Opened an Olive Garden in Southern Pines, NC. The back door where they unloaded the fresh food had a set of steps in which a cherry tomato germinated in a crevice. We called it the Crack Tomato, and all avoided trampling it. Eventually it flowered, fruited, and I grow seed collected from it every year. All hail Crack Tomato!!
The best tool I’ve found for finding hornworms is a blacklight flashlight. The caterpillars fluoresce under blacklight. Just go out after dark and shine the flashlight on your plants. The plants will look purple and the caterpillars will be glowing lime green. Easy to spot even when they’re small. Amazon sells several kinds, and they’re inexpensive...maybe 10 or 15 bucks.
My aunt gave me a recipe to kill them. Boil a pot of water, add few garlic cloves and chili peppers, simmer for 10 - 15 mins. Let cool pour it in a spray bottle and add some dish soap. It'll kill them in seconds. I no longer have holes in my tomatoe leaves and tomatoes. Most aphids are gone too.
Hi Nicole, I'm REALLY glad that you've branched out into home gardening. I teach a Horticulture class at Los Gatos High School, and I've shown several of your "How Does it Grow?" episodes to my students in the past. You have an educator's grasp of how much content to deliver at at one time, and and wonderful clarity. I'm learning quite a bit. Keep it coming!
Hi Philip, what a lovely note. Hearing from educators like yourself always means a lot to me. I'm so glad that these videos can be of value to you in your work. Thank you for what YOU do! I'll keep them coming. ;)
I don't know how u heard my mind voice...I planted tomato two days before and I watched your earlier tomato video for planting and now you posted this video for me to understand more...thanks..
I'm a new gardener this year, and this is definitely the most informative video I've come across yet for growing tomatoes. Looks like I've got some work to do! Thank you!
@@StevenStGelais well What you want to do is give it some shade and not expose it to full sun. Remove some leave to reduce moisture loss so that the plant can work on producing roots or you can cover it with some plastic bag to retain the moisture. Either way the idea is to keep keep it moist and protect it until new roots grow. I been experimenting with tomato for a while and I found it to be really easy to root them. By sowing them directly to the grown. Good luck. And don't give up they may be weaken for a week or so but it will take off.
Nicole, I love your content, and your choice of clothes. Red dress that matches your red tomatoes, yellow dress that matches lemons (in your Italy episode).🍅🍋
My favourite gardening tutor,,its a lot easier to listen and learn to the sexy in depth knowledge, acts as a catalyst in attention span. My growing problemis i am 1 human trying to keep up to strategically utilizing thousands of vegetable plants and trying to deal with them,,plant more until fall down
OH WOW! this is GREAT tutorial on growing 🍅 tomatoes. THANK YOU Nicole holly for breaking all that HELPFUL info down in just 9 mins. ..Can't wait to to watch the future episode's on your tomato garden :)
eggshells + vinegar --> will make a pH neutral slurry with bioavailable Ca. I keep all my eggshells, dry them in the oven, and powder them. I mix it in with the soil when I'm planting. But I also have hydroponic lettuce in my kitchen which needs LOTS of Ca too. Thats where to Ca slurry comes in. It's really important to check the pH if you're doing this. It will start off at a pH of around 3 but over a day or so should come to 7 and should bubble the entire time. The bubble are from the CO2 released when the acids in the vinegar react with the CaCO3 in the egg shells. It's also a fun experiment to do with kids to teach them about plants and chemistry.
Eggshells also have magnesium, though not very much, which is also an essential mineral for protein and enzyme development within cells, ours and plants.
After years of removing suckers entirely on every variety I've found that cherry tomatoes harvest greatly benefits from leaving only the flowers on the suckers. The technique is not talked about anywhere and it lies between keeping and entirely removing the suckers. You just pinch off the sucker first 3 leaves and leave the flowers cluster after the third leave. I generally cut the growth head at this point unless your plant is very strong. It only applies to tomatoes that grow small fruits. Other big fruits varieties won't produce enough photosynthesis for both main stem fruits and secondary stem fruits.
Great video, Nicole. I'd just like to expand a bit on what you said about pruning suckers on tomato plants (this also applies to other fruits/veggies grown in the garden). If you remove every sucker that spouts, you're likely going to have fewer tomatoes produced by the plant at the end of the season than if you allow a few to grow. If your soil is good, have a decent growing season, sunlight is plentiful, and you have a cage or trellis installed, you'll get many more tomatoes if you selectively preserve shoots that appear close to the soil line. Tomatoes will take longer to set and develop, but your harvests will be much larger. The tomato plants I have this year are allowed 5-7 shoots each. My cherry plants (zone 4B) currently have >100 individual fruits each so far, and my heirloom regular tomato plants have ~2 dozen fruits at various levels of maturity. Previous years I've attempted to remove all the suckers from my plants and I may have had 1-2 dozen cherry tomatoes at this point in the season, and half a dozen regular tomatoes per plant. That said, if you're not growing in optimal conditions then it may make sense to remove all the suckers to get the fruit that do set to plump up and ripen fully before the growing season is finished.
@@BigDsGaming2022 Yep. If you manage the suckers and keep the plant happy and fed, you'll get 60-100 full sized tomatoes per plant no problem. This year as well as last year I only planted 4 plants because they produce so much. I ate tomatoes nearly every day, canned a ton, gave away as many as my neighbors would take, and still had plenty which ended up getting composed.
Adding the stakes to the FL weave is an excellent idea. Mine tend to fall over between the levels of string - especially the first. I'll try that today!
Outstanding. Probably this video alone has done more for home growers than any of your other excellent videos. Why? Tomatoes are popular. People are hungry to grow tomatoes. Heirloom tomatoes are pricey and the paste tomato is the real mortgage lifter. If you can a good quality productive paste you will have sauces for a long time.
My 17 year old twin daughters LOVE the hornworm caterpillar! They raise caterpillars into moths and butterflies. They really dislike those parasitic flies! I have always kept a close eye out for those caterpillars on my tomato plants. I just found your channel. It's very helpful!
Great! Thank you! Some I knew, some don’t. I raised my tomato plants from Tomatoes I bought in the grocery store. I know them from the seed I got from that tomatoes. They are my babies although not every plant I raised really made it into a mature plant.
I hadn't heard of "Florida weave" before, but I have used this method on 30 plant rows. The part I think you have left out is the actual weaving. If I missed that I apologize but you take your string on one side of one plant then the other side of the next plant. Then you do another line the opposite way. So the lines cross each other in between each plant. Looked like you only have 3 or 4 plants in a row so it worked ok, but on longer rows the weight will be too much. If you weave it plant to plant, the weight of one plant pushing out is counterbalanced by the next plant pushing the other way.
I have worked with tomatoes my whole life, and i can say your tips were just perfect, the only thing i do differently are structures the sustains the plants.
@@TrueFoodTV i use a structure made of bamboos sticks supported over a wire, forming almost an x, so they can resist a lot of weight and wind. If you check the video on my channel you will see the structure on 0:30 and 0:46 you'll see how is it ua-cam.com/video/WB_6CoYfxe0/v-deo.html
Hey Nicole ! I just wanted to leave a nice comment as I've watched your videos since you've started and I find you very admirable ! Your videos are very educational while also entertaining, and your mannerism is wonderful! It makes me want to also pursue the daily things we take for granted, and do a little more research on them. I'm going to show my mom this video and translate for her since she's also trying to grow tomatoes for the first time and you've done a great job making this guide. Anyway, there's much more nice things I can say, but that'd be too long. I hope you a great future, and continue to do the things you love, and even when times may be tough, I hope you'll be strong and push through it, Thank you so much for being you, as well as making this video so I can share with others who will find its value ! Good day c:
WOW... really good professional advice on tomatoes. You becoming a real farmer yourself Nicole. :) I am very impressed. Great video with good, Practical, and useful info. I am also proud to see you doing it organically. marigolds are an awesome strategy for pests.
Thank you!! I hope I've absorbed a little from what I've learned over the years from all those amazing farmers, but I know I've got a looooong way to go. ;)
@@TrueFoodTV I am curious if you think the "urgent fixes to blossom end rot" that we've all seen (i.e. Tums) would help at all? This was super informative (: With this quarantine, I've spent a LOT of time learning about everything garden related, and goodness you covered a whole bunch! I'm happy I found you! What zone are you in btw? Thanks so much!
Adjusting your soil pH to 6.5 ± 0.5 should also take care of calcium deficiency. If your soil is the wrong pH it can block the uptake of nutrients. Each nutrient has an optimal soil pH range.
Great video, Nicole, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Also, I was a professional photographer for twenty years and I must say that you are such a natural beauty.
Cut the bottom off a clean 2L or larger soda bottle, keep the bottle cap on. Punch holes, in a row down one side, make sure get holes down to the bottom, near the neck.. Plant the bottle next to you tomato plant with the holes facing the plant, leaving about 2 above the soil.. Fill the bottle with the watering can, no rose required, watering done much more quickly.. water immediately hitting 6 ore more inches down, straight to the roots. No splashing, no mess.
Love to do the Florida weave. The only addition I like for wind and as fruit bears weight. I put a horizontal 1x1 laft strip. Every 16inches, up the support stakes. :). You can run additional twin for support, from laft to laft.
As always great video. Grandma would always give me a bag of tomatoes to take home and share. They never made it. I would eat them always. Could that be why i have such bad arthritis ? Thank you for sharing. Love you. God Bless and stay safe.
Rooting the suckers in water makes it more difficult for the plant to transition into soil once it has roots. I recommend using a cloning gel and keeping the cuttings in moist soil in a humid environment. My favorite is a brand called Clonex.
You can use a cloning tray with a clear plastic dome on it to keep the humidity high and the soil moist. You can buy them at Home Depot for around $12. As far as clonex goes, you can find it online in a 15 ml pouch for around $6 or a 100 ml jar for around $20. You can use your favorite potting mix, but I like to use Root Riot plant starter cubes, made by the same company that makes Clonex. If you buy a cloning tray pre-filled with Root Riot cubes, it comes with a pouch of Clonex. The main ingredient in Root Riot is peat moss. You can find a 100 count bag of cubes on Amazon for about $28 or a 25 cube pre-loaded tray for $17.
Great information!!! My tomatoes are 6’+ and overwhelming never new how tall a plant can grow with your method. So trying to Holden up with whatever I can 😀. Happy day from Los Angeles!
Any plant worth watering is worth watering a second time and repeat watering about five minutes so the ground can soften after the first gets it wet ,The second watering can soak in deeper and not just run away but asorb . Thanks for a fine video Lady.
Some really great tips there Nicole on growing toms! Always enjoy your content (how does it grow series?) such as the visit to Italy on traditional lemon growing...like I said always look out for fresh content from you - thanks!
I know 1 thing . i am Done growing cherry tomatoes lol . . next year baby butt tomatoes and beef steak next year . keeping them groomed and the suckers are a must .. Great video chick😉
Tomatoes History is very crazy,17'S and 18's that time people got think tomatoes was poison food...........than I told about you videos I really liked.
The easiest way for me to find tomato horn worms is look for the poop and look above it. Also, I know what size of Caterpillar I expect to find by the size of the poop. When I get the Caterpillar, I shake off the poop so I don't end up looking in the same place.
Because I’m growing my first tomatoes, I’ve been reading a lot. The Spruce Has an article I just read that says never pinch a sucker right below a blossom or it will cause uneven growth. Have you ever heard that or do u know what it means? Everyone on YT says to pinch them. Nice channel!
You look smashing. And thank you so very much for the video. What growing zone are you in? Looking forward to your harvest video and the variety of tomatoes you grow this year.
OK, this just happened. I was watching your video and kept hearing Blue Jays. The local Blue Jays have trained me, or I have trained them that when they call I put peanuts out on our deck and they come and get them. So I paused your video when I heard the Blue Jays, and went out on the deck with peanuts. But there were no Blue Jays, so I was a little confused. I turned your video back on and realized it was the Blue Jays in your video that I was hearing. Then, when I was finished, I looked out on the deck and all the peanuts were gone. So my birds were here too. And, by the way, loved the information you gave us on this video.
Opened an Olive Garden in Southern Pines, NC. The back door where they unloaded the fresh food had a set of steps in which a cherry tomato germinated in a crevice. We called it the Crack Tomato, and all avoided trampling it. Eventually it flowered, fruited, and I grow seed collected from it every year. All hail Crack Tomato!!
Hail! Crack Tomato!
Planting basil in with the tomatoes helps stop white fly too. Plus for indeterminates when planting put handful of pot ash in the hole. They love it
The best tool I’ve found for finding hornworms is a blacklight flashlight. The caterpillars fluoresce under blacklight. Just go out after dark and shine the flashlight on your plants. The plants will look purple and the caterpillars will be glowing lime green. Easy to spot even when they’re small. Amazon sells several kinds, and they’re inexpensive...maybe 10 or 15 bucks.
Mansard Manor ohhhh nice
Michele, I've heard about this! I will give it a try. Thanks!
I will let my daughters know that! They love the hornworms. Those hornworms will look just like Disneyland!
If you've never seen a hornworm under a blacklight, do a Google image search. They light up under blacklight like a Jimi Hendrix poster.
My aunt gave me a recipe to kill them. Boil a pot of water, add few garlic cloves and chili peppers, simmer for 10 - 15 mins. Let cool pour it in a spray bottle and add some dish soap. It'll kill them in seconds. I no longer have holes in my tomatoe leaves and tomatoes. Most aphids are gone too.
Hi Nicole, I'm REALLY glad that you've branched out into home gardening. I teach a Horticulture class at Los Gatos High School, and I've shown several of your "How Does it Grow?" episodes to my students in the past. You have an educator's grasp of how much content to deliver at at one time, and and wonderful clarity. I'm learning quite a bit. Keep it coming!
Keep those *cats* out of your garden 🤣😣😂❤️
Sorry had to go there 👍
*Los Gatos = The Cats*
Hi Philip, what a lovely note. Hearing from educators like yourself always means a lot to me. I'm so glad that these videos can be of value to you in your work. Thank you for what YOU do! I'll keep them coming. ;)
You work at a school called "The Cats"?
I don't know how u heard my mind voice...I planted tomato two days before and I watched your earlier tomato video for planting and now you posted this video for me to understand more...thanks..
Ha! Glad that my telepathy is working. ;) Happy gardening!
I'm a new gardener this year, and this is definitely the most informative video I've come across yet for growing tomatoes. Looks like I've got some work to do! Thank you!
She is still loyal to us till this day . I love it
The sucker can directly sow into the grown! I ve done it a million time already and it always work. Happy gardening!
Yep, me too
But Nicole's way allows those see the root system develop. Which confirms Nicole's knowledge ☺️👍
I've started many suckers into rooted plants this year and none of mine grow. They grow roots then stop growing. Little to no new leaf growth
@@StevenStGelais well
What you want to do is give it some shade and not expose it to full sun.
Remove some leave to reduce moisture loss so that the plant can work on producing roots or you can cover it with some plastic bag to retain the moisture. Either way the idea is to keep keep it moist and protect it until new roots grow.
I been experimenting with tomato for a while and I found it to be really easy to root them. By sowing them directly to the grown. Good luck. And don't give up they may be weaken for a week or so but it will take off.
Nicole, I love your content, and your choice of clothes. Red dress that matches your red tomatoes, yellow dress that matches lemons (in your Italy episode).🍅🍋
Thanks for noticing. ;)
My favourite gardening tutor,,its a lot easier to listen and learn to the sexy in depth knowledge, acts as a catalyst in attention span. My growing problemis i am 1 human trying to keep up to strategically utilizing thousands of vegetable plants and trying to deal with them,,plant more until fall down
OH WOW! this is GREAT tutorial on growing 🍅 tomatoes. THANK YOU Nicole holly for breaking all that HELPFUL info down in just 9 mins. ..Can't wait to to watch the future episode's on your tomato garden :)
I'm so glad you found this useful! Looking forward to hearing your feedback over the course of the series!
Mrs. Jolly you girl are a great speaker.
Again a great learning experience.
Thanks
eggshells + vinegar --> will make a pH neutral slurry with bioavailable Ca. I keep all my eggshells, dry them in the oven, and powder them. I mix it in with the soil when I'm planting. But I also have hydroponic lettuce in my kitchen which needs LOTS of Ca too. Thats where to Ca slurry comes in. It's really important to check the pH if you're doing this. It will start off at a pH of around 3 but over a day or so should come to 7 and should bubble the entire time. The bubble are from the CO2 released when the acids in the vinegar react with the CaCO3 in the egg shells. It's also a fun experiment to do with kids to teach them about plants and chemistry.
Eggshells also have magnesium, though not very much, which is also an essential mineral for protein and enzyme development within cells, ours and plants.
Wow, Melissa, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
That's awesome advice. I will try. Do you have a specific ratio of eggshell powder to vinegar?
After years of removing suckers entirely on every variety I've found that cherry tomatoes harvest greatly benefits from leaving only the flowers on the suckers. The technique is not talked about anywhere and it lies between keeping and entirely removing the suckers. You just pinch off the sucker first 3 leaves and leave the flowers cluster after the third leave. I generally cut the growth head at this point unless your plant is very strong. It only applies to tomatoes that grow small fruits. Other big fruits varieties won't produce enough photosynthesis for both main stem fruits and secondary stem fruits.
Nice new information 👍
One year I let golden cherry tomatoes grow wild with sucker. Had baskets full of products (tomatoes)
Great insight, Nicolas, which I've never come across before! Thank you!
Thanks for the tip. I'm growing 3 plants in separate pots and one is a smaller, cherry-type tomato. So I will try your method.
I don't remove any suckers on my cherry tomatoes. It is an absolute nightmare trying to keep it all staked up but the amount of tomatoes is worth it.
You explain it so well.. I am waiting for your harvest.
Excellent presentation. I’ve gardened for decades and there’s nothing I could add
That's great to hear! Happy gardening!
Yeay Dr. Garden is back
SO glad I found this channel!
I’m glad you posted this as I have increased my tomato count from last years 2 to 20 this year! Now need to go prune them again. Thanks again!
Awesome! Good luck! You are going to have an amazing tomato haul.
Assalamu alaikum madam.....long time havent seen them.... subhnallah....God really gives.... now back to u presenter.... i'll keep watching
That's a lot of advice to pack in a 10 minute video. Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you so much!!
Great video, Nicole. I'd just like to expand a bit on what you said about pruning suckers on tomato plants (this also applies to other fruits/veggies grown in the garden). If you remove every sucker that spouts, you're likely going to have fewer tomatoes produced by the plant at the end of the season than if you allow a few to grow. If your soil is good, have a decent growing season, sunlight is plentiful, and you have a cage or trellis installed, you'll get many more tomatoes if you selectively preserve shoots that appear close to the soil line. Tomatoes will take longer to set and develop, but your harvests will be much larger. The tomato plants I have this year are allowed 5-7 shoots each. My cherry plants (zone 4B) currently have >100 individual fruits each so far, and my heirloom regular tomato plants have ~2 dozen fruits at various levels of maturity. Previous years I've attempted to remove all the suckers from my plants and I may have had 1-2 dozen cherry tomatoes at this point in the season, and half a dozen regular tomatoes per plant. That said, if you're not growing in optimal conditions then it may make sense to remove all the suckers to get the fruit that do set to plump up and ripen fully before the growing season is finished.
I don't even touch mine any more and I see a lot of flowers on the sucker branches .
@@BigDsGaming2022 Yep. If you manage the suckers and keep the plant happy and fed, you'll get 60-100 full sized tomatoes per plant no problem. This year as well as last year I only planted 4 plants because they produce so much. I ate tomatoes nearly every day, canned a ton, gave away as many as my neighbors would take, and still had plenty which ended up getting composed.
Kevin, thank you for all this amazing and detailed advice. I love learning from all of you!
Very nice presentation. Succinct and to the point without a lot of pointless rambling like so many youtube gardeners do. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Adding the stakes to the FL weave is an excellent idea. Mine tend to fall over between the levels of string - especially the first. I'll try that today!
It's a game changer! You'll be so happy.
Outstanding. Probably this video alone has done more for home growers than any of your other excellent videos. Why? Tomatoes are popular. People are hungry to grow tomatoes. Heirloom tomatoes are pricey and the paste tomato is the real mortgage lifter. If you can a good quality productive paste you will have sauces for a long time.
She's a cute tomato
Not only that but I noticed she's not wearing a wedding ring !!!! 🤓
Still married! I tend to keep the jewelry off when I'm digging in the dirt. ;)
TRUE FOOD TV Darn It !!!!!!!!! 🤓
@@TrueFoodTV thats my lovekeep it up🔥🔥🔥🎉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Her red outfit helps the tomatoes grow.
Such awesome information! Great job. We harvested our first tomato yesterday. My 3 year old was so happy! Hopefully the first of many more
Congrats!! And happy gardening!
My 17 year old twin daughters LOVE the hornworm caterpillar! They raise caterpillars into moths and butterflies. They really dislike those parasitic flies! I have always kept a close eye out for those caterpillars on my tomato plants. I just found your channel. It's very helpful!
Welcome! I love that your daughters are so involved with nature!
Great! Thank you! Some I knew, some don’t. I raised my tomato plants from Tomatoes I bought in the grocery store. I know them from the seed I got from that tomatoes. They are my babies although not every plant I raised really made it into a mature plant.
I'm taking a like to her knowledge. She is making me want to watch these videos. Good job!
Thank you dear Nicole 💕
Thank YOU for watching!
I hadn't heard of "Florida weave" before, but I have used this method on 30 plant rows. The part I think you have left out is the actual weaving. If I missed that I apologize but you take your string on one side of one plant then the other side of the next plant. Then you do another line the opposite way. So the lines cross each other in between each plant. Looked like you only have 3 or 4 plants in a row so it worked ok, but on longer rows the weight will be too much. If you weave it plant to plant, the weight of one plant pushing out is counterbalanced by the next plant pushing the other way.
Thanks for all the tips and advice I usually prune my tomatoes 🍅 and get a great harvest........great video
Awesome to hear! I'll check your channel out.
I have worked with tomatoes my whole life, and i can say your tips were just perfect, the only thing i do differently are structures the sustains the plants.
Glad to hear it! What structures do you use? I'd love to learn!
@@TrueFoodTV i use a structure made of bamboos sticks supported over a wire, forming almost an x, so they can resist a lot of weight and wind. If you check the video on my channel you will see the structure on 0:30 and 0:46 you'll see how is it ua-cam.com/video/WB_6CoYfxe0/v-deo.html
Your garden has turn into mini farm, beautiful.
Wait until next year when we expand it! ;)
She is a wonderfully looking woman with a great theme for her contenten. Take care of you and provide us with great content.
Cool video! I like that trellis technique.
I love tomatoes 🍅 I love growing them more!
I like the look of those tomatoes in the thumbnail. Look tasty.
Hey Nicole ! I just wanted to leave a nice comment as I've watched your videos since you've started and I find you very admirable ! Your videos are very educational while also entertaining, and your mannerism is wonderful! It makes me want to also pursue the daily things we take for granted, and do a little more research on them. I'm going to show my mom this video and translate for her since she's also trying to grow tomatoes for the first time and you've done a great job making this guide.
Anyway, there's much more nice things I can say, but that'd be too long. I hope you a great future, and continue to do the things you love, and even when times may be tough, I hope you'll be strong and push through it,
Thank you so much for being you, as well as making this video so I can share with others who will find its value ! Good day c:
Hi Nicole,
I so appreciate your helpful tips and beautiful tomatoes 🍅 plants 🌱
Big hugs to you, Michael!
TRUE FOOD TV Happy 4 th July !!
So excited for the produce !
Looking forward for the harvest vlog. It's therapeutic to me watching harvest videos.
You'll definitely be seeing that!
Nice one. Loved the hairband
WOW... really good professional advice on tomatoes. You becoming a real farmer yourself Nicole. :) I am very impressed. Great video with good, Practical, and useful info. I am also proud to see you doing it organically. marigolds are an awesome strategy for pests.
Thank you!! I hope I've absorbed a little from what I've learned over the years from all those amazing farmers, but I know I've got a looooong way to go. ;)
@@TrueFoodTV I am curious if you think the "urgent fixes to blossom end rot" that we've all seen (i.e. Tums) would help at all? This was super informative (: With this quarantine, I've spent a LOT of time learning about everything garden related, and goodness you covered a whole bunch! I'm happy I found you! What zone are you in btw? Thanks so much!
Thankyou so much for the tomato tips..your the best. I also love how your shirt and hair tie matched the subject at hand..tomatoes..lol
So glad you enjoyed the video. I've been known to coordinate with the crop. ;)
Can't wait for the harvest!
Adjusting your soil pH to 6.5 ± 0.5 should also take care of calcium deficiency. If your soil is the wrong pH it can block the uptake of nutrients. Each nutrient has an optimal soil pH range.
Yes, Will - true indeed!
I love the way a big tomato talking with a name Nicole 😘😘😘
Glad to see this🍅🍅🍅🍅
This was great..!!! Thank you for all the info!
Great video, Nicole, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Also, I was a professional photographer for twenty years and I must say that you are such a natural beauty.
Cut the bottom off a clean 2L or larger soda bottle, keep the bottle cap on.
Punch holes, in a row down one side, make sure get holes down to the bottom, near the neck..
Plant the bottle next to you tomato plant with the holes facing the plant, leaving about 2 above the soil..
Fill the bottle with the watering can, no rose required, watering done much more quickly..
water immediately hitting 6 ore more inches down, straight to the roots.
No splashing, no mess.
You are adorable!! I LOVE this series!
Aw, thank you so much, Brittany! Glad to have you watching
Very informative- all Love from the Philippines
Tomatoes are one of my favorite things to grow.
They're so exciting, aren't they?
I love the Sweet Hearts grape tomato.
Love to do the Florida weave. The only addition I like for wind and as fruit bears weight. I put a horizontal 1x1 laft strip. Every 16inches, up the support stakes. :). You can run additional twin for support, from laft to laft.
Thanks Nicole. I hate cages too, I will try that Florida weave.
Good luck! I think you'll be happy with it.
As always great video. Grandma would always give me a bag of tomatoes to take home and share. They never made it. I would eat them always. Could that be why i have such bad arthritis ? Thank you for sharing. Love you. God Bless and stay safe.
There is a price to pay. I've never met a tomato that I've not loved, but I know all pay the price the next day. Sucks, but worth it‼️🍅🍅🍅🍅
Terry, there's nothing like eating a delicious tomato out of hand -- whatever the consequences! ;)
U r doing a great job and u deserve much more credit for doing this so I'll share the videos as much as I can.
Thank u so much.
Thank you so much! I super appreciate it!
I grow heirlooms only , hard to grow for sure but man do they taste great .
It's so worth the challenge, isn't it? Just no comparison.
@@TrueFoodTV taste is everything
Love it, very informative video. Right now I have tomatoes in containers. I hope to have a big garden like yours someday.
Good luck with your containers! I hope you get a bounty of tomatoes!
Rooting the suckers in water makes it more difficult for the plant to transition into soil once it has roots. I recommend using a cloning gel and keeping the cuttings in moist soil in a humid environment. My favorite is a brand called Clonex.
Thanks for the advice here too!
You can use a cloning tray with a clear plastic dome on it to keep the humidity high and the soil moist. You can buy them at Home Depot for around $12. As far as clonex goes, you can find it online in a 15 ml pouch for around $6 or a 100 ml jar for around $20. You can use your favorite potting mix, but I like to use Root Riot plant starter cubes, made by the same company that makes Clonex. If you buy a cloning tray pre-filled with Root Riot cubes, it comes with a pouch of Clonex. The main ingredient in Root Riot is peat moss. You can find a 100 count bag of cubes on Amazon for about $28 or a 25 cube pre-loaded tray for $17.
The only informative video about tomatoes. You are such a knowledgeable gardener or biologist?
Journalist! I learn from the experts, consolidate and translate!
Your knowledge is Amazing! Thank you so much for your help.
Love your backyard set up :)
Thank you!
Great information!!! My tomatoes are 6’+ and overwhelming never new how tall a plant can grow with your method. So trying to Holden up with whatever I can 😀. Happy day from Los Angeles!
Those are happy tomatoes!! Best of luck with them, Caro!
Thanks for your valuable advice
Thank YOU for watching!
This was fascinating; thanks from North Yorkshire England.
Thanks....much needed video!🙏🏼
A quick way to get calcium- put egg shells in vinegar for 48 hours and then pour it around the base of the plant.
Any plant worth watering is worth watering a second time and repeat watering about five minutes so the ground can soften after the first gets it wet ,The second watering can soak in deeper and not just run away but asorb .
Thanks for a fine video Lady.
This is so true and I'm surprised that more people don't talk about this.
Some really great tips there Nicole on growing toms! Always enjoy your content (how does it grow series?) such as the visit to Italy on traditional lemon growing...like I said always look out for fresh content from you - thanks!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoy it.
I know 1 thing . i am Done growing cherry tomatoes lol . . next year baby butt tomatoes and beef steak next year . keeping them groomed and the suckers are a must .. Great video chick😉
Tomatoes History is very crazy,17'S and 18's that time people got think tomatoes was poison food...........than I told about you videos I really liked.
Did you see our "How Does it Grow?" video on tomatoes? We have a fun cartoon in it about the history. It's wild, isn't it?
Wow,I learned a bunch from this video ! !
Yay! I'm so glad!
The easiest way for me to find tomato horn worms is look for the poop and look above it. Also, I know what size of Caterpillar I expect to find by the size of the poop. When I get the Caterpillar, I shake off the poop so I don't end up looking in the same place.
Ha! Hey, it works, right?
Great video and keep up the great work 👍
Love tomatoes & they are a vine even cucumber is a vine if you let it climb it will
Because I’m growing my first tomatoes, I’ve been reading a lot. The Spruce Has an article I just read that says never pinch a sucker right below a blossom or it will cause uneven growth. Have you ever heard that or do u know what it means? Everyone on YT says to pinch them. Nice channel!
Tons of great information--thanks!
Great video! Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it.
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much! I am working on a green thumb from a brown thumb. This is so helpful. New subber, here. 💚
Welcome, Doreen! Thank you for subscribing and best of luck with your garden! We are all learning together.
You look smashing. And thank you so very much for the video. What growing zone are you in? Looking forward to your harvest video and the variety of tomatoes you grow this year.
Donald, thank you! I'm in zone 7.
I just got tomato for dinner while I was watching this video. :)
Perfect!
Great video nicole really interesting 👍
Love your videos! So informational. Thank you!
You explain everything so well 👍🏼 Subscribed
Removing suckers means you might get fewer tomatoes, but they'll be bigger. So it's a choice of quantity or size.
Exactly!
OK, this just happened. I was watching your video and kept hearing Blue Jays. The local Blue Jays have trained me, or I have trained them that when they call I put peanuts out on our deck and they come and get them. So I paused your video when I heard the Blue Jays, and went out on the deck with peanuts. But there were no Blue Jays, so I was a little confused. I turned your video back on and realized it was the Blue Jays in your video that I was hearing. Then, when I was finished, I looked out on the deck and all the peanuts were gone. So my birds were here too. And, by the way, loved the information you gave us on this video.
Very enriched episode.. Thanks for the information
You're very welcome
Looking lovely, Nicole.....
Thank you :)
Thank you for the info! 🍅 ❤️
Very interesting video 👍👍! As a current UA-camr, I am always looking for fresh ideas! Excellent Job!
Also the tomato leaves are great for getting rid of afid eggs
Love the outfit... good information. Thank u
I keep many of my suckers and cut and grow them
Awesome!
I love your channel! So happy I subscribed!
I'm so grateful!
@@TrueFoodTV ♥️...and you're absolutely BEAUTIFUL!🤭
Thank you for the insight.