This video is a complete guide on how to grow tomatoes. Tomato plants need help to reach their maximum potential, and in this video, I share everything I’ve learned growing tomatoes in the last 20 years. I debunk countless tomato myths along the way to help you avoid common bad tomato growing advice. Do this now and your tomato plants will love you and reward you by producing all the way until frost!
The following videos will help you master growing tomatoes:
• Fertilizing: https://youtu.be/UeSwFY7skDc?si=7C3H5crsJ5MH2tGw
• Picking Tomatoes: https://youtu.be/FR1S3hPZEps?si=BT-w_bVhQ9Ee-_5q
• Drip Irrigation: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1gY7BoYBGIHHHsx0JPcYgD4xXzA96usL&si=jKLleADC80cHZaCY
• Tomato Pruning: https://youtu.be/LR_rZQHNnio?si=-EhDIt801qfOIO14
• Shade Cloth Install: https://youtu.be/OdOF5-bR6RU?si=KcNOUeB0GUl3vQ_T
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro to Growing Tomatoes
0:39 Step #1: Mulching Tomatoes
3:48 Step #2: Fertilizing Tomatoes
9:11 Step #3: Shading Tomatoes
15:39 Step #4: Harvesting Tomatoes Correctly
19:59 Step #5: Tomato Wilt
21:27 Step #6: Pruning Tomatoes
24:41 Step #7: Irrigating Tomatoes
27:12 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Intro to Growing Tomatoes
0:39 Step #1: Mulching Tomatoes
3:48 Step #2: Fertilizing Tomatoes
9:11 Step #3: Shading Tomatoes
15:39 Step #4: Harvesting Tomatoes Correctly
19:59 Step #5: Tomato Wilt
21:27 Step #6: Pruning Tomatoes
24:41 Step #7: Irrigating Tomatoes
27:12 Adventures With Dale
Love your channel!
Our Detroit garden is a copycat of yours (without the overhead cover). Got tomatoes growing up strings.
thank you so much for these tips! QUESTION: when reapplying granular fertilizer to plants that have been mulched with straw, do we have to pull back the straw to apply the fertilizer, or can we sprinkle it over the straw and water it in? thanks so much for your help!
I'm thankful you've stayed away from AI. This is awesome information
I live in Middle Tennessee. Our summers are brutal. Hot, humid, and buggy. My daughter and I have been using shade cloth on our gardens for years. Game changer. I also moved my garden to the eastern side of my house where it only gets sun until about 2pm instead of out in the open scorching sun all day.
Appreciate the long form! Thank you!
You have a great channel & I’ve watched your videos for over two years. However, the commercials (ads) are very very long compared to other favorite garden channels. I’ll have to unsubscribe August 1st if this continues to occur during July. Sad…
This is really helpful as a beginner grower, excited to learn more!!
Your "old wheatstraw" mulch idea is the single best thing I've heard lately. I was using that coco coir stuff (that you reconstitute from a brick). It looks really good, but it's expensive as can be!
Don Vito shaded his tomatoes 🍅
Goodness. Now I know why I had thriving tomatoes a month or two ago and now they're looking so unhappy. Southern California gardener here and I put them in my sunniest spots 🤦♀️ Thank you for the really helpful information.
I appreciate the long form vids, keep it up! From Charlotte area here.
Thanks for all the info!
Can I use pine shavings from tractor supply?
I hate all the AI videos.
I'm sticking to your fertilizer schedule, and I have an abundance of huge tomatoes and peppers.
Do you pick cherry tomatoes at breaker stage too?
What do you do with all those tomatoes?
All thanks to you, I stopped pruning and even argued with a few older folks over this…They are MASSIVE bushes, so massive I've bought 20 tomato stakes from a local family hardware and used them all holding up the big limbs they've grew (some limbs bigger than the main stalk). Those older folks are true believers now lol. It's crazy the amount of tomatoes that's on them (6 plants). As you helped me a couple days ago with this, I know I removed 40 tomatoes that had blossom end rot and when I told my father he didn't believe me seeing how many tomatoes are still on them growing. It's almost like every tomato I removed the plants replaced them or even put off two more for the one gone.
Great information, as always. Thank you!
Absolutely love your videos 💕💕
If you prune the diseased leaf or branch can you use a sealant to prevent more disease
Thank you for reminding me that I need to brush my dog.
Thank you! AI is horrible! In the long run you will overcome this! AI can never replace an informed educated human! Most people don’t like them either!
i dont think you should promote the use of cypress mulch….ah…it robs the soil of NITROGEN…and the processing of mulch to market removes the natural buffer of CYPRESS TREES against storms in Louisianna. And habitat destruction!
Dude. I have had your channel in rotation for years now. I can’t help but say how noticeable that you’re LITERALLY trying to steal James Prigionis formula.
You tried mimicking his intro.(you change a word or 2 is still copying)
The video edits and covers total copy.
NOW A DOG NAMED DALE!!?
So what’s going on here? Are you obsessed with him or just a cheap knock off?
Dude, find your own identity and stick with it man. Your videos were fine when you were the “millennial Gardner”
Not discount “the gardening channel”.
Just be original
Thanks for your personal touch to sharing your wisdom
Informative as usual. What alternatives can be done for community garden bed gardeners who cannot install an irrigation system and cannot build a structure to install shade cloth?
Love your content!
Legitimate advice, honest.
Your tomatoes are gorgeous 🥰 I'm definitely going to follow your lead
Great stuff thanks
I have a few tomatoes that took off and then just wilted. But my dwraf emerald giants are doing great. Bobcat not so well. I planted them from your suggestion of your top varieties. Maybe here in Pennsylvania the Bobcat just doesn't like it here. Thanks for the content!
I greatly appreciate the mid-season information. Most videos are starter videos and have no follow-up.
3 sprouts ( 1 growing right now- under a grow light)–of store bought (edit) cherry style
Excellent job putting out great information. Thanks 😊
❤thanks 8m learning so much from you!
I basically only come to your channel for gardening tips at this point because your advice has had such tremendous effects on my garden. I also really appreciate your delivery method and stance against AI. Thank you for the work you do
Love your videos! 💓
Thanks!
If you have a 1×1 foot of an in ground worm bin in each bed, it’ll naturally feed all your plants
You are so relatable there in your back yard garden. For many of us our back yards are the only place we have to garden. I've been looking at growing tomatoes in a whole new way every since you taught us that they are understory plants. Thank you 🙂.
YouTube is seriously dumb for this. They are actually making it harder to find the newest videos of the people we follow
Fantastic Gardening channel! My favorite and most accurate information! Plus, I love seeing Dale. Definitely a dog lover here. Thank you for sharing your experience.