I have been gardening for more than 50 years and have never found a video that was so simple to understand and very comprehensive. Thank you ever so much!
Thanks for what you're doing! I hope this helps someone. I was getting killed by rats last year. They were getting into our pantry, workshop,barn steeling eggs from our chicken coop and in the garden. I watched UA-cam, tried homemade bucket traps, ordered fancy bucket traps, snap traps...etc. caught a few but didn't make a dent in the population. Then I came across a safe, homemade poison. Tried it in the pantry. It actually worked. After 3 days no rats in the pantry. I mixed up a bunch of the stuff and started putting it around our property. Within 3 days no rats, rat damage had stopped. I still keep the stuff around the property and we are doing great. Equal parts of sugar, flower or cornmeal, and Plaster of Paris. Dry mix, inside out of the weather I put it in shallow bowls. Outside I make a container from 2 inch PVC pipe with some 90° elbows so water can't get in but the rats can. Nothing glued, tape in a few places but the top piece is just pushed on so I can easily pull it off to add more of the mix. This stuff really works, safe if something else eats the dead rats it won't hurt them. The rats die a slow enough death that they go home to die. So no bad smell for the year I've been doing this. God bless UA-cam solutions! Thanks to UA-cam I was able to keep my old mower working at least 2 years longer.
Came back to this to comment because I tried a natural solution and after just a couple weeks, it worked!! I told my kids (9 and 7) that I would give them a quarter for each ladybug they found and placed on a plant in the garden, and it worked! I’m so happy for the plants, and the kids made a couple bucks 😂
I have been gardening for 20 years and this is the first time i have heard about the black light on tomato worms! Love your segments! Keep them coming please! I like that you get right to the point too!
I am a first time gardener & am attempting to grow tomatoes & cucumbers from FL. I have watched my plants grow from seeds & do not want them to fail. Your videos are so helpful & simple to follow. Thank you!
I’m on central coast CA. Pulled a potato bug today while putting a tomato in the ground. Took it directly to the chickens and watched with glee. It was gnarly. And I now have a favorite chicken
I shared this video to my sis and 2 friends, who are avid tomato growers in CA and Oregon! I'm an old Senior, who only planted fruit trees, roses, and flowers and orchids - no veges. Thks to you, maybe I'll plant tomatoes and other veges to replace my huge lawn! Love your informative video. U presented it so eloquently and to the point! TY!
Love these videos!! So helpful as I learn more and more about gardening. Always look forward to tomato Tuesdays. I planted basil around my tomato plants and so far seems to be working to keep pests at bay. I have about a dozen tomato plants that I started from the seeds in a tomato I bought at the grocery store and ate. Did it just for grins and giggles and was stunned that I now have plants loaded with tomatoes!
by far the best info I have found so far, I also appreciate that there is not 5 minutes of monologue at the beginning...🙂 Really enjoy your channel and find it extremely helpful. I am a seasoned gardener and I appreciate your detailed explanations.
I am a master gardener but Brian you are a Master Tomato Gardener and so enjoyably informative. Love watching and leaning. Stay healthy you are loved my so many, Eduardo M.
This will be my first time using pest control in my many years of gardening with dismal results. Thank you for this great guide. I'll write your solutions down. Hope your foot is getting better!
Today I plucked 10 tomato horn worms from my yellow pear tomatoes. I am on a pond with gators so going out at night to search is out of the question. I have decided to start over in a different spot in my backyard garden. Thank you for the info/videos as I watch them over and over!!!
Your video is covering just about everything we may encounter and your info is easy to assimilate. You deserve a lot more thumbs-up than what I see here. Thanks for the valuable info wich is worth sharing with family and friends!
hello from Nevada your advices are so good thank you i am gardener for 4 years and this year is being very difficult for me with the tomatoes and peppers ,i think is the water and i do not have time for my garden like before is a long history but your videos give me the busst to go and take care more my garden,thank you for your videos...!!
Glad to hear you’re feeling better. I have bunnies. They’ve eaten all the leaves off my cantaloupe plants. I’ve netted them in the bed with my squashes, but very sad I only planted my group of 3.
Reference to non-coated aspirin for your aspirin/water solution: you can use coated aspirins if you add them to a pint of warm tap water, shake the closed container and let sit for about an hour. The aspirin powder will break through the coating skin and the skins will float to the top. Remove the skins with a spoon, then add this solution to the remainder of the one gallon of water.
I've been gardening for over 30 years and I have never had the issues I'm having this year. It's my first time gardening in raised beds. I watched another of your videos and I think I have the same compost salt problem that you described. Thanks for the info on the tomatoes I'm going to see if I can save this one last plant.
I'm experiencing problems this year that I haven't had in the past also.....The area I used this year hadn't been used for 4 years and I think alot of my troubles maybe due to lots of rain......I've picked approx ' 75 to 85 good tomatoes so losing maybe 25 isn't so bad....I'll try some of the remedies in this video next year if I'm around.......I say that 'cause I'm 88 now....HA......Have a better year next one....
Love the videos Brian. I'm not a gardener but I watched one of your vids and I was inspired to give it a try. I actually woke today and said Yes! Tomato Tuesday. :-) Keep up the good work! Us newbs need all the help we can get.
I planted marigolds underneath my tomato plants as a cover crop this year and I was very surprised with the results. This was the first year without a single tomato worm. My neighbors tomato's was covered in worms just munching away. Next year ill take some pictures.
@@naomisims7230 7 dust free so far for this this year. Marigolds are doing just fine and are bee friendly. Bumper crop of tomatoes. The temperatures have been perfect for my area 70s at night and mid 80s during the day so my tomatoes are setting fruit very well.
Suggestion for Tomato Tuesday, maybe discuss verticillium and fusarium wilt and the importance of rotating beds every couple of seasons. Common diseases I've run in to over the years and can wreak havoc on tomatoes.
Thank you very much for sharing this video, I have been try year after year I never have good harvest from tomatoes I planted and your video sure help me this year
Would you suggest any 'companion plants' to prevent some of these problems? I've seen suggestions for marigolds, green onions, and peppermint for planting among the tomato plants to repel many of the pests which cause problems. Thank You for your videos and information. I'm a first time gardener and need all of the info I can get. I live in Central Florida, so I am obviously going to need shade cloth. Thanks again for all of the help.
Thank for those wonderful and amazing garden life saving tips. I consulted so agronomist at some point when my garden was under attack and he advised dishwashing soap but I am not Just sure on the mixture. Other than that I also heard orange peels put in a closed container and left on the sun for 24hrs then spray in your garden it makes the environment not friendly for most pests. ❤️🇿🇲
Hello, I have a very small garden, in containers. I have 5 large tomato plants all about 5 feet tall and one small one planted very late. I started lossing foliage on them. I found some 4 & 5 inch long hornworms and that was it. A couple days later I found more of their droppings and found another 4 inch long worm I watched your video and ordered a blacklight flash light like you talked about.. I found 9 worms on 5 of the plants tonight (8-28-21). They were in size a half inch to 2.5 inches long. Thank you for this information IT DOES work! I'll go hunting tomorrow night too!!!
On your recommendation I used Neem oil on powdery mildew on my melon plants last year and you were spot on, next day - gone! I’m using RANGO brand which is a very pure Neem oil extraction. If you use it note that it does crystallize below 50F (10C).
I'm looking forward to planting more varieties this year and having a bounty simply to enjoy, some for canning, and extra for sharing. Last year I had blossom end rot on my tomatoes early on and the leaf mold on my zuchinni at the end of the season. It's good to be armed in advance with knowledge on how to prevent these issues organically... and now I feel confident to have a slightly bigger garden that will be successful. It's very exciting for me! (Just waiting for frost date to pass, now.) These videos are so full of great info for new gardeners like myself, as well as experienced folks picking up new tips. Thank you for your dedication in sharing each Tomato Tuesday! Love the nod to Debbie Downer... hopefully she will stay in quarantine this year! 😂😂😂
Thanks for the great videos and the effort that you put into them. The best advice was about the black light. I went to the pet store and bought one sold for pet urine detection since I saw evidence of the hornworms but couldn't see them. I didn't want to wait for Amazon delivery so that is an option for those who may be impatient like I was. So far it has detected at least 5 critters before they did very much damage since I was able to find some small ones as well as a big one. I've never heard of this before so I am very thankful you mentioned it. Keep up the great work and thanks again for helping save my tomato plants!
Great info Brian. Made a note of all the sprays. Received my Neptune’s Harvest tomato & vegetable food yesterday. I have been catching rats because they are attracted to my chicken coops. I have used all sorts of traps. Found the best way to catch them is with a trap called a Ratinator. I bait it with chicken scratch. The traps are expensive but effective. Plus no snap traps to get your fingers in...not that I’ve ever done that. 😊🤣 One tip if you use a ratinator is to put a clip on the entry area before using the basin. Otherwise those smart rats will escape as you are carrying the trap to the basin.
They're really very helpful and practical information but I don't know why you didn't mention about vinegar which is very useful and it's organic. By the way, thank you for your kind sharing experiences and get to the point without talking too much about advertisement.
I’m so jealous of your weather I live in Wny and it has been 30 degrees for about 4 days we broke records for the cold. I can’t wait to plant and am watching a bunch of your videos to get ready
Thank you for this video. I noticed small dark beetles on my tomato plants so I started googling tomato pests. I found your video and when you mentioned worm droppings, I went back outside armed with a magnifying glass and realized that those weren't beetles, rather poop. I could see that something was eating the outer stem. I couldn't find the worm (this plant does not have a lot of foliage, but it still wasn't visible). Thanks for your tip of checking for it at night, I came out armed with a flashlight and found a brown worm thingie.
You are almost to 200k subscribers....congratulations! Once again, I love how you get right to the point and save your viewers time. Was the baking soda recently added to the aspirin. I don't remember that from your other videos. Thank-you again for your gardening wisdom.
Hi Bryan, when I bought my house in country, it was infested with mice and rats. tried traps, but expensive. wouldn't touch the bloody mess after each and after going through a lot, called pest control that uses poison traps spread around the property, toxic to humans and pets. worried the toxic washout after rains going into my well; told only remedy was a CAT, which i got. now no rodents, no snakes, rabbits, bugs, birds in house. An allergy test showed I was allergic to CATS. Never knew because he sleeps on my bed at night, close by, great companion, loves to accompany me to the garden(Catmint plant there)and best companion and friend. Never experience any allergies symptoms except occasional sneezing. He is well worth it.
This is exactly the video I need. I will definitely try this one. Well...I always follow your tips and if I have some issues on my garden, I will check back your channel and try to find a video in the past that talks about it. If there is none, I will be waiting for the livestream to ask questions. Thank you so much!!!
Congrats on 200K. I remember watching you 100K about a month ago. Amazing channel growth but no surprise because your videos and content are great. Keep up the good work and thank you for all of the tips.
Brian, I can't tell you how often I enjoy your videos! I love to watch them over and over..."this is a dark video!" hahahah! You make gardening so fun!
Good timing on this video. I just started a neem/peppermint/soap regimen and hoping for good results. Can't prevent the sun/heat damage effectively (zone 9b) toss in some box elder bugs and my pole beans and peas look a bit rough, but still almost up to the trellis. ...if I can only get my tomatoe/pepper/eggplants to germinate.
Im growing toms in pots, and we were gettn hit by dome squirrels, and the fruit isnt even ready yet! They’ve been digging into the soil for stash spots of their food caches. For now, to remedy this problem, all i did was buy some 1/2”x1/2” hardware cloth and cut out two half circles, that when put to gether on top of the soil, covers the entire diameter of the pot. I cut out a sectionto allow the trunks to be free and clear of the hardware cloth by an inch or two. If and when the time comes, i may have to just cage them, to keep the birds and rodents away. I’ll try using other methods before i do that, tho. Thanks for sharing all that useful info. Aloha
I just began growing tomato plants this year and I have been having a difficult time. I wish I would have seen this sooner, but at least for next year I'll know what to look for and how to treat it thank you. Those cutworms oh my gosh they have been a headache. So far I have not had problems with rodents or squirrels either, but I'm guessing maybe the cats in my area or the snake garden is helping. I just saw a snake garden today. I just scared it off since it was near where I planted my green onions.
Great video. I have saved it for future reference. My biggest pests are ring tail possums but I feed them in another part of the garden and this seems to help. Getting colder now in South Australia.
A UV light to spot caterpillars, who'd have thought. Bought one the next day and hey presto! I've been picking loads of the blighters off each night, thank you for the great advice.
I have not seen this problem before: my tomatoes shrink after they are picked. The skin wrinkles and the meat is soft, maybe even already decaying. Like your information! And the fact that it is for California gardens.
Love these videos and these tips. I keep coming back at each problem I incur. So, I discovered Army Worms on my cherry tomatoes. Went into to true triage mode and immediately sprayed Sevin on all of my tomatoes (which I don't like, but, I panicked), and trimmed the suckers off, which they all needed anyway. Any other remedies?
Again...Thank you so much! Our weather has still been cold. Planting tomatoes today. Can I just use the Neptune Harvest Tomato and Veg in the planting hole instead of rock phosphate, lobster and crab shell and kelp meal? Thanks!
First year for a garden here in Southeast for me. It's been alot of work. High Clay content in our soil. Had to do alot to get the soil ready. Main pain are the deer. We put up a fence but still spray deer rid around the fence. ( 7' fence) The deer at all my tomato plants but they are coming back. I've learned from you that Romas are determinate so hopefully the plants will produce. I bought celebrity tomato's planted them after the deer buffet. So far so good. Just being impatient and trying not to kill what I've planted. Sooooo much to know and learn.
Thanks for all the great advice! I'd just like to add that it is important to see that the mouse or rat is dead in the trap before disposing of it.Smashing the head with something substantial and heavy would make it unconscious immediately. I'm also concerned about sticky traps where the animal runs on and can't get off. Just throwing it away causes much pain and fear for a long time before it dies.
I noted what you said about squirrels & you are lucky. They are a big problem for me. I have seen squirrels running across my yard with a tomato in their mouth or sitting up in a tree eating a tomato that they stole. They don't seem to be as fond of my bell peppers, but occasionally they nab those too. I catch them in live traps & release them 5 miles or more away. So, there are now less squirrels. What I find is that I trap a lot of squirrels (& chipmunks) early in the season & after about a month or 2, things really slow down or stop. What squirrels & chipmunks that may still around seem to get wise to the traps & they just avoid my garden altogether. It has been over a month since I last trapped a squirrel or chipmunk. I just leave my 2 traps in front of my garden even if they are not baited or open. They seem to serve as somewhat of a deterrent just by being present. For the last 3 weeks I have only been baiting & setting my traps about once per week & as I mentioned, I have not trapped a thing in over a month. It is a good idea to close your traps at night unless you want to go out in the morning & find a skunk in your trap! I had 1 skunk walk into my open trap that wasn't even baited. This is a very good video & I have used the Hydrogen Peroxide Mix, Baking Soda/Aspirin Mix & Neem Oil Mix with great success.
Wow! Thanks for all the great tips, I had no idea that powdery mildew was prevented by spraying neem oil! I have been wondering why I haven't seen any signs, because it is so prevalent here, but I spray neem oil to prevent insects. Haha, a 2 in 1!
Thanks very informative, I live in Jamaica, and I have a warm time with insects, and leaves turning brown and drying up, drives me crazy, but going to try these
Great video! I've also been plagued with rats but have managed to get them controlled with plenty of traps as you suggested. A bigger problem is that I've been fighting spider mites on my tomatoes for 3 seasons now. Tried Neem and other organic sprays, beneficial insects, diatomaceous earth all with minimal success for a period of time but the spider mites always seem to win in the end and can take a whole crop out. Suggestions?
Did u ever end up finding something to remedy those spider mites? I know that weed growers are often inundated w/them, so if there is a hydrponics store somewhere, or go online, im sure that they have stuff for it. I know they do.
Thank you for the blacklight trick. Didn't know they came out at night. We would see a few in the morning kill them but still something was stripping the leaves. Went out last night with a black light and the tomato plants lit up. Snipped them into with pruning shears. Thanks, Also order the Monterey B.T. The damage is pretty bad already, plus the heat in South Texas seems to not be good for tomato plants. They do not produce very good and when they do the tomatoes are stunted.
Hi thank you very much, I have just noticed aphids, a tiny spider and I found a tiny green worm!!!! Please tell me how to get rid of the aphids. I’m a beginner at gardening, I watched your videos and learned lots, thank you. I only have two tomatoes plants, I want to succeed so I can get more. Thank you very much 👍🏻
What CA zone are you in? I am in my first gardening season, and I have watched several different gardeners, but you are the first one giving useful info fo CA.
Thanks for your video! I. Pretty sure my tomatoes have the black spot or blight. There's so so much care for tomatoes that I didn't realize I would need to do. CAN I STILL EAT THE TOMATOES FROM THE INFECTED PLANT? I believe I have a total of 6 green tomatoes I've picked this far that were very low hanging. So I went ahead and picked most of those and clipped off some more lower branches. I applied the peroxide mixture at the same time.
I get what I think are spider mites all over my tomatoes (and some of my pole beans as well) and they leave little black specks all over my plants with small webbing on the leaves and they basically turn them into lace and eventually kill the plant. What can I do? They got my potato plants one time as well. So frustrating! I never really know what plant they’re going to get until I see those signs.
Great video Brian. Now i have a way to defend my tomatoes in rainy, wet, Portland . BTW you hair looks marvelous. If your still cutting it your self you mush have incredible hand i coordination. And i note you still have both ears.
We have had a couple of days of rain and I found that the lower tomato stems are now growing little white downward spikes. What causes that? Should I be concern? Thanks, your videos are very informative!
Thank you for this video. I have squirrels that dig in my plants. I put tinfoil on the dirt and that seems to keep them away, but I might try the pepper tea recipe.
I am new to gardening and have started growing tomatoes amongst other basic veges. There seems to be something making small holes in my tomatoes. I though they were burrowing in but when I cut them open there’s nothing there. Would you have any idea what that could be? I am in Australia so I don’t know if we get any different bugs than you. On another note, thanks for all your videos, they’ve given me so much information for starting my garden and growing my vegetables. You explain things very clearly and you’re the first place I go for tips when I’m wanting to plant something new.
The snap traps are great. I usually have a couple rats every year. As soon as my fruit starts to set I put a couple out and after that I rarely see anymore rats.
Great video! Great info! Question.... If I do drop irrigation, how is it done?, How long should it run?, Should it run daily? I want to learn about it because I am older and cannot get out every day and water. Plus I put down ground cloth for weeds so I don't have to pull weeds and I am going to put down mulch in top of the cloth. Thanks 😊
Wow! Great info. Thank you. I thought potato bugs were small beetles. That’s one bug I wouldn’t care to meet. Do they attack potatoes as the name implies? How do you cause them to feel unhappy in your garden? Please talk more about determinate tomato varieties and how best to grow them? My space is limited. Thank you so much. I’m really learning a lot. Take care, stay safe. Blessings
After having a whole crop of plants devoured by deers who would top them thereby killing the plant's ability to keep growing eventually killing them I decided last year to try the netting sold by tractor supply only about 15 bucks and it done the trick. It also helped keep the rabbits out that were eating other plants so I swear by it now. I used bamboo to wrap netting around to avoid having to buy posts. I was lucky to have them in the woods growing but people are often happy to have them removed since they can take over
I have been gardening for more than 50 years and have never found a video that was so simple to understand and very comprehensive. Thank you ever so much!
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Thanks for what you're doing! I hope this helps someone. I was getting killed by rats last year. They were getting into our pantry, workshop,barn steeling eggs from our chicken coop and in the garden. I watched UA-cam, tried homemade bucket traps, ordered fancy bucket traps, snap traps...etc. caught a few but didn't make a dent in the population. Then I came across a safe, homemade poison. Tried it in the pantry. It actually worked. After 3 days no rats in the pantry. I mixed up a bunch of the stuff and started putting it around our property. Within 3 days no rats, rat damage had stopped. I still keep the stuff around the property and we are doing great. Equal parts of sugar, flower or cornmeal, and Plaster of Paris. Dry mix, inside out of the weather I put it in shallow bowls. Outside I make a container from 2 inch PVC pipe with some 90° elbows so water can't get in but the rats can. Nothing glued, tape in a few places but the top piece is just pushed on so I can easily pull it off to add more of the mix. This stuff really works, safe if something else eats the dead rats it won't hurt them. The rats die a slow enough death that they go home to die. So no bad smell for the year I've been doing this. God bless UA-cam solutions! Thanks to UA-cam I was able to keep my old mower working at least 2 years longer.
Rewatching again this yr as a reminder. Brian, you have completely changed the way I garden in the last 2 yrs! Cheers my friend
Came back to this to comment because I tried a natural solution and after just a couple weeks, it worked!! I told my kids (9 and 7) that I would give them a quarter for each ladybug they found and placed on a plant in the garden, and it worked! I’m so happy for the plants, and the kids made a couple bucks 😂
Could I borrow your kids? Just kidding.
I have been gardening for 20 years and this is the first time i have heard about the black light on tomato worms! Love your segments! Keep them coming please! I like that you get right to the point too!
I am a first time gardener & am attempting to grow tomatoes & cucumbers from FL. I have watched my plants grow from seeds & do not want them to fail. Your videos are so helpful & simple to follow. Thank you!
I’m on central coast CA. Pulled a potato bug today while putting a tomato in the ground. Took it directly to the chickens and watched with glee. It was gnarly. And I now have a favorite chicken
Those are the stuff of nightmares. One insect i dont miss when i moved😁
One Life google what a potato bug is. I’ve never grown potatoes in my life
I shared this video to my sis and 2 friends, who are avid tomato growers in CA and Oregon!
I'm an old Senior, who only planted fruit trees, roses, and flowers and orchids - no veges. Thks to you, maybe I'll plant tomatoes and other veges to replace my huge lawn! Love your informative video. U presented it so eloquently and to the point! TY!
Love these videos!! So helpful as I learn more and more about gardening. Always look forward to tomato Tuesdays. I planted basil around my tomato plants and so far seems to be working to keep pests at bay. I have about a dozen tomato plants that I started from the seeds in a tomato I bought at the grocery store and ate. Did it just for grins and giggles and was stunned that I now have plants loaded with tomatoes!
by far the best info I have found so far, I also appreciate that there is not 5 minutes of monologue at the beginning...🙂 Really enjoy your channel and find it extremely helpful. I am a seasoned gardener and I appreciate your detailed explanations.
I am planting tomatoes with my grandson and this video really helped us keep them coming
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are a Master Tomato Gardener and so
enjoyably informative. Love watching
and leaning. Stay healthy you are loved my so many, Eduardo M.
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This will be my first time using pest control in my many years of gardening with dismal results. Thank you for this great guide. I'll write your solutions down. Hope your foot is getting better!
This was excellent. Been growing tomatoes for 18 years and these tips are priceless! I like the bacillus spay for the the caterpillars and cut worms
Thanks for all your 🍅 tomato growing tips to protect them from diseases and pests.
Today I plucked 10 tomato horn worms from my yellow pear tomatoes. I am on a pond with gators so going out at night to search is out of the question. I have decided to start over in a different spot in my backyard garden. Thank you for the info/videos as I watch them over and over!!!
One of the best videos on pest and disease I’ve seen, thanks.
Not a dark video, Brian....It's brilliant, covers alot and much appreciated.
I am a beginner gardner in Abruzzo Italy and always go to your videos for advice. Thank you
Your video is covering just about everything we may encounter and your info is easy to assimilate. You deserve a lot more thumbs-up than what I see here. Thanks for the valuable info wich is worth sharing with family and friends!
Not dark but real! And the knowledge is invaluable! Thanks so much!
hello from Nevada your advices are so good thank you i am gardener for 4 years and this year is being very difficult for me with the tomatoes and peppers ,i think is the water and i do not have time for my garden like before is a long history but your videos give me the busst to go and take care more my garden,thank you for your videos...!!
Glad to hear you’re feeling better. I have bunnies. They’ve eaten all the leaves off my cantaloupe plants. I’ve netted them in the bed with my squashes, but very sad I only planted my group of 3.
Reference to non-coated aspirin for your aspirin/water solution: you can use coated aspirins if you add them to a pint of warm tap water, shake the closed container and let sit for about an hour. The aspirin powder will break through the coating skin and the skins will float to the top. Remove the skins with a spoon, then add this solution to the remainder of the one gallon of water.
I use a mortar and pestle, grind the aspirin and then a fine strainer completely takes out the coating
Ok will do
I've been gardening for over 30 years and I have never had the issues I'm having this year. It's my first time gardening in raised beds. I watched another of your videos and I think I have the same compost salt problem that you described. Thanks for the info on the tomatoes I'm going to see if I can save this one last plant.
I'm experiencing problems this year that I haven't had in the past also.....The area I used this year hadn't been used for 4 years and I think alot of my troubles maybe due to lots of rain......I've picked approx ' 75 to 85 good tomatoes so losing maybe 25 isn't so bad....I'll try some of the remedies in this video next year if I'm around.......I say that 'cause I'm 88 now....HA......Have a better year next one....
Thank you! I learned so much from this video. You hit a home run dissecting tomato plant issues that I am having. Again thank you.
Love the videos Brian. I'm not a gardener but I watched one of your vids and I was inspired to give it a try. I actually woke today and said Yes! Tomato Tuesday. :-) Keep up the good work! Us newbs need all the help we can get.
I planted marigolds underneath my tomato plants as a cover crop this year and I was very surprised with the results. This was the first year without a single tomato worm. My neighbors tomato's was covered in worms just munching away. Next year ill take some pictures.
I've had good success with marigolds in pots around my tomatoes too. I did find one horn worm, tho.
@@naomisims7230 7 dust free so far for this this year. Marigolds are doing just fine and are bee friendly. Bumper crop of tomatoes. The temperatures have been perfect for my area 70s at night and mid 80s during the day so my tomatoes are setting fruit very well.
I've got french marigolds in with my tomatoes. Just discovered a hole in 2 of my tomatoes just surfacing. Sad.
This is a fantastic video. I am just about to start growing tomatoes and now I feel more prepared! Thank you!!!
Love your videos for tomato Tuesday keep them coming forever
Suggestion for Tomato Tuesday, maybe discuss verticillium and fusarium wilt and the importance of rotating beds every couple of seasons. Common diseases I've run in to over the years and can wreak havoc on tomatoes.
Wow, that was probably the best gardening video I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched a ton of them. Thanks for the good work!!!
Thank you very much for sharing this video, I have been try year after year I never have good harvest from tomatoes I planted and your video sure help me this year
Would you suggest any 'companion plants' to prevent some of these problems? I've seen suggestions for marigolds, green onions, and peppermint for planting among the tomato plants to repel many of the pests which cause problems. Thank You for your videos and information. I'm a first time gardener and need all of the info I can get. I live in Central Florida, so I am obviously going to need shade cloth. Thanks again for all of the help.
Thank for those wonderful and amazing garden life saving tips. I consulted so agronomist at some point when my garden was under attack and he advised dishwashing soap but I am not Just sure on the mixture. Other than that I also heard orange peels put in a closed container and left on the sun for 24hrs then spray in your garden it makes the environment not friendly for most pests. ❤️🇿🇲
Hello, I have a very small garden, in containers. I have 5 large tomato plants all about 5 feet tall and one small one planted very late. I started lossing foliage on them. I found some 4 & 5 inch long hornworms and that was it. A couple days later I found more of their droppings and found another 4 inch long worm I watched your video and ordered a blacklight flash light like you talked about.. I found 9 worms on 5 of the plants tonight (8-28-21). They were in size a half inch to 2.5 inches long. Thank you for this information IT DOES work! I'll go hunting tomorrow night too!!!
On your recommendation I used Neem oil on powdery mildew on my melon plants last year and you were spot on, next day - gone! I’m using RANGO brand which is a very pure Neem oil extraction. If you use it note that it does crystallize below 50F (10C).
I'm looking forward to planting more varieties this year and having a bounty simply to enjoy, some for canning, and extra for sharing. Last year I had blossom end rot on my tomatoes early on and the leaf mold on my zuchinni at the end of the season. It's good to be armed in advance with knowledge on how to prevent these issues organically... and now I feel confident to have a slightly bigger garden that will be successful. It's very exciting for me! (Just waiting for frost date to pass, now.)
These videos are so full of great info for new gardeners like myself, as well as experienced folks picking up new tips. Thank you for your dedication in sharing each Tomato Tuesday!
Love the nod to Debbie Downer... hopefully she will stay in quarantine this year! 😂😂😂
Thanks for the great videos and the effort that you put into them. The best advice was about the black light. I went to the pet store and bought one sold for pet urine detection since I saw evidence of the hornworms but couldn't see them. I didn't want to wait for Amazon delivery so that is an option for those who may be impatient like I was. So far it has detected at least 5 critters before they did very much damage since I was able to find some small ones as well as a big one. I've never heard of this before so I am very thankful you mentioned it. Keep up the great work and thanks again for helping save my tomato plants!
Great info Brian. Made a note of all the sprays. Received my Neptune’s Harvest tomato & vegetable food yesterday. I have been catching rats because they are attracted to my chicken coops. I have used all sorts of traps. Found the best way to catch them is with a trap called a Ratinator. I bait it with chicken scratch. The traps are expensive but effective. Plus no snap traps to get your fingers in...not that I’ve ever done that. 😊🤣 One tip if you use a ratinator is to put a clip on the entry area before using the basin. Otherwise those smart rats will escape as you are carrying the trap to the basin.
They're really very helpful and practical information but I don't know why you didn't mention about vinegar which is very useful and it's organic. By the way, thank you for your kind sharing experiences and get to the point without talking too much about advertisement.
You read my mind. I think about eating my own veggies all the time and it's such hard time to wait for them growing
I’m so jealous of your weather I live in Wny and it has been 30 degrees for about 4 days we broke records for the cold. I can’t wait to plant and am watching a bunch of your videos to get ready
Thank you for this video. I noticed small dark beetles on my tomato plants so I started googling tomato pests. I found your video and when you mentioned worm droppings, I went back outside armed with a magnifying glass and realized that those weren't beetles, rather poop. I could see that something was eating the outer stem. I couldn't find the worm (this plant does not have a lot of foliage, but it still wasn't visible). Thanks for your tip of checking for it at night, I came out armed with a flashlight and found a brown worm thingie.
You are almost to 200k subscribers....congratulations! Once again, I love how you get right to the point and save your viewers time.
Was the baking soda recently added to the aspirin. I don't remember that from your other videos.
Thank-you again for your gardening wisdom.
I know. I can't believe it! Thank you. Yes I started trying it last year. Always learning myself.😃👍
I really like you explaining how to control pest! Rats is the one digging all my peppers roots! I’m learning so much on your video! Thank you!
So hood I listened twice already. God bless you
Hi Bryan, when I bought my house in country, it was infested with mice and rats. tried traps, but expensive. wouldn't touch the bloody mess after each and after going through a lot, called pest control that uses poison traps spread around the property, toxic to humans and pets. worried the toxic washout after rains going into my well; told only remedy was a CAT, which i got. now no rodents, no snakes, rabbits, bugs, birds in house. An allergy test showed I was allergic to CATS. Never knew because he sleeps on my bed at night, close by, great companion, loves to accompany me to the garden(Catmint plant there)and best companion and friend. Never experience any allergies symptoms except occasional sneezing. He is well worth it.
This is exactly the video I need. I will definitely try this one. Well...I always follow your tips and if I have some issues on my garden, I will check back your channel and try to find a video in the past that talks about it. If there is none, I will be waiting for the livestream to ask questions. Thank you so much!!!
Congrats on 200K. I remember watching you 100K about a month ago. Amazing channel growth but no surprise because your videos and content are great. Keep up the good work and thank you for all of the tips.
Thank you for the video
I am a new gardener. I have learned a lot from your video
Much appreciated
As always your content is excellent and your format & editing are stepping up as well. Thank you for your effort!
Thank you!
Thank you so much! This is so helpful. You covered all the issues I have had as a new gardener. I love the bird bath idea
This video has been very helpful to me. I have been stuck with blight in my Tomatoes then I had also identified fruits rotting in the bottom
I'm a new gardener and this is amazing info!
Thank you! Glad you're here!
@@NextLevelGardening Really good info. I live in NC and really enjoying learning all about growing (and caring for), my cherry tomatoes.
My first time tomatoe plants appear to have little worms. I used the Peroxide spray hopefully it works. Your advice is simple and clear. Thanks 😊
I've gotten all the fungal diseases and hornworms on my tomatoes. Thanks for the info! I'm sure it will help a lot.
Brian, I can't tell you how often I enjoy your videos! I love to watch them over and over..."this is a dark video!" hahahah! You make gardening so fun!
Good timing on this video. I just started a neem/peppermint/soap regimen and hoping for good results. Can't prevent the sun/heat damage effectively (zone 9b) toss in some box elder bugs and my pole beans and peas look a bit rough, but still almost up to the trellis. ...if I can only get my tomatoe/pepper/eggplants to germinate.
Im growing toms in pots, and we were gettn hit by dome squirrels, and the fruit isnt even ready yet! They’ve been digging into the soil for stash spots of their food caches. For now, to remedy this problem, all i did was buy some 1/2”x1/2” hardware cloth and cut out two half circles, that when put to gether on top of the soil, covers the entire diameter of the pot. I cut out a sectionto allow the trunks to be free and clear of the hardware cloth by an inch or two. If and when the time comes, i may have to just cage them, to keep the birds and rodents away. I’ll try using other methods before i do that, tho. Thanks for sharing all that useful info. Aloha
I just began growing tomato plants this year and I have been having a difficult time. I wish I would have seen this sooner, but at least for next year I'll know what to look for and how to treat it thank you. Those cutworms oh my gosh they have been a headache. So far I have not had problems with rodents or squirrels either, but I'm guessing maybe the cats in my area or the snake garden is helping. I just saw a snake garden today. I just scared it off since it was near where I planted my green onions.
you are really wonderful at what you do and the photos help us beginners know what the initial issue is to address it properly
Great video. I have saved it for future reference. My biggest pests are ring tail possums but I feed them in another part of the garden and this seems to help. Getting colder now in South Australia.
A UV light to spot caterpillars, who'd have thought. Bought one the next day and hey presto! I've been picking loads of the blighters off each night, thank you for the great advice.
As usual, an amazingly produced video with tons of information, and entertaining. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Tim ORourke yes Tim, agree, just found his channel And totally enjoying the videos. 🤙🏼
I have not seen this problem before: my tomatoes shrink after they are picked. The skin wrinkles and the meat is soft, maybe even already decaying.
Like your information! And the fact that it is for California gardens.
Dark and necessary video. This is so helpful. 🙏 thank you for sharing
I have found that BT is the hands down bomb for eliminating tomato worms.
Love these videos and these tips. I keep coming back at each problem I incur. So, I discovered Army Worms on my cherry tomatoes. Went into to true triage mode and immediately sprayed Sevin on all of my tomatoes (which I don't like, but, I panicked), and trimmed the suckers off, which they all needed anyway. Any other remedies?
Great teacher I have learned so much. Thank you!
Again...Thank you so much! Our weather has still been cold. Planting tomatoes today. Can I just use the Neptune Harvest Tomato and Veg in the planting hole instead of rock phosphate, lobster and crab shell and kelp meal? Thanks!
Thanks so much! We'll try some of these remedies! Blessings!
First year for a garden here in Southeast for me. It's been alot of work. High Clay content in our soil. Had to do alot to get the soil ready. Main pain are the deer. We put up a fence but still spray deer rid around the fence. ( 7' fence) The deer at all my tomato plants but they are coming back. I've learned from you that Romas are determinate so hopefully the plants will produce. I bought celebrity tomato's planted them after the deer buffet. So far so good. Just being impatient and trying not to kill what I've planted. Sooooo much to know and learn.
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Thank you for the helpful video. So glad you are here to help.
Your videos are very informative and a pleasure to watch over and over so I don’t forget anything
Thank you!
Thanks for all the great advice! I'd just like to add that it is important to see that the mouse or rat is dead in the trap before disposing of it.Smashing the head with something substantial and heavy would make it unconscious immediately. I'm also concerned about sticky traps where the animal runs on and can't get off. Just throwing it away causes much pain and fear for a long time before it dies.
Hoselink looks great. No longer run over old hoses with the lawn mower.
I noted what you said about squirrels & you are lucky. They are a big problem for me. I have seen squirrels running across my yard with a tomato in their mouth or sitting up in a tree eating a tomato that they stole. They don't seem to be as fond of my bell peppers, but occasionally they nab those too. I catch them in live traps & release them 5 miles or more away. So, there are now less squirrels. What I find is that I trap a lot of squirrels (& chipmunks) early in the season & after about a month or 2, things really slow down or stop. What squirrels & chipmunks that may still around seem to get wise to the traps & they just avoid my garden altogether. It has been over a month since I last trapped a squirrel or chipmunk. I just leave my 2 traps in front of my garden even if they are not baited or open. They seem to serve as somewhat of a deterrent just by being present. For the last 3 weeks I have only been baiting & setting my traps about once per week & as I mentioned, I have not trapped a thing in over a month. It is a good idea to close your traps at night unless you want to go out in the morning & find a skunk in your trap! I had 1 skunk walk into my open trap that wasn't even baited. This is a very good video & I have used the Hydrogen Peroxide Mix, Baking Soda/Aspirin Mix & Neem Oil Mix with great success.
Wow! Thanks for all the great tips, I had no idea that powdery mildew was prevented by spraying neem oil! I have been wondering why I haven't seen any signs, because it is so prevalent here, but I spray neem oil to prevent insects. Haha, a 2 in 1!
Thanks very informative, I live in Jamaica, and I have a warm time with insects, and leaves turning brown and drying up, drives me crazy, but going to try these
Great video! I've also been plagued with rats but have managed to get them controlled with plenty of traps as you suggested. A bigger problem is that I've been fighting spider mites on my tomatoes for 3 seasons now. Tried Neem and other organic sprays, beneficial insects, diatomaceous earth all with minimal success for a period of time but the spider mites always seem to win in the end and can take a whole crop out. Suggestions?
Did u ever end up finding something to remedy those spider mites? I know that weed growers are often inundated w/them, so if there is a hydrponics store somewhere, or go online, im sure that they have stuff for it. I know they do.
Thank you for the blacklight trick. Didn't know they came out at night. We would see a few in the morning kill them but still something was stripping the leaves. Went out last night with a black light and the tomato plants lit up. Snipped them into with pruning shears. Thanks, Also order the Monterey B.T. The damage is pretty bad already, plus the heat in South Texas seems to not be good for tomato plants. They do not produce very good and when they do the tomatoes are stunted.
Hi thank you very much, I have just noticed aphids, a tiny spider and I found a tiny green worm!!!! Please tell me how to get rid of the aphids. I’m a beginner at gardening, I watched your videos and learned lots, thank you. I only have two tomatoes plants, I want to succeed so I can get more. Thank you very much 👍🏻
Did you destroy all? Lol was the spider bad ?
What CA zone are you in? I am in my first gardening season, and I have watched several different gardeners, but you are the first one giving useful info fo CA.
Thank you very much especially for the chilli spray - of course for garlic spray too 😊
Thanks for your video! I. Pretty sure my tomatoes have the black spot or blight. There's so so much care for tomatoes that I didn't realize I would need to do.
CAN I STILL EAT THE TOMATOES FROM THE INFECTED PLANT? I believe I have a total of 6 green tomatoes I've picked this far that were very low hanging. So I went ahead and picked most of those and clipped off some more lower branches. I applied the peroxide mixture at the same time.
I get what I think are spider mites all over my tomatoes (and some of my pole beans as well) and they leave little black specks all over my plants with small webbing on the leaves and they basically turn them into lace and eventually kill the plant. What can I do? They got my potato plants one time as well. So frustrating! I never really know what plant they’re going to get until I see those signs.
Very well presented and clear. Thank you for all your information. Will do aspiring concoction right away.
Great video Brian. Now i have a way to defend my tomatoes in rainy, wet, Portland . BTW you hair looks marvelous. If your still cutting it your self you mush have incredible hand i coordination. And i note you still have both ears.
We have had a couple of days of rain and I found that the lower tomato stems are now growing little white downward spikes. What causes that? Should I be concern? Thanks, your videos are very informative!
those are roots trying to grab the ground cover with dirt!
Thank you for this video. I have squirrels that dig in my plants. I put tinfoil on the dirt and that seems to keep them away, but I might try the pepper tea recipe.
I am new to gardening and have started growing tomatoes amongst other basic veges. There seems to be something making small holes in my tomatoes. I though they were burrowing in but when I cut them open there’s nothing there. Would you have any idea what that could be? I am in Australia so I don’t know if we get any different bugs than you. On another note, thanks for all your videos, they’ve given me so much information for starting my garden and growing my vegetables. You explain things very clearly and you’re the first place I go for tips when I’m wanting to plant something new.
Thank you! I took copious notes :)
Me too! I have watched a bunch of videos on blight and this is all I needed! Now I know for next year!
Your program is really VERY helpful. Thanks!!!
The snap traps are great. I usually have a couple rats every year. As soon as my fruit starts to set I put a couple out and after that I rarely see anymore rats.
Great video! Great info!
Question.... If I do drop irrigation, how is it done?, How long should it run?, Should it run daily?
I want to learn about it because I am older and cannot get out every day and water. Plus I put down ground cloth for weeds so I don't have to pull weeds and I am going to put down mulch in top of the cloth.
Thanks 😊
Wow! Great info. Thank you. I thought potato bugs were small beetles. That’s one bug I wouldn’t care to meet. Do they attack potatoes as the name implies? How do you cause them to feel unhappy in your garden? Please talk more about determinate tomato varieties and how best to grow them? My space is limited. Thank you so much. I’m really learning a lot. Take care, stay safe. Blessings
I’m learning a lot from you Brian .Thank you very much!!!
Motion sensor sprinklers are a great deterrent for larger pests like deer.
After having a whole crop of plants devoured by deers who would top them thereby killing the plant's ability to keep growing eventually killing them I decided last year to try the netting sold by tractor supply only about 15 bucks and it done the trick. It also helped keep the rabbits out that were eating other plants so I swear by it now. I used bamboo to wrap netting around to avoid having to buy posts. I was lucky to have them in the woods growing but people are often happy to have them removed since they can take over
You are very informative, your videos are well done. Thank you for helping people that are new to growing