I had trouble with cucumbers in Louisiana last year even though I tried choosing varieties that were heat, humidity and disease resistant. Each plant produced 3 or 4 and died. This year I tried about 5 Beit Alpha cucumbers and I`ve never seen anything like it. In three days I`ve picked over 25 cucumbers. Actually more because I`ve eaten 7 or 8 smaller ones each day and gave away about two dozen. I`m cloning my very old original Pinocchio Orange Micro Dwarf tomato plant (taking cuttings makes them bloom again) and keeping some in small pots and putting others in very simple hydro buckets under the edge of the steel roof over my camper. They bloom like crazy from fresh clones once they form good roots so you can get a quicker harvest than growing from seeds. This variety tastes good unlike Tiny Tim and stay far more compact at 7 to 8 inches on average but with wide branches. I will never grow Tiny Tim again. They have the worst taste ever! Yes, even in soil.
Good to hear other's experiences with cloning tomatoes. I tried overwintering peppers and tomatoes in the greenhouse a couple of years back, and ended up with such a massive aphid infestation, that I quit trying. Maybe I'll just spray them with stronger insecticide in the winter since they aren't producing anyway and try again. Thanks for watching.
I’m always out of sync with my late summer/early fall garden. It stays so flipping hot (Alabama) into September it’s hard to think about fall. . I did get an awesome harvest of rutabagas a few years ago. Thanks for the video I’ll start getting going. Will you have a fall garden of greens etc … ?
Yea, that is why I like to grow the veggies in semi-shade for most of July, until they outgrow the containers. And, of course, the bugs immediately attack the August garden, and will destroy it eventually. However, I like to plant a few extras every year because I can generally keep the harvest going. Thanks for watching.
I kept a cutting just barely alive indoors in winter of a very tough Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato that survived three frosts and I have it still growing this year in my garden. I`m gonna do it again this coming winter but grow a large plant indoors from it in a hydro bucket in February to get multiple new plants from it.
Yes you can! You shouldn't take many suckers off the determinate tomatoes though, as they won't replace themselves as will indeterminate tomatoes. Thanks for watching
I am a first time veggie gardener, so I’m kind of experimenting and learning lots from watching so many different videos. We have a lot of trees and flower beds, so it was tricky to find 6 hours of sun. We tilled by hand a good planting mix with tomato fertilizer and worm casting and even some ground up egg shells. I think I pruned too many lower branches, maybe even cut too many suckers. My plants aren’t getting very tall and have started to produce, but very few. We live in the very, very far Northern part of California where our winters are extremely wet and our summers are long, hot, and very dry. Our temps will reach up to 118 in July. A couple of my tomatoes split, so I guess too much water. I am fairly new to your channel, but like that you take your time to explain especially for us rookies. How long will it take your suckers to root in water? Also, can you share the manure mix? We have two large standard dachshunds that found an area where we planted using bone meal…..oh dear! It sure is fun though, and I will keep watching your videos! ☀️🍅 P.S. I did make my own compost pile. It’s very healthy and has been wonderful to use! 😊 Happy Gardening!!
Well thank you very much for that nice comment. Yes, I'm trying to reach the audience of casual growers, that don't want to spend a fortune on equipment and supplies and soil amendments, but still want to have a nice productive garden. And yes, watch my tomato videos and you see that I don't trim the lower suckers at all, in fact I encourage growers to keep those suckers if they have room for large plants. There is no right and wrong way to garden, but different methods certainly bring different results. Thanks for subscribing and watching.
Thank you so much, my dear friend for another great garden video always enjoy watching your videos and seeing your beautiful garden
So nice of you, thanks for watching.
I had trouble with cucumbers in Louisiana last year even though I tried choosing varieties that were heat, humidity and disease resistant. Each plant produced 3 or 4 and died. This year I tried about 5 Beit Alpha cucumbers and I`ve never seen anything like it. In three days I`ve picked over 25 cucumbers. Actually more because I`ve eaten 7 or 8 smaller ones each day and gave away about two dozen.
I`m cloning my very old original Pinocchio Orange Micro Dwarf tomato plant (taking cuttings makes them bloom again) and keeping some in small pots and putting others in very simple hydro buckets under the edge of the steel roof over my camper. They bloom like crazy from fresh clones once they form good roots so you can get a quicker harvest than growing from seeds. This variety tastes good unlike Tiny Tim and stay far more compact at 7 to 8 inches on average but with wide branches. I will never grow Tiny Tim again. They have the worst taste ever! Yes, even in soil.
Good to hear other's experiences with cloning tomatoes. I tried overwintering peppers and tomatoes in the greenhouse a couple of years back, and ended up with such a massive aphid infestation, that I quit trying. Maybe I'll just spray them with stronger insecticide in the winter since they aren't producing anyway and try again. Thanks for watching.
I’m always out of sync with my late summer/early fall garden. It stays so flipping hot (Alabama) into September it’s hard to think about fall. . I did get an awesome harvest of rutabagas a few years ago. Thanks for the video I’ll start getting going. Will you have a fall garden of greens etc … ?
Yea, that is why I like to grow the veggies in semi-shade for most of July, until they outgrow the containers. And, of course, the bugs immediately attack the August garden, and will destroy it eventually. However, I like to plant a few extras every year because I can generally keep the harvest going. Thanks for watching.
I kept a cutting just barely alive indoors in winter of a very tough Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato that survived three frosts and I have it still growing this year in my garden. I`m gonna do it again this coming winter but grow a large plant indoors from it in a hydro bucket in February to get multiple new plants from it.
Thanks for this. Could you clone determinate tomatoes the same way? I liked the way you generated soil for the containers!
Yes you can! You shouldn't take many suckers off the determinate tomatoes though, as they won't replace themselves as will indeterminate tomatoes. Thanks for watching
I am a first time veggie gardener, so I’m kind of experimenting and learning lots from watching so many different videos. We have a lot of trees and flower beds, so it was tricky to find 6 hours of sun. We tilled by hand a good planting mix with tomato fertilizer and worm casting and even some ground up egg shells. I think I pruned too many lower branches, maybe even cut too many suckers. My plants aren’t getting very tall and have started to produce, but very few. We live in the very, very far Northern part of California where our winters are extremely wet and our summers are long, hot, and very dry. Our temps will reach up to 118 in July. A couple of my tomatoes split, so I guess too much water. I am fairly new to your channel, but like that you take your time to explain especially for us rookies. How long will it take your suckers to root in water? Also, can you share the manure mix? We have two large standard dachshunds that found an area where we planted using bone meal…..oh dear! It sure is fun though, and I will keep watching your videos!
☀️🍅
P.S. I did make my own compost pile. It’s very healthy and has been wonderful to use! 😊
Happy Gardening!!
Well thank you very much for that nice comment. Yes, I'm trying to reach the audience of casual growers, that don't want to spend a fortune on equipment and supplies and soil amendments, but still want to have a nice productive garden. And yes, watch my tomato videos and you see that I don't trim the lower suckers at all, in fact I encourage growers to keep those suckers if they have room for large plants. There is no right and wrong way to garden, but different methods certainly bring different results. Thanks for subscribing and watching.
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