I've been following you for YEARS, and, ashamedly admit that I have never taken time to comment, or even say THANK YOU! I have seen more than 90% of your videos & have learned something from EACH & EVERY one!!! SOMEhow, I managed to miss this one until just now. (Unless YT removed my *like* which they are FAMOUS for!) I just heard you say: *We LOVE our plants! They're OUR KIDS!*. Well... I love you even MORE now! I thought I was a weirdo for feeling that way...now I know I'm not the only one!!!🤣 Plants are LIVING and need love & nurturing, just like our kids. Thank you for making me feel normal! AND ... CONGRATULATIONS on your silver YT button!!! You're doing it RIGHT!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!!! 🤗😘❤🙏✝️
You have such a kind and gentle soul, my friend. I adore the care and even, affection, you show to your plants. They are living, sentient beings and so appreciate the bond you form with them. Makes my heart smile to see you being you.
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Believe it or not guys, I'm a Saudi citizen, of course living in Saudi Arabia, and I am growing tomatoes and other veggies, I truly benefited from the advice you're giving throughout your channel time. Thanks a lot guy.
I will not admit to all the mistakes I've been making, and yet still surprised at how well my poor neglected tomato plants have been doing each year! Thank you for this video. My tomato production is going to rock this year!!
EVERY SINGLE TIME I watch your videos I learn something. I didn’t know you could pollinate by just shaking the stem. Also I’ll be throwing a mound of dirt out there because I forgot to plant deep this year. Thank you. As always great info!
If you are using grow bags you can cut base out 8 inch flower pots then split them down the side cut lower leaves off plant and place pot round and press down into grow bag before filling with compost gives extra root depth and support for plant .
My husband and I just LOVE your videos. We live in New Port Richey, FL which is quite different that the north. Our patio looks like a farm! At night instead of watching the tv, we put your videos on the big screen and really enjoy them. I always keep a pad and paper while watching them to take notes because every video gives us so much knowledge it is hard to remember all of it. Thank you for making these and we hope our tomatoes and peppers will be great this year now that we know what we are doing wrong and right. LOL!!
Welcome to gardening! Do you also follow Gardener Scott? He's from your neck of the woods. Yea I'm one that's addicted to watching many UA-cam gardeners...lol
Your garden channel is the only one I watch. I try to watch others but yours is the ONLY best one out there! So excited to hear there will be a seed saving video! Love that you link previous videos as a reference. I had never hand pollinated until I saw your video. My tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and zucchini. Absolutely love this tomatoe session.
Thank you! Learning much! I will start growing with tomatoes but before then, I will watch all your videos you posted below and all on tomatoes to be prepared and ready! I❤️🍅🍅🍅! 🌱☀️
I love your enthusiasm about growing vegetables from one gardener to another. Nothing tastes like the vegetables that you grow! Thank you for sharing your awesome advice!
I'm 2 yrs late however I need this video today😊 My first time growing heirloom tomatoes and I've noticed some things about my plants I didn't like. Thanks for the great tips!
We plant 42-56 tomatoes every year in a 3' X 3' X 50' very raised bed. I'm going to try really hard this year to hold them past July in Lafayette, La. We're in the 90 degree and 122% humility summer in the deep south. I've pruned them back (my wife says "viciously") and have begun fertilizing the heck out of them. Ooh, we can 45 to 60 quarts of stewed tomatoes every year. THANK YOU FOR TOMATO TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am happy for you and anyone who can harvest beautiful tomatoes. We have many beautiful tomato plants with various sorts of tomatoes. Recently the squirrels attacked our plants and took almost all of the tomatoes that were ready to turn red. We tried everything: fencing and netting, socks holding them up, pinwheels, a dollar store tacky hoola skirt, and finally hot pepper spray. The hot pepper spray worked, but only for two days. We are heartsick. I now have three plants completely wrapped in bird netting. At least they have not attacked my peppers. I hope you get to enjoy a marvelous tomato soon. We buy ours from a pop-up seller.
Yesterday I got so excited to see a big black bumble bee going to each flower. It was just so beautiful too see. I was to slow to get a pic. But it’s the first time this year I saw a bee pollinating my plants.
Greetings from North TX! I'm a very green beginner in gardening. I just finished watching your video on growing tomatoes in a container. Thank you So Much for being so in-depth with your instructions, you're a great teacher! I'm hoping next year (I think it's way too hot now to start, weeks over 100 degrees with a few daily breaks here and there being around 94-96 degrees). I'm hoping to not have to buy a tasteless grocery store tomato very often again.
Some of this I already knew. But this is the single best tomato growing video I've seen! I learned a lot. Thank you:) Great pointers. I think you covered everything! 👍👍
You give one of the BEST helpful instructional videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️; they are always super informative and well organized, straight forward, stay on topic, minimal small talks and distractions, sharp video and clear great voice. You are simply awesome. Thank you so much for the videos and for helping us.
I'm 20 miles SW of Fresno. Using only organic and have a garden full of happy bees. My parents were beekeepers so I totally understand the need for bees. Loved your video.
All great advice. I respectfully suggest the following additional concerns: 1) If you grow in pots, they should be 10 gallon pots at least, and never put more than one tomato plant in a pot, or they'll compete for nutrients and both lose. Moreover, all veggie plants are heavy feeders and that soil must be dumped and re-invigorated each winter. 2) California summers are HOT, and heat kills pollen. Moreover, cold nights (early season) cause blossoms to die. Thus we have a season, and seasonal timing. You should plant EARLY, by national standards, so that you have fruit set (i.e., pollinated blossoms) by June, before the summer heat arrives. If you procrastinate, you'll have lots of green, and no fruits... because you had blossoms whose pollen was killed by heat. 3) Then the August heat arrives and kill my (Long Beach CA) heirloom tomatoes, even if they're well founded in soil (i.e, not in pots). So that's the end of the season for many of us. My favorite strain of heirloom is cold weather tolerant, but gets killed by August heat every year. 4) The better term than the commonly-used term "open pollinated" would be "dehybridized." These strains are homozygous for essential traits, and therefore will reproduce the same plant in the next generation because there is no genetic variety in the blackjack game of sexual reproduction. Don't worry, tomatoes don't suffer from inbreeding depression, like humans do. 5) Never keep the seeds of hybrid plants. The nature of hybrids are trade secrets, and the seeds you (must) buy each year are F1 hybrids. Their progeny are F2 hybrids... and therefore JUNK. 6) Novice tomato growers will have much higher gratification growing hybrids than heirloom. Try Better Boy or similar. The yields are good, because the flowers have an anatomy that favors pollination. Heirloom blossoms ("open pollinated") have flower anatomies that have separation between the male and female parts and therefore make self-pollination less likely. 7) If you want to keep seeds from heirloom plants, you'd better be sure those seeds were not crossed up by pollinating insects, in which case you have some wild hybrid. The strains you keep (like I do) must remain dehybridized... which is against nature, really, if you let pollinating insects into the picture. Furthermore, my strain of tomatoes (grown for over 20 years) present a recessive phenotype (potato leaf) which gives me high assurance early in the next season that my new plants are "true." Any cross in the seed would likely present a plant with standard or rugose leaf shape, thus alerting me to that undesired cross. 8) Anyone who grows backyard toms in 10 gal pots must water daily in hot weather, or as soon as the plant starts to wilt. Don't overwater. But potted plants are much more vulnerable to heat stroke than in-ground plants. PS I'm a better geneticist than gardener. Listen to Brian on all his excellent gardening skills, which I will be adhering to next year.
Great advice. I'm using 5 gallon buckets, but apparently 5 gallon buckets are actually like 7 gallon pots because of the way things are measured. Anyway, my plants are huge. I usually don't even see them this large even when I was planting in ground. However, watering is an issue as they must be watered daily, sometimes twice a day but I'm getting blossom end rot on many of the tomatoes. Its frustrating.
@@mikezupancic2182 I have both in ground and self watering 5 gal buckets. I have to water the ones in ground almost daily due to high 90°- low 100 ° heat. The self wicking buckets have some very happy plants producing, too. If your buckets have proper drainage... Do you think maybe it's a calcium issue causing the blossom end rot? I take egg shells, bake them at 225° for 20 min. Grind them in the blender and sprinkle around my plants, lightly raking it in the soil. I did that last year when they had blossom end rot and it fixed the problem.
Regarding Number 5.... I kept the seeds from some grape tomatoes I bought, planted them, and had a great harvest. I keep seeds from the harvest and have planted them this year. They look good so far! (No fruit yet, but lots of blossoms.) But I don't know if they are hybrids or what. How can I know and how much does it matter?
I have a combination of 5 and 10 gallon planters that have more than one tomato plant as well as marigolds, basil and nasturtiums which my gazillion pollinators LOVE...I have a TON of bees of all kinds...so blessed! I think what helps me not water every day is a few things: I prune very well so less greenery that needs water, I water in the evening and at soil level, I used compost in my mix and I use a wonderful chopped straw nice and thick that helps with evaporation. I use a soil meter, too, that helps with water and ph testing. This year I’m going to try core gardening instead of dumping everything at the end of the season. I’ve seen different sources talk about the logic behind it (basically you’re making compost stuffing in the same planter of that plant’s leftovers thus returning the nutrients it took) and it makes sense so I’m going to give it a whirl.
1. Know the type of tomatoes you R growing what are it's needs 2. Planting in too much shade 6-8 hours of sun 3. Planting tomatoes incorrectly Plant them deep 4. Tomatoes need proper nutrients Not giving proper nutrients can stunt growth and fertilizing too much can grow a big plant but not increase production 5. Pruning is crucial It depends on variety pinch out the armpit, clip off yellow and old leaves 6. Proper support Sturdy support is important, string/ cage 7. Improper watering water from below be careful not to get water on the leaves 8. Not hand pollinating This has become a problem, we have to do it organically, less bees, less pollinators Just a simple vibration will do it 10. Not paying attention to your plants and their needs Spot pests and look at them, feel the soil, are they wilting, are the blooms falling off, is the soil dry.....
When I watch your videos, besides learning a wealth of info, I find that I relax and "come down" from all the craziness that surrounds me in this insane world. THANK YOU!
I live in Sweden so a totally different climate. Sometimes we have frost until end of march so I have to do something’s a bit different. But I have learnt a lot about tomatoes after seeing your video. Thank you so much, Hälsa, Anna
I have had a tomato sandwich with a from my garden tomato every day for the last 5 days! My plants we flowering but not fruiting. My 5 yr old and I have a kind of game of shaking the crap down the tomatoes, as she puts it, every morning and night. After 3-4 days, we had baby tomatoes again! Also, when you are pruning, don't toss the suckers in the elbows. Put them in water and they will take root and have more tomatoes. I have not had luck with the determinate one in rooting in water, but all the rest have worked. And we planted a second crop of 12 tomato plants from the suckers for later harvesting since we still have plenty of time until frost! Free plants!
When your tomatoes produce flowers and don't see the expected amount of fruits. 1-fertilization was not successful, due to the absence of the pollinating agencies eg:bees,wind etc. 2- due to blossom end rot disease 3- hot condition (heat) stress.
Use an electric toothbrush on the flower it will push the pollen out like a bee does. You can look it up it works. Also fertilized with calcium nitrate it stops the black rot.
Yes we love okra: Southern fried, boiled and steamed or microwaved slightly. I planted 6 plants in April. Unfortunately I planted 3 tomato plants in front of them so the okra plants were struggling to get some sunshine. Now that the tomatoes are starting to wane the okra plants are beginning to grow up and making flowers and pods! Ya! I plant Clemson Spineless okra and planted starter plants from one of our local produce & plant providers here in Arlington TX. Thanks for this video too!
I just started growing tomatoes for the first time this year and am so excited about how they turn out! I already have some growing so I hope to avoid most of these as a newbie!
Brian I love your channel - we've gone all in on your advice. We planted late (April 28th) and went exclusively with heirlooms some of which are 7" tall now. We live in East Texas and have already been into the 90's sprinkled with triple digit heat. We started to see leaf curl so I covered them loosely with tyvek - which dropped the temperature dramatically. I have gaps between the sheets and slits cut to let sun, air and rain pass but I'm afraid I've taken them below 6 hours of sun each day - will maybe 10 hours of indirect compensate for the brutal direct sun? Or am I going to stunt their growth with shade? Your "bury deep, with rock phosphate and prune.." strategy made these guys take off like slow-motion bottle rockets - but I've gotta have fruit!
Such a great video!! I’m so glad I tuned in! Wish I would’ve done this at the beginning when I planted but I’ll make the changes at the beginning for next year’s batch for sure!
Hey Brian, I'm just gonna jump the gun and say congrats on your soon to be 300,000 milestone. So excited to see your channel growing so fast. Thanks for your always great info.🤗
So much gratitude to u for sharing all this knowledge 🙏🥬🍅🍅🌽🌶🥕🍠🥔🌺🌞🌱... you have helped me so much in my small garden 🌱🌱🌱🌱🙏💚.. vertical growing , pruning , fertilizer, timing , and much more🤗🌱🙏... and yes as the organic caring gardener- we must do it right and right for our planet🙏🌠... Few bees 🐝 here in Northern New Mexico as well🤔.. hoping to see more soon tho🙏🌠🐝🐝🐝... Off to do some pruning now🤗😁🍅... Thank you again🌱🙏🤗
I have to top my tomatoes. They are 7 feet high and I don't want to get the ladder out each time I pick. I have been growing tomatoes for over 30 years but followed your pruning and aspirin regimen and been fertilizing regularly and pruning to single stem. Lots of tomatoes this year and no problems with blossom end rot or hornworm or lower leaf yellowing,( because I pruned them off! ) Happy with results so far. Interested in your future seed retention videos. I would like to try that.
You got good energy and excellent information! Thank you so much. I got a tiny tomato plant 🪴 in a container and so far it’s giving a lot of medium size tomatoes 🍅 I love it! They’re sweet and super red… But my leaves are yellow on the bottom and now on top!! I’m really scare! Should I transfer to a bigger container? I already changed it 2x and it was doing super good! Any advice? God bless you!
Till today evening I thought that I am hell of a great tomato grower but your excellent video has opened my eyes. I sincerely confess that I was making all the 10 mistakes you pointed out in your beautiful presentation. I hope not to make these mistakes again. God bless you Brian. Thank you.
thanks for the helpful tips... as for my pollination.. my lawn has a ton of clover.. makes it looks nice in summer when most others are spending a fortune making theirs looking lush green.. mine looks more my like a prairie than a well manicured lawn.. I see many pollinators visit... however, my corn collapsed the other day.. yea.. one day its standing and the next day its laying on the ground.. First time thats ever happened to me after all these years.. I talked to a farmer in the middle of Kansas and he advised me on what to do....
Prior to chemical fertilizers lawn seed mixes always included clover. They are nitrogen fixing so are great for the lawn. These grass/clover mixes are starting to make a comeback which is great as bees seem to absolutely love clover flowers.
I am a new gardener at the age of 69. I have watched many of your tomato videos and I am planting 2,000 heirloom tomatoes. I have been working on the infrastructure since Sept of 2020. I have the fence post trellis system in with the 1/2 inch electrical pipe. I have 7 rows 175 feet long. I saw the hooks and found the best price for them in bulk at Johnny Seeds. I was going to buy 2,000 and wrap them with 30 feet of twine until I thought of an idea I hope works, I decided to wrap two sets of twine on each hook so I could take the plant from one side of the row and also the other side up towards the middle so that I would only need to buy and wrap 1,000 hooks. It has taken 25 hours to wrap the twine but that is half the time and cost. I tie the twine at the top of the hook and then wrap 30 feet of double twine and then I use one of the clips you showed to hold both lines to the hook. I would like to show you some photos or video of what I am doing but not sure how to get them to you. By the way I was having trouble with how to hook the hooks to the 1/2 inch pipe and came up with a no cost way to solve it. When you buy the fence posts they come with wire clips to hold the fence in place, I asked for 1,000 of them from the Tractor Supply and they had many to give me. They can go over the pipe and you can bend them in place to hold the hooks with the twine.
Encouraging bees can be as simple as keeping flowers growing in your garden and strategically placing bee bowls (with stones in them to keep the bees from drowning.) I plant the suckers when I prune so I have a steady harvest of tomatoes into the fall. Good video.
I grew tomatillos for the first time last summer. The amount of bees on them was just crazy, whereas other summers when I didn't have tomatillos, I barely saw any. I will continue to have a plant or two to attract the bees, and they'll also keep visiting the other plants at the same time.
As a beginner gardener, I have learned so much with this first garden. You have really helped me with this video and I see where I have made many of these mistakes, but now I know so My next garden will be even better. Living in south Mississippi, I definitely have humidity so like you pointed out air flow is essential. I have visited California and so loved the weather there. But since the Deep South is my home I appreciate you pointing out the helpful tips for all climates. Look forward to seeing your other videos. Thank you.
So glad to hear that! Yes we are a bit spoiled with the weather. My sister lives in Tennessee and 3 out of 4 of my grandparents are from Arkansas. So I definitely have some Southern roots.
thank you for another great video! My plants do not generate a lot this year. I learned today maybe I watered them too much! A question, I've been saving seeds for the last few years. I heard people say after two to three generations, seeds are not as good as the original one. Is that right?
Love your video's found them truly inspiring here in England wish we had your weather. Thank you Brian looking forward to a good growing season and lots of fruit. All the best Mike Western
For polinators, i have plantet lavender , cornflowers and other bee food plants in pots near my tomatoes. It work perfect, i have many smal visitors so i dont need to do The polination. Great work 👍
Here in north Alabama where the summer heat stays 90f plus for weeks in a row I personally never experienced flowers falling off but blight is an issue later in the summer. I do like your single stem method.
Best thing to do with your plants is to greet them in the morning and tuck then in at night. Helps to keep a better eye on them when problems do start. Thanks for great information.
One of the best presentations! Short and precise. Thanks a lot. I wish there were a video about tomatoes seeds vendors, so I could get some popular varieties before the next season.
Yes, it was helpful to go over the hybrid description. I am looking forward to your video with combining flower's and plants. I imagine it is very helpful for pollinating reasons. Great job!
Wow. Every single one of these explains why my parents can never grow tomatoes. I would also add a number 11: Not listening to or taking the advice of others who are FAR more knowledgeable and continuing to make the same mistakes every year, then wondering why nothing ever changes. I'll recommend this to them, even though it probably won't do any good.
Excellent! Up here in interior Alaska we grow 50-day to fruit, determinant types: Tumbler, Beaver Lodge are our favorite varieties...short growing season but over 20 hours of daylight.
Wish I'd seen this a little earlier. Just sowed my tomato seedlings this morning two inches apart. Wonder if I should take them out and re-sow them or wait it out a bit?
Do you rotate your tomato plants every year? Are your trellis supports able to be moved from bed to bed, or do you have a system built into each raised bed?
brilliant thanks, i do have a question for you at Next Level Gardening. I recently watched your video about using the aspirin, that was sprayed on the leaves. So on one hand you don't want to get the leaves wet when you water then but need to for aspirin, what should I do? is there a best time to spray the aspirin? thanks
You spoke about blossom end rot. I had heard that lack of calcium will cause that, so I powdered egg shells and put a couple of tablespoons in the hole when I transplanted them. Of 8 bushes, only one had end rot--and I think I forgot to add eggshells in to the roots. It got rid of my blossom end rot easily enough.
I've been following you for YEARS, and, ashamedly admit that I have never taken time to comment, or even say THANK YOU! I have seen more than 90% of your videos & have learned something from EACH & EVERY one!!! SOMEhow, I managed to miss this one until just now. (Unless YT removed my *like* which they are FAMOUS for!) I just heard you say: *We LOVE our plants! They're OUR KIDS!*. Well... I love you even MORE now! I thought I was a weirdo for feeling that way...now I know I'm not the only one!!!🤣 Plants are LIVING and need love & nurturing, just like our kids. Thank you for making me feel normal!
AND ... CONGRATULATIONS on your silver YT button!!! You're doing it RIGHT!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!!!
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You have such a kind and gentle soul, my friend. I adore the care and even, affection, you show to your plants. They are living, sentient beings and so appreciate the bond you form with them. Makes my heart smile to see you being you.
Thank you!
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I feel so lucky to have a neighbor that raises bees! They probably like living beside my garden, too.
Believe it or not guys, I'm a Saudi citizen, of course living in Saudi Arabia, and I am growing tomatoes and other veggies, I truly benefited from the advice you're giving throughout your channel time. Thanks a lot guy.
I will not admit to all the mistakes I've been making, and yet still surprised at how well my poor neglected tomato plants have been doing each year! Thank you for this video. My tomato production is going to rock this year!!
EVERY SINGLE TIME I watch your videos I learn something. I didn’t know you could pollinate by just shaking the stem. Also I’ll be throwing a mound of dirt out there because I forgot to plant deep this year. Thank you. As always great info!
Thank you. I'm so glad about that!
Saw that white moth flying around
If you are using grow bags you can cut base out 8 inch flower pots then split them down the side cut lower leaves off plant and place pot round and press down into grow bag before filling with compost gives extra root depth and support for plant .
Your fastination with tomato’s fast growth fastinations me.
@@NextLevelGardening is fastinating to me.
As a beekeeper in Colorado, thank you for speaking on pollinators!! Yay Brian
Thank you for caring for the bees!
My husband and I just LOVE your videos. We live in New Port Richey, FL which is quite different that the north. Our patio looks like a farm! At night instead of watching the tv, we put your videos on the big screen and really enjoy them. I always keep a pad and paper while watching them to take notes because every video gives us so much knowledge it is hard to remember all of it. Thank you for making these and we hope our tomatoes and peppers will be great this year now that we know what we are doing wrong and right. LOL!!
Thank you!
Thanks I needed this. New to tomato growing. You can always learn something new even if you are a master gardener.🙂
❤️ I’m a first timer gardener in Colorado...loving the whole process and really enjoying your channel! I consider this a great stress reliever! 😊
Thank you!
Welcome to gardening! Do you also follow Gardener Scott? He's from your neck of the woods. Yea I'm one that's addicted to watching many UA-cam gardeners...lol
For supporting a tomato, I have had great success using 3/4" pvc pipe cut to 8 feet. You can always add on to it if needed.
Your garden channel is the only one I watch. I try to watch others but yours is the ONLY best one out there! So excited to hear there will be a seed saving video! Love that you link previous videos as a reference. I had never hand pollinated until I saw your video. My tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and zucchini. Absolutely love this tomatoe session.
MIgardener is a great channel too
Thank you!❤
I've been growing yummy tomatoes for years, but learned new stuff today from Brian. LOVE this!! Thank you!!
Thank you! Learning much! I will start growing with tomatoes but before then, I will watch all your videos you posted below and all on tomatoes to be prepared and ready! I❤️🍅🍅🍅! 🌱☀️
I love your enthusiasm about growing vegetables from one gardener to another. Nothing tastes like the vegetables that you grow! Thank you for sharing your awesome advice!
I'm 2 yrs late however I need this video today😊 My first time growing heirloom tomatoes and I've noticed some things about my plants I didn't like. Thanks for the great tips!
Never heard about self pollinating. Very helpful. First time tomato grower so I am all ears. Thanks
We plant 42-56 tomatoes every year in a 3' X 3' X 50' very raised bed. I'm going to try really hard this year to hold them past July in Lafayette, La. We're in the 90 degree and 122% humility summer in the deep south. I've pruned them back (my wife says "viciously") and have begun fertilizing the heck out of them. Ooh, we can 45 to 60 quarts of stewed tomatoes every year. THANK YOU FOR TOMATO TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow you're welcome!
I am happy for you and anyone who can harvest beautiful tomatoes. We have many beautiful tomato plants with various sorts of tomatoes. Recently the squirrels attacked our plants and took almost all of the tomatoes that were ready to turn red. We tried everything: fencing and netting, socks holding them up, pinwheels, a dollar store tacky hoola skirt, and finally hot pepper spray. The hot pepper spray worked, but only for two days. We are heartsick. I now have three plants completely wrapped in bird netting. At least they have not attacked my peppers. I hope you get to enjoy a marvelous tomato soon. We buy ours from a pop-up seller.
And i would sit through any hour long video of yours. You're BRILLIANT! Thank you for being a WONDERFUL teacher.
This is one of the best videos I have heard. Am sure next time I plant tomatoes I will succeed to ha have a good harvest. Thank you very much.
As a new gardener I had no clue there was so much to growing tomatoes!
Your channel is wonderful!! As a new gardener growing things in containers on my patio I learn so much!!! Thank you!!!
Yesterday I got so excited to see a big black bumble bee going to each flower. It was just so beautiful too see. I was to slow to get a pic. But it’s the first time this year I saw a bee pollinating my plants.
Greetings from North TX! I'm a very green beginner in gardening. I just finished watching your video on growing tomatoes in a container. Thank you So Much for being so in-depth with your instructions, you're a great teacher! I'm hoping next year (I think it's way too hot now to start, weeks over 100 degrees with a few daily breaks here and there being around 94-96 degrees). I'm hoping to not have to buy a tasteless grocery store tomato very often again.
Some of this I already knew. But this is the single best tomato growing video I've seen! I learned a lot. Thank you:) Great pointers. I think you covered everything! 👍👍
You give one of the BEST helpful instructional videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️; they are always super informative and well organized, straight forward, stay on topic, minimal small talks and distractions, sharp video and clear great voice. You are simply awesome. Thank you so much for the videos and for helping us.
Thank you for making this video! I learnt a lot with you....Stay gardening ! Watching your video made me feee so relaxing!!!!
I'm 20 miles SW of Fresno. Using only organic and have a garden full of happy bees. My parents were beekeepers so I totally understand the need for bees. Loved your video.
This video , is the best video I’ve watched concerning tomatoes . Thank you 😊
Thanks!
Thank you so much Heather!!
I m in Tampa Florida and I found 2 plants growing so I helped them stay up. Now Tomatoes 🍅 are everywhere 😋
Thank you for listing your other videos. Sometimes they are hard to find on my iPhone. Love your information. Still gardening in containers at age 86.
Good for you! I hope I am!
All great advice. I respectfully suggest the following additional concerns:
1) If you grow in pots, they should be 10 gallon pots at least, and never put more than one tomato plant in a pot, or they'll compete for nutrients and both lose. Moreover, all veggie plants are heavy feeders and that soil must be dumped and re-invigorated each winter.
2) California summers are HOT, and heat kills pollen. Moreover, cold nights (early season) cause blossoms to die. Thus we have a season, and seasonal timing. You should plant EARLY, by national standards, so that you have fruit set (i.e., pollinated blossoms) by June, before the summer heat arrives. If you procrastinate, you'll have lots of green, and no fruits... because you had blossoms whose pollen was killed by heat.
3) Then the August heat arrives and kill my (Long Beach CA) heirloom tomatoes, even if they're well founded in soil (i.e, not in pots). So that's the end of the season for many of us. My favorite strain of heirloom is cold weather tolerant, but gets killed by August heat every year.
4) The better term than the commonly-used term "open pollinated" would be "dehybridized." These strains are homozygous for essential traits, and therefore will reproduce the same plant in the next generation because there is no genetic variety in the blackjack game of sexual reproduction. Don't worry, tomatoes don't suffer from inbreeding depression, like humans do.
5) Never keep the seeds of hybrid plants. The nature of hybrids are trade secrets, and the seeds you (must) buy each year are F1 hybrids. Their progeny are F2 hybrids... and therefore JUNK.
6) Novice tomato growers will have much higher gratification growing hybrids than heirloom. Try Better Boy or similar. The yields are good, because the flowers have an anatomy that favors pollination. Heirloom blossoms ("open pollinated") have flower anatomies that have separation between the male and female parts and therefore make self-pollination less likely.
7) If you want to keep seeds from heirloom plants, you'd better be sure those seeds were not crossed up by pollinating insects, in which case you have some wild hybrid. The strains you keep (like I do) must remain dehybridized... which is against nature, really, if you let pollinating insects into the picture. Furthermore, my strain of tomatoes (grown for over 20 years) present a recessive phenotype (potato leaf) which gives me high assurance early in the next season that my new plants are "true." Any cross in the seed would likely present a plant with standard or rugose leaf shape, thus alerting me to that undesired cross.
8) Anyone who grows backyard toms in 10 gal pots must water daily in hot weather, or as soon as the plant starts to wilt. Don't overwater. But potted plants are much more vulnerable to heat stroke than in-ground plants.
PS I'm a better geneticist than gardener. Listen to Brian on all his excellent gardening skills, which I will be adhering to next year.
Great advice. I'm using 5 gallon buckets, but apparently 5 gallon buckets are actually like 7 gallon pots because of the way things are measured. Anyway, my plants are huge. I usually don't even see them this large even when I was planting in ground. However, watering is an issue as they must be watered daily, sometimes twice a day but I'm getting blossom end rot on many of the tomatoes. Its frustrating.
@@mikezupancic2182 I have both in ground and self watering 5 gal buckets. I have to water the ones in ground almost daily due to high 90°- low 100 ° heat. The self wicking buckets have some very happy plants producing, too.
If your buckets have proper drainage... Do you think maybe it's a calcium issue causing the blossom end rot? I take egg shells, bake them at 225° for 20 min. Grind them in the blender and sprinkle around my plants, lightly raking it in the soil. I did that last year when they had blossom end rot and it fixed the problem.
Regarding Number 5.... I kept the seeds from some grape tomatoes I bought, planted them, and had a great harvest. I keep seeds from the harvest and have planted them this year. They look good so far! (No fruit yet, but lots of blossoms.) But I don't know if they are hybrids or what. How can I know and how much does it matter?
I have a combination of 5 and 10 gallon planters that have more than one tomato plant as well as marigolds, basil and nasturtiums which my gazillion pollinators LOVE...I have a TON of bees of all kinds...so blessed! I think what helps me not water every day is a few things: I prune very well so less greenery that needs water, I water in the evening and at soil level, I used compost in my mix and I use a wonderful chopped straw nice and thick that helps with evaporation. I use a soil meter, too, that helps with water and ph testing. This year I’m going to try core gardening instead of dumping everything at the end of the season. I’ve seen different sources talk about the logic behind it (basically you’re making compost stuffing in the same planter of that plant’s leftovers thus returning the nutrients it took) and it makes sense so I’m going to give it a whirl.
1. Know the type of tomatoes you R growing
what are it's needs
2. Planting in too much shade
6-8 hours of sun
3. Planting tomatoes incorrectly
Plant them deep
4. Tomatoes need proper nutrients
Not giving proper nutrients can stunt growth and fertilizing too much can grow a big plant but not increase production
5. Pruning is crucial
It depends on variety
pinch out the armpit,
clip off yellow and old leaves
6. Proper support
Sturdy support is important, string/ cage
7. Improper watering
water from below
be careful not to get water on the leaves
8. Not hand pollinating
This has become a problem, we have to do it organically, less bees, less pollinators
Just a simple vibration will do it
10. Not paying attention to your plants and their needs
Spot pests and look at them, feel the soil, are they wilting, are the blooms falling off, is the soil dry.....
Thank you!
Thank you for the information. This is my first year growing tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and lettuce.
T là
If you made an hour long video about tomatoes, I’d sit through it
Thank you!
Thank you!
Me too 🤣
Absolutely the girls and I sing a Tomato Tuesday song all day till it gets here 🎼 🎶
I was thinking the exact same thing! LOL
When I watch your videos, besides learning a wealth of info, I find that I relax and "come down" from all the craziness that surrounds me in this insane world. THANK YOU!
I appreciate that very much! ❤
I live in Sweden so a totally different climate. Sometimes we have frost until end of march so I have to do something’s a bit different. But I have learnt a lot about tomatoes after seeing your video. Thank you so much,
Hälsa, Anna
I have had a tomato sandwich with a from my garden tomato every day for the last 5 days! My plants we flowering but not fruiting. My 5 yr old and I have a kind of game of shaking the crap down the tomatoes, as she puts it, every morning and night. After 3-4 days, we had baby tomatoes again! Also, when you are pruning, don't toss the suckers in the elbows. Put them in water and they will take root and have more tomatoes. I have not had luck with the determinate one in rooting in water, but all the rest have worked. And we planted a second crop of 12 tomato plants from the suckers for later harvesting since we still have plenty of time until frost! Free plants!
That's awesome! Thanks 💚😄🍅
When your tomatoes produce flowers and don't see the expected amount of fruits.
1-fertilization was not successful, due to the absence of the pollinating agencies eg:bees,wind etc.
2- due to blossom end rot disease
3- hot condition (heat) stress.
Use an electric toothbrush on the flower it will push the pollen out like a bee does. You can look it up it works.
Also fertilized with calcium nitrate it stops the black rot.
Brian, I learn a lot about tomatoes. Thank you for sharing your expertise. My tomato plants started wiltching..
Love your info on tomatoes very informative helped me a lot since I am a newby
Thank you!
Yes we love okra: Southern fried, boiled and steamed or microwaved slightly. I planted 6 plants in April. Unfortunately I planted 3 tomato plants in front of them so the okra plants were struggling to get some sunshine. Now that the tomatoes are starting to wane the okra plants are beginning to grow up and making flowers and pods! Ya! I plant Clemson Spineless okra and planted starter plants from one of our local produce & plant providers here in Arlington TX. Thanks for this video too!
Thank you, very informative for a new tomato planter!👍
Have you used a olla? I was looking into it to keep my tomatoes evenly watered.
Super demo sir. Very useful information & tips. God bless you.
Such a great video! Wish I would have watched this before I planted my first crop....
Lol, thank you for sharing all the knowledge.
Well inspired by your video,learnt a lot, need to start tomato growing project
Thank you, very informative , I will take your advise on so many mistakes.
I just started growing tomatoes for the first time this year and am so excited about how they turn out! I already have some growing so I hope to avoid most of these as a newbie!
Awesome!
It is simply the best educational video on tomato planning.... greatly appreciate that you make this video and sharing with us.... Thanks
Thank you!
Brian I love your channel - we've gone all in on your advice. We planted late (April 28th) and went exclusively with heirlooms some of which are 7" tall now. We live in East Texas and have already been into the 90's sprinkled with triple digit heat. We started to see leaf curl so I covered them loosely with tyvek - which dropped the temperature dramatically. I have gaps between the sheets and slits cut to let sun, air and rain pass but I'm afraid I've taken them below 6 hours of sun each day - will maybe 10 hours of indirect compensate for the brutal direct sun? Or am I going to stunt their growth with shade? Your "bury deep, with rock phosphate and prune.." strategy made these guys take off like slow-motion bottle rockets - but I've gotta have fruit!
Love all your videos have shared with my sisters. Great advice thank you! Monterey, CA
Such a great video!! I’m so glad I tuned in! Wish I would’ve done this at the beginning when I planted but I’ll make the changes at the beginning for next year’s batch for sure!
Hey Brian, I'm just gonna jump the gun and say congrats on your soon to be 300,000 milestone. So excited to see your channel growing so fast. Thanks for your always great info.🤗
Thank you ❤
I need a Brussels sprout info lecture too 😁
So much gratitude to u for sharing all this knowledge 🙏🥬🍅🍅🌽🌶🥕🍠🥔🌺🌞🌱... you have helped me so much in my small garden 🌱🌱🌱🌱🙏💚.. vertical growing , pruning , fertilizer, timing , and much more🤗🌱🙏... and yes as the organic caring gardener- we must do it right and right for our planet🙏🌠... Few bees 🐝 here in Northern New Mexico as well🤔.. hoping to see more soon tho🙏🌠🐝🐝🐝... Off to do some pruning now🤗😁🍅... Thank you again🌱🙏🤗
Fascinating info...I want to read absolutely EVERYTHING on tomatoes!
I have to top my tomatoes. They are 7 feet high and I don't want to get the ladder out each time I pick. I have been growing tomatoes for over 30 years but followed your pruning and aspirin regimen and been fertilizing regularly and pruning to single stem. Lots of tomatoes this year and no problems with blossom end rot or hornworm or lower leaf yellowing,( because I pruned them off! ) Happy with results so far. Interested in your future seed retention videos. I would like to try that.
Very interesting information. I’ve learned a few new things today. Thank you.👍
Excellent video, thank you so much for your teachings...🙏❤️
I enjoyed your video very much. Learned a lot.
I had one of my first cherry tomatoes yesterday it was sweet and lovely that’s with all your support and help I’ve kept everything going thank you 😊
Thank you🙂
This was an excellent video. Very valuable information. You definitively won a new subscriber!!! Thank you so much!
I visit my plants at least 4x daily in total amazement 👍🏻👍🏻. Thanks for all of the great information!
You're welcome!
First time watching a gardening video. Great beginning. I learned at least four things I will never do again!
Perfect timing! I needed this, thank you Brian. 🍅
You got good energy and excellent information! Thank you so much. I got a tiny tomato plant 🪴 in a container and so far it’s giving a lot of medium size tomatoes 🍅 I love it! They’re sweet and super red… But my leaves are yellow on the bottom and now on top!! I’m really scare! Should I transfer to a bigger container? I already changed it 2x and it was doing super good! Any advice? God bless you!
Your garden is beautiful!!
I'm going to try everything vertical this year and I'm building a greenhouse 24×30 , raised beds also .At 65 I can only do so much Thank You
You’re the best B. I follow you instructions and my garden has never looked better. The Neptunes harvest is awesome too.
Thank you Brian. i am curious to know how often you fertilize your tomatoes
Every two weeks 🙂
Till today evening I thought that I am hell of a great tomato grower but your excellent video has opened my eyes. I sincerely confess that I was making all the 10 mistakes you pointed out in your beautiful presentation. I hope not to make these mistakes again. God bless you Brian. Thank you.
Brian your the man thank you for all the tips on tomatoes and peppers.....recently found you and subscribed good content...thank you again.
I found the hand pollinating interesting I plan to do it to my plants I just need to know how often I should do it?
thanks for the helpful tips... as for my pollination.. my lawn has a ton of clover.. makes it looks nice in summer when most others are spending a fortune making theirs looking lush green.. mine looks more my like a prairie than a well manicured lawn.. I see many pollinators visit... however, my corn collapsed the other day.. yea.. one day its standing and the next day its laying on the ground.. First time thats ever happened to me after all these years.. I talked to a farmer in the middle of Kansas and he advised me on what to do....
Prior to chemical fertilizers lawn seed mixes always included clover. They are nitrogen fixing so are great for the lawn. These grass/clover mixes are starting to make a comeback which is great as bees seem to absolutely love clover flowers.
I bought clover to plant in my yard. Haven't planted it yet because it's been so hot.
Hi there I just love your show's keep up the good work you do Love the family working with you. thank you God Bless.
I am a new gardener at the age of 69. I have watched many of your tomato videos and I am planting 2,000 heirloom tomatoes. I have been working on the infrastructure since Sept of 2020. I have the fence post trellis system in with the 1/2 inch electrical pipe. I have 7 rows 175 feet long. I saw the hooks and found the best price for them in bulk at Johnny Seeds. I was going to buy 2,000 and wrap them with 30 feet of twine until I thought of an idea I hope works, I decided to wrap two sets of twine on each hook so I could take the plant from one side of the row and also the other side up towards the middle so that I would only need to buy and wrap 1,000 hooks. It has taken 25 hours to wrap the twine but that is half the time and cost. I tie the twine at the top of the hook and then wrap 30 feet of double twine and then I use one of the clips you showed to hold both lines to the hook. I would like to show you some photos or video of what I am doing but not sure how to get them to you. By the way I was having trouble with how to hook the hooks to the 1/2 inch pipe and came up with a no cost way to solve it. When you buy the fence posts they come with wire clips to hold the fence in place, I asked for 1,000 of them from the Tractor Supply and they had many to give me. They can go over the pipe and you can bend them in place to hold the hooks with the twine.
Your advice has launched my garden game to a whole new level!! Thanks!!
Thank you 🙂
Encouraging bees can be as simple as keeping flowers growing in your garden and strategically placing bee bowls (with stones in them to keep the bees from drowning.) I plant the suckers when I prune so I have a steady harvest of tomatoes into the fall. Good video.
Judy Ross, same here, planted more than twenty suckers today
I grew tomatillos for the first time last summer. The amount of bees on them was just crazy, whereas other summers when I didn't have tomatillos, I barely saw any. I will continue to have a plant or two to attract the bees, and they'll also keep visiting the other plants at the same time.
As a beginner gardener, I have learned so much with this first garden. You have really helped me with this video and I see where I have made many of these mistakes, but now I know so My next garden will be even better. Living in south Mississippi, I definitely have humidity so like you pointed out air flow is essential. I have visited California and so loved the weather there. But since the Deep South is my home I appreciate you pointing out the helpful tips for all climates. Look forward to seeing your other videos. Thank you.
So glad to hear that! Yes we are a bit spoiled with the weather. My sister lives in Tennessee and 3 out of 4 of my grandparents are from Arkansas. So I definitely have some Southern roots.
thank you for another great video! My plants do not generate a lot this year. I learned today maybe I watered them too much! A question, I've been saving seeds for the last few years. I heard people say after two to three generations, seeds are not as good as the original one. Is that right?
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Thank you very much for the great informative video. A question about the bone fertilizer .is the bone mix the normal beef bone or what type of bo ?
Great roundup video. You are looking well.
Thank you 🙂
Love your video's found them truly inspiring here in England wish we had your weather. Thank you Brian looking forward to a good growing season and lots of fruit.
All the best
Mike Western
For polinators, i have plantet lavender , cornflowers and other bee food plants in pots near my tomatoes. It work perfect, i have many smal visitors so i dont need to do The polination.
Great work 👍
Thank you so much for your gardening videos, very helpful and informative. My gardening will be better from now on 👍
Here in north Alabama where the summer heat stays 90f plus for weeks in a row I personally never experienced flowers falling off but blight is an issue later in the summer. I do like your single stem method.
Best thing to do with your plants is to greet them in the morning and tuck then in at night. Helps to keep a better eye on them when problems do start. Thanks for great information.
What kind of tomato plants do.you recommend in a raised garden bed in the high desert?
One of the best presentations! Short and precise. Thanks a lot. I wish there were a video about tomatoes seeds vendors, so I could get some popular varieties before the next season.
Thank you so much for your time in teaching
Yes, it was helpful to go over the hybrid description. I am looking forward to your video with combining flower's and plants. I imagine it is very helpful for pollinating reasons. Great job!
Thank you for a fantastic (informative) video. 🙂
Wow. Every single one of these explains why my parents can never grow tomatoes. I would also add a number 11: Not listening to or taking the advice of others who are FAR more knowledgeable and continuing to make the same mistakes every year, then wondering why nothing ever changes. I'll recommend this to them, even though it probably won't do any good.
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Excellent! Up here in interior Alaska we grow 50-day to fruit, determinant types: Tumbler, Beaver Lodge are our favorite varieties...short growing season but over 20 hours of daylight.
Wish I'd seen this a little earlier. Just sowed my tomato seedlings this morning two inches apart. Wonder if I should take them out and re-sow them or wait it out a bit?
Great stuff, I'm learning a lot.
Thanks.
Do you rotate your tomato plants every year? Are your trellis supports able to be moved from bed to bed, or do you have a system built into each raised bed?
Thanks for sharing that information
brilliant thanks, i do have a question for you at Next Level Gardening. I recently watched your video about using the aspirin, that was sprayed on the leaves. So on one hand you don't want to get the leaves wet when you water then but need to for aspirin, what should I do? is there a best time to spray the aspirin? thanks
You spoke about blossom end rot. I had heard that lack of calcium will cause that, so I powdered egg shells and put a couple of tablespoons in the hole when I transplanted them. Of 8 bushes, only one had end rot--and I think I forgot to add eggshells in to the roots. It got rid of my blossom end rot easily enough.