fruit just now starting to turn, but indeterminate just not doing well. Got some on the porch, which cuts temp a bit, and a few in part shade to cut temp, so still trying. Think it's now too hot for zucchini now; plenty of girls, but blossoms just won't open. Peppers and eggplant, as well as cherry sized toms doing well. Have TONS of green beans, and bulb onions about done; they don't get too big because can't put in ground, & bed is only about 4" deep. Now going into drought here. Have had great showers that are missing me by 2 BLOCKS! Makes me so mad! GL in your CaliKim challenge!
Most everything done now. Looks like I won't get any zucchini at all, and even might be too hot for peppers! All will shut down until mid/late-Sept, then, Fall garden. GL with your challenge!
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Hi Gary, I am getting long leaves that droop to the ground. Can I cut back part of the leaves on a stem so they will not promote issues? Also, if you inadvertently break a main stem, how should you proceed?
Norine Holland I usually leave the drooping leaves. But again, I don’t live in an area where all these bacterial/pest diseases exist. If you break the main stem, I would wait a few days. You might have a bushier much stockier tomato plants. Where did you break it though? Middle? Top? Bottom? At the top-It’ll be fine. Might put on more side leaves but it’ll be fine. In the middle-you might have a stockier plant. At the bottom-it’ll just rot.
If I soak my plants with fish emulsion I get raccoons shortly after digging everything up. Sometimes foxes. If I put it only on the soil I can then water it in after and they'll leave my garden alone.
Yep one of the reason I say use what fertilizers work best in your areas... is that. A lot of organics attracts animals. The chemical ferts and worm casting fix that. Animals aren't attracted to it. Staying away from fish, blood, shrimp, chicken and bone meals can help too.
Do you have any vids addressing keeping indeterminate tomatoes from growing over 4 feet tall? Does the rain ever destroy any of your tomato plants or fruit?
Top them i.e. cut the growing tip off each of the production stems when they reach the height you want. Just make sure you cut above any flower clusters. Jeff Bernhard has a video. ua-cam.com/video/dt248PehgZ8/v-deo.html I don't recall a video where he topped a plant but the one I linked explains about topping.
Rain doesn't directly harm my plants but it can make for humidity and disease hang around. Nothing to keep them at 4 feet but trimming them. No vids on that.
After you place the one cup of bone, meal, casting, and triple 5 mixture in the planting hole do you use the dilute fish emulsion every 3 weeks. Video is not clear
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Living in south eastern US and routing for you in this challenge as well as getting fantastic tips for my beefsteak tomatoes! I wish I could ask you a question about my basil plant before the sub tropical storm hits.
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I remember several years ago when I first started growing tomatoes. I see the white nodes at the base of my plants and was like OMG my plant has a weird growth it’s got a parasite 🤣
I bought some heirloom beef steak tomato seeds I planted them on March 19 of this year I live in Phoenix Arizona they’re really tall they’re blooming like crazy but the blooms are just dying off they’re not producing any tomatoes at all what am I doing wrong there are on an automatic watering system so the water is perfect I take it with them water meter every other day they’ve been fed they’ve been fertilized I need
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Oh! I see you have Chef’s choice Red (AAS). I’m trying Chef’s choice pink. I’m SO excited. I’ve never tried to grow a large tomato before....only cherry tomatoes.
What do I do??? I tried to follow the directions on the JOBE fertilizer bag for established tomato plants. I used 1 full cup per 10' by 2' foot garden beds. I noticed you just sprinkled the fertilizer. Did I just kill my beautiful plants???!!!
very helpful. how often do you put the slow release fertilizer during growing season? And what about epsom salt? I am just sticking to FE and worm casting tea for liquid feed. Would you suggest adding the miracle gro liquid feed too?
ES only 1 or 2 a year now. Years ago, I over used it, to no harm to plants, but it is just not needed often. Slow release varies based on you soil but generally at planting, mid season and again if the plant is still going later august. I put the granular down in Nov/Dec when I put the beds to rest too. Please visit The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden shop for seeds, seed starting supplies, neem oil, TRG merchandise and more at www.therustedgarden.com & Please Ring the Bell (next to subscribe) to get immediate real-time video notifications of new videos. I have over 1250 garden videos you can search and find the answer you need. Thanks
Hi Gary, What size is the bed in the video? If you kept air flow and pruning good, do you think you could push 3 plants across instead of the 2 across? I look at my 4x8 beds and sometimes I feel that I have "wasted" space,,,Im wondering if you think 3 may work,,,,thanks for all your videos
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I have a problem every year with the black spots and it eats the plant from bottom up, but I container them ,not going to do it this year. I'm bed plant this year.
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LOL 2 fish and a frying pan :P so funny :D. using your idea of sunken planter can cut bottom out of a pot bury it around plant with 6+ inches above ground to fill with soil when plant gets big enough so can root up stalk. This is to make up for her transplanting outside and being able to plant deeper.
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I have that same tomato cage (5 of 'em actually) that were SOO pretty when they were new and red. Mine are orange now too! They're really too small for my tomato plants already this year, but they'll do!
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Great video again. I need to get some fish emulsion. I’m starting a worm bin and hope to have worm casting tea soon also. Thanks for sharing as always. Have a great day..!!
Can you make a tea out of the jobes fertilizer? I did it last week with spring water & let it steep for 24 hours and watered my pumpkin & tomato plants. Does that speed up the absorption?
Tea really doesnt help with that respect. Tea is made to create more bacteria or to soak Soluble forms of fertilizer like compost. If you soak insoluble forms, like in this case, it doesnt speed up anything. The soil life still has to break it doen.
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I use my aquarium water on tank cleaning day. Is that ok to use??? I’ve been using it on my peppers 🌶 , tomatoes 🍅 , watermelons, cucumbers 🥒, green beans, house plants, my out door flowers, and herbs! Would that have the right ferts?
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Nah. I go buy the day and night temps and rains. You want around 50 degrees in the top 6 inches. Please check out The Rusted Garden Seed & Garden Shop for all your gardening needs at www.therustedgarden.com & Please Ring the Bell (next to subscribe) to get immediate real-time video notifications. Thanks
What if all i have are flower clusters because i cut to much? Did I kill my plant? I bought it at the store and mine has three main branches from the bottom. Please help
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Do you always cut at the base of the branch? That leave had been attacked by a bug and lookedblike swiss cheese. Could you just nip that one leaf or is that counter productive?
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How do you support the very heavy trusses, just lost both of my bottom 2 trusses because of weight, trusses just sheared/snapped off main stem :( they had like 6 beautiful forming tomatos on each truss, had to bin them.
My transplanted tomatos in a container are yellowing right in the middle where the new growth is. I set up the soil with your set up...but im afraid they may not be getting enough light. Some online comments say its an iron problem. Do you have any idea? Thanks!
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) good question. I just moved them to a much more sunny spot out in the yard. Before I moved them, I had them in fabric pots a few inches off the ground on a pallet but in a shaded spot... for about 2 weeks.
So if you are watering them regularly and feeding regularly I would say make sure they aren't over fed before taking this suggestion. Too much feed can make issue too. That often happens. But a chemical fertilizer that has all the NPK and micro nutrients can be used. One dose, see how it responds and go back to your normal routine. This covers all the feeding bases. I would also wait like 5 days for them to be in sun. See how they do first.
Can I add store bought hay on top of my seeded cucumber, zucchini, eggplant containers and transplanted tomatoes planted May 22nd in Detroit MI instead of mulch?
is it best to use either worm castings or organic fertilizer or is using both on plant at same time ok? do you feed the plants every 4-6 weeks with these? (jobes says to plant every 4-6 weeks). Can you use all three - castings, fertilizer, and compost at same time or is this too much? also do you water with the tea 1x/week during the watering process?
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Question: my son & I do 5 gallon buckets.. The plants are growing great & tall.. BUTTTTT the VERY tip on everyone of them looks like a cruel or blunt tip.. I don't get it.. We used 3 yr old compost which is all natural horse poo.. I have never had a problem with it. My other veggies are doing great in the same compost & 5 gallon buckets. Last yr other types of tomatoes done great. I didn't know if the cruled/blunt top was the beef steak.. Thanks.
I have a squirrel stealing all my tomatos off my Goliath tomato plant. It's not even waiting for it to get to its full size or turn red. It's just snapping it right off and eating them green. What do you do to stop this?
I feel your pain i had rabbits come in and eat bunch of leaves off cherry tomato and honeydew plants i sprinkled sevins all over them the rabbits havent messed with them since (now watch me go out there and they finished them off) if you dont want to use that i heard making a spray from strained cayenne peppers might work.
Metcraft I was thinking of making some kind of cage but I've never made one before. It's going to take some online research and more money. It's my first full garden and I swear it's needs are bleeding me dry. My consolation is I won't have to buy all this stuff it needs again next year. It's just that now starting with nothing there was so much I had to get.
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So glad I came across this video. Several youtubers suggest pruning all the suckers. Everytime I prune my tomato plants they don't do so well. I was taking all of the suckers off.... too much I think. This year I still killed one plant already and decided not to prune the suckers. I have several plants with flowers growing from the sucker stems. They're all looking very happy... me too!
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Last year I had tomato rot.i forget the name of it.mabey this year I buy lime and dead fish! I think its called bosses and rot. Could it be from too much water?
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Found this Channel 3 days ago. It's now my Favorite UA-cam CHANNEL! Thank you for all the great videos. I appreciate Gary.
Oh thanks so much. Greatly appreciated.
You really are one of the best gardeners on the internet Gary thanks for so much info it's like going to gardening college lol
Very appreciated.
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) I agree. How did you become so knowledgeable? Are you self taught just by learning as you went or were/are you in this line of work or...? I'd be interested in knowing. I am learning a lot from you. Thank you. I used Epsom salts the other day. I don't have a lot of extra no ey to spend on all kinds of fertilizers tho. I do have some 10 10 10 and Epsom salt. Do you think that will be enough for my garden?
I could not watch this video without commenting about the frying pan. You two are having so much fun with the competition. I love it.
I agree.
I caught that, made me chuckle lol
I'm in 5B and I just planted like a week ago and had some seeds come up. I grew 8 plants I bought from a fundraiser last year by adding in lime and Dr Earth fertilizer, some in ground watering close to roots with a soda can with holes in put in the ground, and fertilized on a schedule. I have clay like soil too. I'm doing something different this year to try out, and I do have different granular fertilizers. My own seedlings didn't fare well with hardening off. I only had 3 to plant. I have 2 or 3 spoon seedlings still growing in their pot.
Good luck. Keep experiment as that is the best way.
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Thank you Gary! Good information about fertilizing. I've got to get some work castingsnandnan organic fertilizer too. I'll watch for your updates on the tomato challenge!
Ill be planting up my 2021 Tomato Challenge tomato plant soon
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Don't count your tomatoes yet Gary. Althought Ive not made the video yet I am still in this comp and think you will both be surprised at what the UK has to offer. The video will be very soon as I am weeks behind both of you due to the real bad weather and the fact I hadnt sown beefstake tomatoes. I sowed them about a week after I spoke with you both about joining this challenge. You are both so sure you will win, I hope you know that this record is coming to me ;)
"NO FRYING PANS PERMITTED! lol Good luck to you as well!
Cheers. UK could take it. Keep in touch.
I thought it was just Kim and Gary Kim never mentioned you in the challenge
Layten Williams They havent i asked if i could join this and both excepted 😁👌
Oh ok good luck😁😁
Love watching your channel. I love gardening want to grow vegetables. You have giving me so much information. Thank you.
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Gary I never thought of regular scissors but I will try
Thanks for teaching me Sir.
Someone told me to trim the growing tips near freezing in the fall to give growth to finish the tomato harvest and I will always do it now.
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I’m happy you and your garden have come out unscathed!
Thanks. The rain was crazy and we lost Ellicott City again to floods.
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) ah, so has Elliott coty been flooded before?
My dad grew some beefsteak tomatoes one year that weighed over three pounds each, they put his picture with them in the Teamster newsletter. The next year he used to much fertilizer and had humongous plants but not many tomatoes. After that he became a constantly good tomato gardener. One technique he used was a metal pipe for a stake. He drilled holes in the pipe where the roots would be when driven into the ground. He used liquid fertilizer and poured it in the pipe. Worked great just don't overdo the fertilizer. I personally like Tomato Tone , Epson salts, egg shells pulverized and a little lime, also liquid fertilizer when I plant and again in about 2 months.
Great idea on pipe and slow and steady with fertilizer is best as you can get great leaved plants and more, but smaller tomatoes, with too much nitrogen.
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thanks gary for sharing the much needed information. do enjoy your videos
Glad to share.
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I vermicompost year-round in the basement. When doing final sifting, removing andvreturning worms bscknyonthr bins, I blend in 50% coconut core. Its for personal use and enables me to fond smaller worms. Makes it easy to blend into the garden too. Very effective tip.
Sound effective.
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I want some of those tomato cage things you have! Those are awesome!
Good luck this year.
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LOL "maybe a frying pan"
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Hah, frying pan!! I laughed too!!
ditto!" I was like "What chu talkin' bout Gary?!
A bit of fun though fish burying does work.
Yea you guys definitely made this challenge interesting and fun! Love you both, can't wait till August 1st!
I am using the aeroponics method with my tomatoes and the results are amazing!.
I saw the flood devastation in Maryland.. Glad you're ok!!! Great video..TY!!
I plant in February in lousiana and i let the lower branches go until temps start to approach 80 degrees generally. As i see yellowing begin to occur i begin to prune those lower branches, but i often get first fruits down very low, and then higher up as the plant progresses. I do use the fish emulsion, epsom salt, and organic calcium, and i like Jobes specific for tomatoes.
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I highly recommend putting fish in the hole. I always have but didn't this year and my tomatoes didn't do guite as good as the last 8 years. I think it gives them nutrients but also draws in earth worms around the roots and that is really good for the plant. By the way my tomatoes do so well that the neighbors call me Mr Tomato Man.
Great tip and I agree with you.
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My tomato plants have flowers and are huge I'm in GA zone 7 too the weather has been crazy, I already have zucchini and squash almost full size to harvest, my melons are producing flowers for fruit I can't wait to harvest this season
Good luck.
Hi again Gary! I know it is early in the season. I really enjoy all your videos but am equally interested in your favorite recipes to make with things for your garden. If you can for later use, do you have any interesting combinations you like? I thought this might be fun new videos to see from you in the future. Happy gardening!
Ill try and work them in as I am cooking.
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) that sounds fantastic! I love finding new ideas for regular garden items.
After watching a few video's on determinate and indeterminate tomatoes, I finally gave up on what to do, so what I will do is just trim the bottom leaves, most video's say sucker the indeterminate, and don't sucker the determinate, I could go crazy deciding what plant to sucker and what to leave alone, so my plan is just to leave the sucker's on and trim the bottom leave's. My decision is due to this video, you make more sense than most of the video's. thank's
That's a good decision. No perfection, just art. See how it goes and keep a journal.
that's what i'm doing, I got panic when I saw my leaves curling on the tomato plant's, looked on some video's and all kind's of thing's could do it. too much water, too hot, insect's, none of it applied except our 90* weather, so I got that under my belt. I'm use to having my garden way in the back, it's fenced in and I have a watering system. just plant it, water when needed, and once a season pull a few weed's, not use to babysitting plant's, but this yr, had to resort to pot planting, not so bad, but way too much work for me. thank's for all your advice, especially the hot coffee compost, mine is on the 14th day and doing good. Just love all your video's.
I'm rootin' for ya, Gary! Beefsteaks are the best!
Cheers to that. Thanks.
I started using azomite as well for trace minerals, and if i have them i do add fish down 6-8 inches deep, and worm casting if i can find them locally, and i top dress with a wood chip/ leaves and twig mulch. , that has been run through a chipper., and this is just to create nice aeration and a nice protective canopy to hold moisture, and nutients in.
Excellent. I have been experimenting with Azomite. Mostly in my containers. Results seem good.
First viewed. Just in time for this one. I just planted my beef steak tomatoes plants (playing along with you guys).
I'm playing along but not fair, I have 80 tomato plants. I do want to see how many 2 pounders I get though.
Gary H I have 2 that I started months ago indoors but when Calikim talked about this challenge I started 5 more to play along. I have the best one of those 5 set aside just for the challenge. Will se what I get, if any. I tried tomatoes a couple years ago and didn’t do too good. But I spent the winter watching Calikim and Gary’s video’s, so maybe I will do better this year 🤞🏻
Yeah let us know. Kim and I are going to figure out how to get pictures of other gardeners harvest into the challenge.
Let us know. We are going to incorporate others into the final vids.
A frying pan lol. That made me chuckle.😊
A little back and forth is fun.
:O My Mom would always have us remove all the suckers, and we would all be so confused as to why we didn't have a lot of tomatos!!!! Now I am doing my own garden and this is so good to know!!
They are production stems. Remove some to manage growth but keeping a lot is fine.
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Once the fruit starts to set, wouldn't a higher phosphorous number be a good thing?
I add worm castings to my seed-starting mix too
I works well
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Great video. I love the way but you and Cali Kim keeps everything simple. I will say being from the northeast I am rooting for you, but I wish you both good luck.
Thanks. We will now in about 65 days.
"Rooting for him" hehe..I see what you did there..
I use the little colour stone pebbles in the bag and doctor earth tomatoes don’t like a lot of water right
I know you're not too far from EC. Glad to see that the Rusted Garden made it thru ok
We made it thanks. But the City and areas around me flooded.
Thanks so much for the videos is helping me with my tomatoes 🍅
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Hi just a suggestion when you plant your tomatoes plant them deeper ..remove the bottom leaves and dig a hole and plant them .as they grow top the soil up like potatoes then you get a good root system .plants are healthier stronger and weather resistant and better tomatoes
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Not as bad down here in coastal VA, but still rainy and humid. Despite pruning lower stems, mulching, and weekly baking soda spray (adding aspirin every other week), yesterday I discovered what looks like leaf spot on all my tomatoes. Got rid of affected stems and sprayed again with baking soda. Crossing my fingers.
Good luck. Always a battle.
I live in a humid area of VA, too. The aspirin spray Gary suggested worked really well for me last year.
Well, today the sun was out so I checked on my tomatos and peppers. I think I may have dodged a bullet. I am convinced the weekly BS sprays (and two additional sprays during this rain) and bimonthly aspirin saved my bacon. My plants are looking very healthy today and remaining leaf spots are actually regressing. Prevention is huge. Thanks to you, Gary.
Great video again 👏👏👏
Thanks So Much For The Information On Pruning And How To Fertilize! Now I Know Why My Tomatoes Look Like Skeleton Every Year. Its Because I Clip The Suckers! Not Going To Clip Them This Year To See What I Get. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
We will get to suckers... but they aren't bad. Slow light pruning.
I remove the suckers and plant them, starting new plants.
Perfect clones
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Love your videos! They have REALLY helped me out in my garden and get much better production!!! Could you tell me (us) where we can get that tomato cage? I can't seem to find a decent cage without spending an arm and a leg. I know you tend to be cost effective, which works for me! So, I assume they do not cost too much! Lol Thanks again!
Would also love to know!
I'd also love to know!
Very nice video
Thanks.
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LOLOLLLL HAHAHAA maybe a frying pan!! Hilarious! I am loving watching you two battle it out.
This should be a good two weeks for the East and tomato growth.
Gary v. CaliKim, huh? This will be fun! I couldn't help but grin during the 1st minute of this video. It's expected to hit 100 degrees here in TX next week, and all tomatoes are pretty much played out for now. Got a ton of fruit off my Cherokee Purple & sudden wind gust blew it over (in container). Noticed some had BER, so have found that I'm having to use gypsum as often as liquid fertilizer. MUST water every day. Determinate toms still full of fruit just now starting to turn, but indeterminate just not doing well. Got some on the porch, which cuts temp a bit, and a few in part shade to cut temp, so still trying. Think it's now too hot for zucchini now; plenty of girls, but blossoms just won't open. Peppers and eggplant, as well as cherry sized toms doing well. Have TONS of green beans, and bulb onions about done; they don't get too big because can't put in ground, & bed is only about 4" deep. Now going into drought here. Have had great showers that are missing me by 2 BLOCKS! Makes me so mad! GL in your CaliKim challenge!
Crazy temps that you have to grow around. You have a lot going on. Sounds successful.
Most everything done now. Looks like I won't get any zucchini at all, and even might be too hot for peppers! All will shut down until mid/late-Sept, then, Fall garden. GL with your challenge!
there is a huge bamboo patch close to where I live that I have access to so when I need them I cut what I want. Bamboo is great. last for years too.
Perfect and you get some huge canes I bet.
Watering from my the bottom works! I tryed it! It works!
My favorite way.
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Hi Gary, I am getting long leaves that droop to the ground. Can I cut back part of the leaves on a stem so they will not promote issues?
Also, if you inadvertently break a main stem, how should you proceed?
Norine Holland I usually leave the drooping leaves. But again, I don’t live in an area where all these bacterial/pest diseases exist.
If you break the main stem, I would wait a few days. You might have a bushier much stockier tomato plants.
Where did you break it though? Middle? Top? Bottom?
At the top-It’ll be fine. Might put on more side leaves but it’ll be fine.
In the middle-you might have a stockier plant.
At the bottom-it’ll just rot.
Yeah cut 1/2 of the leaf that is long.
when combining worm tea and fish emulsion how much of each do you use in a gallon of water ?
As directed. Same as bottle would say.
What is worm tea?
If I soak my plants with fish emulsion I get raccoons shortly after digging everything up. Sometimes foxes. If I put it only on the soil I can then water it in after and they'll leave my garden alone.
Shirley G I've heard that raccoons don't like Epsom salt maybe you could sprinkle it around your tomato plants. Good luck!
Yep one of the reason I say use what fertilizers work best in your areas... is that. A lot of organics attracts animals. The chemical ferts and worm casting fix that. Animals aren't attracted to it. Staying away from fish, blood, shrimp, chicken and bone meals can help too.
Do you have any vids addressing keeping indeterminate tomatoes from growing over 4 feet tall? Does the rain ever destroy any of your tomato plants or fruit?
Top them i.e. cut the growing tip off each of the production stems when they reach the height you want. Just make sure you cut above any flower clusters. Jeff Bernhard has a video. ua-cam.com/video/dt248PehgZ8/v-deo.html
I don't recall a video where he topped a plant but the one I linked explains about topping.
Rain doesn't directly harm my plants but it can make for humidity and disease hang around. Nothing to keep them at 4 feet but trimming them. No vids on that.
After you place the one cup of bone, meal, casting, and triple 5 mixture in the planting hole do you use the dilute fish emulsion every 3 weeks. Video is not clear
You can use the FE every 3 weeks. There is no set way. So pick a routine as that makes it easier. Small plants dont need as much. Larger plants need more.
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Living in south eastern US and routing for you in this challenge as well as getting fantastic tips for my beefsteak tomatoes! I wish I could ask you a question about my basil plant before the sub tropical storm hits.
bhharris stay safe there. I hope the winds won’t tear apart the precious topsoil of your garden.
Stay safe!
Thanks. We were safe but areas around us were hit hard.
Very great Video Gary, Cheers
Thanks.
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I remember several years ago when I first started growing tomatoes. I see the white nodes at the base of my plants and was like OMG my plant has a weird growth it’s got a parasite 🤣
How far apart did you plant yours?
A frying pan... dying laughing at that one Gary... subtle shade... #rootingforyouboth #funchallenge #immaeastcoastertoo
Thanks. A bit of dry humor.
What is the white container in the middle of the bed? A vermicomposter?
I bought some heirloom beef steak tomato seeds I planted them on March 19 of this year I live in Phoenix Arizona they’re really tall they’re blooming like crazy but the blooms are just dying off they’re not producing any tomatoes at all what am I doing wrong there are on an automatic watering system so the water is perfect I take it with them water meter every other day they’ve been fed they’ve been fertilized I need
They often fall due to heat. Perhaps some shade cloth would help.
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Oh! I see you have Chef’s choice Red (AAS). I’m trying Chef’s choice pink. I’m SO excited. I’ve never tried to grow a large tomato before....only cherry tomatoes.
Have you tried the Tigerella tomato? That is an early producer. I have some flowers now. I am hoping to get my first harvest Mid-Late June.
I am doing 3 types of Chef's. Should be fun. New to me this year.
I haven't yet.
I haven’t heard of Tigerella, but I’ll definitely look for that next year! Grasshoppers viciously attacking my tomatoes, so I hope they make it!
NC Greenie when does your season end? If started from seed, will mature in 50-60Days
Great job Gary
Thanks
What do I do??? I tried to follow the directions on the JOBE fertilizer bag for established tomato plants. I used 1 full cup per 10' by 2' foot garden beds. I noticed you just sprinkled the fertilizer. Did I just kill my beautiful plants???!!!
No worm farm Gary? Super easy and you get a nice supply of fresh castings.
Not yet. Maybe soon.
very helpful. how often do you put the slow release fertilizer during growing season? And what about epsom salt? I am just sticking to FE and worm casting tea for liquid feed. Would you suggest adding the miracle gro liquid feed too?
ES only 1 or 2 a year now. Years ago, I over used it, to no harm to plants, but it is just not needed often. Slow release varies based on you soil but generally at planting, mid season and again if the plant is still going later august. I put the granular down in Nov/Dec when I put the beds to rest too.
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@@THERUSTEDGARDEN thanks:) along with ES, FE, and slow release granular feed, do you also suggest any liquid plant fertilizer on bi-weekly basis?
Hi Gary,
What size is the bed in the video? If you kept air flow and pruning good, do you think you could push 3 plants across instead of the 2 across? I look at my 4x8 beds and sometimes I feel that I have "wasted" space,,,Im wondering if you think 3 may work,,,,thanks for all your videos
I put 8 tomatoes in 4x8 now. The use of h202 has changed how I manage diseases. Good airflow allows you to move them closer together to answer your question
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Is the white pvc pipe for composting ? IT was in the center of the tomato bed
I think it's to feed worms.
I have a problem every year with the black spots and it eats the plant from bottom up, but I container them ,not going to do it this year. I'm bed plant this year.
Good luck
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LOL 2 fish and a frying pan :P so funny :D. using your idea of sunken planter can cut bottom out of a pot bury it around plant with 6+ inches above ground to fill with soil when plant gets big enough so can root up stalk. This is to make up for her transplanting outside and being able to plant deeper.
Hmmm. Ill consider it. Thanks.
What do you call the stakes that you have on most of the tomato plants in this video(3 stakes&some sort of connecters)
My mom had those orange stakes. I dont know where they came from.
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I have that same tomato cage (5 of 'em actually) that were SOO pretty when they were new and red. Mine are orange now too! They're really too small for my tomato plants already this year, but they'll do!
I really like the look. They are solid but I might need an 8 foot pole later.
I thought they were stackable is this not so?
What is the name of those sturdy cages? Like those.
Not sure of the name.
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Can I grow them in pots?
You can but nowadays, I recommend a 7 gallon - 10 gallon pot minimum.
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Great video again. I need to get some fish emulsion. I’m starting a worm bin and hope to have worm casting tea soon also. Thanks for sharing as always. Have a great day..!!
glad to help. Good look with the worm bin. I never made one but my tip is watch the heat.
Can you make a tea out of the jobes fertilizer? I did it last week with spring water & let it steep for 24 hours and watered my pumpkin & tomato plants. Does that speed up the absorption?
Tea really doesnt help with that respect. Tea is made to create more bacteria or to soak Soluble forms of fertilizer like compost. If you soak insoluble forms, like in this case, it doesnt speed up anything. The soil life still has to break it doen.
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a friend gave me a bottle of Alaskan fish fertilizer 511, is this okay to use on tomatoes, cucumbers and pole beans? Thanks for all your videos.
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I use my aquarium water on tank cleaning day. Is that ok to use??? I’ve been using it on my peppers 🌶 , tomatoes 🍅 , watermelons, cucumbers 🥒, green beans, house plants, my out door flowers, and herbs! Would that have the right ferts?
Yep that would work
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How often after you plant the plants do you fertilize
Oh it varies for water soluble. Quick drink in and 2-4 weeks after depending on size. Top dressing mid season.
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Do you take the temperature of your soil prior to planting tomatoes, do you know if 45/50 degrees is to cold to plant tomatoes?
Nah. I go buy the day and night temps and rains. You want around 50 degrees in the top 6 inches.
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What if all i have are flower clusters because i cut to much? Did I kill my plant? I bought it at the store and mine has three main branches from the bottom. Please help
What are those supports? Haven't seen those before.
Ordered from a catalog by mom years ago. I don't know where they were ordered from.
I’m growing beefsteak tomatoes 🍅 this year for the first time .
A great standard
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is that a worm tower? in the bed
Do you always cut at the base of the branch?
That leave had been attacked by a bug and lookedblike swiss cheese. Could you just nip that one leaf or is that counter productive?
Nipping leaves is fine
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What about grass clippings to mulch tomatoes?
That works
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I live in Arizona. We've already had quite a few 100 degree weather days. Is that okay for my beefsteak tomato plant and is the constant sun too much?
They actually shutdown flower and fruit production and go into survival mode. If you can put up shade cloth that helps
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Good morning. I am wondering if I have to let my beefsteaks grow over 5ft tall? I would prefer for it to stay at 5ft. Thank you for your help.
It is meant to grow and grow. You can really keep it small. If you cut of the growth you stop future flowers and fruit.
sharrone vinson when it gets to the desired height cut the top growth to stop it. The part we don’t trim while it’s growing tall. Good luck.
Gary I use straw for a weed block is that a good idea?
Yep. It works well.
How do you support the very heavy trusses, just lost both of my bottom 2 trusses because of weight, trusses just sheared/snapped off main stem :( they had like 6 beautiful forming tomatos on each truss, had to bin them.
Chris S you can uses old stockings to contain them
Is the brown stain they put on mulch bad for the product?
Don't use colored mulches. I don't know if it is bad but the plain shredded hardwood is fine and less expensive
@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Can fresh cut mulch from the tree cutters be used right away on vegetable garden or does it need to age some ?
My transplanted tomatos in a container are yellowing right in the middle where the new growth is. I set up the soil with your set up...but im afraid they may not be getting enough light. Some online comments say its an iron problem. Do you have any idea? Thanks!
Where are they growing right now.
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) good question. I just moved them to a much more sunny spot out in the yard. Before I moved them, I had them in fabric pots a few inches off the ground on a pallet but in a shaded spot... for about 2 weeks.
So if you are watering them regularly and feeding regularly I would say make sure they aren't over fed before taking this suggestion. Too much feed can make issue too. That often happens. But a chemical fertilizer that has all the NPK and micro nutrients can be used. One dose, see how it responds and go back to your normal routine. This covers all the feeding bases. I would also wait like 5 days for them to be in sun. See how they do first.
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) ok I will. Thank you. Its hard to explain how wonderful it is to have you to help with starting my garden :)
Can I add store bought hay on top of my seeded cucumber, zucchini, eggplant containers and transplanted tomatoes planted May 22nd in Detroit MI instead of mulch?
I did that last yr and got a lot of grass weeds from the straw
Can leaves and cut grass be used as mulch?
Yes make sure there are no weed killers sprayed on it for 6 weeks or more.
Hi Gary my tomato seedlings are bending even though they are in full sun
Don't over water them and just keep an eye on them.
Thanks Mannn its so helpful
is it best to use either worm castings or organic fertilizer or is using both on plant at same time ok? do you feed the plants every 4-6 weeks with these? (jobes says to plant every 4-6 weeks). Can you use all three - castings, fertilizer, and compost at same time or is this too much?
also do you water with the tea 1x/week during the watering process?
About every 4 weeks. You can really do it however youd like to be honest. You just want a steady routine.
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I thought it’s bad to get the leaves wet?
Is there a moisture meter you recommend? If any
Nope. I haven't really tested enough.
Question: my son & I do 5 gallon buckets.. The plants are growing great & tall.. BUTTTTT the VERY tip on everyone of them looks like a cruel or blunt tip.. I don't get it.. We used 3 yr old compost which is all natural horse poo.. I have never had a problem with it. My other veggies are doing great in the same compost & 5 gallon buckets. Last yr other types of tomatoes done great. I didn't know if the cruled/blunt top was the beef steak.. Thanks.
I would have to see picture. You can send one to theustedgarden@gmail.com A close up.
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden): Thank you sweetie, as soon as this rain clears, I will get you a few pictures!
I have a squirrel stealing all my tomatos off my Goliath tomato plant. It's not even waiting for it to get to its full size or turn red. It's just snapping it right off and eating them green. What do you do to stop this?
I feel your pain i had rabbits come in and eat bunch of leaves off cherry tomato and honeydew plants i sprinkled sevins all over them the rabbits havent messed with them since (now watch me go out there and they finished them off) if you dont want to use that i heard making a spray from strained cayenne peppers might work.
Metcraft I was thinking of making some kind of cage but I've never made one before. It's going to take some online research and more money. It's my first full garden and I swear it's needs are bleeding me dry. My consolation is I won't have to buy all this stuff it needs again next year. It's just that now starting with nothing there was so much I had to get.
Metcraft I'd never use Sevins on anything I planned on eating though. It's toxic.
Trap and release.
It's now August 6th in zone 5a Ottawa, ON, Canada and I have my first tomato to enter into the Beefsteak Tomato Challenge. It's beautiful Heirloom Brandywine.... take a look at the weigh-in! ua-cam.com/video/iRLaAJXBZEs/v-deo.html
We still have 25 days left before the contest ends!
Nice 1.1 pounder