Can You Grow Tomatoes In Winter? Lets find out ~ ‎@digdeepgardeningforlife 

Can You Grow Tomatoes In Winter? Lets find out ~ ‎@digdeepgardeningforlife 

Tomatoes, while often grown as an annual, are actually a perennial plant.
This means that the plant will not simply die come winter, but rather enters a dormancy period, a dormancy I’m hoping to overcome by “dodging” winter in my greenhouse.

Is this something you’d give a try?
Have you tried it before?

let us know in the comments!

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hi guys Ella here from dig deep
gardening for Life today’s mission is
going to be to pot up these Tomatoes
firstly I would like to acknowledge that
yes it is
Autumn uh but I’m just going to see if
they go these were actually um you can
see they were laterals that uh had come
off so I figured I might as well do
something with them I was going to put
them in the same pop but this one is um
got a bit of what looks to be mold and
is started to Decay at the bottom so
definitely chop that bottom part off
I’ll give it a bit of a wash and I’ll
put it in a separate pot so it doesn’t
contaminate this very very healthy one
just in case you don’t know if you’ve
ever looked up close at your Tomatoes
they have these little nubbly bits each
and every single one of those little
nubbly BS is a potential root and all
I’ve done to propagate these is put a
stem in
water and I’ve ignored them for probably
too long they’ve been in there for a few
weeks now but been busy and that’s okay
that’s part of gardening uh so yeah a
lateral branch that I have put in water
and is going to make an entire new plant
I’ve got a couple of um very healthy
tomato plants left in my garden as well
so I might try and get a couple more and
stagger them and see what happens and as
I said I’m going to grow these in the
greenhouse because they’ll be too too
cold if I put them outside I should say
This is highly experimental I haven’t
done it personally although I know of
others that have uh whether or not it
would work for you depends on your
climate depends on your Greenhouse
depends on your
um stick ability I guess how how
committed you are to getting tomatoes in
Winter my daughter eats Tomatoes by the
kilo so if I can grow them and not be
paying like $5 $16 a kilo in the winter
then that would be great um and if it
doesn’t work then all I’ve lost is a
little bit of time and maybe some
enthusiasm having cut this one i f for
me it is quite Brown in there I might
take it up a little bit further and
we’ll see what
happens okay I’m having to do things off
screen at the moment cuz I don’t have
the uh camera holder thing um but still
it has that Brown Center so which is all
full of water so this may or may not
survive it might surprise me and as I
say I wash that um that mil Dey mold off
these have been in my house so that one
was obviously just a bit further down in
the water to have captured that this one
I’m not going to trim this off I’ll just
show you give it a bit of a squeeze so I
can squeeze that oh yuck I can squeeze
that quite hard and it’s quite Woody so
if I were to cut that there then I’d be
creating a fresh wound and um that’s not
going to Bod well for our plant so I’m
not concerned about that one at all and
I’ll just pop it in what I’ll do with
this one is I’m going to take off the
lowest lying leaf and I’m going to plant
it up to about where my thumb sits so
that’s how deep it will be in the soil
and I’m also Al going to remove uh
the top I’ll do that part on camera for
you so that you can see what I mean and
why I do it and this one here same deal
I’m going to take off the lower Branch
so that I can get a decent amount of
stem in the soil so again up to where my
thumbnail is and I will punch the top
out of there as well so let me pop them
in
pots there we go just like a bol one so
as promised I’ve taking off the lower uh
branches off both of them and what I’ll
do is I will just come into the middle
the here and I’m going to pinch that out
so I got a little bit Hasty and I took
some of that the flowering there that’s
too much for that little plant so this
is now going to get taller and it will
uh end up with more branches lower down
it’s a little bit of a short plant to be
doing that with but uh tomatoes are
notoriously resilient um which is also
why I don’t mind putting them in smaller
pots to start with this one for example
the uh bottom of the stem is pretty much
at the bottom of the pot hot but you saw
how many roots are coming off it it will
Thrive so same deal I’m going to come
into here and I’m going to pinch out the
top because I’ve just planted it I want
it to focus its energy on roots not on
fruit and we’ll get rid of those flowers
uh and I might stake that one so that it
goes up instead of sideways that’s
damaged so I’ll take that off so the
plant doesn’t waste energy trying to
heal it or fix it or kill it off
whatever it’s going to do it needs all
its precious energy to become
established the only thing I will say
about putting these in smaller parts is
that you need to make sure that you keep
the food up to them so a bit of
nutrients here and there I’m a big fan
of seaweed based fertilizers I use it
for all of my plants so I’m not having
to have six different types of
fertilizers in the cupboard um and I’ve
used the cheapest number eight compost I
just bought it from my 10 it’s um $6 or
$7 a bag and I’ll just show you
it’s got uh wonderful I mean it’s just a
little chunk there it’s got wonderful
chunks of manure the hallway through um
here we go loads of um Browns if you
will loads of carbon based stuff and a
good amount of
nutrients so yeah for starters I think
it’s fantastic and it’s so cheap and it
can be used as mulch or soil or
whatever the only other thing I would
recommend when using pots for anything
this is just a rule I go by is make sure
you don’t get any weeds in your pots uh
reason being because weeds just zap up
Precious Precious
nutrients so um yeah they don’t need to
be growing in your pots your plants need
to be growing in your
pots great so because we’re not having
frosts just yet I have put these into my
trolley um that’s sitting underneath a
tree so it gets a little bit of
protection from the Sun um which will be
great cuz they’ve just come come outside
so when you first bring plants from
inside to outside you should Harden them
off which basically just means don’t put
them out in direct sunlight cuz then all
of the delicate little foliage will cook
these guys will be fine again tomatoes
are really resilient and a little bit of
water will collect in the bottom of the
a they’ll get a good drink and then I
will pop them into the greenhouse just a
short one for you guys today I hope that
there was some valuable content in there
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have any questions definitely hit me up
in the comments I’m happy to help
wherever I can and I’ll do my best to
let you know how I go growing tomatoes
outside in a greenhouse in southern
Central Hawks Bay New Zealand where it
gets very very very cold in the winter
so fingers crossed I’ll let you know
take it Easy by
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