What types of tomatoes are the easiest for you to grow? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 0:41 Reducing the Weed Pressure in Our No-Till Plot 1:10 Potato Plants Growing Fast 1:57 Why Should You Hill Potatoes? 3:47 Side Dressing Potatoes with Organic Fertilizer 4:26 Hilling Potatoes with a Field Hoe 4:59 How Tall Should You Hill Potatoes? 5:48 How Far Apart Should Tomato Rows Be? 7:24 What Are the Easiest Tomatoes to Grow? 9:43 How Far Apart to Space Tomato Plants? 11:23 Planting Determinate Tomato Plants 12:53 Does Your Soil Have Plenty of Calcium?
A note on my experience with blossom end rot where I live: it happens when temps are consistently in the 90's and resolves when that is no longer the case
I decided to keep it simple with 4 tomato types this year. Supersweet 100 cherries, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, and Pink Brandywine. I'm using a cloths line as vertical support for strings that will be tied off to ground stakes. I'm going to keep the plants to 1 leader and 2 suckers and just keep the rest plucked off to save room. I found that keeping an indeterminate mater to a single stem makes them way too tall, so more than one typically keeps them below 6 feet here in zone 8b.
If you only have one or two tomato plants take some cuttings and root them in a pot. I`ve kept the same tough cherry tomato plant alive for years this way. I get woody cuttings before cold weather and put them in a pot inside with just enough light to keep them alive. The next spring I have cherry tomatoes very fast and make as many plants as I need from the cutting shoots.
Thank you, Travis! Appreciate you so much. Don’t let anyone bully you about your taters or maters. You be you, dear one! I’m not sure about the Dawg bucket but I’m willing to try, in order to get the kind of production you have in Georgia. I know those Dawgs are thankful for your kind support. So proud of you & your sweet family💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
I grew both of those last year and was very happy with them. They have become my go-to determinates as well. The only other determinate I’m going to try is Grand Marshall. Those were some nice looking plugs!
Btw...i listed u as someone i was thankful for..u really upped my entire garden game big time...im pushing 80 and qell wish i knew all your info decades ago.
I’m in zone 9b. I have blush, Cherokee purple, red centifleur, and sun sugar. I start my tomatoes the last day of the year, Dec. 31 st in doors under grow lights in my laundry room. It stays warm in there all year in the 70’s. Anyway, they went in the ground in the middle of February. Blush are doing fantastic and have tons of babies. My red centifleur has been slow to fruit. My Cherokee have huge blooms on them so hoping for some big purple tomatoes!
I appreciate the step by step detail .. things like don't cover the watering tape between the maters until the posts for the Florida weave are installed .. because it keeps you from damaging the watering tape.
It’s a whole new world it seems, as far as plant varieties… all I love ever grown are Burpee and whether TSC and other local dealers sell… I’m looking forward to trying new stuff.
I've only grown my potatoes in grow bags. this is my 2nd garden. I have a mix of indeterminate and determinate tomatoes with about 8 varieties and 55 plants in total.
Travis, we need to open up a "Dawg Bucket" store!!!!! Between the buckets and cups we could help feed all of America some awesome groceries!!! I decided to plant 95% determinate varieties this year and focused on heat set gene types (after the month of insane heat and no rain we had last year). The only indeterminates I'm planting are my cherry type and you can't get that flavor in a determinate (Sun Gold and Sweet Aperitif). I guess I need to drive to Monroe at the HD and pick up a Dawg's Bucket as I confess I currently do not have one and the local stores are out of stock.
For me, here in the hot, hot south (North Texas) any of the determinate tomatoes are easy for the spring. Super Sioux, Bush Beefsteak, or/and Red Snapper and for a yellow I've grown Nebraska Wedding for years and always been happy. Probably need a big 'N' on the bucket for the Nebraska Wedding fertilizer 😉All those plants look real good. Kind of curious why you chose to put the tomatoes and potatoes in the same bed but you say you plan on spraying so all will be good. Hope you have a really successful season and can't wait to see the harvest videos!
I think that comment about "hilling taters real real tall" deserves a field trip to one of those folks you know using equipment to pile the potatoes up. Then a revisit once they harvest. Because at this point their process could be educational. By the way, I followed your seed potato bread crumbs and ordered some for myself to experiment this year. Can they beat the old-trusty method of the bag of store potatoes that sprouted on their own in the pantry? I'm still a few weeks away from planting time here.
I do love watching your videos. My taters are out but still have a couple of weeks to go before I can get my maters set out here in northern Tennessee.
Learned something new today and ordered 10 Red snapper seeds and 10 Roadster Tomato seeds. I am going to make those seeds grow FAST because it is late in the season April 6, and was not able to buy starter plants, sold out. I will grow in sunny area with late day shade or they will "cook in the sun" in Fl. Very hopeful. Thanks. I am getting tons of cherry tomatoes now.
I always grow Red Snapper and Tachi. My seedlings are still a little small to transplant. I hope they will be ready in next two weeks or so. I will be adding some gympsom this go around.
I love growing tomatoes, They are perhaps the more exciting thing that i grow, i really only gorw indeterminate varieties. But some like canning tomatoes are determinant, lol I cant wait to have baskets of tomatoes and have them all for fresh eating and canning
No issues with blossom end rot here. I credit a combination of using mulch and having a decent amount of clay in the soil. I grow determinates as a rule, though I don't fill the garden with tomato plants as I won't eat them all. This year is Amish Paste and Sun Gold Cherry. No slicers, though I could make Amish Paste work for that if necessary.
Well I planted the red snapper this year first time, hoping it is easy one to grow lol. They are about 3 feet tall and do have a couple three flowers on them. Although the temperatures are going to test the heat durability, our daytime temperatures the last few days have been anywhere from 89 to 92, evening temperatures upper 60s low 70s. No fruit set yet time will tell I guess..
Im only growing a few tomatoes this spring, Celebrity, Big Beef, and Climbing Trip l Crop. I just got too busy to get things going in my raised beds this spring. Im hoping to get way more organized this fall, as my fall/winter crop (in FL) always does better. Might try Red Snapper again then.
I'm with you brother! Baloney, Baloney, Baloney (or bologna, bologna, bologna....) I will put a little Ag Gyp out though, just to be sure. Excellent soil conditioner at the least!
I'm growing Roadsters, Hossinator, Brandywine and some paste tomatoes. I'm sure I have mine planted to close to each other but I don't have the space you have.
Just so you know, putting a fish under a plant is a very ancient way to fertilize. I was a method used by coastal Algonquin tribes and taught to the first Europeans to settle in North America.
I tried Red Snapper per your videos. Great the first year. The following year, root knot nematodes got 'em (but I had another one in a container which did well and saved the day). This year I'm doing Mountain Fresh Plus and Supersweet 100 in the ground because they're supposedly nematode resistant. So far so good. I also have my old favorite, Mortgage Lifter, and two Romas in containers.
I use containers to grow tomatoes also because of root knot nematodes. However, I had some volunteers sprout in my flower bed, and have had some ripe very nice medium sized tomatoes already, with many more to come. I have figured out they are probably Amish paste that I had tried last year. I'm watching the plant to see if root knot ultimately affects it. I am also growing San Marzano, Egyptian Princess(seed handed down from a friend), Brave Heart, Celebration, Chef Choice Black, plus cherry tomatoes, Sun Sugar and SunGold. I love growing the different types of tomatoes, and sometimes select type just because of its unusual name. Gardening in SWFL, Zone 10A can be quite challenging, but we can grow at the time of year others can only dream about gardening. On the other hand, when others have a beautiful green gardens in the summer, I am relegated to growing Okra, peppers, and a nice tasty garden snack called ground cherry. Happy gardening!
I live in central Florida and will be planting soft neck garlic next fall because of your video. Thank you for all these great gardening tips. Now that you have tasted your soft necks which one is your favorite !
I don't have the room to space things out like you can but I'm with you why wouldn't you space out your tomatoes if you can just easier to get around them and prune if you prune and harvest I don't know why but every time I grow determinate tomatoes they don't do well for me but I still grow some every year
Thought u liked dixie and were going to always grow them? Oh well i just bought dixie for 2024... I grew roadsters snappers florida 91 and one other..had a bumper crop but i have no clue which was which....boight some of thoae expense cages...man i love those..i now have 15 and want them for the peppers and egg plants....but that price...160 for 5...but worth it...they will last three to four life times! I just listened to an old old video of u talking nitrogen...i had to watch it twice...it was a hidden.gem on the old hoss channel!! And what about artichokes!!!!
For some reason my plants do better when I feed them from an Astros bucket. Maybe your gardening skills are hindered by your Georgia loyalties....I don't know.
Wow! Eye opener at 11:50 mark. You plant the roots right on the fertilizer. If that was the standard commercial 13-13-13 garden fertilizer, they would just burn out. I’ll probably mix it in a little with the cover dirt. And there might be a concern for animals to get at it, which is why you probably choose to cover it whole. And you just side-dress your other crops since it would take forever for you to individually apply it more uniformly on your hands and knees like here.
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks for that insight and demo. They are shipping my 8-5-5 now. That and a liquid, for a boost, should meet the needs. Good seeing higher numbers on the certified organics to make them more worthy. Also being more fool-proof, helps offset the costs of the organics.
Curious if red snapper and roadster, being a determinate, are they a one and done on producing, or will they continue through the summer...? As far as hilling potatoes, I've always used a deep mulch, 12" deep, and had pretty good results, although this year I will hold off of the mulch, so I can add fertilizer, probably hill with some composted horse manure. I usually use mulch in the heat of summer to keep soil from drying out... it gets 110 to 115 here, and it's a dry heat, zero humidity.
My greenhouse has roll-up sides, so I can just roll them up and have close to the same temp inside and outside the greenhouse. So I don't harden mine. But if you were moving plants from indoors to outside or a closed greenhouse to outside, you'd want to do that.
I'm growing red snapper and roadster this year as well. My plants weren't as tall as yours when I planted them but I'm hopeful that this will be my best tomato growing year yet. Do you pinch off blooms until your plants are big? If they flowered tomorrow would you let them go? I also had blossom end rot on some celebrity tomatoes a couple years ago and a bit of lime did seem to fix the issue. So you never can tell. But if you have insight I'm interested in hearing it
I realize there are multiple options on tape emitter spacing, but can you plug every other hole to save water? A bit laborious perhaps but my summer water is a little precious here in N. Commifornia. Commercial farmers get water cheap but residential pays for it.
You can't plug the emitters on the tape. Keeping the soil moist is beneficial over the long term, and those tomato plants can have some pretty extensive feeder roots. Don't think of it as wasting water.
@@LazyDogFarm OK thanks for reply! I don't think of it as wasting per se but maybe better uses for my water budget. I don't water "lawns" or even my nut trees due to ratcheting up water bills, every higher tier of usage dings me more per unit than the prior.
@@golfman6062 Maybe but sounds problematic. Doesn't take much fussing to exceed the value of the emitter tape itself, just replace with the spacing you want I'm thinking now.
Trav, when you advise against planting your tomatoes too deep, is there any danger of stem rot if you bury the starts too deep or is it more related to harvest loss? I had a couple starter plants that got a little leggy and I had to bury them maybe 8 inches deep. Thanks for all the helpful knowledge as always and I hope the family is doing well!
I've never had a problem with stem rot. I was just reminding folks that the determinates will only get so tall. So if you bury too much of the plant, you might lose some production.
Mmm mmm I love taters! My wife is cracking up with your dog bucket! She’s from waycross and a rabid dogs fan! Strongly dislikes the gators and bama is an understatement!
Despite what you say about blossom end rot being a water issue, I’m still hearing that that is a calcium deficiency that needs amending. I amend my soil with a balanced fertilizer and that’s it. Would you like some cheese with your baloney?😊
It's a calcium deficiency in the plant, not the soil. You could have plenty of calcium in your soil. But if your plant can uptake it, then you've got problems.
Good morning help me out got my in ground ready to plant finally my tomatoes are tall probably should been in ground two weeks ago with the rain and temperatures well now ready to plant but they calling for temperatures from Monday through Wednesday to be in low 40s42-46 will it be ok to plant tomatoes now and they be ok they are mostly a foot tall or taller thank you
For me! I space Tomato rows far enough to run the lawnmower between them! And the grass cuttings help fertilize and keep weeds down! It's for me Maybe not you?
Who carries the red snapper and roadster plants I’m in Baton Rouge 70817 Do any of the big box lstores carry them ! It Seems all I see are Bonnie plants. That’s what I’ve always planted. The Big Boy, the Better Boy, which already have tiny matters on them and. The Creole ! They also have tiny matters on them. So I hope to have som matter samiches in about 2 1/2- 3 weeks if all goes honky dory ! Hope y’all have a blessed Easter ! For he is risen ! I was late with my taters this year by about a month ! They’ve broke the surface so I’ll be fertilizing and hilling them next week. What fertilizer do you recommend to use. A lil heavy on nitrogen on the first hilling and a lil heavy on the phosphorus the second hilling ????? Or stay balanced
I know this is way off topic but my elephant garlic has already started making scapes. It was planted in November as usual but it doesn't usually make scapes this early. Any thoughts? Is it just ready to harvest early?
Hi Travis, I’m growing corn in SW Florida. I just saw some tiny little ants on my plants. What should I use to kill the bugs? I also have some white spots on the leaves. What does that mean?
Can't speak for egg shells or anything else, but fish is not Bulogna. The native Indians, back before we even settled this nation, knew that fish was good for your garden soil. Why and where do you even think Fish emulsion fertilizer came from exactly? The problem is that, theirs so much confusion and miss information out there, and most people, including long time gardeners, don't fully understand how soil, or fertilization even works. First off, when most look down at their soil, all they see is dirt....a combination of rock, sand, silt, clay and composted roots and twigs and sticks. If you look at soil under a microscope, it's actually teaming with life. Millions of microorganisms, bacteria and fungi and many other things. When you use any kind of fertilizers, most of it can't directly feed your plants roots. The bacteria and fungi and all the microbiology first must eat these fertilizers, and then the stuff they secrete, as a buy product is actually what feeds your roots. They way to use fish is not to put a full fresh fish in your ground and then plant over it. The best way is to place it in the ground well before you plant, and then allow it to rot and ferment and turn into liquid and then it will work miracles on your plants, and the Indians knew this as well. Take some fresh fish and blend it, mixed with rain water, no sink water because all the chemicals in your tap water are made to kill microbiology. Blend it into a gelatin like sate, then place it in a food safe 5 gallon bucket, then go into the woods, under a tree, and swash away the leaves and get a few handfuls of the soil just below the leaf layer, which is called leaf mold. Then fill the bucket about half full of rain water, pour in your blended fish and a few handfuls of leaf mold, seal the bucket and wait. That leaf mold is teaming with the exact microbiology that will break down that fish very very quickly. After about 4 to 6 months you will have a liquid that you can dip out of to mix with water for your plants, After a full year it will be perfect, and the fish will be completely gone, scales and bones and all, and what's left behind is pure gold for your plants roots and it's 1000 times more potent then these silly Fish emulsion products at the store. Very high in nitrogen and calcium and potassium and magnesium and other trace elements as well. You can also burn logs and mix the ash with rain water to give your plants tons of potassium. What do you think Potash is? Of course the big fertilizer companies don't want you to know that, or how easy it is to make. It was known by our ancestors as Pot Ash.... two words, but the companies like Miracle Grow made it one word Potash to make it sound like some mysterious element that's unattainable and only they have. Our ancestors recognized generations ago that after a forest fire cooled, the plant life of that area would explode with growth from the ash. All throughout the early days of this country, up until the 60's farmers and gardeners made Wood Ash as a fertilizer. Many rumors have been spread claiming that wood ash would hurt your soil PH levels, but that actually is complete bologna. It would take an extreme amount to change your PH. You can also take all your garden waste, all the greens and bad fruits and stems and roots and let it sit in rain water with leaf mold and allow it to fermint and it makes a very good balanced fertilizer. You can also fermint yours and your families and your pets urine the same way and it makes a great Nitrogen rich fertilizer, I know it sounds gross, but it's just pepe, 95 % water. If you have your urine tested for all it's elements, the main thing in it is uriea, now go look at the ingredients label on your high nitrogen store purchased fertilizer and see what kind of Nitrogen it has. More often then not, it will say Nitrogen from urea. Theirs tons of old knowledge out there about natural fertilizers, many of which are almost extinct, that our ancestors used to garden and grow with. I mean how did you think our ancestors made beautiful tasty vegetables back in the old days, before garden centers, or hardware stores, or companies like Miraclegrow, or Neptune's Harvest, or Dr Earth and on and on? I mean they had to be using something right?
@@LazyDogFarm I recommended your channel to my local farm store. The man who runs it bought it about six years ago and has been learning about plants etc. I also recommended Hoss Tools. I'm in NE Georgia and I have really enjoyed your videos(learned a lot) and Hoss Tools products. I tried to find the 8-5-5 fertilizer and couldn't find it. Do you think the place you get yours in south Georgia would ship it to me?
