@@NextLevelGardening Not everything is shown under the video -- some people might not know to just click on any of the things shown there (t-shirt or trucker hat, doesn't matter) and when that item appears in a new window, just click on any of the choices at the top (Explore, Apparel, or Accessories). All the choices are then visible for you to browse. I received my pink bucket hat a few days ago and it is great!
I bake egg shells in an oven for twenty minutes at 250 degrees, then cool them, put them in a blender to make them into small pieces/powder then apply to my garden
I over-wintered my Better Boy, and pruned it to manage its spread. I just counted 19 tomatoes ripening. I also have volunteers that I moved a bit, but have been growing for 2 months already and are going on 5 feet tall. Yesterday, I put in my Ukrainian and Siberian indeterminates I grew from seed. It’s going to be quite a tomato season once the sun decides to shine here in So Cal.
I had peppers in the ground on April 15th, they had a 37 degree temp night while hardening off and a 33 degree night a week after being in ground out of 50 plants ZERO are the "mythical stunted growth" as they are currently 3.5 ft tall and loaded with fruits. Peppers are a perineal they are genetically adaptable to harsh conditions
What actually works to stop blossom end rot is thick enough surface mulch (1" plus) to keep the soil consistently moist. This is especially important when growing in containers since those will dry out more quickly.
I'm in SE England and need to put my peppers and tomatoes out but the weather not great, expect around 8 degrees C tonight. I'm growing Black Russian, Red Oxheart, Yellow Pear and Roma tomatoes and various HOT chillies. Another great video, thanks
Oh dang I put the crab and lobster in the soil with my peppers. Just ordered the kelp. Will see what happens. I have a very small garden so I grow my tomatoes in pots. I’m hoping my husband can build a structure to use with the string method. With the terrible heat we had in AR last year I’ve put the tomato area we’re it will be away from the sun when it sets. Lost all the blooms last year. Love the video. Making notes. Blessing❤️🌺
Thanks for doing another tomato/pepper video. I'm a new gardener and because my yard is all tree roots and rocks under the lawn, I'm planting in 14, 22"x20"H pots. This year I decided to try growing seeds - there were some unexpected humorous surprises. But I wanted you to know that all the tomato seeds came up and as soon as they were an inch or two I put them in the red cups at the bottom and added soil as they grew. They all are doing well and compared to other things that stayed in the other growing cells, anything in the large or small red cups are doing better. Next time I will probably start them in the red cups rather than transplant. I started them on March 15th, they have been planted out on May 19th (With night domes - cause, zone 4) and are now about 20" tall. Thanks for all the instruction.
I use powdered milk to provide calcium to tomatoes. Just add a little to the water each time you water. Have not had any problems with blossom end rot.
When I started gardening many years ago, I rinsed milk container & dump6 that water in my tomato pot. Within (I believe) half an hour, the tomato plant started to wilt & died within 1 week. I’m afraid to use powder milk.
Wow, did I learn a lot from this! I've been growing tomatoes for ages, peppers more recently, and still there's more to take in. I love that about gardening -- you're always learning something new! Thanks for your clear, friendly, and informative videos!
If you are going to bury your string make sure your string is not biodegradable. It does work and doesn't pull out or anything. But I did not think about this detail and a couple days ago (2 weeks after transplanting my tomatoes) the string in the ground has degraded and torn and I've had to go through and tie a loop around each stem.
This makes me feel so relieved. Our planting situation is identical in that I put off potting up my tomatoes and they were turning purple. I just planted them yesterday. Glad to hear they're resilient enough to handle a little bit of neglect. 😅😅😅
Awesome video!! It's still going down in the 40's some nights here. So I haven't been able to put mine outside cause I can't trust myself to remember to cover them and uncover them. Hopefully soon though. I've been trying to focus on flowers this year to learn more. Need to go rewatch your dahlia video.
Thank you for your continued content toward new gardeners as well as the seasoned gardener, this is my first year trying to grow fruits and veggies and I need all the help I can get. Your explanations for fertilization has helped me quite a bit, I was afraid to fertilize but you make it easy with your explenations.
Wow! I have to say I’m encouraged to see your tiny itty-bitty pepper plants lol! We are in East Tennessee zones 7 a and my peppers have been growing so slowly! It’s my first year gardening I was trying to figure out what I’ve done wrong, but I’m encouraged to see that I still must have time! Thanks for all the content you put into your channel!
I live in 6b. Also my first time growing. My pepper plants I started in March and are a little taller than his but not by much! I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm pretty much winging it.
I got some Kellogg's Breakfast seeds and thought I would try them since everyone brags about them. Well, here it is the beginning of July and I can't wait to try them. I'm in Zone 6B and the whole month of June it rained. They grew like weeds and are covered in flowers. I'm excited since this is my first garden ever.
years ago it was recommended (cannot remember who or where) to plant peppers n trios for shade and support. Seems to work. I am on the SE coast of Virginia.
Your solo cup method is genius! I transferred them into even deeper cups and now I have beautiful bushy San Marzanos! I did the same with my Kelloggs Breakfast but they got early blight and it slowed them down (lost one). The roots are at least 12" deep and I have huge leaf growth and little flowers!!! Thank you thank you thank you Brian, love from Sonoma zone 9b
I am a first time gardener, just finished planting 4 better boy variety. I used grass fabric pots - 20 gallon size and your tomato hooks. I might stand a chance of getting a harvest with your help! Thank you.
I overwintered my peppers per your instructions and I am about pick my first peppers of the season. Thank you for your advice and adding more veg to my growing season!
i got 5 tomato plants survive out of the twenty i planted from seed. i used your method of planting tomatoes from last year video. but i also bought 7 seedlings to transplant as well.
I take it you don't have to worry about cut worms hurting your peppers. My Dad used to cut 4 " PVC pipe about 4 " in height and put it around his pepper plants to prevent the worms from eating the plants at ground level. I have since tried with and without this idea and have learned the PVC idea works. Here in Connecticut it also helps using this on my cabbage plants.
This is my 2nd year. Last year I just kind of winged it and let everything grow wild. I studied all winter and this year I'm really trying... I feel like everything did better last year... 😂.
Well that explains it all. I am ao tired of sewing seeds over and over and over on my pepper plants. They are still small. I plan on planting my microscopic sprouts this weekend.
Thank you for your videos, 👍🏻 I really love your way of speaking and explaining the topics. My native language is Spanish, and my English has improved a lot by listening to you speaking. Thank you 🙏 GRACIAS!!
Even though I’ve been gardening for several years, my garden was small, but since listening to you, I’ve increased my garden space with beds, and it had much more success! Thank you so much I always learn tons after listening to your videos
Next year, I will try to remember to plant two peppers together. I'm currently growing 4 plants in 4 containers, when I could be using only 2 containers. I know you have mentioned it in a previous video, but I caught it too late this year. Not to mention all the information about seed starting, trellising, propagating, pruning, fertilizing and everything else you share...THANK YOU!
So in a previous video you did Crab & lobster + kelp meal + rock phosphate for your tomatoes. Why did you not put the rock phosphate this time? I also did kelp + rock phosphate for peppers last year, should I not? Thank you!!
You have good content and I've learned much from you that I have forgotten. My granddaddy taught me that planting the tomato plant sideways trick 45 years ago. There's nothing new under Sun, huh? Keep up the good work, Junior.
I have at least a half dozen tomato varieties in the garden but I’ll never remember where I put them. Plus next year i’m going to keep my peppers in the house until June.
I am growing a Bush Steak and Bush Cherry determinants this year in my container garden, as well as a San Marzano indeterminant for sauce (hopefully). First time for all, will see how they do. They are growing rapidly and look great, per your advice from Tomato Tuesday!
My very fist time doing any sort of planting and I'm loving it. Don't have it down pact but I'm loving the process. Bought an indeterminate "Early Girl" tomato plant which is now starting to blossom but I didn't know about the pollination...Thanks.
I finally ordered the string trellising.. Game Changer !!! I did get the plastic clips, and they are great. I've used them on the tomatoes, cucumbers, and training the sweet pumpkins to a trellis. Though plastic, they're reusable and cheap.
For perfect watering: use a wicking bed. First invented in the Australian outback, you create a reservoir, separate the gravel and water in the reservoir from the dirt with a porus membrane (gardening cloth or used carpet works fine) then fill the bed. You have to water from the top when setting out plants and never water again, as the plant roots draw up exactly the correct amount of moisture. Refill the reservoir as needed (in my case, in arid Arizona, about weekly). Peppers and tomatoes love it.
Been watching your videos and learning a lot, thank you. Going to put a garden in but am so confused with the NPK. Which vegetable wants the higher N or P Wouldn’t you give higher N at the beginning to get lots of leaf growth for tomatoes and peppers and then hit the plants after with more of the P and K🤷♀️Do u have a video on what numbers to give a vegetable. It would be great to have someone explain this to new gardeners. I understand what each number does, but as for which vegetable needs more of is confusing.
During the early days of covid I was part of a circle of sewers who made face masks for nursing homes. I made 1000's of masks. I have a lot of spools of elastic left and you have taught me that I can use it for plant support. Thank you!
I have (had) 48 tomato plants and all are (were) doing great. I did have 1 Berkeley Pink Tie-Dye that started dying from the top down. I’m assuming it was some type of viral disease but was hesitant to cull it as it had 5 tennis size tomatoes on it. I topped it and trimmed all the dying branches until the tomatoes finally flushed enough to pick them cut the rest to the ground. I haven’t seen any of this on the other plants so hoping that was the only one. I haven’t been able to find any info that would have caused this.
Do the same steps you do with tomatoes (like pruning the suckers, tying them up, etc) apply to growing tomatillos? I have a bunch of flowers but no tomatillos, yet my tomato plants are already growing tomatoes.
A friend showed me that if 2 days before you want to plant it you out it on its side still in container where you want to plant it, it will automatically start to grow up. So when you come back 2 days later it is already layed down and you dont have to make it bend. I did it by accident once when a plant fell over before putting in its bed.
Brian, what about cucumber diseases? You promised to deal with it a while ago, but I could not find any information in the videos from the past year... Could you do it, please?
Great video! Aside--birds this year have been ravenous in my garden and are my new pest. never have had this before. They are going after foliage on peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, radish tops, and dill. They devour all of these to the point there is not much left. I don't know if they are eating the foliage and/or using it for their nests. Everything is netted now, but they are still opportunistic if there is anything that might be poking out of the net they get. Anyone else have this? How did you deter?
I don't know, but maybe leave all that you prune aside for them and put a bird bath with water and maybe they will use what you give them.... I hope it works, if you try it and is working please let me know! Have a blessed growing season!
We always have issues with birds snipping into our tomatoes. I've seen and explanation that usually they are going for water, so a nearby birdbath or fountain can help. This year I'm going to hang shatterproof christmas ornaments all over my plants. You can paint them. The idea is that birds will go for red or orange or yellow ones thinking they are tomatoes, discover they're no good, and then move on elsewhere. The trick is to get them in place while everything else is still green so the birds don't get a chance to figure out you do have the good stuff there too. I may have missed the boat because I just got my first three ripe tomatoes today and the birds got two of them.
I was watching another channel and when it ended, this video started playing. I was just putting my peppers in a box to start hardening off. You said do not harden your peppers to early. I put them back immediately. My last frost is after mothers day. Talk about your phone reading your mind...
I finally got my tomatoes planted last weekend. I'm planning to get some of your favorite Neptune's Harvest products but I see they only come in bags, not those nice buckets like you have. You said to remove the suckers because they produce more leaves than fruit but then you said we could grow them into new plants - would those plants have lower production than an original plant?
Yes they recently switched to bags. So I'm recycling my buckets. I haven't had them be as productive but usually it's later in the year so that could be part of it
If this growing season does go unseasonably longer before first frost, our area could have a difficult time harvesting enough in time. This summer just doesnt seem to be kicking off
The last bed looks like it is mulched with pine shavings like you use for chickens. I used that last year kinda out of desperation and it did really nice. I liked the light color. Thanks for the video. I'm new. Going back binge watching when I can. 👍
Wow, your garden is so happy - after all the issues the first year it's lovely to see it so lush. I live in the hi desert so LOADS of hot afternoon sun. I just plant the peppers where they get morning sun and afternoon shade - so eastern exposure. The tomatoes are farther out so they get a longer sun time. Good tips for planting - thank you.
Alot of times if you have the correct nutrients like calcium and the plant cannot take it up its because the ph of the soil if off so you get nutrient lockout were it cannot uptake the nutrients also cause by imbalanced nutrients.
Argh! I watched this 1 week too late! I planted 6 peppers last week and they look awful. I threw Neptune's Harvest Crab and lobster in the hole. 😳 I didnt know that peppers dont like nitrogen... until today. 🤦♀️ Thanks Brian for your awesome gardening help.
Last year you added Rock Phosphate to the tomatoes and peppers at planting time. Why are you not using it this year? Love your channels I have learned a lot from you.
It's been very cool and rainy here in the Eastern Sierra. Our tomatoes have flowers, but it's been too cool for them to set. Waiting for God to bring the sun and warmth.
We don't get many mid-to-high 50 nights here in Montana. Granted this is my first year growing peppers. Are they stunted, I wouldn't know. They have been out for weeks and are flowering and fruiting. I did pick off the first set of flowers when they were transplanted. Hoping for a nice crop.
Gardening in MT is so difficult- I am in zone 3 and finally gave up and built a greenhouse. It is barely keeping the temp. above 50 at night- but plants are protected from weather and wildlife, so all of that helps. Otherwise, it's just an uphill battle around here!
I honestly think it's inconsistent temps, especially soil temps, that really get them. They always seem way more resilient to cold temps in the ground than they do in those small pots. We can have big swings here (Texas) in the spring, like a 95 degree day followed by a 32 degree night. Peppers don't like that kind of thing but if they've had a chance to establish the odds are better for them.
Hope you see this: Do you like these raised beds more or less than container gardening??? I am at a point whether to go one way or the other on this and invest in bags etc., but the strings and hooks I'll be buying from you shortly. I think they are economical and very very clever. Hope to see a reply!
I thought my peppers were way behind my last year ones. Not anymore. My tomatoes are huge and full of flowers. We had a cold night once and it was 9 C in the morning. I put heat in the greenhouse for a few days until the nights were warm again. I have not had blossom rot since I stared adding egg shells to my pots. I also throw egg shells in the water I use my containers. My tomatoes have been outside for a month now. I’m Zone 7 B.
🌺Aloha Brian, Enjoyed your video. Question-I am only growing determinant tomatoes, however they are bushing out all over it's cage. I know we're not to prune determinants, but how can I maintain it's growth? My plants are still giving me tomatoes. Mahalo
Excellent info in this vid!!! So critical to getting planting done right its critical for having a great season. How did your seedlings get so big...they are actually flurishing in solo cups. WOW!!!How many weeks old? What fertilizer did they get? & how often? I was told not to let them fruit in the cups, that its best to wait until planted and let plant get much bigger because fruiting early takes away energy needed for growth. Let me know if I should stop pruning off the flowers.
gotta love el nino for being weird, its sending "the Mawar" a super typhoon from the west pacific, which then heads up to Aleutian islands and then down the west coast all the way to baja ca before it heads east again, so weird.
Ive heard a couple mentions of pruning indeterminates but not cherry tomatoes and still am a bit confused..for things like sun gold or super sweet 100, do we prune to single stem?
Those are cherries - don't prune except where you have to. They'll produce tomatoes everywhere once they get going. I let them bush out, but I'm not shy about pruning if I have to to keep them out of walkways - they are like kudzu. You can also collect suckers to start new plants or give to friends where they are getting a little too crazy. By the way I'm in central Texas, long hot summers. The trick to keeping them going is to mulch heavily, and prune off anything that starts to look old or brown or diseased. They do slow down or stop when it gets too hot but unless that does them in (mulching deep really helps here) they'll pick up again with any passing front or storm system that cools things off just a little.
I love growing tomatoes done it for around 5 years we use cane's in the UK I have a fence how could I use that fence for beef tomatoes and tomatoes that will grow very tall once I get the nettles sorted out I could use that corner how do I start to remove the long nettles then kill the nettles then I could use the corner of the two fences where they meet for the string I get really good sunshine where should I start what advice could you give me please sir 😸
I heard you say that purple veining is a nutrient issue. I fertilize every week with Neptune Harvest Tomato and veg 1/2 strength. What else should I fertilize with to prevent purple veining and dusky leaves?
Love the video, my question is I have cherry tomatoes growing some look poor but are producing some tomatoes, I have some thriving leaf wise and not many flowers, they were all treated the same, curious why you should not prune Romas or cherry tomatoes
I recently put all of my peppers into my raised garden bed. They are starting to slowly take off but am a lil worried that I brought some of them out a bit too early to harden off.
Oh my...I saw all the cups laying sideways and thought I was witnessing a crime scene! 😂😂 First time gardeners here! I’m so thankful I found your videos!
Love the T-shirt! How can I get one?
Under the video there are the clothing choices!
Only clothing choices.
@@NextLevelGardening Not everything is shown under the video -- some people might not know to just click on any of the things shown there (t-shirt or trucker hat, doesn't matter) and when that item appears in a new window, just click on any of the choices at the top (Explore, Apparel, or Accessories). All the choices are then visible for you to browse. I received my pink bucket hat a few days ago and it is great!
I bake egg shells in an oven for twenty minutes at 250 degrees, then cool them, put them in a blender to make them into small pieces/powder then apply to my garden
I save all the shells from deviled eggs on Thanksgiving and Christmas and do the same thing
Me too
We put our in the composter.
I use them but i dont bake them
I saw a lady take the whole egg and put it in the hole crack the egg in the hole and put the plant in and cover up. Is that how it's done?
I over-wintered my Better Boy, and pruned it to manage its spread. I just counted 19 tomatoes ripening. I also have volunteers that I moved a bit, but have been growing for 2 months already and are going on 5 feet tall. Yesterday, I put in my Ukrainian and Siberian indeterminates I grew from seed. It’s going to be quite a tomato season once the sun decides to shine here in So Cal.
I had peppers in the ground on April 15th, they had a 37 degree temp night while hardening off and a 33 degree night a week after being in ground out of 50 plants ZERO are the "mythical stunted growth" as they are currently 3.5 ft tall and loaded with fruits. Peppers are a perineal they are genetically adaptable to harsh conditions
What actually works to stop blossom end rot is thick enough surface mulch (1" plus) to keep the soil consistently moist. This is especially important when growing in containers since those will dry out more quickly.
I'm in SE England and need to put my peppers and tomatoes out but the weather not great, expect around 8 degrees C tonight. I'm growing Black Russian, Red Oxheart, Yellow Pear and Roma tomatoes and various HOT chillies. Another great video, thanks
Oh dang I put the crab and lobster in the soil with my peppers. Just ordered the kelp. Will see what happens. I have a very small garden so I grow my tomatoes in pots. I’m hoping my husband can build a structure to use with the string method. With the terrible heat we had in AR last year I’ve put the tomato area we’re it will be away from the sun when it sets. Lost all the blooms last year. Love the video. Making notes. Blessing❤️🌺
Thanks for doing another tomato/pepper video. I'm a new gardener and because my yard is all tree roots and rocks under the lawn, I'm planting in 14, 22"x20"H pots. This year I decided to try growing seeds - there were some unexpected humorous surprises. But I wanted you to know that all the tomato seeds came up and as soon as they were an inch or two I put them in the red cups at the bottom and added soil as they grew. They all are doing well and compared to other things that stayed in the other growing cells, anything in the large or small red cups are doing better. Next time I will probably start them in the red cups rather than transplant. I started them on March 15th, they have been planted out on May 19th (With night domes - cause, zone 4) and are now about 20" tall. Thanks for all the instruction.
Awesome! Sounds like you nurtured them well. Happy gardening. 😊
I use powdered milk to provide calcium to tomatoes. Just add a little to the water each time you water. Have not had any problems with blossom end rot.
Why not just regular whole milk? 🤔
@@E_Clampus_Vitusyou do not want the fat from whole milk. Attracts critters
When I started gardening many years ago, I rinsed milk container & dump6 that water in my tomato pot. Within (I believe) half an hour, the tomato plant started to wilt & died within 1 week. I’m afraid to use powder milk.
After a few years of poor tomato harvests, I’m having much better luck this year. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Wow, did I learn a lot from this! I've been growing tomatoes for ages, peppers more recently, and still there's more to take in. I love that about gardening -- you're always learning something new! Thanks for your clear, friendly, and informative videos!
If you are going to bury your string make sure your string is not biodegradable. It does work and doesn't pull out or anything. But I did not think about this detail and a couple days ago (2 weeks after transplanting my tomatoes) the string in the ground has degraded and torn and I've had to go through and tie a loop around each stem.
Kelloggs are my favorite, too! I can't wait until mine start producing.
Omg THAT’S why my peppers always sit at the same size for weeks! I have to wait till it’s hot out to transplant. Aha!! Thanks for the tip!
Watched till the end! Another awesome video for tomatoes and peppers. Love it!!
Thank you 😊 💓
This makes me feel so relieved. Our planting situation is identical in that I put off potting up my tomatoes and they were turning purple. I just planted them yesterday. Glad to hear they're resilient enough to handle a little bit of neglect. 😅😅😅
Awesome video!! It's still going down in the 40's some nights here. So I haven't been able to put mine outside cause I can't trust myself to remember to cover them and uncover them. Hopefully soon though. I've been trying to focus on flowers this year to learn more. Need to go rewatch your dahlia video.
Thank you for your continued content toward new gardeners as well as the seasoned gardener, this is my first year trying to grow fruits and veggies and I need all the help I can get. Your explanations for fertilization has helped me quite a bit, I was afraid to fertilize but you make it easy with your explenations.
Wow! I have to say I’m encouraged to see your tiny itty-bitty pepper plants lol! We are in East Tennessee zones 7 a and my peppers have been growing so slowly! It’s my first year gardening I was trying to figure out what I’ve done wrong, but I’m encouraged to see that I still must have time! Thanks for all the content you put into your channel!
I live in 6b. Also my first time growing. My pepper plants I started in March and are a little taller than his but not by much! I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm pretty much winging it.
Excellent. So good to review this info every year. Thank you.
I got some Kellogg's Breakfast seeds and thought I would try them since everyone brags about them. Well, here it is the beginning of July and I can't wait to try them. I'm in Zone 6B and the whole month of June it rained. They grew like weeds and are covered in flowers. I'm excited since this is my first garden ever.
No problem. Put that tomato on its side with the stem at an angle to get more stem to soil contact 4:28
years ago it was recommended (cannot remember who or where) to plant peppers n trios for shade and support. Seems to work. I am on the SE coast of Virginia.
Thank you so much for your gardening expertise! I bought your book Companion Planting recently, very useful guide for beginners.
You're very welcome!
You the best.
Thank you
Im a first time gardener and you make me feel like i will be-able to do this.
Thank you again
Have a great day😊
Your solo cup method is genius! I transferred them into even deeper cups and now I have beautiful bushy San Marzanos! I did the same with my Kelloggs Breakfast but they got early blight and it slowed them down (lost one). The roots are at least 12" deep and I have huge leaf growth and little flowers!!! Thank you thank you thank you Brian, love from Sonoma zone 9b
I am a first time gardener, just finished planting 4 better boy variety. I used grass fabric pots - 20 gallon size and your tomato hooks. I might stand a chance of getting a harvest with your help! Thank you.
I overwintered my peppers per your instructions and I am about pick my first peppers of the season. Thank you for your advice and adding more veg to my growing season!
Powdered eggshells and worm 🪱 castings in the holes gave us amazing growth!
i got 5 tomato plants survive out of the twenty i planted from seed. i used your method of planting tomatoes from last year video. but i also bought 7 seedlings to transplant as well.
I take it you don't have to worry about cut worms hurting your peppers. My Dad used to cut 4 " PVC pipe about 4 " in height and put it around his pepper plants to prevent the worms from eating the plants at ground level. I have since tried with and without this idea and have learned the PVC idea works. Here in Connecticut it also helps using this on my cabbage plants.
I'm learning so much from you. Thanks! I want to start planting next spring so doing all my research now.
This is my third year learning to garden, but first year really learning how to actually take care of the plants. You have been a big help learning!
This is my 2nd year. Last year I just kind of winged it and let everything grow wild. I studied all winter and this year I'm really trying... I feel like everything did better last year... 😂.
Well that explains it all. I am ao tired of sewing seeds over and over and over on my pepper plants. They are still small. I plan on planting my microscopic sprouts this weekend.
Thank you for your videos, 👍🏻 I really love your way of speaking and explaining the topics.
My native language is Spanish, and my English has improved a lot by listening to you speaking.
Thank you 🙏
GRACIAS!!
Even though I’ve been gardening for several years, my garden was small, but since listening to you, I’ve increased my garden space with beds, and it had much more success! Thank you so much I always learn tons after listening to your videos
So nice of you
I don’t know what I’d do without you! I’m building your trellis this week. So excited!
My tomatoes arealready full of blooms and the big boys are the size of baseballs. My yellow cherry tomatoes have over 100 tomatoes on each 5 plants.
Wowza, your Zucchini plants and leaves are gorgeous ! Mine are producing big Zucchini but the leaves are small, curled in and yellow/ green.
Next year, I will try to remember to plant two peppers together. I'm currently growing 4 plants in 4 containers, when I could be using only 2 containers. I know you have mentioned it in a previous video, but I caught it too late this year.
Not to mention all the information about seed starting, trellising, propagating, pruning, fertilizing and everything else you share...THANK YOU!
SuperSauce!!! So glad I'm growing with you on these. Mine are killing it right now. So interested to see So Cal vs Zone 8a how they grow and produce.
So in a previous video you did Crab & lobster + kelp meal + rock phosphate for your tomatoes. Why did you not put the rock phosphate this time? I also did kelp + rock phosphate for peppers last year, should I not? Thank you!!
You have good content and I've learned much from you that I have forgotten. My granddaddy taught me that planting the tomato plant sideways trick 45 years ago. There's nothing new under Sun, huh? Keep up the good work, Junior.
1st time to think Chanel. My husband and his mother 96 used wooden matches sulfer side down 4 per plant. Big peppers and alot
LOL sewing supplies to the rescue! I love the elastic ties and I have a bunch of it that I can use this year. Thank you!
You are the only one that talks about doing things differently in different regions Thank you so much. L
You're welcome
I have at least a half dozen tomato varieties in the garden but I’ll never remember where I put them. Plus next year i’m going to keep my peppers in the house until June.
I’m a man of my word! I just planted my tomatoes and am waiting on the peppers.
I am growing a Bush Steak and Bush Cherry determinants this year in my container garden, as well as a San Marzano indeterminant for sauce (hopefully). First time for all, will see how they do. They are growing rapidly and look great, per your advice from Tomato Tuesday!
My very fist time doing any sort of planting and I'm loving it. Don't have it down pact but I'm loving the process. Bought an indeterminate "Early Girl" tomato plant which is now starting to blossom but I didn't know about the pollination...Thanks.
I finally ordered the string trellising.. Game Changer !!!
I did get the plastic clips, and they are great. I've used them on the tomatoes, cucumbers, and training the sweet pumpkins to a trellis.
Though plastic, they're reusable and cheap.
For perfect watering: use a wicking bed. First invented in the Australian outback, you create a reservoir, separate the gravel and water in the reservoir from the dirt with a porus membrane (gardening cloth or used carpet works fine) then fill the bed. You have to water from the top when setting out plants and never water again, as the plant roots draw up exactly the correct amount of moisture. Refill the reservoir as needed (in my case, in arid Arizona, about weekly). Peppers and tomatoes love it.
I’d love to try gardening like this with fabric pots!
Thank you Brian! Can never hear it enough even if I know! It's always good to have a reminder 🤗❤️🤗
Been watching your videos and learning a lot, thank you. Going to put a garden in but am so confused with the NPK. Which vegetable wants the higher N or P Wouldn’t you give higher N at the beginning to get lots of leaf growth for tomatoes and peppers and then hit the plants after with more of the P and K🤷♀️Do u have a video on what numbers to give a vegetable. It would be great to have someone explain this to new gardeners. I understand what each number does, but as for which vegetable needs more of is confusing.
During the early days of covid I was part of a circle of sewers who made face masks for nursing homes. I made 1000's of masks. I have a lot of spools of elastic left and you have taught me that I can use it for plant support. Thank you!
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Face diapers don’t work but you are still a good person and not a sewer. 😮
I have (had) 48 tomato plants and all are (were) doing great. I did have 1 Berkeley Pink Tie-Dye that started dying from the top down. I’m assuming it was some type of viral disease but was hesitant to cull it as it had 5 tennis size tomatoes on it. I topped it and trimmed all the dying branches until the tomatoes finally flushed enough to pick them cut the rest to the ground. I haven’t seen any of this on the other plants so hoping that was the only one. I haven’t been able to find any info that would have caused this.
Do the same steps you do with tomatoes (like pruning the suckers, tying them up, etc) apply to growing tomatillos? I have a bunch of flowers but no tomatillos, yet my tomato plants are already growing tomatoes.
A friend showed me that if 2 days before you want to plant it you out it on its side still in container where you want to plant it, it will automatically start to grow up. So when you come back 2 days later it is already layed down and you dont have to make it bend. I did it by accident once when a plant fell over before putting in its bed.
Compost tea with Good Earth fertilizer. All you need. I had a 2 lbs tomato even. 12 ft stems.
I plan on using a version of your trellis system as well,Thank you very much for the idea.
You always upload exactly when I need advice
Brian, what about cucumber diseases? You promised to deal with it a while ago, but I could not find any information in the videos from the past year... Could you do it, please?
Great video! Aside--birds this year have been ravenous in my garden and are my new pest. never have had this before. They are going after foliage on peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, radish tops, and dill. They devour all of these to the point there is not much left. I don't know if they are eating the foliage and/or using it for their nests. Everything is netted now, but they are still opportunistic if there is anything that might be poking out of the net they get. Anyone else have this? How did you deter?
I don't know, but maybe leave all that you prune aside for them and put a bird bath with water and maybe they will use what you give them.... I hope it works, if you try it and is working please let me know! Have a blessed growing season!
We always have issues with birds snipping into our tomatoes. I've seen and explanation that usually they are going for water, so a nearby birdbath or fountain can help. This year I'm going to hang shatterproof christmas ornaments all over my plants. You can paint them. The idea is that birds will go for red or orange or yellow ones thinking they are tomatoes, discover they're no good, and then move on elsewhere. The trick is to get them in place while everything else is still green so the birds don't get a chance to figure out you do have the good stuff there too. I may have missed the boat because I just got my first three ripe tomatoes today and the birds got two of them.
We have had birds destroy of lot of my tomatoes and a pepper plant this year. We have never had that problem before either.
I was watching another channel and when it ended, this video started playing. I was just putting my peppers in a box to start hardening off. You said do not harden your peppers to early. I put them back immediately. My last frost is after mothers day. Talk about your phone reading your mind...
Great instruction which I needed right now. Great video.
I finally got my tomatoes planted last weekend. I'm planning to get some of your favorite Neptune's Harvest products but I see they only come in bags, not those nice buckets like you have. You said to remove the suckers because they produce more leaves than fruit but then you said we could grow them into new plants - would those plants have lower production than an original plant?
Yes they recently switched to bags. So I'm recycling my buckets. I haven't had them be as productive but usually it's later in the year so that could be part of it
If this growing season does go unseasonably longer before first frost, our area could have a difficult time harvesting enough in time. This summer just doesnt seem to be kicking off
Kellogs Breakfast is the BEST!!! I grow them every year, and I've never been disappointed.
You are amongst the best. Keep it up brother.
The last bed looks like it is mulched with pine shavings like you use for chickens. I used that last year kinda out of desperation and it did really nice. I liked the light color. Thanks for the video. I'm new. Going back binge watching when I can. 👍
FABULOUS video full of great info! Thanks so much!
Holy Dill man! How do you grow dill like that... mine goes to seed right away and is really thin
Wow, your garden is so happy - after all the issues the first year it's lovely to see it so lush. I live in the hi desert so LOADS of hot afternoon sun. I just plant the peppers where they get morning sun and afternoon shade - so eastern exposure. The tomatoes are farther out so they get a longer sun time. Good tips for planting - thank you.
I was inspired by you for tomato trellis…we also trellis out tomatillos.
Alot of times if you have the correct nutrients like calcium and the plant cannot take it up its because the ph of the soil if off so you get nutrient lockout were it cannot uptake the nutrients also cause by imbalanced nutrients.
Argh! I watched this 1 week too late! I planted 6 peppers last week and they look awful. I threw Neptune's Harvest Crab and lobster in the hole. 😳 I didnt know that peppers dont like nitrogen... until today. 🤦♀️
Thanks Brian for your awesome gardening help.
Thank you for the tip about the tomatoes
Last year you added Rock Phosphate to the tomatoes and peppers at planting time. Why are you not using it this year? Love your channels I have learned a lot from you.
Probably the affiliation with the brand ended.
I was wondering the same thing.
It's been very cool and rainy here in the Eastern Sierra. Our tomatoes have flowers, but it's been too cool for them to set. Waiting for God to bring the sun and warmth.
What type of mulch do you prefer for water retention and weed prevention? Looks like wood shavings at a glance.
Do bell peppers like to be planted with a partner as well? or just the hot peps
We don't get many mid-to-high 50 nights here in Montana. Granted this is my first year growing peppers. Are they stunted, I wouldn't know. They have been out for weeks and are flowering and fruiting. I did pick off the first set of flowers when they were transplanted. Hoping for a nice crop.
Gardening in MT is so difficult- I am in zone 3 and finally gave up and built a greenhouse. It is barely keeping the temp. above 50 at night- but plants are protected from weather and wildlife, so all of that helps. Otherwise, it's just an uphill battle around here!
I honestly think it's inconsistent temps, especially soil temps, that really get them. They always seem way more resilient to cold temps in the ground than they do in those small pots. We can have big swings here (Texas) in the spring, like a 95 degree day followed by a 32 degree night. Peppers don't like that kind of thing but if they've had a chance to establish the odds are better for them.
Hope you see this: Do you like these raised beds more or less than container gardening??? I am at a point whether to go one way or the other on this and invest in bags etc., but the strings and hooks I'll be buying from you shortly. I think they are economical and very very clever. Hope to see a reply!
I thought my peppers were way behind my last year ones. Not anymore. My tomatoes are huge and full of flowers. We had a cold night once and it was 9 C in the morning. I put heat in the greenhouse for a few days until the nights were warm again. I have not had blossom rot since I stared adding egg shells to my pots. I also throw egg shells in the water I use my containers. My tomatoes have been outside for a month now. I’m Zone 7 B.
🌺Aloha Brian, Enjoyed your video. Question-I am only growing determinant tomatoes, however they are bushing out all over it's cage. I know we're not to prune determinants, but how can I maintain it's growth? My plants are still giving me tomatoes. Mahalo
Excellent info in this vid!!! So critical to getting planting done right its critical for having a great season.
How did your seedlings get so big...they are actually flurishing in solo cups. WOW!!!How many weeks old? What fertilizer did they get? & how often? I was told not to let them fruit in the cups, that its best to wait until planted and let plant get much bigger because fruiting early takes away energy needed for growth. Let me know if I should stop pruning off the flowers.
gotta love el nino for being weird, its sending "the Mawar" a super typhoon from the west pacific, which then heads up to Aleutian islands and then down the west coast all the way to baja ca before it heads east again, so weird.
Brian, what size is your irrigation hose system?
Thank you for this information 😊
Soil pH affects calcium uptake too.
Ive heard a couple mentions of pruning indeterminates but not cherry tomatoes and still am a bit confused..for things like sun gold or super sweet 100, do we prune to single stem?
Those are cherries - don't prune except where you have to. They'll produce tomatoes everywhere once they get going. I let them bush out, but I'm not shy about pruning if I have to to keep them out of walkways - they are like kudzu. You can also collect suckers to start new plants or give to friends where they are getting a little too crazy. By the way I'm in central Texas, long hot summers. The trick to keeping them going is to mulch heavily, and prune off anything that starts to look old or brown or diseased. They do slow down or stop when it gets too hot but unless that does them in (mulching deep really helps here) they'll pick up again with any passing front or storm system that cools things off just a little.
I love growing tomatoes done it for around 5 years we use cane's in the UK I have a fence how could I use that fence for beef tomatoes and tomatoes that will grow very tall once I get the nettles sorted out I could use that corner how do I start to remove the long nettles then kill the nettles then I could use the corner of the two fences where they meet for the string I get really good sunshine where should I start what advice could you give me please sir 😸
I heard you say that purple veining is a nutrient issue. I fertilize every week with Neptune Harvest Tomato and veg 1/2 strength. What else should I fertilize with to prevent purple veining and dusky leaves?
Hey Brian, what type of mulch do you like to use?
Love the video, my question is I have cherry tomatoes growing some look poor but are producing some tomatoes, I have some thriving leaf wise and not many flowers, they were all treated the same, curious why you should not prune Romas or cherry tomatoes
What is the mulch in the bed?
Could you please tell me what is the golden looking mulch you are using for your tomatoes?
Love your videos
I recently put all of my peppers into my raised garden bed. They are starting to slowly take off but am a lil worried that I brought some of them out a bit too early to harden off.
Oh my...I saw all the cups laying sideways and thought I was witnessing a crime scene! 😂😂 First time gardeners here! I’m so thankful I found your videos!
Welcome!
Great info thank you!