A complete guide – how to grow tomatoes from seed to harvest and everything in between! I’ve compiled my past videos on growing tomatoes this long format episode that covers every step of growing tomatoes including how to start from seed indoors, grow lights, planting outdoors, watering, fertilizing, DIY tomato cages, trellising, pruning, growing in the heat, harvesting, freezing, and a few of my favorite tomato recipes. Use the digital table of contents (BELOW) to click and watch the section you are most interested in.
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DIGITAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
**Click the time link to jump to the section you’re most interested in:
1:45 Section 1: Starting Tomato Seeds Indoors
2:04 Why start from seed?
2:25 Choosing seeds
3:18 Plantng seeds in cups
6:05 Watering tomato seedlings
7:42 When to start tomato seeds indoors
9:49 What to do after seeds germinate – light
10:07 Section 2: Three EZ Grow Light Set Ups for Indoor Seedlings
10:59 Why use a grow light?
12:10 Lumens explained
13:00 Kelvin explained
13:31 Watts explained
13:58 Set up #1: Clamp light
14:57 How to avoid leggy seedlings
15:26 Grow light box with clamp light
15:56 Set up #2: Shop lights
17:45 Set up #3: Table top light
19:13 Using a timer
19:38 How many hours to leave grow lights on
20:46 Section 3: How to Grow Lots of Tomatoes and My Tomato Planting Hole Special Recipe
21:43 Sun requirements
22:00 Soil requirements
22:26 How deep to plant them?
22:36 Tomato planting hole recipe
24:57 How to plant a tomato
26:12 Watering and fertilizing
27:03 Spacing for tomatoes
28:10 Section 4: DIY Tomato Cage – Sturdy, Easy and Cheap
28:22 Why build your own?
28:40 Here’s the DIY cage
29:02 Supplies – only 4 needed
29:39 How to make the cage
33:55 Installing the cage
35:12 Section 5 Inexpensive Tomato Supports & How to Make a Super Sturdy Tomato Trellis
35:23 Stake
35:36 DIY cage
35:52 Cattle panel arch
36:10 Making a cattle panel trellis
41:20 Section 6: Three Quick and Simple Tips to Grow Lots of Tomatoes in the Summer Heat
41:43 Mid season boost
42:00 Hand pollinate
42:18 Shade cloth
43:20 Section 7: Tomato Trimming – End of Season Boost
43:36 Trimming a 10 foot tomato
45:48 End of season fertilizer
48:34 Before and After
49:16 Section 8 Tomato Disease Control
49:38 Trim leaves
50:23 Check plant
50:56 Tie up branches
51:40 Section 9: Tomato Cage Collapse and Rescue
51:40 Collapse
52:22 Harvest
52:50 Rescue
54:27 Section 10: Dreaded Tomato Horn Worms – Raw Footage
54:29 Tomato leaf damage
55:16 The dreaded horn worm
56:04 How I get rid of them
58:19 Section 11: Tomato Revival After a Heat Wave – 3 Steps to Give Tomatoes an End-of-the-Season Boost
58:36 Before boost
58:54 Harvest
1:00:03 Trim
1:02:22 Fertilize
1:02:22 After boost
1:05:28 Section 12: Tomato Plants: What to Do at the End of the Season?
1:06:50 Harvest all tomatoes
1:08:22 Remove the plant
1:09:37 Mulching garden bed
1:09:44 Overwintering a tomato plant
1:11:19 Section 13 How to Ripen a Green Tomato off the Vine
1:14:16 Section 14: Harvest Day and How to Oven Roast Veggies
1:14:16 Harvesting tomatoes and other veggies
1:17:40 Oven roasting veggies
1:19:08 Taste test
1:21:17 Section 15: Tomatoes: 2 Quick Ways to Preserve Lots of Tomatoes
1:21:43 Freezing
1:22:13 Oven Drying
1:23:09 Section 16: Making Salsa Fresca
1:24:30 Ingredients
1:26:39 how to make salsa fresca
1:28:28 taste test
1:29:45 Section 17: How to Make Spaghetti Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes
1:29:45 Harvesting
1:30:26 Ingredients
1:31:05 Making the sauce
1:41:51 Taste test
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