I am a crazy busy executive that travels 2-3 days per week around the U.S. My wife convinced me, a number of years ago, to start gardening to reduce my stress levels and start eating healthier. To make a long story very short, it turned out to be a great change that was much needed in my life. This channel is dedicated, and focused on, showing other busy people the pleasure of gardening, growing your own food and getting back to nature to reduce stress. I will share my experience and give you helpful tips to help make your own gardening experience a pleasurable experience. This channel is not focused on making money, but instead sharing my experience and learning with other busy people looking to enjoy gardening and ways to reduce stress in the garden. Happy Gardening!
This is one of the most straightforward and informative videos on growing tomatoes. I can’t stand these newer overly-snazzy tiktok style presentations. I went digging through my old bookmarks to find your video again. Glad to see it’s still available!
Trying to decide if spraying my Thai Constellation and my poor, sad Ficus tree will benefit from foliar spraying Silica from Amazon? In Phoenix, the daytime temps now are about 115º. At night it's about 90+0186. I'd like to foliar spray my Meyer Lemon and my Tangerine Trees, but it's too hot?
Just have NEVER had issues growing Tomatoes I live in Blue Ridge GA, so good conditions…….. but this one tomato has been the first one green as green can be
Thanks for the video. One thing, tho--I thought Victoria Red is a cross, not engineered. Hand crossing and planting seed is not engineered. It came from Arkansas breeding programs, not Texas. It has an Arizona wild grape on one side for it's PD resistance. Please look it up, and tell us what you find. Hearsay is not the best source of info. Thanks. R
Its important to understand alot of calcium is water insoluble so alot of calcium is not available to your plant. You have to throw things like lime stone and bones into nitric and sulfuric acid to unlock it and make things like calcium ammonium nitrate. This is how the pro's supplement liquid calcium. When I hear people adding milk and egg shells I say whatever. If yours just says calcium it better start saying available calcium as the bacteria that commonly makes calcium into available calcium is also associated with raw sewage and infections meaning its probably not present or going to be so slow at releasing its impossible. This is how you got a soil test of 10,000ppm calcium and bud end rot. its locked and unavailable as calcium carbonate.
I love grow bags, for the last couple of years I've done that because our soil in Dallas is heavy clay and it caused my plants to get diseased later in the season due to too much moisture in the soil. I start my tomatoes indoors in January and by mid to late March they're already flowering. I just bring thrm in at night if temps drop below 50. I've never tried growing them through the winter by I may start some in November indoors that I can take out on warmer days in December and January. February would be the only month that it stays too cold during the day outside.
Squirrels used to get ALL of our figs green and take them somewhere. You could stand there with a BB gun shooting them and they didn`t care. I was glad to get away from there.
Does this method work for sweet potatoes, like the Japanese sweet potato or yams? I'm a complete garden newbie, possibly moving to a rural area with land and it's always been a dream of mine to have a garden, even though I know next to nothing about it (yet!) 🙂.
I am in zone 6A Michigan. Those weird wispy leaves come from broad leaf herbicide drift damage (lawn "care" related). I prune it off when it appears about once every other year on my tomato plants. This year I had just a few branches with it & thankfully that was it. Thanks for letting me know about Jimmy Nardello peppers years ago, on an unrelated note LOL
Wow your leaves look amazing almost fake compared to mine lol. I always end up gettin the spots on mine seems no matter what i try i cant get rid of it.
Welcome to BeeWorld, Jeff. I'm new to it myself, but I'm pretty sure the main benefit for gardening comes from having a variety of plants that flower all through the season. That way the bees always have a source of nectar and pollen to keep the hive strong and healthy through the growing season. If your cucumbers or whatever don't flower until August, but the bees haven't had anything to eat since June, you won't have as many bees to pollinate your cucumbers. If you're interested, "YappyBeeman" and "Just Alex" have some really good videos on youtube, and pretty different takes. Both very informative. Bees are REALLY amazing creatures.
You have the ability to throw a tarp, or other fabric that limits the amount of rain that gets through, over the wire fencing that's on top of your "garden cage," so why didn't you?
I think it's a lack of zinc and magnesium and an alkaline soil (that's my opinion) anyways I hope it turns well and the others produce a healthy huge and great amount of tomatoes 😊
I'm in N.Y. State zone 5b, I have the exact same condition, flowers on the top, leaves kind of curly. It took a while to warm up here plus I got mine in a week later than usual because of the cooler temps. I did that because a neighbor lost a few plants for jumping the gun and the plants couldn't handle the cooler temps and stronger winds.
My guess, with the crazy insane heat the entire country has been experiencing is it's due to heat stress. If your outside temps are 85 or above (Louisville, Ky here...we've been having mid and upper 90's!), I'd place at least a 40% shade cloth over the tomato plants. It really does help. Otherwise, they look pretty healthy to me. That would explain the lack of blooms/tomatoes in the center of the plant...perhaps that is when the worst heat was occurring and the tomato blooms dryed up and fell off as is what happens during extreme heat.
All of my tomato plants are doing the same thing. There were flowers top , middle and bottom but the middle flowers fell off without producing tomatoes. This is because the flowers weren't fertilized. I think that lack of insect pollinators and lack of rain but high humidity prevented the pollen from loosening from the flowers. I tried my usual solution for lack of pollinating insects. That is touching the top of each flower with a sonic toothbrush but that didn't work as it did for the past 2 years because of the humidity.
Gorgeous plants… with 100+ temps here in Conroe they have died.. water them early and the water will cook them.. no disease tho… a couple of my tomatoes, in containers, I had 40 tomatoes… will start fall on plants… hope you are doing great..
Complain the plants are in 102° heat, but have them next to hot air coming out of a/c compressors... Then, say your "secret weapon" is watering them with "ice water"... Besides really bad decisions on audio recording choices, zo are the "secret wrapons" for a plant that thrives on hot, arid, climates... It's NORMAL for pepper plants' leaves to wilt during the hottest part of the day, and don't need any "secret weapons" to help it return to again, it's normal state without the wilt -- all by themselves... Ridiculous.
I have a grapevine that grew way up a tree and started growing grape clusters. I had to pull them down because I wouldn't be able to reach them but now they've been growing new foliage on my fence. Do you think the new growth will still create clusters this year or will I not get any more until next year? The vine in the ground is about 15-20 years old and just this year started to set fruit way up in the tree.
