Timestamps. Here are 9 mistakes to avoid when transplanting your tomato plants into your garden
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0:00 Introduction
1:01 1st Mistake – Growing Them Too Long as Indoor Transplants
2:09 2nd Mistake – Letting Them Flower & Fruit as Transplants
4:11 3rd Mistake – Planting Tomatoes to Early Into Cold Soil
5:30 4th Mistake – Large Green Upper Growth and Small Roots
7:50 5th Mistake – Mulching Tomato Plants in Cold Soil
9:10 6th Mistake – Under Watering New Transplants for 1st 14 Days
10:27 Tomato Tip 1 – Warm Up the Planting Area Early
11:33 7th Mistake – Planting Tomatoes Too Deeply into Cold Soil
13:52 Tomato Tip 2 – Trench Planting the Tomato Transplant
15:13 Tomato Plants are Vines with Shallow Roots
15:58 Tomato Tip 3 – Remove Flowers & Buds at Transplant
16:17 The Tomato Growth Experiment & Updates
16:59 8th Mistake – Under Use of Water-Soluble Fertilizer at Start
18:09 9th Mistake – Worrying about NPK Ratios & Fertilizing Frequency
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Here in Louisville, most people don't plant tomatoes in the ground until after Derby Day. First Saturday in May. Lol
I get so excited and anxious to plant. Thank you for grounding me!
Beautiful greenhouse gary always appreciate your knowledge thank you
I always lay my tomatoes in a planting trench now, leaving just a bit of shoot above ground. Tomatoes naturally produce lots of surface roots anyway. My first season doing this I put them in rather randomly, but when I planted companion plants in the bed I had a problem not cutting into the submerged stem and new roots. I always align them in the same way now.
I have a long growing season in Alabama, and I'm thinking about direct sewing some tomatoes. Think it'll work?
Looks like the weather is starting to break up in NW CT for the weekend. Seedlings 6 weeks old will finally get a few straight days of outside air and sunlight.
You may wanna consider some grow lights. I planted some on March 15th and they're bigger than your 8 week ones.
Long season in SC. I wait til soil is very warm,then plant. I also hold back a few starts to extend harvest
So glad to find your videos and to find you, as I'm a Maryland resident myself! It's always cool seeing other people from the state that I can relate to. I've definitely been enjoying your videos. So I want to thank you—hats off to you, my fellow Marylander!
Happy growing my brother 🙏
The mulch advice when planting tomatoes is a very good one, Gary…Thanks!
@6:00
My neighbors do that plant early than frost comes and they lose it or are out there middle of the night covering it, me look out the window and drinking beer nice Friday evening theater. Cheers:)
I bought cans of sardines packed in water, cheap too. I'll put one or two of them a few inches under the root ball and that should help I reckon.
Are Brandywine tomatoes more susceptible to yellowing leaves in their seedlings? Mine grew the same height as all of the other varieties of tomatoes I have in the same tray, but they are yellowing. Same food, feed schedule, watering and light
All guys should be eating more tomatoes, it reduces prostate cancer risk. reduces PSA
Very timely video! I am just itching to set out my tomatoes. Got all excited this year, set up grow lights and planted tomato seeds back on March 8. Now my tomatoes are huge, 10 to 12 inches tall in 6 inch pots no less, and I'm carrying them in and out of the house every day since nights get down to low 40s 😂. I'll know better next year but it sure has been fun. Today i ate lettuce and spinach from the garden. Thanks for your great content. ❤ Also love your greenhouse and garden.
this is the best advice. I started mine in february. 45 of them! They were and still are soooo much work. I set a reminder in my calendar to start 4-5 weeks before last frost, which is today.
9:45 Is that a dwarf tomato? It's got those wrinkly rugose leaves
As always, thanks Gary. You're a wealth of knowledge.
5 weeks is plenty for me
Hi Gary,
Well, I rolled the dice getting my tomato plants into the ground two weeks early. Two light frosts hit my area since transplanting them. All of my toughening up the plants, putting them through the torture test, paid off. They shrugged it off without any damage. They are vigorous, thriving, flowering, and setting fruit. They've grown four times their size since planting in the garden three weeks ago, and new growth can be seen daily. I'm on target to harvest a lot tomatoes before the summer heat hits in July. The cilantro planted between the tomato plants need about one more week of growth, then I can spread mulch. Yay!
I planted six Mammoth Sunflowers in my orchard between the trees, and added a Prairie Fire crabapple tree to help with pollinating my apple trees. To my surprise, my mystery lemon tree, grown from a Meyers Lemon seed, is flowering. It is starting its third year. Oh, I am already picking my firs Seascape Strawberries of the season, Tokyo Bekana Mustard, Paris Romaine Lettuce, Merlot Lettuce, and radishes. Yep, I'm already harvesting when most people in my area are just getting started with their gardens.
This week's goal, is planting Armenian Yard Long Cucumbers in in my garden. I am a couple weeks away from planting cantaloupe, watermelon, and sowing seeds for zucchini. Around May 1st, I'll plant sweet potato slips. By this weekend, all sixteen of my raised beds will be in use. Yay!
This year, I need 24 pints of salsa, 24 pints of tomato sauce, and 24 pints of cutter pickles. I'm almost out of beans and zucchini, so I need them too. My North Star cherry tree is flowering and fruiting. I am looking forward to picking and eating fresh cherries.
The cons: Voles took out my shelling peas, but not without paying a price for it. I have hardware cloth on hand to line the last three raised beds this winter. That will be the end of the vole war. All of my Pak Choi, and half of my mustard bolted to flower. It is just one of those things that happen when growing in the spring. I'll grow more in the fall. I have plenty of greens from last year's harvest, so most of it was going to go to chickens for treats anyway. In exchange I get eggs and fertilizer. This week, I cleaned out about four hundred pounds of composted straw and chicken poop, and put it the compost bins—very smelly, but excellent fertilizer for next year's garden.
I'm already planning the quantities and what I want to grow this fall and next spring. My herb mound is really expanding with 16 dill plants, 22 basil, 6 amaranth, 2 patches of chicory, 4 patches of oregano, 1 patch of thyme, 6 patches of comfrey, a large patch of parsley, a rosemary bush, and 2 patches of marjoram. There are also a few odd purple cone flowers and zinnias that I had left over.
National Weather Service Soil Temperature Maps by Depth keeps good update on needed information. 😊
If I didn’t have such a short growing season here in N Texas before the blast of heat hits I wouldn’t transplant @ 8-10 weeks either. I transplanted 4 weeks ago and they are already under afternoon shade cloth.
Um Gary, I don’t think that was a worm @11:23 😂😂😂🤣 Joking aside, GREAT video. Thank you!
Then there's me who had 4 tomatoes growing in a 4 inch pot with the plan of splitting them when they're smaller before planting. Things got crazy and the 4 plants are much larger that only 1 should be in that container. I split them and planted them, but the soil was just a big root ball. I broke them apart as nice as I could, but the root balls are tiny compared to the plant. Now I'm going to have to prune 2 or 3 sets of sun leaves and hit it with some miracle gro to get that nitrogen fix and P & K also.
I've mistimed all my seedlings, ruined all my cucumbers and am now starting those over. So I've been providing the tomato plants with increasingly bigger pots, and each time I've re-potted them I've buried more of the stem to hopefully get more roots ready to go. My garden space is growbags on a patio, so I'm really hoping a lot of your advice can transfer over. 😅
Would really appreciate if you have any advice for wind-proofing trellises.
Also please share if you know any way to discourage squirrels from trying to dig up my containers for their peanut stashes. (Goodness only know who is providing them with the darn peanuts..)
I plant mine out as soon as the temperature stays at 50 overnight and I plant mine out very young as soon as they have two leaves and are at least 2-3 inches tall.