In this video I will reveal how you might be killing your tomatoes with too much love and attention. I’ll show you how to stop killing your tomatoes with kindness and enjoy a thriving, productive organic tomato patch in your garden.
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29 Comments
Thanks Brian. This is the first year I’ve used shade cloth. I hoping it helps. It’s supposed to be 102 today. Texas heat!!!🔥
Hey Brian, thanks again for a great video. Im on the hunt for good clippers like the one you used for clipping the suckers. What brand is it, and do you have a video on good garden tools and brands that you can point me to? Thanks!
Hahaha! True! Big time my issue. I purchased succulents and learned how to keep them alive…bingo!
I feed mine bunny poop. Usually aged as I want the urine rinsed off.
It has been getting hotter and hotter in the North. I finally have convinced my husband that we need to stake our tomatoes up. We use cement mesh/wire like cattle panels, to tie them up on. This will give me a good foundation to put cloth over to shade them when needed.
Brian, where can I purchase the shade blanket you through on the plants?
I weeded and pruned all our tomato plants a couple days ago. I loosened the soil around them and pulled some soil away and gave the plant a mixture of Fish Emulsion, Molasses and water right at the base and put the soil back.
Is that okay? They seem to be doing well.
It is not something I would keep doing because there are to many plants. In a couple weeks I'll just give them each mixed Fish Emulsion.
This’s is how I kill my neighbors tomatoes!!!
My big boy tomatoes take 2 hands to hold!!!
Hi,I'm trying to save my mators with neem oil,quick question,Why are my stems so small and weak,they are collasping under the weight,I've had to tie them to my stick?
I went into this growing season adamant that I was going to keep on top of my 'maters. Of course, that didn't happen and my tomato plants are so large & overgrown that a mockingbird has built a nest within the mass o' 'maters and I have 3 babies currently hatched out. I guess I'll stay on top of the tomatoes next year….
I baked slices of zucchini on top of my chicken and stuffing last night for supper.
I have an alarm that goes off if my glucose goes below 70. It didn't wake me up until it was down to 42. It scared me.
It's still 80s, 90s, sometimes hitting 100s in New England 🤔 My tomatoes seem to be staying green. Should I pick them and shade it?
I can also highly recommend Farmer's Defense Sleeves!
They have nice thumb holes, which I noticed Bryan doesn't use.
I mostly wear them to keep the mosquitos from biting my hands and elbows.
(Why do mosquitos like elbows SO MUCH!?)
The mosquitos can't – or haven't, bitten me thru the sleeve fabric.
Altho they DO bite me thru my tee-shirt!
Opting out on the thumb holds does make the sleeve longer.
So yes, thumb holes are optional !
Oh, and as Bryan mentioned, my arms & hands DO NOT get hot, which is a HUGE PLUS since I'm in Central Texas & it's over 100°f every day… 🥵
And if they did make me hotter I wouldn't be able to use them.
I've definitely tested that theory this year!
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heat test,
sunburn test,
mosquito test,
& sticker bush test,
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Hi, can u pls make a beefsteak tomato video, pls? I remember u telling that beefsteak is little different, when it comes to pruning
I use farmer’s defense sleeves to make my soap!! Keeps the caustic lye soap off my arms as I am cleaning my pots.
Followed your plan from planting onward. I have my ‘maters under 30% shade cloth here in Arizona. They are in 25 gallon cloth bags and were doing great until our temperatures hit 110+ and we went under watering restrictions. We haven’t had a drop of rain since late May. Monsoon season usually begins midJune. Nothing so far. Got lots of ripening tomatoes, but few new blooms. Can’t fight Mother Nature too much. I’ll take the heat over the unrelenting flooding and wild fires some poor folks have had to deal with. Hope all of you are safe!
Unless I'm missing something, I think you forgot to provide the link for Farmer's Defense.
nothing but 90f-100f degrees here in northern nevada with the strong high altitude sun so 50% shade cloth has been a blessing
I growed stuff but why not water im hot it rains when it hots
Hi Brian, another great tomato video. This is my second year growing indeterminates up a string trellis, and the first I've tried the Kellogg breakfasts you love. They are outperformimg all my other tomatoes, but nothing ripe yet, which is fine. My question is, I trim all my sucker shoots, but often the shoots/branches off the main stem that bare blooms/tomatoes continue to grow stems beyond, and even grow more blossoms (I left a couple go to see what happens)
Should I be nipping these new shoots off immediately after the original blossoms when they start to develop?
Thanks so much for all your content Brian. I’m a new gardener, at nearly 70, and trying tomatoes for the first time this year. I’ve raised 15 plants, mainly from seed, and already have 454 great looking tomatoes, with the first few nearly ready to eat.
Thank you so much! 🍅🍾❤️
So…bought a pack of cherry tomato seeds that had 3 varieties of tomatoes in them. But, there are 2 indeterminate and one determinate. Who mixes those in one package!!!! I started off not pruning at all, but I decided to go hard and treat them all as indeterminate because chances are that’s what 66.6% of them are anyway!!! 😂
Thanks Brian. 🌸💚🙃
Here in the Austin, Texas area you can bake bread in the mail boxes…lol, It been 100 plus for a month or more here and I don't expect it to get cooler until may be October if I am lucky..
I break all these rules and always have a massive, beautiful harvest. I think my dry PNW summer weather is why.
i noticed my container tomatoes were getting too much heat so i moved them closer to my in ground ones and they are doing much better not in direct sun.
Does it make a different if the tomato plant is determinate when it comes to pruning? Learn last year that I needed sun shade cloth. Very helpful video. Blessings ❤️🌺
Funny enough. My tomato plants wwre growing beautifully when our temperatures were arround 70-80. But in summer they rose to 90-100, and they have all wilted and dried out, except for one that I had left by itself under the canopy. Rhat one is still green and growing. The rest are reaching the end of their life. Moving to squashes now.