Here are 11 key tips to getting your tomato transplants into the ground. Healthy tomato plants, starts with the transplants and understanding the roots.
0:00 Introduction
1:00 The Right Age for a Tomato Transplant
3:00 Plant Age & Soil Temperature Matters
6:19 Preparing the Transplant for Planting
7:00 The Root Ball & Early Watering
8:39 Setting Up the Planting Hole
12:23 Water-Soluble Feeding
14:13 Staking Tomato Plants
15:18 The Aspirin Trick – Beef Up Defenses
18:35 Ongoing Watering
20:38 Mulching for Moisture & Temperature Control
22:27 Prevention Planning for Pests & Diseases
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I’m doing my vegetable garden from seed this year. I am just getting ready to plant the rest of them outside. You have been my guide though this. Thank you.
You are so correct and those tomato plants look beautiful as the rest of your garden. I love watching your videos. Everybody does things different according to their environment and type of tomato. I don't know about you but, I grow my tomatoes like little trees. We plant them 4 ft. apart to allow them to spread out. Our favorite variety is "Celebrity" semi-determinate. They grow to five feet tall and about 4ft. wide. We had a huge production last year. Here in Zone 5b in SE Nebraska we are putting our transplants out right now.
My tomato is not in raised bed but rather straight into the ground. It has been really hot here so i have been watering everyday. Am i overwatering? They look really great! I have mulch on top too.
Do you pour the aspirin water just at the roots or over the leaves, too?
Great tip with topping the suckers never heard of that before!
I always end up underwatering. it doesnt FEEL that hot to me so I dont remember that they are affected more by evaporation than I am
Thanks
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Thank you I will be trying the aspirin on my plants. Now may I offer you a tip,where I’m at in upstate New York the soil warms up but we still have some cold winds. I started staking my tomatoes but I also put a large tomato cadge over the staked plant then wrap it half way up with landscape fabric. It protects the plant from the cold wind plus draws some heat. Another benefit is if you get a frost you go out with garbage bags and put over the top and have a hot cap.
Could tomatoes be started in straight compost?
Thank you for the great tip on letting the suckers flower and then topping it off!
Angel is a she-devel, or at the least, a demon. I should have named her Lilith. She has dug up three tomato seedlings, killing two of them. I have cages in place to protect the seedlings from my cat, but it isn't enough. I've surrounded my three time replaced seedlings with plant stakes, so far, it has survived two days of her digging. I'm down to two seedlings (a Black Krim, and an Ace-55) for late season tomato plants. Hopefully they will survive my cat long enough to be planted elsewhere in my garden. That will give me… twenty-five tomato plants, mixed determinant, and indeterminant. I have chard, mustard greens (third reaping), and squash ready to harvest, and four-inch-long cucumbers on the vines. Bugs, bugs, bugs, I am seeing damage to my pepper plants, which is unusual. I removed three patches of eggs from my crookneck squash, and saw two squash bugs. No eidence of pickle worm damage yet, but I've been preemtively spraying since May 1st with spinosad after 7:00 pm. The Japanese beathles are late! I have to spray my fruit trees to prevent Cedar Gall Rust, so while I am at it, I've been spraying my squash, melons, and cucumbers with Immunox. Powdery mildew and rust fungi are really bad here in Alabama. I am hoping I can extend the harvest time using it. So far, no fungus issues, but it is a couple weeks early. From mid-Junt until November, fungus is a major problem. It comes with the heat and humidity in Alabama. I'm an odd ball in my area, Most people here don't start their gardens until after May 20th. I have plants in the ground by February 20th, earlier if I think I can get away with it. People here are finished gardening in September. I keep going until a hard freeze kills my garden, and even then, portions of my garden keep producing until planting time in February. Fordhook Swiss Chard is indestructable. I've had it shrug off a five day freeze with temps in the single digets, and day time highs of 20F. Happy gardening!
Thank you Gary! Fabulous video!
Interesting comment about topping suckers, I’m going with a single stem approach (double stem for cherry tomatoes) and completely removing suckers
I may actually try the topping approach on one of them to see the difference
would be great to know how big you let the suckers go before topping them. Great channel, great videos, I’m also in MD near DC
I lover fertilizing with a handful of granular in the planting hole, water soluble on planting day, water soluble on first sign of blossom + another handful of granular top dressing scratched in the top inch of soil , then water soluble on first fruit pick. dose well for the long growing season down in VA/NC boarder area zone 8b. i think we have 170+ day growing season and it keeps production up if you can handle the blight
I've seen you doing and mentioning your "planting hole" technique but for some reason this video really made sense. I usually treat the whole bed or row the same way, and only do the smallest planting hole I can get away with according to the root ball size. I'm going to try the aspirin treatment on my tomatoes this year. I thought it was only a a foliar thing.