Great video! About a month ago my four-year-old and i were at the super market and she begged for a pint of cherry tomatoes. I told her that i doubted that they tasted as good as they looked but she insisted that she needed them. She doesn’t go to the store very often so seeing a vegetable outside its season is rare for her. We got the tomatoes home, washed and she popped one in her mouth and her eyes instantly welled up. “Someone made a mistake” she wailed, “Do I have to eat any more of these?”
That breaks my heart, because I know how many young children become life-long averse to vegetables only because they never had a proper vegetable in their life. I'm glad your daughter was first exposed to garden fresh.
So I started several tomato varieties this spring ... plum, beef, regular and cherry. All nicely organised and with tags so I'd know later what variety they are. I also added a bit of own vermi compost for healthy plants only to find that there were tomato seeds in the compost, completely dormant until mixed with soil. Dozens of tomato plants in each pot... Now I am waiting what varieties I'll be growing this year ... tomato lottery.
The planting season in Virginia has significantly changed in the past 2 to 3 years, cooler springs has definitely pushed my poor tomato seedlings to their root bound limits. Following years will result in me building either cold frames or even a green mini-house. Can't wait to view your outcome. Fingers crossed for an awesome growing season for us all.
This is so neat - I just talked with my friend who is helping her grandpa plant tomatoes and then I check my RU-vid subscriptions to find your lovely video echoing the conversation we just had! Also, I remember you telling me that a couple years ago; once you have a homegrown tomato you just can’t go back to store-bought. Totally agree! Thanks for sharing this educational tutorial! I always appreciate the quality of work you put into your projects. :)
Yehey! Thanks Siloe. Growin my first tomatoes in my tropical home. Waiting for the flowers.. Thanks for ur tips. But thanks more for ur awesome artist's eye.
Thanks for the video. I guess I'd better get started with my tomato seeds. I did plant outside peas spinach and lettuce last week. I really want to see if I will do better this year with those 3 than last year. You learn by taking chances. Heard that from you. I'm looking forward for the children book and next Sunday. Have an awesome week
Nice channel. I enjoy your presentation style and trial & error methodology. Too many youtubers in this space readily profess their "wisdom," only to directly contradict themselves in later videos. It's frustrating when they don't even acknowledge that contradiction, mistake, or what went wrong. Thank you for keeping it honest! New sub.
Thank you for this video! The information about cold frames was especially helpful. I went from gardening with no effort in California to struggling in Belgium and I think they might do the trick!
Can’t wait for Sunday for the update! I have sown my three heirloom tomatoes on my raised bed early March and put on a plastic cover over them. I am so excited that this week, some of them have already sprouted. I removed the plastic cover and replaced it with white plastic containers.( one for each kind). It has been so sunny today so I removed all the plastic containers yet I forgot to put them back on tonight. 🥺 I hope they will still be fine tomorrow.
oh no!!! Nowyou gotmewaiting untillnext sunday! Thats hard. Maybe i will start my tomatoes for this season indoors in that time. As always, glad to see another video from you
Thanks. I never thought or knew that you would be able to bury them on their sides. I do always bury them deeper, just didn't think of laying them on their sides.
I started my hydro kratky tomatoes in February. The weather has been fluctuating between 0 and 15 degrees all through march. My cherry tomatoes already started to flower indoors... I am hustling to start some new seedlings... Haha. They are all suffering atm.
This summer was rough on my tomatoes, I managed to get them to survive while planting out earlier than everyone else and even got some for Christmas (every gardeners dream) but because of the rain in November I had fungus issues all summer, despite that I have been able to get enough preserved for most of winter and they're still comming and I know another gardener who only started getting some in the last few weeks of summer but they say we had the hottest summer on record so no wonder everything struggled
@@suburbanhomestead yeah we had so much rain until late December and since then it's only rained enough to make any difference once, I'm still not sure if I've planted my winter veg too early as it's still so hot and dry
Sounds like an Australian garden!This summer was rough on our tomatoes too. The scorching sun was brutal. Every day over 39°C i put up shade but any leaf not under the 50% shadecloth was crisp. By the end of January I'd made structures that stayed up until last week. Hot north wind brought in mites and the Amish paste and principie Borghese were in serious trouble in just 2 days. Id never seen mite damage in the garden before so it was shocking to watch how quickly they decimated the plants! The ladybugs arrived just as fast and the plants came back from their strong roots but the weather was so brutal only 1 plant really recovered enough to fruit. Reaching over 47 CELCIUS in a capital city is kind of terrifying. Thankfully the microclimate of our trees and garden reduced that a bit, but, 47..... it's not something that's easy to come to terms with! This weekend is brassicas seed planting for us. Hope your winter veg get an easy season!
4:37 lol unless you're Canadian... if you're wearing a t-shirt and still find it cold, it's too cold :D 70f a.k.a 20C is summer weather where I come from! Looking forward to part 2! last summer was a scorcher D:
Haha and it was 23°C inside last weekend and the kids had their slippers on, hoodies and I was wearing 3 layers! We knew it was ridiculous but we felt cold!! In our defense we had too many summer days in the mid 40s and some.nights in the 30s so as the summer eases we start to feel like hypothermia is imminent around 20! It's been a while since it's gone above 35 so we are hardening off a bit now. But still..... when we are "freezing" here in this part of Australia that doesn't really get frost...(our place hasn't in the 10 years we've been here). the idea of trying to garden where it snows or even has the soil freeze solid is mind blowing!!!
@@stephkrunic3884 I remember being a kid the last time it was over 40C here, and the town was shut down because it was too hot for us to exist.... it sucks to have like 5 months of gardenless weather, but tending terrariums and indoor plants is kind of like a good non-alcoholic beer
Another well made informative video, thank you sir! I like to see how many years I can get out of one seed packet... That is unless I collect my own seed. Any yes homegrown tomatoes made it so I can't eat the crap tomato's one buys from a store. That first tomato usually goes into a BLT
Your tomatoes will do well they're so resilient and worst case if u get a frost coming just set a small black pot over them for protection works for me since u wouldn't want to stress those babies much more..
Thanks Siloe. I've got to restart some of my tomatoes. They got too cold and succumbed to the cold. It's still early enough that I can get them in the ground before it gets too hot. Much Love
Try up potting them and place them in a tent like structure made of cinder blocks, pvc pipe, and plastic on a south facing area. You can even get a light clamp and hang it in the frame to produce more heat. My plants from seed did very well this way.
Hi Siloe’ I’m in Friendswood TX yeah yeah no one knows where that is lol, it’s 35 miles towards Galveston. This year has been so cold even here. I usually plant my tomatoes in Feb 14, rain or shine, so by May 25 I got my first Early Girls red pearls! But, this year I have planted some, supposedly cold tolerant ones Siletz. Could not find much info on it though. You are so on point regarding store bought tomatoes lol, I tell everyone I know the same thing, once you tried your own grown, you will never go back! I truly enjoy all your videos Kudos to you and your wife, keep up the Awesome job! How did you start getting your soil in such a great shape? My is hard clay! I couldn’t find your first videos, could you send me a link? Thank you and God bless you more!
Where I live (southern Finland) the date of last frost is june 10 , although last year we had no frost after the last week of april!!!!, so I sow my tomatoes (with the plate germinating technique, except in a coffee filter in a ziplock bag on the radiator) on march 5. , 15. And 25. to have strong plants when it's safe to plant out. So this was very well timed! 😀 But I do grow them both outside and in a planter box against a warm wall and in a greenhouse! We usually have drier summers than the brits so we don't have as much blight, but some summers when we get nothing but rain the only survivers are the plants in the greenhouse.. last summer it rained on the first of may and then nothing until july... but at least there was no blight! 🙄 Our season is really short and the weather is getting real unpredictable but I still sow my tomatoes every year and hope for a good summer because vine ripened tomatoes is a luxury I don't want to be without even if it takes some effort to grow them some years. 😉
Meeh, you adapt! And at least we don't have as many pests because they freeze to death *mwahhahahahahaaaaa* during the winter. 😉 And I have a cunning plan; I'm growing masses of both chillies&tomatoes and brassicas so no matter what our summer is going to look like, we'll get a harvest from at least one of the groups. 😂👍
Have you noticed that your groundhog nemesis will leave your tomato plants alone? I, too, have a groundhog nemesis (it feels like a curse) and it seems to leave the tomatoes and pepper plants alone.
And that is the reason why I do not understand that tomatoes are 'easy plants to grow' when there are many things that have to be right as in soil, temperature, light, sun, protection, where to sow seeds, whether they end up leggy or potbound etc etc etc. I just take pot luck and plant them in my shed which has light coming through the roof as it is made of corrugated plastic and is sheltered from cold. Then if I have too many I put the rest in big pots outside in a sunny position. I live in England so not as good growing conditions and as much space as your garden. Worth a go though as they taste great.
