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I am so jealous that you can grow so many varieties! Glad to see most of my favourites there (Brandywine, Black Krim, Paul Robeson)... but have you ever tried Aunt Ruby's German Green Giant?

That's a great tour! It would be so fun to grow that many different types! I just have 3 cherry tomato plants this year, but we will still have some to give away to friends. I've got Sun Gold and Sun Orange, which I wanted to compare side by side. The flavor seems too close to tell apart, but the Sun Orange are bigger and seem like the winner so far I have had Sun Peach on my list to try but I have not tried it yet. My third for this year is an unknown red cherry that we have saved seed for quite a few years now. I think next year I will replace it with a different red or pink one. I have grown Black Cherry and Black Strawberry before and they were pretty good!

I loved the garden tour. You guys love Tomato's like I do so it is fun to actually see the plants and Tomato's you are growing. Thanks for taking the time to share this.

It's so, so, so much easier to get a scale and measure in grams. That way, you can measure each ingredient at once, accurately, and much more quickly. No measuring spoons or cups. Just zero out the bowl and then add however much currents. Zero out the bowl and add the same amount of sugar. Super fast, very accurate, and a lot less clean up. It's just a matter of getting familiar with the concept, but once you do, your culinary life will be much improved!

Hi! Since you love pink tomatoes: I’m not sure why I’ve not heard anyone mention “Pinky cherry” before, which I purchased from Uprising seeds. I got it as part of a cherry sampler pack for fun, and I adore adore everything about it. It is very resistant to cracking in the 3 years I’ve grown it, and it has this very unique “shiny” skin texture (not sure how to describe it) which I’ve never seen on other tomatoes. It also stays good on the vine for a while. If you trial other tomatoes next year, I’d suggest to add that one to your list if have space on it 😅

Try drying the current tomatoes. I use them in corn bread and salads, and put them in Italian cuisine.

Thank you,very helpful 👍

growing sunpeach this year. Love the flavor. Beautiful tomato.

Oh man, do I feel your pain! I'm a backyard gardener who lost an entire crop of tomatoes to herbicide drift from my back fence neighbor 2 years ago. So last year after moving the bed to the opposite end of the yard, I was rewarded with a crop that included 25 pounds of beautiful San Marzano's from one plant. But now, what was shaping up to be another bumper crop appears to be lost again-this time at the hands of our condo landscapers who showed up unannounced, and sprayed a common area, just several feet from the fence where my current bed is located. Although I share your sentiment regarding a civil suit, I am still livid to the point of considering compensation from ether our condo association, the landscapers-or both. Even maintaining a backyard garden is a substantial expense of time and money for a 74 year old. Besides, at my age, every season is a bonus.

2-4 D, dicamba are terrible for tomatoes.

This looks really good! (I’m from Des Moines, btw. I live in Oklahoma now.)

Looks terrific!!

Have you ever tried Cream Sausage tomatoes?

I mostly grow paste tomatoes, and am growing Tachi from HossTools. I got 100% germination. I’m in Oklahoma and while we have a lot of pest pressure, the heat kills a lot of plants. I even covered my Roma tomatoes last year with shade cloth, and when the heat hit in July, they still died. The Tachi tomatoes have great fruit set, and are very vigorous. We have had numerous days over 100 already, and they are fine. I have Shelby also, and they seem to be doing well also. I’m very impressed with Hoss Tools seeds, and they are coming to be a regular part of my garden.

i have bunches of pink berkley tye dye, cant wait, and solar flare

Your tomatoes look great! I tend to like the black tomatoes the best, so those are what I look forward to the most. Black Krim is my favorite, and I have a few new black varieties I'm trying. Most of my plants are loaded with fruit and looking super healthy. Some have reached the top of my 6 foot trellis already! We have eaten some Summer Girl, Supremo, and 42-day tomatoes along with our cherries so far. Cherokee Carbon look like they will be blushing soon and I am really excited to try them. I'm also excited to try the dwarf tomatoes but I started them a little later.

Your garden is amazing! Where can I get those (big, thick, strong) cages?

Why I cannot open the website?

Lesya is named after the Ukranian city, and from what I can gather, is pronounced "Lay-sa" more or less. I grew it last year and was disappointed. I had several that formed, and they were beautiful, but the taste was pretty "meh", I thought. Not terribly sweet, just a bit bland. I'm not growing it again this year. My surprise star last year was Etiuda! They were as orange as, well, an orange and the taste was outstanding. Super crisp, extremely sweet and a very vibrant flavor. I'd intended to use them for stir fry, but they were so good raw, that very few made it to the stove top!

Cement wire has 5 inches square that's great for tomorrow. for as panels and cattle panel openings are smaller that isn't as handy for tomatoes. Determinat tomatoes I prefer the horrible famous tall tomato cages. I place 4 cages space according to sizes of the plants 6 ft.T post starting with the first inside the cage and after the forth cage. Repeating this 4 cages and the T post down the length of your garden.. After your cages and T post are done. On the first T post connect a tiny steel cable passing through every cage near top and connect the last of the cable. I'm doing this for the 4th season and The 6 ft T post and cable system has been great and Mid Ohio also gets summer storms and not a problem. Craigslist you can often get the " Horrible tomato Cages" that with this system I'm finally loving my tomato cages. Positive with craiglist bargain this can be done cheaper then any other.system unless you count failure setups. This is the easiest way to train your plants keeping them off the ground

Great info! Thanks for sharing 😊👍

I think greens, herbs, and green beans are all awesome ideas. When it comes to container gardening, I'm always nervous about watering because if I get busy and forget for too long, the plants will get fried! I made a couple of self-watering containers this year though, and those are working out quite well. The Greenstalks seem pretty good as well.

It's so sad that you lost so many plants due to the herbicide. I wish people would quit using it.

I seriously love your garden and your tours! It gives me so many ideas for my garden. I'm just North of you in Webster County. Thank you for sharing! God bless.

Yay! I'm excited for you! I'd love a Greenstalk.

So sorry! ☹️

What a huge disappointment for you, I am so sorry. All the time, effort, money you put into this venture and have to suffer such a loss. You have always been so helpful and your plants are amazing! I am already reaping cucumbers off the plant I purchased from you. I do so hope you continue your business but understand how hard that derision must be. I will continue to be a customer for sure.

Thank you for your transparency. This year was the first year I have ordered from you. My plants are doing terrific except for the deer damage that you had nothing to do with! My peppers already producing, one of the four tomato are producing fruit! I have zero hesitancy ordering from you again, and have bragged you up to many of my gardening friends and neighbors! I sure hope you don't give up, as I for one would surely be sad to hear that. If there's any way to give towards helping you with lost revenue, please let us know. I would be willing to contribute for sure! That's what neighbors do!

I am sorry this happened to your plants. I have learned so much this year about herbicide damage! I started all of my own tomato plants and I believe that some of them have received herbicide damage as well. Most of my suburban neighbors have lawn services, and I do as well, so there is no telling if the damage was from my service or a neighbor's. I contacted my lawn service company and they were extremely defensive about their spraying practices. They offered to get plant tissue tests done, but the tests would be at my cost if they came back negative. I decided against testing because while the damage appeared obvious, I couldn't determine the source and, like you, they couldn't replace the plants with like varieties of the same size. I also wasn't sure if the test would be effective a few weeks after exposure. In future years, I am considering keeping my plants in the house until a little later to try to avoid the main dandelion spraying season. That probably is not an option for you given the number of plants that you start. I hope you continue and I hope that this does not happen again for you.

Same happened to me! Devastating to see. Crazy how this is happening to so many all of a sudden. I only use Neem oil and DE. I’m guessing it was a neighbor. How do I prevent it next year? I want to confront the neighbors but why would they care. I’m guessing a shade cloth could prevent it next year.

These herbicides and pesticides need to be banned!

Same just happened to me about a month ago. What a coincidence it happened at the same time. I have jets flying over my house everyday. I thought it could have been the chemicals they put out. It could have been my neighbors not sure but it was devastating. Most of my plants are growing but not growing out of it or a good harvest. It’s crazy how on my plants the bottom limbs with leaves looked fantastic and you can see exactly the time frame it happened by the top portion of all the plants. It’s gut wrenching when you notice it happened to 90% of your tomato plants.

I would suspect a lawn service over homeowner applied, because we used to deal with this issue with the next door neighbor's lawn service spraying on windy days. We showed the neighbor the damage, which mainly was to our Rose of Sharon at the property line. The neighbor weighed our 'advice' and discontinued the lawn service and we haven't had any issues since. I believe they spray to get paid and disregard windy conditions.

I’m so sorry this happened to you.

Thank you for being so Transparent! Your example of a successful gardener and business is phenomenal! Your tomatoes look amazing! I wish I had good advice on what I would do in your situation- a controlled environment would help like a building, or a sealed green house would be very helpful.

So very sorry this happened. 🙏

Virginia sweets became a staple in my garden 3 years ago. Its beautiful and delicious

To Big isn't a problem with cattle panel.Bigger plants produce better

Depends is very correct. Midnight Snack for snacks For salad Candy Land Red Best All around Black Krim Best on grill beef sandwich Black Brandywine Interesting and thank for more suggestions

Always wondered if they were smoked first or dried first! Thank you for showing the process.

Thank you for this!

Trying to grow a bunch of Sugar Rush Stripey, this year. They’re supposed to taste the same as a Sugar Rush Peach, but naturally ripen to have thin Red stripes. So pretty! I’ve heard of people mostly using the Sugar Rush varieties for snacking, pickling & hot sauce. I was hoping to find out if they’re good Smoked. If it’s naturally sugary in taste, would that make a good rub for meats? Amateur here; never smoked anything in my life, but I’ll try this year. It’s a relatively new variety; I just haven’t seen anyone try to make powder or flakes with Sugar Rush…

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Any plans for an expanded shale version of a seed starting mix? That stuff is absolute king for holding moisture...

Just wanna say you two are awesome together. Its been a long time where I've had no issue sitting through a long vid. :)

I appreciate the info about "expired" product carried over from the previous year!!

Who do you buy your onions from besides Dixondale? I'd like to try some of the onions you mentioned. Thanks... love your channel!

Hey neighbor! SE SD here. Growing 80 varieties plus trialing some brand new varieties via breeding projects. I do a seed giveaway on a couple of garden forums, mostly from all the varieties I don't want to grow anymore. It's hard to cull some of them, right? Love your list for 2024! Some questions/comments: 1. How does the Ruby Crush compare to the Sweet Million, Sweet Apertif and Super Sweet 100? I am doing an experiment to see which of those three does the best based on flavor, health and productivity. Might need to add Ruby Crush for next year. Side note, I make pizza sauce and cherry tomato marinara with my snack size maters. I like fiber so skins don't bother me, especially for the small batch pizza sauce. 2. I grew Candyland in a hanging basket one year. I thought the maters were too small, so not growing it again, even though the flavor was good. 3. Love that you test Brix. I did not find it directly correlated with how my palate perceived sweet on all the tomatoes, but was close for most. I added Brix to all my taste tests last year. More a fun toy to play with. 4. 14 gallon pot for large maters, sweet! I practice High Intensity spacing. Partly because I have a suburban backyard and grow everything (including grapes and fruit trees) and I like to play around and run experiments. Last year my tomatoes were 8-10 inches apart (did great) and this year 10-12 inches. I can grow for volume or variety, but not both. Variety for the win! 5. Last year my largest tomato was from the close spacing mater patch and the tomato plants set alone with 5-10 feet spacing each? Small maters. I swear, tomatoes just do what they want. 6. Hungarian Heart is a FANTASTIC tomato. They are so meaty and large! Tasty too. 7. You mentioned Hillbilly, my favorite large tomato. I grow both the regular leaf and potato leaf. Aunt Ruby's German Green (and all the other greens) are some of the best tomatoes I have tasted. 8. I tried Paul Robeson for three years, two different seed vendors. If I even got a healthy plant, the taste was bland and nothing worth noting. I think I may be the only person on the planet who doesn't like it and will never grow it again. 9. I am growing a Cherokee Purple Oxheart this year. Something new. I have a video listing my varieties (by category) but I purchased this on a whim at the Farmer's Market. I hope it makes a great oxheart because aren't oxheart tomatoes fantastic? 10. I make sauce from every size tomato. From canned or frozen tomatoes. If I don't give it away or use it, I'll preserve it. 11. Pink Tiger is my favorite small tomato. The Tiger series from Fred Hempel (rest his soul) is the best small mater series, even better than the Bumblebee series of his. I've grow pink tiger, green tiger, lucky tiger and blush tiger. Excited to find your channel! Subscribed.

How are your transplants so GREEN and have so many leaves? Mine look pale and sickly compared to yours. What fertilizer do you use and how often? Love your channel...

I cut into a Scotch Bonnet one time and the mist burned my eyes and face OFF... I was screaming for my kids to bring me water to rinse myself with. The pain lasted for almost an hour! I considered going to the hospital. Will NEVER come within 100 feet of those things again... lol Really enjoy your tomato and pepper reviews... learning a lot. Thanks!