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If you want to make it easy you can buy Dr. Earth's fertilizer for tomato and vegetables. The home gardener can use this, and you will find it to be a good fertilizer. We need to push production but the home gardener with just a few plants would be fine.

Thank you, Tess.

Thank you so much. I am glad you enjoyed it.

They are great. I purchased 4 more when they went on sale at my local Tractor Supply store.

If you are making good quality compost that is a great start. If you eat eggs, dry the shells and grind them up and put into your compost. If the weed stinging nettle grows where you live you can chop them up, put them in a bucket of water to ferment for a week, and then use the resulting "tea" to fertilize your plants diluting it to one part tea to 10 parts water. Any weeds with a long tap root can be used to make a fermented fertilizer tea, like dandelion, burdock, etc. if stinging nettle is not available. I would say that making a very high-quality compost is always going to be the biggest help for your plants if purchased fertilizers are not an option.

Dr Earths won, with over 200 pounds of tomatoes harvested from all the plants. Tomato-tone a very close second. We are doing another video this season comparing 3 fertilizers on our tomato plants.

Yes, we ate all of them. Some fresh, and some dehydrated and ground into a powder for cooking.

Thank you.

Glad you found it helpful.

The most important things to provide for pepper seed temperature are a consistent temperature of 80 to 90 degrees, and proper moisture. It is important not to let the seeds dry out, but also not to have them so wet that they rot. Here in the U.S. I use a soiless seed starting mix comprised of peat moss and coconut coir. I am not sure if it is available where you are. You may be able to use very well aged compost that has been sifted to remove any large pieces and mix in some perlite to make it looser. I germinate tomato seeds in a greenhouse just by placing them on top of sifted compost, and then covering them with a fine layer of vermiculite. Not sure if that would work in your climate with peppers, but I have been very successful with that method as the seeds do not dry out because of the vermiculite. Do not be afraid to experiment with a few seeds, using different methods. It sounds like you live in a very beautiful place, with a lot to choose from for growing. A gardener's paradise. Good luck with your growing.

@@windriderfarm cevap için uzun yazmanıza çok sevindim ve gerçekten kalpten teşekkür ederim fakat sizin sayfanızdaki yorumlarda nedense çeviri seçeneği yok ve ben ingilizce bilmiyorum çok üzüldüm çünkü anlamıyorum ne yazdiginizi

@@fratdonmez3863 Biber tohumu sıcaklığı için sağlanması gereken en önemli şeyler, 80 ila 90 derecelik tutarlı bir sıcaklık ve uygun nemdir. Tohumların kurumasına izin vermemek, aynı zamanda çürüyecek kadar ıslak olmamaları da önemlidir. Burada ABD'de Turba yosunu ve hindistancevizi hindistan cevizinden oluşan soiless bir tohum başlangıç karışımı kullanıyorum. Bulunduğunuz yerde mevcut olup olmadığından emin değilim. Büyük parçaları çıkarmak ve bir miktar perlit ile karıştırmak için elenmiş çok iyi yaşlanmış kompost kullanabilirsiniz.

@@windriderfarm çok teşekkür ediyorum sadece 80,90 derece sıcaklık çeviri hatası mı yoksa gerçekten bu ısı çok yüksek gırına koymam gerekecek 🤔 acaba nem mı demek istediniz diğer bilgilendirmeleri iz için tesekkür ederim

@@fratdonmez3863 80 ila 90 derece Fahrenheit. Sanırım Santigrat olarak (Türkiye'de sıcaklığı ölçebilirsiniz) 26 derece olurdu. Biberlerin çimlenmesi için çok sıcak olması gerekir. Filizlendikten sonra, 80 derece Fahrenheit veya 26 santigrat derece gerçek büyüme için idealdir.

Dr. Earth's

@windriderfarm I just had to know the results of the test! Keep up the great work!

Thank you, I am so glad you enjoyed the video.

Yes, both did very well. Dr. Earth's was slightly better, but only slightly. I ended up harvesting over 200 pounds of tomatoes from those plants. Either fertilizer should work fine for you.

​@@windriderfarm how many plants did it take to get 200 pounds of tomatoes?

@@JayPlateFaceVideos 18 plants.

I'm glad you found it helpful, Jillian.

You won't be disappointed. I hope you have a great growing season.

Thank you for the tip on grapevines. I will be planting more grapevines this coming season and will try it.

Keep an eye on potassium in the soil, grapes pull it out and you have to add it back they use a lot of potassium. Also boron and zinc levels are critical for fruit set so do a soil test. @@windriderfarm

I am glad you enjoyed the video.

I know there are two mindsets with growing peppers, give them space or "peppers like to hold hands". I did an experiment last year with only planting one per pot and they did not do as well for me. I am a big advocate for experimentation. Do what works for you, and experimenting in fabric pots may work out better for you also. I was able to get the 70+ pails I use for about $7 each. Not cheap for sure. I might experiment with a few fabric bags to see how they do in my growing conditions.

@@windriderfarm Oh, I completely agree on experinenting ... even though im fairly new to intermediate level gardening, i'm a scientist by training and disposition, so ive still got plenty of room to keep learning. As for peppers holding hands ... from experience, my jalafuegos completely fill their pots and fully bush out at 3ft tall and 2ft wide, and are fully laden by harvest time, so there is literally no room for more plants per pail for me . . . but youve convinced me to try it in one pail this coming summer. BTW, ive got some early test seedlings of SVHJ5816 F1 from johnny seeds going that im gonna compare with my usual Jalafuegos. Will probably do the full grow indoors, because its so early. Nice disease resistance according to specs.

@@windriderfarm Non-sequitur ... I dont wanna hijack this thread with tips on pepper uses and preservation. If you have a thread on the topic pls point me to it, otherwise im happy to list some stuff here on drying, jams, pickles, etc.

@@RovingPunster I freeze my sweet peppers, and also eat them fresh. Hot peppers I eat fresh and dehydrate and grind up in a spice grinder to use the powder. My wish (and it is a whopper) is to one day own a freeze dryer. I would have that baby running 24/7.

@@windriderfarm I stirfry or pickle green jalapenos, or make poppers, or mince em into eggd, deli salads and fried rice all season, then at seasons end when theyre deep red I make red jalapeno jam, fermented sriracha, and whatever's left gets halved, cored, sliced crosswise 1/8" and dehydrated 24 hrs to full brittle. Yeah, the dried red curls grind well, but theyre highly hygroscopic and clump into a solid mass in mere minutes so ya gotta grind em only as you need em. Great in chili, and good for adding body & zip to tomato sauce (i grind em with dried tomatoes to buff up a too-thin marinara), et al. Never tried freezin em.

Drooping flower clusters. Think of the catkins you see on birch trees.

I am glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you, Mike.

Thank you, Mike.

Hello to you in Pakistan. I am glad that you enjoyed this video, and happy to know it grows where you live. It is very nutritious, and many people make soup with it here in the U.S. and dry it to make a tea.

Miracle Grow Organic Raised Bed soil is good. Also, Back To The Roots has a good potting mix that is peat free if you want to avoid using a mix with peat moss. Fox Farm makes a great potting mix, but they are an expensive alternative.

I am actually finishing up the editing on a new video that I will be uploading in the next few days. I will let you know when it's up for viewing. Thank you for watching and taking an interest in our experiment. The results are a bit surprising.

We uploaded the part 2 video yesterday if you are interested in watching.

They did very well. You can plant tomatoes very close together as long as you have some air flow. Also, when planted that close together they need rich soil, consistent watering, and a high-quality fertilizer. Tomato plants do well planted like this in a greenhouse where you can control everything. Planted outside is a bit different as you have less control over the environment. One thing I would change, is the location to a greenhouse with more sun, as this greenhouse only received about 6 hours of direct sunlight due to the trees around it. No problem now, as a very severe snowstorm crushed this greenhouse this past winter. Check out one of our most recent videos of the new greenhouse built in full sun. We will be growing (and experimenting) in that greenhouse this season.

So as to an update, although we were happy with the experiment, and showed folks that it is possible to grow many healthy, and productive tomato plants in a small space, in our new experiment we hope to show how much of a difference more available light will make in production.

@@windriderfarm how many spacing (in feet) should I give my tomato plants?

@@Matthew-sz6vi Minimum spacing I have done without any pruning is about 12 inches. Think square foot gardening. With intense pruning in a greenhouse, you can move them closer. I usually plant 12 inches apart now. I have this fine-tuned now to exactly how close I can plant and still have healthy plants.

what are some natural things i can use for them? for cheap

I will be including the part 2 in an upcoming garden tour.

You may be interested in our recent video. You will be amazed at how the grape vines look now. ruclips.net/video/zmUkntT08uY/видео.html

That is exactly what we are doing this season. We had the same idea. We had become too comfortable with our prior successes, and the mites almost took out the whole greenhouse. We are trying to plant herbs in the pots with the peppers this year because we do not want a repeat of last season.

The first year we tried this method of two in a bucket we were successful. Last year we had the broad mites, and being so close together may have made it easier for the mites to spread. This year we are trying just one plant per bucket. We need to make sure the broad mites are gone from the greenhouse, and one in a bucket will make it easier to monitor the situation. We are also considering growing some herbs, or trap crops with the peppers. Broad mites are terrible, and we are doing all we can to never have the problem again. We are going to measure the growth and production this year in one bucket and then make a decision on how to proceed next year, etc. We will be uploading progress videos to our channel this season, so our viewers can watch how this new experiment works.

@@windriderfarm Sounds like a good plan. I'll keep an eye out for updates. Cheers.

Thank you, Emi. You have always been my biggest cheerleader. ❤

Thank you. I build all of our greenhouses from acquired free wood and purchased materials. I love to build things and am always scouting for free wood that I can use in my builds. I loved seeing you using the saw in your recent video. I thought "kindred spirits, we are", look at all the cool things we girls are building. :)

That's hilarious. I actually had to Google that. I find the HAL voice soothing. :) Thanks for the compliment. lol.

I dry just the leaves.

Yes. But the siren song got me, and I was intoxicated by its beauty.