Prune Your Tomatoes Like a Pro
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- How to prune, what to prune and WHAT NOT to prune on your tomatoes. Beginner gardeners always ask the best questions and this is my favourite.
My super simple guide.
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BEST USE of a half hour lunch break evah!!!
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Great explanation and demonstration! It's a simple, basic task that can be confusing and you have helped many new gardeners figure it out.
Thank you for a great video, it’s taken me ages to work this out, but have still picked up some more tips from you, I grew to many tomatoes from seed this year, ok so I have 75 plants and they are everywhere 🤣🤣
75!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!
Well… it was a combination of a new greenhouse and Audible Detective books what did it 🤣🤣
@cherrywhitaker7608 😂😂😂😂
Made me feel better, this, missed a sucker that became huge at one point.
And now you are laughing cause I missed heaps 😂😂😂
First year growing tomatoes and that was the best explainer, I got so much from it.
I remember my first couple of years and how confusing it all felt. Easy to forget that once you’ve been growing a few years.
Your toms are looking fab ❤🍅
Fingers crossed they aren’t damaged too much by this cold snap
Really helpful explanation, thanks. First year growing tomatoes and iv been looking regularly on mine but to see it in 'real' life like that was a massive help.
Aw that’s brilliant
Hope it makes a difference and makes it easier for you
Planting the side shoots is really useful for overwintering. I kill the plant when it gets to big and start over with a side shoot. I got some hybrid plants as a gift a few years ago and since I'm to cheap to buy the seeds every year I just clone the original plants. They require suprisingly little in terms of grow lights since all I need is for one cutting to survive until spring.
That’s a good point Harry… cloning… perfect 👌
Ahh you just answered my question about whether you can overwinter these as plants, presumably you then get a massive head start next year as well. That's assuming you want to grow the same varieties :)
@@andymerrett I never plan to get a head start, the plan is to keep them as small as possible. However, invariably I end up with a jungle in the basement. This year I needed help bringing some of them up the stairs from the basement. They were to tall to fit vertically so we had to remove the stakes, lay them down and bend them while going up the spiral stairs...
Needed this video this week. My tomatoes seem to have exploded with side shoots this week. When you miss one for a week or so, it’s shocking how big they get (and how quickly) and can look a bit confusing. I’ve had a few big ones that I’ve been tempted to “do a Steve” and propagate the side shoots but realised I have no room for any more anyway 😂
So many of mine have split on the main stem this year.
Enjoyed this Eli. Thank you. 😊
I don’t think I’ve ever met a gardener who hasn’t missed at least a few side shoots so you absolutely aren’t alone! 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate definitely in good company 🥰
Fantastic video!
My greenhouse is looking rather like a jungle at the moment and I wasn’t too sure what to do about it. I take my 12 month old daughter into the greenhouse with me and its a jungle in there, she grabs all the leaves as we are walking through ! Haha!
I now know what my weekend gardening job is 🙂
Oh no…. But will pruning ruined her fun??? 😍😍😍
my problem is it gets tooooo hot here for indeterminate tomatoes as i found out very quickly this year had a garden first growing (trying to) grow thru az hot summers -- think i will try again towards the fall and plant some determinate tomatoes and probally most of my garden it got scorching soo fast this year that even my plants in the shade are droping like flies it was 108 today i need to come up with some way to install some major shade cloth when i had a garden 20 years ago it was not like this well i will adapt and in the mean time probably kiss a bunch plants goodby i will keep tuning in and checking out your beautiful garden
One of the best things about our big world wide community is seeing and learning about all the difficulties we all face and how different they can be/
For you too hot for tomatoes, for me too cold…
It’s always nice to have a reminder that the grass isn’t always greener
Similar problem with hot summers in Northern California, the tomatoes really struggle with temps over 90-95F. There are a couple good garden channels growing in AZ, Southern California, etc that I have found helpful. The main thing they do is use shade cloth in the summer so that is on my to-do list for next year. This year I'm only growing one tomato plant so I can test.
Great how to video Eli, I tried growing new tomato plants from side shoots before and they grew lovely but I didn't get to harvest the tomatoes as the fruit set really late in the season, like you said though, great way to multiply plots if you have a long growing season. Take care
There’s a lot of folk deliberate sow early intending to use the side shoots as their actual main plants…. Maybe one for next year?
Or you let 5 or 6 leaders grow on an indeterminate plant and then stop it (top it off) at whatever height you want. Treat it like a determinate from then on. I did it with Sweet Million last year and had over 3 times the yield of just one stem.
You and Steve taught me all about it 2 years ago. Miss Steve. Love your videos. Lots of love 🥰
Yeah i miss him so much too 😢
I've been growing tomatoes for about ten years and learned a thing or two in one episode. Thank you!
P.S. this is the first year I've tried a tumbler "determinate" alongside my regular indeterminates and it's gone crazy with flowers. Finally, some of them have set. I have no idea what to expect 🤔
Oh tumblers are loads of fun!!!!
They are just crazy
Thank you for the brilliant descriptions definitions, and advice. Side shoots are crazy on my cherry tomato plant. I have a few tomato plants that did not get a cage or stake. They are creeping along the ground.
Well you be interested to know that in the wild they actually do creep along the ground, or through bushes and trees… we force them to do all manner of growing that they wouldn’t do in nature 😂😂😂
Great video. Thanks. Cleared up a lot for me.
Fab Mary
I hope it helps make life easier
Very nice explanation. Great week in the garden! First green tomatoes,purple asparagus coming on very well. Found two Mary Washington asparagus in the bed next to the regular Mary Washington bed ( must have been seed from the plants last year.) dug them up potted them and gave them to a friend last Monday, he has been wanting to start growing asparagus. I didn’t want another bed of asparagus,right now anyway.
Asparagus is one of the dream crops we have for if we ever got an allotment (so more space) 🤔
@@eliandkate yes they do take space,but they are fun to grow out of the ground early with a incredible grow rate!
Ah, i knew to pinch off from the stem, but never thought about those up where the flowers are forming! I know what I'll be doing tomorrow 😅
As long as you don’t pinch off the flower trusses.
I didn’t pinch out the growing tips or the suckers last year and the plants went crazy in the greenhouse and all green tomatoes. Will definitely do it this year
So are you STILL eating green tomato chutney
@@eliandkate Nope. I love it so all gone.
Growing tomatoes for the first time this year. Thank you so much for such an informative video. You are a little treasure😀
Awww brilliant
I hope it makes things easier
When (or if😅) my tomatoes get to a decent size, then I will try to keep my plants in better shape.
I have bush full sized tomato plants started, so it will be my lazy bunch, grow, pick, eat. 🥰
Oh hopefully that makes life easier then. No need to be pruning 😀
Perfect timing and makes great sense 🍅🍅🍅 my tomato plants are only about 18" tall so far 🪴 but good to know what to look out for 🌿
You’ll be so much more organised than me 😂😂😂
Thanks Eli; that was just what I needed! 🍅👌 You are a fantastic teacher.
Yay
Glad it’s been useful for you Jen
I found the first little tomato growing just today! I don't normally have high hopes for the early ones since the plants so small but it'll be interesting to see how it does. I try to keep up with my pruning but when time gets away from me what's a second or third leader! Tangled mess and more leaves. Also mine got about 10ft tall last year so lower and lean is the way for me.
Oh have to add! Need to figure out that breaker stage that people keep telling us all about and that a tomato vine ripened is literally the same as counter ripened "or so I've heard" that tomatoes stop getting ANYTHING from the plant (nutrients etc) after it gets to that point. I'm certainly doing an experiment this year on that one.
Also for people doing double or triple leaders you can always double clip (let's face it we have 100s of them) the main stem to make sure you know where it is all the time.
The breaker stage is when the colour just tips over from green to not green.
Have to be honest, I definitely taste a marked difference in home ripened versus “counter” ripened, but I know other folk don’t so I say go with whatever makes life easier
You made that so easy to understand. Thanks for another great video.
Glad it wasn’t too garbled 😂😂😂
Great video with wonderful information, as usual! Thanks so much!
You are entirely welcome 😀
Excellent video, perfect for beginners but a good remi der for us more seasoned growers.
You mean folk like me who just forget?? 😂😂😂
And me 😂😂
You are so good at explaining, very interesting 😊
Awwww thank you 🥰
Abs brill vid! You've got a definite gift when it comes to explaining things to the eejits like myself(?!).
😂😂😂😂 oh harsh!
I’m sure you’re not an eejit!
Excellent video.❤
👍 thanks John
Hi eli thanks good video I am beginning to wish I had more space in the greenhouse for all the tomatoes as weather very autumnal feel this week😢
It’s t it.
I’ve decided to just accept it and see what happens.
This is my weather so I’m embracing and working with it best I can 🤔🤔🤔
I like the idea of potting up those side shoots for more plants but are they really likely to produce anything in the season?
It’ll obviously depend on your season and when you do it.
It would be late for me this year but I did this in April previous years and had harvests. Folk in England obviously can do things a bit later than me.
It’s like everything else, only you reliably know your situation
@@eliandkate Thanks. I didn't really get mine going until May and I've been quite diligent with removing the suckers so don't think it'll happen this year. :) I'm going to try growing them from seed early next year (maybe from my current crop if they turn out well).
Could you please advise where you got the fittings for you blue raised bed hoops. They make things look so neat. Thanks, Steve.
It’s a kit from quickcrop Stephen.
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Had to pause the video and run out and take the side-shoots. 😅 This info wasn't new to me, and I've allowed some side shoots since I'm growing cherry tomatoes, and I want to see what happens, but clearly I needed a reminder. There was one with flowers here too.
Ha ha ha oh I left mine for weeks 😂😂😂😂
This video made me realise just how far behind my tomatoes are! They're still only about a foot tall in pots on my windowsill :(
Not at all.
Are they meant to be full sized tomatoes? If so, get them planted up into their final home as soon as and they'll soon take off :D
The longer we leave plants in small pots, the more stunted they become.
As always brilliant informative video .... Im so so jealous of your tomato plants ...they're fantastic & so healthy looking ....where as mine are pathetic 😫
Oh trust me…. This cold snap is affecting things…. Let’s just see how things go 😂😂😂
@eliandkate I promise I'm trying very hard to be positive ... but its not only my Tomatoes ....its everything & the only common thing I can think of is .... the more expensive compost I bought ... which TBH
...is rubbish ... Ive now gone back to the cheaper 1 I bought last year 😩
yeah there's a lot of folk trying certain composts this year and they are all having issues
Unrelated to this video .. I've tried three times to grow clematis and three times they died and I did everything I could to look after them .. is there an easy pretty climber I can plant in a big tub in full sun that will grow over the arch? Thanks muchly 💖
We’ve lost our clematis too, it was glorious for years and then one year it just all died 😭😭😭
So now we’re having fun with annuals and we’ve got purple bell vine and thin ethos going this year
Loving it
If a side shoot reaches 2cm in length, I feel I have failed.
Ach away.
Failed at what exactly? 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@@eliandkate Gardening?
Come on you…. Enough of this nonsense 😀