It Cost $10,000 to Grow These
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- We were given the secret to growing tomatoes. The only problem? It'll cost you dearly.
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Growing tomatoes in the South can be really difficult. Bugs eat tomatoes, the rain causes tomatoes to split, late freezes kill tomatoes, and by the time you put in a bunch of work, you don't get much. This year, however, we did something different and we have lots of tomatoes.
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10,000$ for tomatoes ! I need to ketchup !
Listen, Mister. This young lady has had your children. A lot of them, I understand and she looks fantastic! You give Mrs. Good what she wants. Thanks for listening.
👏👏👏😁
Every man needs a wife that loves gardening, and having babies 😂
Good children mamas don't have time to be good tomato mamas.
You go mama!
Love it!! 🤣😂My husband blew $1000 for raised beds so I can grow Roma tomatoes in Wyoming!! 🤣😂
I AM NEVER GOING TO FINANCIALLY KETCHUP FROM THIS
I’m 64 and when I was a kid in Tennessee my grandparents and parents never staked their tomatoes. Tomatoes are vines and will root along the stem if allowed to touch the soil. My grandparents tomatoes were huge and the vines all produced buckets and buckets of tomatoes. And they tasted so so good. I stake my because as I get old it is harder to bend to harvest off the ground. But my grandparents tomatoes were more productive
Here the lower tomatoes almost always get devoured by insects if they're touching the soil or mulch. It's a tough place for tomatoes. We grew them in TN before, though, when we lived there. They did much better in the garden.
I still grow mine that way but the single stem, stake methods or string tension have become far more popular for yield per square.
I just don't like pruning unless its causing airflow problems and I can get some impressive yields off massive, indeterminate plants. Its just not nearly as consistent year to year and pests love heirlooms.
I’m sure that a lot more roots are better but I was going to ask for the quality because I don’t know if where tomatoes are from they just rot in the soil to let more seeds until a person would select them from the wild to care for them better but yes it does sometimes make them go bad but you see the top arch structure? I was just thinking this week how would it work to get tomatoes cross the arch and make it so it’s a height harvestable from below the structure without pruning them as this would make it not necessary
We bought a house and 8 acres in Santa Rosa County Florida and plan to retire and move there next year. We are in Tennessee now. I have gardened in Southern Michigan and in Middle Tennessee. There is some very different pros and cons for both. Michigan has amazing soil, fewer pests, lots of rainfall, cool crops love it there but has short growing seasons, heat loving plants don’t thrive, short growing season. Tennessee longer season, heat loving plants like peppers, corn, okra, and beans thrive. More pests, clay soil, often times dry spells in summer. The clay is rich but hard. I love learning and experiencing the different gardening techniques.I’m very much looking forward to experimenting and learning about the panhandle gardening. I have been watching your channel for a while now. I’m trying to learn as much as I can and develop some new gardening skills. I enjoy your posts
If that makes Rachel happy, it's priceless!
Your wife is precious. You are blessed.
Awww! Rachel's gratitude and concern legit brought a tear to my eye. Never fear, I'm pretty sure the majority of us know how firmly David keeps his tongue planted (no pun intended!) in his cheek! ☺
Happy wife=$10,000 tomatoes / greenhouse. Whatever it takes to keep the wife happy DTG. I quit growing tomatoes years ago per your advice. Im much happier now.
Next stupid purchase one word... flamethrower.
😀🌱🐢
Why’d you quit on tomatoes?
@@xaviercruz4763 I quit growing them because most varieties require a lot of input and I don't get enough fruit to make it worth my time. To David's point, a select few types do grow well in Applachaistan and below. I have a few better boys and some compost volunteers that are doing well at the moment till the bugs/rabbits/deer find them. I may get 6-12 tomatoes. What are you growing and how?
@@user-ic2ug8ys1z I'm in middle GA and plant determinate tomatoes around mid april. They produce all June and a little in July and then die. But I get a whole lot of fruits from them in that short window.
Rachel is such a lovely person. Good to see her again.
Yeah, we just grow whatever volunteer tomatoes come up in the spring. It's usually just cherry tomatoes, but low maintenance works for me.
I'm getting about a pint of cherry/Everglades/baby heirloom tomatoes daily just from random volunteers.
That's the way. The cherry tomatoes (especially Everglades) don't mind this climate.
Am currently growing slugs. It's a very versatile crop because I can pretty much convert any random seedlings - and let's be honest, any random full grown plants including garlic atm - into more slugs. What are those fruits / pods hanging from those bushes? Oh, hahahaha, it's more slugs of course! 👍😭 (second wettest spring here since The Weatherpeople started tracking the weather - ever). The little piece of land I use came with a greenhouse, but not to worry, the slugs do great indoors as well! I think this is what happened to French people somewhere along the way. Who needs tomatoes when you have garlic butter?
Sounds like you have a duck deficit. 😊
They're really high in protein. For best culinary results, feed them on basil and serve with a tarragon-garlic compound butter.
You are hilarious.
Unsalted ghee
'don he shine up good, paw?'😂🤣😂
Rachel may not be the best tomato mama (I'm not either), but she is a great mama to her children! Also, I love the dress for picking tomatoes.
Only a master gardens in a suit & tie; Gotta keep Tomato Mama happy!
And gets high on miracle grow! 😆😉
“David the Good sells out to BIG Greenhouse!”
Great video, great yield!
Universal Basic Greenhouses for all ! ! !
lol
Co-signing this 🫶
@@davidthegood Ogden approved
@@davidthegood 1k for a 10 minute video?
@@davidthegood you have to drive to South Georgia.
I will feed you. Not like a petting zoo type feeding, like you would a goat out of those little repurposed gumball machines with the little pellets. But we could grind some Kamut and make some Pizzas.
You can see my erfship
Nice greenhouse! 👍😁💯 cracks me up when you were sitting in the greenhouse talking and patting your tomatoes like it was a little kitten on your lap! Lol
This is the most honest tomato growing video ever.
You have taught me to garden practically for free so I could build my own $10000+ greenhouse. My hubby calls it the "Cat House" because the cat spends more time in it than any one else. I think I may grow enough food in it to make the expense worth while if I live and grow for at least 30 more years 😅
Tomatoes grow fine here, provided....frost warning tonight and tomorrow so I will finally plant the seedlings on 5/31....had them on the porch a few hours to harden them off this morning, and a squirrel literally came onto the porch and ate four leaving only the stems. The most successful gardeners here all use greenhouses, unless we're talking root vegetables. Love from the Idaho-Canadian border.
I'm also in Idaho near the Canadian border (about 20 mi south) and yeah, how about that frost warning on May 30th!? I have tomatoes in the ground already this year, spent about two hours last night covering things up and hauling stuff in. I'm showing 30° F right now at 5:00 AM. I hope I got everything adequately covered! Hope your stuff does OK.
What a hoot this video was...both of you. Loved it and congrats on all the sauces to come. That Rachel is beautiful inside and out!
Seen multi million dollar vertical tower hydroponic farms consider yourself frugal
True
Haha, another wonderfully, informative and entertaining video from the Good family. How beautiful is Rachel, 11 kids later and the embodiment of motherhood looking like a goddess! Of course, you look very handsome too, David, love the suit :)
I get Rachel's affinity for Roma tomatoes ❤
Missed the premiere! Just catching up. We aint even planted tomatoes or anything besides potatoes up here in North Pole AK! Zone 2 baaaby ughhh lol. God bless yall!
Best gardening videos in the history of the world bar none i don't think there is much you haven't touched on over the years with the DTG brand of humour we love, God bless guys ❤
I've seen other people down here in the south have great tomato results growing under a greenhouse. I think one of the other benefits (just guessing) is the reduction of the power of the sun after passing thru that covering. The southern sun beats down tomato plants.
I second that! Here in the coastal bend in south Texas the sun burns the skins and leaves of the tomatoes. What I did this year is to use a 40% shade cloth protecting the afternoon sun only, so they get all the morning sun and are protected during the harsh part of the day. Lots of mulch and drip irrigation before nightfall so the water gets time to get to the roots. So far so good 👍 David, banana plants stain your jacket. Rachel won't appreciate you staining your Sunday best ;-) Great video
I. Started reading Minimalist Gardening today 😂 but i do have to say, I love it when Rachel makes it in a video! Rachel your tomatoes look amazing!
In my world we build greenhouses like that to grow giant pumpkins! Meanwhile, my 28 tomato plants do great outside here in Idaho. Just protect them from frost and you're good to go. I think we all want to grow things that don't do well where we live, and that pursuit means everything to us. Or at least $10,000.
Rachel is precious! Also I have never felt more blessed to live in the Midwest where tomatoes grow like weeds but all the exotic things DTG grows and vlogs and writes about? Not so much
That's life in LA, where people just spend tons of money for tomatoes! Love your high tunnel. Mine is still sitting on our trailer in pieces (some assembly required) and we probably won't put the plastic on until late Sept. We are going to try to remove the Bermuda grass in the area by covering it, tilling it, cover , till, cover, till---well you get the idea! God bless y'all and keep growing (tomatoes).
One of my rules is not plantung stuff I can buy organically for cheaper in the store ... In the desert of Arizona, water is precious, so, any water to grow tomato's is a massive waste.
That said, my worm castings are constantly planting tomato seeds in my gardens.
So yeah, I still end up having tomatoes because I also can't bring myself to pulling a thriving plant. LoL
But they certainly do taste almost worth the $30 extra it takes in water to grow them.😮
You two are looking good. Must be church or date night. Love the video. God bless you both and the family.
We get relatively hot, humid summers here. One of my biggest tricks is simply putting up raised beds in the north facing shadow of the house. Suddenly an 85+ degree day is significantly less in the shade and gives them a bit of a break.
They're not made for blazing heat and direct sun so much as they don't like frost. I do have to use raised beds to keep them away from everything under the sun, though 😂
That is a really good idea.
Rachel needs a hug, get one to her Stat. Adore the two of you and glad things are going well.
❤ My wife thought I was insane spending $500 to grow enough tomatoes to make a quart of sauce. After she watched this video she hasn't changed her mind. 🤣
Dear David and Rachel. I haven't been able to watch any of your videos for the last 13 months. Sorry.
My husband Fred Tice (ticeybear68) was a huge fan of yours and introduced me to your program.
It is with the greatest sadness that I have to tell you that he passed away on 31st April last year. He was 54 years old and died from a massive heart attack. He had been living in England since 2012 and moved to The Vale of Evesham in 2017. It is said that anything can grow here, except non-frost tolerance, and there's ways around that with glass houses and fleece.
Thank you for all you did for him, and I hope your family continues to prosper.
Regards
Anna Tice
I am so sorry. We had corresponded via email - great guy. May God rest his soul, and may He comfort you.
I LOVE YOU GUYS. GOD BLESS YALL
It was a MUST to click into this content when I saw that thumbnail 😂💙💥👍
P.S. A greenhouse = $10k.....a happy wife = priceless! :)
It's a reminder that a lot of us don't garden because it is profitable in the end, we do it for fun/sanity/excercise/beauty
Best thing to come out of our drought last year in WI, the tomatoes, so many tomatoes.
I love Mother Nature getting her tomatoes. And I like her attitude!
I am glad you figured out your tomatoes.
Bahahaha so funny !!! You guys really deserve to be able to grow great tomatoes!!! SO happy for you! They are truly beautiful!
I'm a big believer that if you've got the space, the way you're growing the tomatoes is the way to do it. They're vines, they crave crawling along the ground happily and rooting out much more than being staked up like we've made them live for so long. A bit of Wild makes the ecosystem happy and healthy! Loved y'all for years, keep up the good work!
MULCH YOUR ENEMIES!
I met Daisey last weekend in Pensacola and bought a couple of plants. I'm the admin of a community garden in NW Florida. At my home, on a steep hillside, I'm building a forest-row garden. Maybe you could learn a little something from me LOL
I'm sure I could. We've gardened on slopes, too. It's a job, but it has its rewards.
Ha ha ha! Funny! ❤
IF I had a greenhouse? (Almost did, but got Scammed again!) I would use it for ALL things. Because I am in Canada, where snow haunts us! Grin
This video is top notch in grayscale
In nine years, you'll only have spent $1000 per year on tomatoes. That's reasonable.
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David, that’s a great title.
I learned from you
keep petting those tomatoes, david.... that's right.....
Hilarious😂always good let our attachments go proving you are not attached to only one way.!! Great to see lovely Rachael it's not the money but the happiness it brings... I can see you are both radiently happy about your magnificent greenhouse and TOMATOES!!!
I adore your spoof/ character videos, especially when Rachel is in them. I try to fight nature and garden in south Florida, but I listen / watch the videos while I work from home to cut the silence and I have almost spit out my coffee laughing everytime when you guys do the parody videos
I love it! We also bought 2 greenhouses to grow tomatoes (romas) through the winter. Mind you, they are only cheap greenhouses and set me back around $250 each, but they are doing a fantastic job so far! The plants are healthy and we have small tomatoes on some of the bushes. Our winters are only mild here in our climate so I thought I would give them a go! 😀🌱🌻
I have a smaller cattle panel greenhouse and I LOVE it fits my needs perfectly right now
I love ALL David The Good videos!
If you have a wife that wants a $10K greenhouse she's a keeper. Keep her happy.
"Give me more $ so i can buy more stupid stuff" got me crackin up. Yall are hilarious. Also, girl, I suck at tyin up tomatoes too, I feel you. But those are some beautiful tomatoes.
She is selling herself short. Plants don't need to be beautiful. Those tomatoes are.
I'm about $300 into growing tomatoes in my already well-established, very pampered raised beds. First time starting my own seedlings this year because grow lights =$$$. Thought we were going to be golden planting beautiful, robust, massive transplants in early March. Indeed, they set gorgeous fruit...until the rains hit. 6-8 inches weekly for the last 6 weeks. (Never have I ever....) And hail. I now also own $120 of plastic panels that sit tackily above my garden. Saved all the blighted plants from the hail twice now, but useless against blight and splitting tomatoes. Sigh.
Poor people hate this Farmer!
Laughed like 20 times throughout the video. It made my morning! :) Thank you!!
You two made my day! Your greenhouse attire puts my overalls to shame...lol.....and I am going to try petting my maters in the basket like DTG for mater bonding in the future.
Didn't have to worry about too much rain last summer. lol
I think the shade cloth is the key.
Last summer was something else. Terribly dry, but so hot I had plants just giving up.
@@davidthegood Only my Celebrity tomatoes and some peppers lived through it even watering them.
Lol.
I'm one of many who can only grow cherry tomatoes...and I'm not upset about that.
Good deal! We get too much rain, especially the past few years (NW GA) and that totally makes sense to keep them from drowning by growing them inside!! 🙃
That was one of the best ones !😂😂😂 Really enjoyed the vibe
Awesome video DTG and award winning performance by Ms Rachel! I was like what are they doing in the greenhouse all dressed up🤷🏻♀️. You are so right about growing tomatoes down here...after growing Everglades the past few years, we have them popping up all over our place even in the gravel and in between the concrete slabs of our patio.
Rolling with the Roma gang!
On a serious note, the lesson to protect the red babies for way better results, is something that can be done at lower cost points. containers that you can shield from rain and frost might be the way to go in your climate.
David, your wife is gorgeous! 10 children came from this beautiful lady! My neighbor has had 2 children, and she's a wreck. Wow! Seeing the excitement of these love apples, might imply number 11? How do you keep your green thumbs off her, she's stunning.
Charmaine, from Canada
She's had 11 so far, thank you.
In the frigid north I'd have to get my own greenhouse to grow tomatoes too, so this was funny to see.
Does she always garden in that beautiful cocktail dress 👗 😍
Only when she's growing $10k tomatoes
Beautiful tomatoes girl! Greenhouse will last a long time for many many other plants and tomatoes, the 10 grand will go a long way!
I love this video! its very honest! We don’t have the climate problem … a deer problem… instead of a 10k hoop house … I have an eight foot 5k fence … and to top that off it’s not even that big!! I love my husband!!!
Well we don’t grow tomatoes, the plants grow them (actually we don’t grow anything but old hehe) we care for the plants and wait for the harvest but God puts the growth and the plants do their assignment. We plant and cultivate and harvest
I agree ... some years are a bust😮😢 😅!
However, nothing beats the flavor of roasted tomato 🍅 soup in January!!! Made from that ONE jar of Roma tomatoes 😀
I love how you are petting the tomatoes 😂
Roma has grown well for me here.
I've even left them through the heat of summer and got end of year second harvest from the same plants! (Once. I usually replant a second batch)
This year I've probably murdered 400 baby tomato volunteers coming back from dropped fruit/ seed/ or compost.
Opposite here. Tomatoes grow back every year on their own here. South Jersey, the garden state.
Oh yeah. I have relatives there. Gigantic apple tree out back they didn't do anything to keep up. It dropped buckets of fruit. Totally different world.
😝🤯😣
nice big romas:] I never prune or stake my tomatoes do not feel bad enjoy!
(Love David petting Rachel’s tomatoes)
When I ordered seeds from Baker Creek this year they sent me spoon tomato seeds, they're adorable!
Got some Surround WP kaylin clay , it really helps keep bugs of of things. Big tomatoes dont get messed up with it from pests
LOL, I LOVE tomatoes! They are the "gateway drug" into gardening lol. I am in GA zone 7b and I still try to grow a few big tomatoes every year even though it never seems to work and I am usually sad by the middle of summer, but by the next year, I forget all that and try again lol.
I truly enjoy you and your wife's humor! You are a great team!
Cherish her david. Rachel's heart keeps you in line with god. She reminds me of my holly. And this year i have 35 tomato plants lol. Better boys, mr smiley, 101, celebrities, goliaths, park swoppers, and purple Cherokee. Yum
You guys are inspiring me to get my Greenhouse put together…it’s an old Agra-tech from Cali…might be decades old, but I’m slowly collecting all the ground posts…from the big orange store. Wish I was closer to buy some plants from you guys! Great video!
My Romas did exceptional last year with no staking. I used a cattle panel on it's side (long ways) in an Arch or C shape, and I grew them on both sides, mostly staggering them, but I never used any clips or string or any way tp attach them to the cattle panel. And when it came time to harvest, I found I preferred the ease of shifting or flipping the plants in such a way to find the hidden fruit easier. I grew over 100 tomato plants with 25 of them being Romas. And after winter arrived I moved the cattle panel without and branches being tangled in the cattle panel.
I bet that looked really neat.
Oh how I love and relate to your sense of humor! I feel like I’m watching family videos 😂😂😂
Four minutes in : you've just made your first Spike Lee joint.
Mater mater nuttin' greater!❤
Nice work! Read Minimalist last week. Now ready to put a new edge on my old corn knife and make a few grocery rows out of my little orchard area. The reading connected the dots on my wife’s container flower garden, on 2x10’ of mulch, that really helped the old red bud tree it is under. Thanks, good conversational book. Contemplating a cattle panel shade structure like baker creek has at their village, arched 54” above horizontal panels.
For a cheaper option you could just move to a mountain top in Haiti. Back in Canada I was never very successful growing tomatoes. Here in Haiti they volunteer in my compost and then just grow as perennials. They've been one of our easier crops. So, just pack your bags, find a mountain top in Haiti and you should have tomatoes galore.
15 months ago, I bought a large dog run that I was going to make into a chicken coop. It's still sitting in the box in front of my TV. *Now* I know what to do with that thing. . . a tomato greenhouse!!
I'm loving these comments! xD Keep us updated with how the greenhouse/tomato projects goes, Mrs. Good!
Adorable, David! Love your vids!
Rachel - you look beautiful and I love your haircut!
Thanks y’all!!
Oh yeah, you look great too David😊
David, I love your videos and your family!! You are an inspiration to me. My pigeon pea seeds have germinated this week. Thank you for all you do.
" ..... give me more money so I can blow it on other stupid things."