In this video I cover an area of tomato growing that is often forgotten about and share my thoughts on how to easily fix this tomato growing mistake by using a series of free and low-cost gardening methods. I hope that this video will help you achieve incredible yields! If you’ve never grown tomatoes before I also share 3 additional top tips at the end of the video.
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38 Comments
What is JMS?
My girlfriend left me . Do u think tomatoe growing will help ?
Thanks! It's a different growing mistake than I've heard before! One more thing to add to my To Do list!
Any recommendations for breeds of tomatoes to grow in a greenhouse. I've grown some, in previous years that don't have much taste. 🙁
Growing in 5 gallon buckets and old storage bins. I hugel the bottom half with last years sticks, branches, and leaves. If it’s an old bed or I get it ready early in Spring, I leave the top covered with heavy leaf layer to keep the soil moist and alive. My tomatoes boom every year.
I've just added rotted manure and gave everything a good watering after adding my JMS. I added a bit of everything to the brewing barrel comfrey, nettles , seaweed even biochar along with grass clippings and other things. I started it last year fingers crossed for this year's plants.
Have you tried electroculture?
Please tell me where I can get the blue container in which he makes his solutions. I’ve looked in the US and can’t seem to find these smaller versions!
Im going to put my wood chips im a compost tea bath for a week this year to see if it helps.
Diversity is key to health.
Diverse diet for body health
Diverse microbes for soil health
Diverse plant and animal species for ecosystem health.
Ect
The best tomatoes I grew were in no dig raised beds in the greenhouse, with a thick woodchip mulch, from deciduous trees. Thinking of them as short lived perrenials makes so much sense.
I think my brain's too slow for this level of gardening genius today. But I can still enjoy the pretty pictures.
In southern spain they water the tomatoes with brackish water, the salinity in the water increase the sugar content in the tomatoes
A study on asparagus
MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI IN RELATION TO ASPARAGUS GROWTH AND FUSARIUM WILT
ttps://http://www.ishs.org/ishs-article/271_59
underplanting with pumpkins, their mass of foliage create a great barrier to evaporation
Hi! Thanks for great content! Your videos are very informative and wholesome.
I was wondering about a technique you've showcased in one of your videos last year. I am talking about fermented plant juice from nettles. I haven't seen you mention it in recent videos. Do you still recommend this type of feed, or are Jadam feeds a better alternative in your experience?
Yes sir, Elliot Coleman stated the #1 thing growers need is long term fertility. Your going a bang-up job.
I've noticed that when I plant actual tomatoes, like fresh in slices with their pulp, it always results in lots of fungal growth and really robust sprouts and seedlings.
every day we learn
How about comfrey for the tomatoes? Can you use that on other veggies too?
I am using my banana water diluted on the potatoes
Excellent video. Thanks for mentioning the difference of biological interaction between annuals, semi-, and long time perennials. That's some key info.
Have went thru Nigel Palmer's book a couple of times now that you recommended awhile back. Amazing explanation of KNF. Working on a hybrid of that (+JADAM) and Back to Eden gardening with woodchips into an inexpensive year around fertility plan. We have a big lawn and lots of grass, thinking of partially composting woodchip and grass, then laying it down as mulch.
Noob question, instead of composting why don't you spread the organic matter directly on the beds,instead of wasting time and labour for a pile?
Interesting 🤗👍
This is very interesting. I make a lot of greek yogurt and have a lot of whey as a by product. I believe whey is essentially LAB. I think I will try using this when watering as well as in my compost pile. I'm also putting spent mushroom blocks in my raised beds and compost pile which are adding quite a bit of mycelia. I'm going to plant tomatoes into a mushroom block/straw layer in the raised beds. Time to make JMS also! So many experiments!
Huw, they are side shoots not suckers, suckers grow from the base, root or rhizome of a plant 😉😁🌱☀️
sorry to say but too much data for beginners.
I'm not one but feel this could do with simplifying for thaoes who are
There are two things I've done to really speed up the break down of wood chips, ramp up the amount of fungal growth in them, and make them usable as a mulch that will really feed the soil.
Option 1: In a compost tumbler or pile of wood chips–add fish carcasses. Fish plus wood is a fungal miracle.
Option 2: pee on wood chips in buckets. The urine soaks into the wood chips for a couple months growing bacteria and fungi like crazy and when you dump it out it will be about half broken down can be used as a mulch right away and will be pretty much gone in a couple more months.
My tomatoes that I planted in the earth went mental last Yr, they spread over the fence and into the neighbours back garden, right up until early December. 🍅👍
So is white mould on top of the soil good for tomatoes then?
This was so full of great info, I have a bunch of small pruned tree branches I didn’t know what to do with but chipping them up and using them as mulch makes so much sense!
Such a beautiful garden! You remind me of a young Robert Smith, love the video ♡
Great informative video cheers👍
Thanks for this wealth of information. Some really interesting thoughts Huw
Huw wow. I'm a faithful follower and thankful for your passion in this life! You raise the bar continually higher and stay true to the importance of nature. I have Learned SO much from you as a new gardener. Keep it going and think about delivering to The Netherlands with your products!!
Mulching with some partially or well rotted ramial chips is a great idea, but when you go to mulch around the tomatoes i would think mulching the whole area would be better for the connection and re-establishment of the fungal network.
You should grow goji berries there like perenial cold hardy tomatoes and there is Everglades tomato that I’ve heard reseeds like crazy and probably more cold hardy to.
Thanks Huw. "Food for thought"