In this video, I share 5 secrets for success growing tomatoes in fall. Growing fall tomatoes can be challenging, because the fall gardening season can become too cool too quickly. For this reason, timing and environmental conditions are everything when planting tomatoes in fall. This video will help maximize your tomato harvest.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Tomato Growing Challenges
0:44 Tomato Secret #1: Tomato Varieties
2:57 Tomato Secret #2: Timing Transplants
5:05 Tomato Secret #3: Soil
6:19 Tomato Secret #4: Disease Management
7:35 Tomato Secret #5: Heat Management
11:36 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Tomato Growing Challenges
0:44 Tomato Secret #1: Tomato Varieties
2:57 Tomato Secret #2: Timing Transplants
5:05 Tomato Secret #3: Soil
6:19 Tomato Secret #4: Disease Management
7:35 Tomato Secret #5: Heat Management
11:36 Adventures With Dale
Thank you 👌 this is very helpul.😊 I got 2 shade clothes through your store, I love them.
I probably get some more for next year. I made a big mistake in the beginning of the seasons.. I mixed my tomato plans when i moved them around.. I'm not sure which were determined and indetermined.. so I did not pruned any of my tomatoes !😮.. also I was away for two weeks during the time they needed to be prune. Anyway, after watching a few of your tomatoes videos. I totally agreed with you about, getting rid of the succker and pruning. 😊 My tomatoes were growing everywhere and a mess..cos they were not d pruned but there were so much fruits..crazy..
😅 I am happy!
Could the shadecloth transfer disease spores from year to year?
I went back and watched your video on using straw bales to grow. Next year I will try this
Thanks for sharing secrets for success growing tomatoes in fall. Unfortunately, I am late to start fall tomatoes but will definitely refer back to this video for next fall. Great video.
Glad to hear you discovered shade cloth. I’ve been using it for the last several years because my tomato and pepper plants wouldn’t survive the AZ Sun even on the north side of the house. Good tip on the tomato clips for hanging the shade cloth; I’ll try it next year. I trimmed back my indeterminate tomato plants, so we’ll see what happens. Next year I’ll only be growing determinate varieties because the inter-determinates take up too much space and don’t produce much out here in the heat. Bella Rosa is still producing flowers, which I didn’t expect from a determinate. Cheers.
Have you ever grown watermelon-cherry tomatoes? This is my first year growing them. They are awesome!
Am from San Antonio is is still to late for me to grow fall tomatoes
I plant my tomatoes carrots pepper green beans each winter im zone 10 south Florida
I had to move all my Floradale tomato plants in a separate area of my yard because my dog Odie kept knocking over other plants to get to them. He’s obsessed with tomatoes. I lost a lot of brandy wines because of him. I hope my pepper plants survive Odie’s rampage. He is like Godzilla in Tokyo.
I started tomato seeds around July 1st in 72 cell 10×20 trays. Most died soon after potting up to 4" pots. It's been over 100 every day since July 1. Next year I'm going to start them in 4" pots half way with soil mix.Then fill containers up about a month later. They couldn't handle the root disturbance. Pepper seedling did fine after potting up.
How timely. I pulled all of my tomato plants the other day – except for snips of a few suckers that I'm rooting. They already have flowers on them – I figure they probably won't set fruit, but what the heck – and they're indeterminate. Supersteak and Brandy Boy. I have a sheltered spot where a rogue cherry tomato comes back each year and I thought I would put each of the snips into a 3 gal pot and see what happens. If I get a tomato or two out of it, it'll be more than I got if I threw the whole thing out, lol.
Thanks, as always, for the info.
All my garden plants were hit by broad mites in early summer. My bush cucumber plant is now dead too. I'm in KC Missouri is it too late to start another cucumber plant by seed? My tomato plants are trying very hard to come back from their attack.
I'm definitely one of those who isn't getting the timing right. I planted some Yellow Patio Choice outside about 3 weeks ago and that was way too early; even with 50% shade cloth, they're dropping most of their flowers. But I also planted some other varieties at the same time that aren't flowering yet, so I have hope for those. I have other determinates coming along as I knew I was just spitballing the timing. As always, your videos are very helpful, and these are good tips that I will find very useful. Thanks! PS hello to Dale.
DALE!! 🐶❤❤❤
If you haven't covered this subject: how about steps to force tomato plants to ripen tomatoes in the fall.
I have only one determinate plant going this season, after getting an assortment of free tomato starts from my local nursery in late spring (it got too hot too early, so I assume they were just trying to get rid of them before they cooked). It's called a 'carolina gold' and it's supposed to make fruits that are pretty large, but it has only given me two TINY ones. They ripened no larger than a cherry or currant type tomato, lol. Not sure what I did wrong there, but it's actually growing more leaves again so we'll see what happens.
I've also been holding onto some native potted plants and a tree I got really cheap…not sure how long I should wait before putting them in the ground. They would probably melt if I planted them now, and we've been experiencing a drought so bad that there are huge cracks all through the ground.
We have had a lot of unusually wet, warm and humid weather in July and August, so i have topped some of the larger indeterminate tomatoes and are re rooting them in pots. This allows the current tomatoes on the vine a chance to ripen, in case we get blight and also, when they are done, if the weather picks up i can plants the "new" ones out, topping off again, later in the season to over winter in pots in doors.
Mid Sept and October is usually our "wet" hurricane season and then it tends to dry out. Our first frost date is the beginning of Jan here in zone 9a London, UK but the tomatoes often get taken out by blight or too much rain come October. It gives a chance though to reset the bed for winter, in preparation for planting garlic.
So do you put the dirt inside the straw bails what a great idea
I have plenty of indeterminate tomatoes but they are not ripening-turning red, very slowly so.
I hope you have better luck than I have because I have lost 6 transplants since July under 40% shade cloth. Only one sweet100 and 2 Celebritys have survived.😟
You are awesome
Do you have a video about planting in hay bail
Thanks for the video! Question should we prune back the indeterminate tomatoes we planted in the spring to give them more energy to ripen the fruit? I am in PA and it will start getting cooler in the next few weeks. Thanks!
Fantastic video thanks for sharing your experience in your garden 🪴
Straw bale gardening has saved my garden. Fresh medium every time. Broke down straw is awesome in raised beds or containers.
Game changer!
This video deserves all the awards. Outstanding work! 🏅
My tomatoes are just now starting to ripen. From now until first frost date (8b, 10/15ish) I will be enjoying a wonderful tomato season. This has been acceptional summer of dry, warm (but not hot) weather and I've never had such a wonderful crop of tomatoes. Peppers are doing very well also, all thanks to Jack's Bloom Booster.
Hey, man. I love your channel and I'm new to growing food. My gf and I have some tomatoes growing and they seem to be determinant, but we've only got two little buds growing after almost two months. I hit their soil with peroxide once a week, they get full sun, and the leaves seem very happy. Any advice based on that limited info?
*edit – We prune the bottom stems to let the top grow better. Again, they look mad happy. Deer have eaten some of the tops, but we've pruned them back
How tall are your trellises? My indeterminate tomatoes took down my similar trellis in bad rainstorms and wind.
Very helpful advice.👍 Cute Adventure With Dale.😄
This man deserves a tomato award trophy, nightshades ftw..they smell amazing ^_^
Dale saw how much fun you were having with his mermaid. The end.
Thanks for the tips. I'm in zone 6b. We shall see what the weather man brings our way.
I planted mine back in June, it's doing very well.
They are taller than me, and they are cherrys.🎉
My squash and cucumber have a weird white fuzz growing on their leaves. Is that something I have to worry about spreading to my tomatoes and peppers? My garden is pretty small. If they produce is it safe to eat still?
What happened to Siletz? I bought the seeds based upon your recommendation and have the seedlings started. I thought you said that they were the best for fall gardens.
Shout out to the volunteer tomatoes that popped up in July that are starting to produce now just as my intentionally June- planted ones get sick. 🙌
I'm in Texas and under water restrictions. My fall stuff is on hold mostly. I have 3 dwarf tomato plants hanging in there under shade cloth. No rain in over 2 months and 2 months of over 100°
Heeelp my inderterminate tomatoes have had fruit for over a month and still producing new but they wont keep growing and color. Healthy plants pest free still putting out flowers on some so why arent they ripening?
Can you flush your soil with hydrogen peroxide and re-use ?
Hahahahaha!!! I absolutely loved the ending😂😂😂 That toy did not see one more day😂😂. So glad to see Dale bouncing around your yard. Thanks for all you share Anthony😊 Just got my shipment of fertilizers from your store front👍
Your video How to Condition Straw Bales is the best source of instruction I have seen. I especially like the advice to use urea for conditioning. The 7-14 days for conditioning needs to factor into the timing covered in this video. Is conditioning in late summer as effective as doing so in spring? What do you do with fall-conditioned bales as we move into late fall/winter? Use them for cold-tolerant veggies or reuse them in spring?
How do u have that tomato trellises on container
I enjoy watching and learning from your channel. I went to your Amazon store to look around but I didn’t see where or what seeds you use? Where and what brands do you use?
I have stray cats coming in and eating my lettuces, strawberries & tomatoes. Any suggestions, oh they come in the middle of night.
Great update and love adventures of Dale, lol!
Anyone else in Zone 6B at around 1900 ft? My growing season is extremely short and many of the traditional garden crops don't do well.
Up here in Boston we had a cool spring so the tomatoes are a few weeks behind. We are growing Celebrity tomatoes for the first time this year and using the Florida Weave method for support based on your other video. We had a lot of hard overnight rain so it has been a tough year for disease, but the plants outgrew it for a while and some are getting tired now. However, like you said the Celebrities have been more disease resistant and are lower maintenance. Production has been fantastic! For taste the Sweet 100s are my favorite. The Sweet 100s plants look super healthy so hopefully they keep producing through Halloween.