The No Dig 'Leave in the Roots' 20 Minute Winter Bed Preparation & Fall Tomato Flower Pruning Method
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2023
- Don't remove tomato leaves and vines at the end of the season. Just remove new flowers and small fruit. Leave the greenery for larger late tomato growth. I put my tomato beds to sleep, for the winter, this way every year. Leave the roots in the ground, dont turn the beds, and layer in your amendments.
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Thank you. Going to leave roots in place.
Its much easier.
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A great "reminder" video. We have a few weeks before the temperatures drop to the fifties and possibly lower. So still a LOT of tomato production ahead. Need to pull the flowers in a few weeks and now thinking and making some pickled green tomatoes as we have yet to try such. Thank You for another informative video!
Glad to share. And good luck with the fall.
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Some excellent information in this video, especially about the bagged compost and the use of wood ash.
I make small amounts of biochar so always have plenty of wood ash to use when needed as free fertilizer.
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Cheers! Yep a little wood ash goes a long way.
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Our weather is still in the high 90’s day time and finally down into the mid 70’s at night. I want to plant fall seeds but it is still kind of warm. I did plant sugar snap peas, bush beans, some tomatoes. My cucumbers are doing good and some yellow squash. I just clip off old plants too. No pulling.
That works. Warmer helps the peas get growing for sure. Helps carrots too. Not crazy hot but warmer.
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Great points about fall application of questionable compost. Late summer, I applied some bagged "cow manure compost" as a top layer over my unfinished stuff including last years leaf mold over a cardboard layer for a new next year's bed (sketchy). My overseeded crimson clover and rye grain looks great on top already, so except for the extra work of terminating the rye next spring, I'll think I'll be good to go!
Great approach for you beds. Good luck.
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Very nice. I've never had pickled tomatoes before; something new to try. Leaving the roots in the ground, I'd be concerned that they wouldn't break down enough before spring planting.
The new roots would go right around the tomato roots left in the ground. No worries.
I have probably 2 yards of compost, the same as last year. I have about 3 hundred sq.ft of garden that I didn’t plant llast year but have a cover crop on and am going to try composting over the cover crop which has mostly winter killed here in N central Ks. All that is still alive is the rye and a little clover. The other 600 sq. Ft is already covered with leaves and compost. I hope it will work out. I’mi will report next spring. You are so informative and I thank you. Havagudun sir.
Is already winterized with leaves and compost. I hope it all works out.
Nice work for sure!
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I don't remove leaves unless they are hitting the ground. I actually leave the flowers for the bees since flowers are few right now. I do top the new growth at the tips only, whether main stem or suckers, but we're talking a few inches. I find it does help speed the process for the tomatoes to ripen.
We have a much shorter season than you. It's been in the 40's at night for weeks here. I pull the tomatoes as soon as they start to blush and ripen them on the counter. I started leaving roots and cutting at ground level, too. This works for my garden.
Thanks. Definitely go with what works.
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As always, thank you for your valuable content to educate us. Regarding composting plants with disease, do you recommend if pile doesn’t reach optimum temp? Also, to build soil in winter, do you prefer adding organics as in this video or cover crops?
I put mine in cold compost. I prefer organic like the video . Cover crops are great if you have the space and time for them to grow to full size.
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I really enjoy and learn a lot from your videos Gary, thank you. Question, how long does it take for those really thick stalks that you leave buried to break down? Do you pull them out in the spring before you transplant?
Very glad to share and thanks for watching. For the tomatoes? They soften and it depends if they stay moist. But they take about a year to fully compost but they aren't an issue. You can leave them in the ground. The roots of the new transplants find plenty of places to go.
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Used your prior 'flowers only" advice from a recent vid. My tomato harvest hasn't even peaked yet in my S MI garden. Plants still looking healthy. I'm really hoping the upcoming warm spell forecasted for next week finishes off tomato ripening! My hot peppers (though I harvested green for a couple batches of salsa) are finally turning red. Weird or Canada fires casting early shade?
Fires in the US have effected gardens since summer. I know mine wasn't as far along as previous years. I wouldn't be surprised if it is.
Yeah we have 80's coming next week. My super hots took forever this year
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I'm in MI zone 6a. I plan to grow fall veggies in the greenhouse til hopefully Dec. Can I keep the 50+ flowers that formed on the cherry tomato plants within the last couple of weeks if I move the plant into the greenhouse?
Not really as night temps in the 50's will really slow them forming. If you have 40 degree nights coming soon, they wont do much. You would have to keep it heated at night for them to really continue to produce.
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My tomatoes are still looking pretty good so I'd like to wait a bit longer to cut. Hubby doesn't want a compost pile in the yard so I'm wondering if I couldn't put down a layer of compost in a week or so then just chop my plants and lay them over the top, leaf spot, powdery mildew, and all for the winter and let them decompose in place??
So I am fine with putting them in compost but I would not chop and drop them where they will grow. It might be fine but I like the diseased stuff to sit for a year or so in a pile.
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I was just wondering, when I would leave a bed bare, like you do, when you've added the fertiliser, the compost and what not, my weeds take over. How do you keep weeds away for about 5 months until you start sowing/planting again?
Thank you very much for the very informative video. As usual I might add.
Don't leave it bare! If you don't have a bunch of grass, leaves, or straw to build a healthy layer on top, put cardboard down and weigh it with bricks so it doesn't fly away. Gary put mulch on his in the video.
Weeds show up. They are fairly easy to chop with a hoe once a month of you want to keep one sitting around. You can cover them with tarps if you want. But move them 1x a month to make sure mice and voles and such dont move in. Good luck.
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Great tips.
I have a plot in a large community garden. The tomato plants always seem to have some sort of diseases. If i leave the roots and plant new tomato in the space, will they become diseased?
No. The diseases are around and in the air. Next year you want to start a spray routine early. Take a look at my tomato and hydrogen peroxide videos.
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Can I use wood shavings in place of the compost ?
No as its not broken down.
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My question about planting tomatoes in the same area as the previous season. Do you have any issues with your tomato plants. I was told to do plant rotation and to not plant tomatoes in the same area the following season because of nematode. I find that extremely hard to do as I only have a small space for my veggie garden and cannot do the plant rotation every year.
I had same question. Some of my root balls are like bowling ball size. Won't they be in the way of the next plant?
If you can't rotate beds, then put a good 3" of new compost on top. I got that from a guy who has the most watched tomato video on YT... he does not rotate, either, and that was his answer. I do rotate mine for now.
Thanks for that. Who is the guy you are referring to, if you don't mind me asking.
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So I dont rotate. It is possible some gardens have different issues. If nematodes is a proven issue in your area rotating is fine. But to be honest rotate is more for large scale farming not home gardens. It's not hard for insects and diseases to just move to the other side of the garden. I have never rotated.
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I never have enough compost so what brand of bagged compost do you use? I’ve used black kow in the past and it’s been fine but I’m always concerned about herbicide residue affecting growth
I use Leafgro which is local to my area.
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Use an organic compost and you shouldn't have that issue. When I buy compost, it's organic mushroom compost.
This year I just had a ton of trees trimmed for fall. All those leaves can make great leaf mold. So I piled them on top of a new bed. Each day I'm going out and scraping leaves into my compost bin, then throwing out the limbs. I may buy a chipper mulcher for the limbs, but for now, they are going to the dump. Anyway, last year I had the most beautiful leaf mold under 2.5 months of ice and snow. It all went into my garden beds!
i HAVE A TOMATO PLANT AS TALL AS i AM, & IT HAS JUST STARTED 3 TOMATOES. - just noticed the caps lock - I can not pull the flowers, I would like more that 3 tomatoes this season. I did get a generic fertilizer 16-16-16, was that a no? Or, woops- in base ball?
Yeah its a lot of nitrogen. SO sometimes you get tons of green growth and less tomatoes. You can use that at 1/4 strength. Make it a 4-4-4 next year.
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How much time do you estimate that you spend on spraying for prevention of diseases each week? My garden is a fraction of the size of yours and I can't seem to keep up with the spraying. 🫣
In the busy time of summer, a good 90 minutes a week. I dont spray everything. So it's based on what needs to be sprayed. Some weeks I dont spray at all. Other weeks I do full sprays and spray fruit trees.
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