I just want to say to those who are new to growing tomatoes that they are very easy to grow. You do not have to have a perfectly watered bed or a bunch of layers of various textures or lots of various fertilizers in order to grow tomatoes. You can water well, dig a hole, plant the tomato, water again and fertilize after a while (a week, at least) and water more in the beginning, less later when the roots have settled in. Just get a few plants and not only one. Some might be weaker, some stronger, but tomatoes love to grow. You don't need to be as advanced as Jacques is here. Just saying this, in case anyone got a bit overwhelmed.
Absolutely, I agree with this 100% I've had great success without crazy amendments and procedures, tomatoes are very forgiving plants! I try to make a point and mention that whenever I remember!
I made this mistake last year. I made sure the soil in the planters was really great with all sorts of amendments and watering on a strict schedule without fail…they just didn’t do a well. I got half my usual harvest. I’ll never put tomatoes anywhere but in ground again!
Putting in my own two cents on the string to use for a Florida Weave here, but I've found that sisal twine works well for me. I haven't had the issues with it scratching the plants, personally. Given how cheap it is, I would recommend people at least try it and see how it works for them; if all goes well, it will save them a little bit of money over time. If not, there are lots of other uses for it around the garden.
My in-laws bought a couple husky cherry tomato plants from a store last year. They had over a dozen volunteers pop up this year. We live in zone 9 on the Texas Gulf Coast and I can back up the claim the husky cherry tomatoes are low maintenance and will grow in heat and humidity. My in-laws plants last year kept producing up in to November and probably would have overwintered if given adequate protection from the little bit of cold weather we got this year.
This is such a cheap DIY that I didn’t even realize I could do! I have okra in the garden right now from what I hear they get very tall. Thank you Hermit I love your channel!
ok, i am soooo entertained with you paranoias, jacques :) i really love what you do, i am a relaxed person, so i really like your personality and contents. oh, and i am very interested in those bulgarian tomatoes, so i am waiting for the harvest videos!
@@jacquesinthegarden i am hungarian, which is not so far from bulgaria - maybe that is way i know so well paranoia :) at least i am not superstitious, lol. you have a very good humor, i really love that you are calm and chilled and very reflective, but you say the right words in a sec anytime ;)
Great, informational video, Jacques. Those are some awesome looking tomato plants! Love watching both you and Kevin in the garden. I'm from Missouri in zone 6B
Each spring is a new adventure/experiment! I have too many tomato seedlings as well. So many varieties to try! Our garden is urban and I only have space for 12 tomato plants. I have about 30 tomato seedlings. Same issue with pepper seedlings. Free seedlings to friends and co-workers! The seedlings don't get planted out until June 10th. Zone 4, we can get frost in early June.
“Smells like soy sauce, that I don’t want to eat”* LOL great description! I found a handful of hornworms on my single dill plant last week. I found a couple cocoons on my black cherry tomato that I had assumed were hornworms I had missed. Should I have left them alone? So much to learn! 😂 ❤️ April from Modesto CA
Were they colorful with black and yellow stripes? Swallowtail caterpillars love dill and fennel and won't bother your tomatoes but will eat the dill, personally I like to leave them.
I grew dill near my tomatoes last year and when they got tomato hornworm, the worms were full of wasp larvae the next day. I read about it but didn't think I'd see it. Nature!
We have dill all over the garden growing like a weed. I didn't know it's good to keep it around. This means my neighbours' gardens that look so clean and perfect are not so perfect after all? I'll be kinder to the dill and feel better about not removing all of it.
I got a couple of metal trellises originally designed to go against a wall. I put one on each side of a raised bed and used Paracord for the string. Probably overkill, but it's really solid. I wrapped the leftover cord up top like the mooring line of a boat, except I don't know what the actual knot is so it might be completely loose now.
My favorite cherry tomato is Matt's. It's one of the little tiny ones, comes back in volunteers year after year and is very prolific and disease resistant for me in Maryland.
Marigolds are also a favorite of those beneficial wasps in my garden, native bumblebees as well. I have also been experimenting with planting borage near my tomatoes, the flowers look pretty similar so I'm thinking it might help with pollinators.
I'm trying the Florida Weave using only 2 posts per 10' row, doing another with a third post in between. So far both are doing really well. More slack in the first version but just that little bit of support (so far) is keeping everything organized and upright.
@@jacquesinthegarden So far so good for me. Because I'm adding a string every week or so, I can kind of corral the plants to my liking as things develop. It's a really great method. I was talking with my buddies in Maine about how much we hate tomato cages and how cool it is to have a method that is a few t-posts and some string.
I would highly recommend spraying a mix of 200 ml of milk, 1 table spoon of baking soda and 800 ml of water to get rid of powdering mildew. It works in a couple of days!
I have thought about trying this but The idea of pouring milk all over everything always puts me off haha. Maybe I will get Kevin to try it over at his place
I might try this. I have tried milk and water before but it didn't work. (The plants didn't only have powdery mildew, so it could be something else that killed them). Any idea what it is in the milk that works against powdery mildew?
@@thatsalt1560 -Proteins and lactaids in milk interact with sunlight producing oxygen radicals and pH increase, to create an antiseptic with anti fungal properties. -Lactic Acid Bacteria (Lactobacilli) has anti fungal activity; it also brakes down nutrients in the soil to make them available to the plants. -Phosphate boost a plant's immune system. Milk contains minerals, as calcium and potassium, so it also works as foliar fertilizer. I learned you must spray your plants in the morning and/or afternoon, 2 to 3 day in a row, then weekly.
i went and got a hat like yours. Man do I wish i were your neighbor so i could be your garden helper. that'd be soo cool! Sorry about the cadence comment in the discord. i feel like a jerk. you're wicked cool
hi jacque. i love your videos. question for you - i never companion plant bc i don’t have room in my garden space but i see you kinda just stuck them in there. does spacing not matter as much when it comes to companion plants ?
It sort of depends on the plant, a thing like a alyssum wont compete much with your other plants as they are shallow rooted and don't grow too vigorously. The deal is that the more crowded you get the more you have to pay attention to water and fertility, so it is a slight trade off.
I'm in south Orange county. My tomatoes rarely get powdery mildew. Saying that, I've basically given up growing zucchini due to them getting covered in powdery mildew extremely fast.
I’m from south Oc but in north Oc now. I had the same thought about zucchini until Kevin said on his channel that some plants just have silver on the leaves and if it’s green underneath the leaves it’s not powdery mildew. I have more zucchini than I know what to do with right now. I almost chopped all my plants before realizing it wasn’t PM
Jacque I have a question I am new to gardening I am in zone 10a my little garden is in full sun do I need to put up shade cloth so they won't get the full sun in are very hot South Florida climate. By the way I love your video's so much information oh and my tomatoes are planted east to west lol. Thank you for sharing
Great video! I’m near Riverside, Ca & I have a single yellow brandywine tomato that is super healthy and has lots of blooms but hasn’t set any fruit. I planted it in my raised bed on March 31. My other tomatoes, all indeterminate and cherry varieties, were planted at the same time have set fruit. Am I doing something wrong with the brandywine? The flowers open, fold back and then fall off. I used Dr. Earth tomato, veg and herb soil amendment, plus worm castings and compost before planting and Dr. Earth liquid fertilizer (3-2-2) as both a foliar spray or a soil drench for my whole garden every 2 weeks per the instructions. Is the nitrogen too high for this? Am I fertilizing too often or the wrong way? I’ve already harvested some bell pepper and zucchini. My garden appears healthier this year than it ever has before (except for the roly-poly invasion that tried to destroy my watermelon plants before I figured out the problem). Any ideas or suggestions? Or do I just need to have more patience?
Tomatoes varieties have different maturity rates. Very Early: 54 days or less -Early: 55-69 days - tends to be most cherry varieties. Mid-Season: 70-84 days - celebrity and big boy varieties. Late Season: 85 or more - beefsteaks like Brandywines. So it's probably just too early for your brandywine to set fruit. Also, too cold or too warm temps will also delay of fruit setting. It looks like what you are doing is fine but you can dilute your liquid fertilizer by half and still be good. I'm in Anaheim and none of my beefsteaks have set fruit yet. Knowing that beefsteaks are late season produces I don't plant mine until May- June.
The larger the fruit size the more sun it needs to ripen, so for something like a Brandywine in order for it to be producing and setting full fruit it will need full sun at this time of the year. You can also walk around and flick or shake the flowers once they first set to ensure they are pollinating themselves.
I haven't but probably will after this season just in case. I have now grown tomatoes in this same spot three times. I always rotate another crop in-between the tomato season but I mostly stay here because it is so easy to plant them all out in this nice square area.
The single string is great for getting tomatoes sooner and having tighter spacing. So if you were space limited but wanted to try a bunch of varieties to try a single string would be ideal as you can get away with spacing at 16-18 inches easily. The other thing I like about the Florida weave is that its a lot easier and more forgiving. If I miss the pruning on the single stem it will be more difficult to recover nicely. With the weave you can leave all the suckers and just pull them in whenever you run your next weave.
Hi!! This is my first year growing vegetables I would like to know if its ok to use both fish seaweed and tomato and veggie fertilizer at the same time from Neptune?
It should be ok to use them all but I would not use a full dose of each one. So if you are mixing them use the proportional amount. You could also space the applications out overtime.
Thank you for the great info on tomato companion planting and setting up the trellis for tomatoes. Would this also be a good trellis type for cucumbers or beans?
Beans and cucumbers would be better off with established strings or nets to climb on since they are natural climbers. This works well for tomatoes because they grow vertically but don't "climb" or grab onto anything. Also beans and cucumbers have much more fragile stems so it would be really easy to break them using this method. I use the weave for tomatoes and tomatillos.
Is there a reason you aren’t using something like cattle Panels on those t posts instead of the string? I’m setting up my system that way and wondering if there is a reason you chose not to?
The string is easy to setup and take down and makes the whole system easy to take down and store whenever I am growing something else there instead like cabbages for example. The weave also allows for pulling in the suckers easily throughout the season and I can't fit a cattle panel on my car haha
Beefsteak sort of colloquially refers loosely to large slicing tomatoes, It is impossible for home growers to buy GMO seeds currently so luckily that shouldn't be an issue or concern for us!
@@jacquesinthegarden they didn't seem to like my Central Florida heat. But, yours were so beautiful, that I will give them another try! Thank you for the response!
Black Krim and Cherokee purple are two of my favorites. This year I bought a plant called Cherokee x Carbon which I think I may like even more than those two! I will definitely be looking for seeds!
This year I started about 55 varieties of tomatoes. Made huge mistake trying to hardening them off and went away for few hours in evening and couldn’t make it back home before sunset (temperature dropped ) and lost quite few. I don’t have any idea with how many varieties I left 😂
I got carefully labelled tomato seeds of varioud interesting kinds from a friend. I had no time to label them myself. I just sowed them, didn't water enough and only a few survived. I thought they were sunflowers and planted them accordingly, although the roots did look like tomato roots. Now I have a funny kind of tomato growing all over the garden. No idea what kind it is, but they have those "potato leaves". Determinate? Indeterminate? No idea 😄 We'll see. (I do have more traditional tomatoes that I know what they are too, so it's not all chaos).
@@thatsalt1560 same here. Best part is that we also grow for market and have greenhouse specially for tomatoes. I did have labels for everything but it did wash out and we are guessing which to plant in greenhouse and which in field 😂 hopefully we will get it right 😂🍅
That is very odd I am not sure how that would be. Are you diluting it and watering it in too already moistened soil? If the plants are dry and then get fertilized with too much at once they would definitely not be happy.
What can make tomato growing faster? I plant several its okay flourishing and flowering but suddenly it becomes like overwater or underwater.it dies even im sure its not about watering.what can i do?
Hmm, they usually grow quite fast themselves but having temps above 60 at night and below 90 is really when they will explode with growth. I wouldn't try messing with them too much, just let them settle in and they will take off.
I'm confused though. Does the one side have two weaves because you have 3 plants on that side, whereas the other side only has one so far because it has only 2 plants?
Every side has two weaves in the end. The only difference is that the stake either separates 2 or 3 tomatoes from the end points. If you mean why I have two separate height levels of weave its mostly because I wanted to demonstrate a close up of a short sections and then also show a full span. In this case these tomatoes would have been fine with just one layer.
Damn, wish my soil was soft enough to just use a hammer to put t-posts in. In my hard clay soil I have to use a post driver. Loved the video though. I'm gonna try something like this for tomatillos.
I am afraid that I am a lazy gardener because I just stick a tomato cage on them and come up with creative supports as the plant outgrows the cage, lol!
Good video, Jacques. Can you tell me what BG varieties you planted? I am growing four different BG varieties this year. Rozov Blian, Rozova Magia, Rozov Dar and Ideal.
Oh that is exciting to hear! I have Ideal Roz, Blyan, Giant Red, and Magia Roz. I have a few others that I will try later in the year or next year as well!
@@jacquesinthegarden Fantastic! Curious to see how they'll do over there. I've been growing Magia and Blian for several years. Both not the most productive but very delicious. Magia is a later variety though. If Giant Red does well for you I may ask for some seeds :)
I almost grabbed it and felt silly when I already have a perfectly good mini sledge, low and behold I couldn't find that anywhere and immediately regretted not buying the driver haha.
@@jacquesinthegarden I used a sledgehammer for a long time. Drive one post with the proper tool and then I slapped myself for not buying it sooner. Then I finally got a post puller. Work smarter not harder and save you body for more gardening
Bro, let me give you the best piece of advice you'll ever get as far as t-posts go... Spend the 45 bucks on a post driver. It's well worth the money and it's way easier than a hammer and ladder!
Word of caution, though - DO NOT pick it up too high. That is what the white paint at the top of most T posts is for. I know someone who hit the top edge of a T-post and the driver kicked back and hit her right on top of the head. She's ok, but it left a pretty nasty gash and could easily have given her a concussion. Ouch
Love the mellow vibes and demeanor of your channel, it’s almost like meditation
The idea that bigger tomatoes need more sun is such a helpful insight!
I just want to say to those who are new to growing tomatoes that they are very easy to grow. You do not have to have a perfectly watered bed or a bunch of layers of various textures or lots of various fertilizers in order to grow tomatoes. You can water well, dig a hole, plant the tomato, water again and fertilize after a while (a week, at least) and water more in the beginning, less later when the roots have settled in. Just get a few plants and not only one. Some might be weaker, some stronger, but tomatoes love to grow. You don't need to be as advanced as Jacques is here. Just saying this, in case anyone got a bit overwhelmed.
Thank you ,good to know, my second year planting, one thing I noticed it's better off planting in the ground than in Containers
Absolutely, I agree with this 100% I've had great success without crazy amendments and procedures, tomatoes are very forgiving plants! I try to make a point and mention that whenever I remember!
@@jacquesinthegarden I know! I love your relaxed approach.
I made this mistake last year. I made sure the soil in the planters was really great with all sorts of amendments and watering on a strict schedule without fail…they just didn’t do a well. I got half my usual harvest. I’ll never put tomatoes anywhere but in ground again!
I started using Agrothrive about two years ago as well. You are the first on RUclips I have seen mention it. I love that stuff.
Love you and Kevin. You both give so much great information. When you two work together, you are also very funny.
I appreciate how thorough you are demonstrating.
Putting in my own two cents on the string to use for a Florida Weave here, but I've found that sisal twine works well for me. I haven't had the issues with it scratching the plants, personally. Given how cheap it is, I would recommend people at least try it and see how it works for them; if all goes well, it will save them a little bit of money over time. If not, there are lots of other uses for it around the garden.
Its true, I repurposed my sisal for things like pea trellises and such, it may be my climate context!
My in-laws bought a couple husky cherry tomato plants from a store last year. They had over a dozen volunteers pop up this year. We live in zone 9 on the Texas Gulf Coast and I can back up the claim the husky cherry tomatoes are low maintenance and will grow in heat and humidity. My in-laws plants last year kept producing up in to November and probably would have overwintered if given adequate protection from the little bit of cold weather we got this year.
Will keep my eye out for this! Thanks for the recommendation!
This is such a cheap DIY that I didn’t even realize I could do! I have okra in the garden right now from what I hear they get very tall. Thank you Hermit I love your channel!
Okra gets very tall but it is also very woody and so it can definitely support itself.
Your videos are so informative and relaxing to watch. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
ok, i am soooo entertained with you paranoias, jacques :) i really love what you do, i am a relaxed person, so i really like your personality and contents. oh, and i am very interested in those bulgarian tomatoes, so i am waiting for the harvest videos!
Hahaha, I think I picked up some paranoias from my Bulgarian side, at least superstitions
@@jacquesinthegarden i am hungarian, which is not so far from bulgaria - maybe that is way i know so well paranoia :) at least i am not superstitious, lol. you have a very good humor, i really love that you are calm and chilled and very reflective, but you say the right words in a sec anytime ;)
Awesome video. I'm really excited to hear updates about the brandywine cherry tomato.
Great Video as always! Planted Big Rainbow Tomatoes and some Beefsteak Tomatoes and waiting for a big harvest!
Great, informational video, Jacques. Those are some awesome looking tomato plants! Love watching both you and Kevin in the garden. I'm from Missouri in zone 6B
I didnt realize that the fuzz on tomato stems could grow more roots. Makes sense why you plant it so deep.
TIL
Each spring is a new adventure/experiment! I have too many tomato seedlings as well. So many varieties to try! Our garden is urban and I only have space for 12 tomato plants. I have about 30 tomato seedlings. Same issue with pepper seedlings. Free seedlings to friends and co-workers! The seedlings don't get planted out until June 10th. Zone 4, we can get frost in early June.
Wow it is crazy to imagine a frost as late as June, that is some hardcore gardening, you really got to get your timing right!
There’s nothing more endearing in gardening videos than hearing Jacques’ giggle. He never takes himself too seriously.
“Smells like soy sauce, that I don’t want to eat”* LOL great description!
I found a handful of hornworms on my single dill plant last week. I found a couple cocoons on my black cherry tomato that I had assumed were hornworms I had missed. Should I have left them alone?
So much to learn! 😂
❤️ April from Modesto CA
Were they colorful with black and yellow stripes? Swallowtail caterpillars love dill and fennel and won't bother your tomatoes but will eat the dill, personally I like to leave them.
That is a sweet drill bit. You could also build a mini fence and install fence posts in those holes.
I have been actually using it to build out all the new additions to my garden fence, works great!
I grew dill near my tomatoes last year and when they got tomato hornworm, the worms were full of wasp larvae the next day. I read about it but didn't think I'd see it. Nature!
We have dill all over the garden growing like a weed. I didn't know it's good to keep it around. This means my neighbours' gardens that look so clean and perfect are not so perfect after all? I'll be kinder to the dill and feel better about not removing all of it.
Already have my tomatoes and I'm so excited to learn that I got lucky with getting the husky cherry!!
Always so informative Jacques. Thank you for sharing.
I got a couple of metal trellises originally designed to go against a wall. I put one on each side of a raised bed and used Paracord for the string. Probably overkill, but it's really solid. I wrapped the leftover cord up top like the mooring line of a boat, except I don't know what the actual knot is so it might be completely loose now.
My favorite cherry tomato is Matt's. It's one of the little tiny ones, comes back in volunteers year after year and is very prolific and disease resistant for me in Maryland.
I keep meaning to try that one, we tried "Mexico Midget" and hated it!
Marigolds are also a favorite of those beneficial wasps in my garden, native bumblebees as well. I have also been experimenting with planting borage near my tomatoes, the flowers look pretty similar so I'm thinking it might help with pollinators.
The borage flowers will absolutely attract lots of bees so that's a good move!
I'm trying the Florida Weave using only 2 posts per 10' row, doing another with a third post in between. So far both are doing really well. More slack in the first version but just that little bit of support (so far) is keeping everything organized and upright.
Nice, I find it to hard to keep them properly upright but I am also pretty tight in row (3').
@@jacquesinthegarden So far so good for me. Because I'm adding a string every week or so, I can kind of corral the plants to my liking as things develop. It's a really great method. I was talking with my buddies in Maine about how much we hate tomato cages and how cool it is to have a method that is a few t-posts and some string.
@@51rwyatt how many suckers do you leave on your tomatoes? and if the suckers go against the weave should i cut them off?
@@dkielp11 if you have the space, like plants 2' apart, I never remove suckers. Sucker removal makes sense for tight plant spacing.
Great instructions! 💜🌱💜
I love Agrothrive too! I had tomatoes until Nov last year in zone 6b
I would highly recommend spraying a mix of 200 ml of milk, 1 table spoon of baking soda and 800 ml of water to get rid of powdering mildew. It works in a couple of days!
I have thought about trying this but The idea of pouring milk all over everything always puts me off haha. Maybe I will get Kevin to try it over at his place
@@jacquesinthegarden Haha! That's what friends are for, right?
I might try this. I have tried milk and water before but it didn't work. (The plants didn't only have powdery mildew, so it could be something else that killed them). Any idea what it is in the milk that works against powdery mildew?
@@thatsalt1560 -Proteins and lactaids in milk interact with sunlight producing oxygen radicals and pH increase, to create an antiseptic with anti fungal properties. -Lactic Acid Bacteria (Lactobacilli) has anti fungal activity; it also brakes down nutrients in the soil to make them available to the plants. -Phosphate boost a plant's immune system. Milk contains minerals, as calcium and potassium, so it also works as foliar fertilizer. I learned you must spray your plants in the morning and/or afternoon, 2 to 3 day in a row, then weekly.
I love the video! Thank you for sharing 👏👌🥰🇦🇺
100% Lion Brand crochet yarn works well too.
i went and got a hat like yours. Man do I wish i were your neighbor so i could be your garden helper. that'd be soo cool! Sorry about the cadence comment in the discord. i feel like a jerk. you're wicked cool
The best thing I ever did for my tomatoes was bury some expired fish about a foot down. My tomatoes went bananas when they hit that 🤣
Great video I learned a lot from this video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
hi jacque. i love your videos. question for you - i never companion plant bc i don’t have room in my garden space but i see you kinda just stuck them in there. does spacing not matter as much when it comes to companion plants ?
It sort of depends on the plant, a thing like a alyssum wont compete much with your other plants as they are shallow rooted and don't grow too vigorously. The deal is that the more crowded you get the more you have to pay attention to water and fertility, so it is a slight trade off.
I'm in south Orange county. My tomatoes rarely get powdery mildew. Saying that, I've basically given up growing zucchini due to them getting covered in powdery mildew extremely fast.
Interesting! I feel like my zucchini are easier to control than my tomatoes!
I’m from south Oc but in north Oc now. I had the same thought about zucchini until Kevin said on his channel that some plants just have silver on the leaves and if it’s green underneath the leaves it’s not powdery mildew. I have more zucchini than I know what to do with right now. I almost chopped all my plants before realizing it wasn’t PM
Jacque I have a question I am new to gardening I am in zone 10a my little garden is in full sun do I need to put up shade cloth so they won't get the full sun in are very hot South Florida climate. By the way I love your video's so much information oh and my tomatoes are planted east to west lol. Thank you for sharing
It seems like shade cloth will provide some benefit in particular to avoid sun scalding of fruit. But it shouldn't be necessary!
Great video! I’m near Riverside, Ca & I have a single yellow brandywine tomato that is super healthy and has lots of blooms but hasn’t set any fruit. I planted it in my raised bed on March 31. My other tomatoes, all indeterminate and cherry varieties, were planted at the same time have set fruit. Am I doing something wrong with the brandywine? The flowers open, fold back and then fall off.
I used Dr. Earth tomato, veg and herb soil amendment, plus worm castings and compost before planting and Dr. Earth liquid fertilizer (3-2-2) as both a foliar spray or a soil drench for my whole garden every 2 weeks per the instructions. Is the nitrogen too high for this? Am I fertilizing too often or the wrong way? I’ve already harvested some bell pepper and zucchini. My garden appears healthier this year than it ever has before (except for the roly-poly invasion that tried to destroy my watermelon plants before I figured out the problem).
Any ideas or suggestions? Or do I just need to have more patience?
Tomatoes varieties have different maturity rates. Very Early: 54 days or less -Early: 55-69 days - tends to be most cherry varieties.
Mid-Season: 70-84 days - celebrity and big boy varieties.
Late Season: 85 or more - beefsteaks like Brandywines.
So it's probably just too early for your brandywine to set fruit. Also, too cold or too warm temps will also delay of fruit setting.
It looks like what you are doing is fine but you can dilute your liquid fertilizer by half and still be good. I'm in Anaheim and none of my beefsteaks have set fruit yet. Knowing that beefsteaks are late season produces I don't plant mine until May- June.
The larger the fruit size the more sun it needs to ripen, so for something like a Brandywine in order for it to be producing and setting full fruit it will need full sun at this time of the year. You can also walk around and flick or shake the flowers once they first set to ensure they are pollinating themselves.
Hi Jacques, do you have to rotate your tomatoes every year? Your videos are great!
I haven't but probably will after this season just in case. I have now grown tomatoes in this same spot three times. I always rotate another crop in-between the tomato season but I mostly stay here because it is so easy to plant them all out in this nice square area.
Could you use a lighter to burn the ends of the string so it doesn’t unravel/ fray?🔥
You could actually do that in this case since its straight plastic!
The bumps on the post is called a stud.
how many suckers can i leave on? id like to leave as many as possible and, if they go against the weave should i cut them off?
I still have 50 plus 12” tomatoes that need to be planted they have been acclimating for 4 weeks now 😂
So, what are your thoughts for the Florida weave versus a single stem vertical trellising style?
The single string is great for getting tomatoes sooner and having tighter spacing. So if you were space limited but wanted to try a bunch of varieties to try a single string would be ideal as you can get away with spacing at 16-18 inches easily. The other thing I like about the Florida weave is that its a lot easier and more forgiving. If I miss the pruning on the single stem it will be more difficult to recover nicely. With the weave you can leave all the suckers and just pull them in whenever you run your next weave.
Hi!! This is my first year growing vegetables I would like to know if its ok to use both fish seaweed and tomato and veggie fertilizer at the same time from Neptune?
It should be ok to use them all but I would not use a full dose of each one. So if you are mixing them use the proportional amount. You could also space the applications out overtime.
Thank you for the great info on tomato companion planting and setting up the trellis for tomatoes. Would this also be a good trellis type for cucumbers or beans?
Beans and cucumbers would be better off with established strings or nets to climb on since they are natural climbers. This works well for tomatoes because they grow vertically but don't "climb" or grab onto anything. Also beans and cucumbers have much more fragile stems so it would be really easy to break them using this method. I use the weave for tomatoes and tomatillos.
@@jacquesinthegarden Makes sense. Thanks, Jacques!🌱🌞
What are your opinions on the super sweet 100 cherry tomatoes? Are they worth growing?
Do you start any seeds in wet paper towels and baggies??
Is there a reason you aren’t using something like cattle Panels on those t posts instead of the string? I’m setting up my system that way and wondering if there is a reason you chose not to?
The string is easy to setup and take down and makes the whole system easy to take down and store whenever I am growing something else there instead like cabbages for example. The weave also allows for pulling in the suckers easily throughout the season and I can't fit a cattle panel on my car haha
heirloom Beefsteak? Isn't that GMO crop? Awesome advice!
Beefsteak sort of colloquially refers loosely to large slicing tomatoes, It is impossible for home growers to buy GMO seeds currently so luckily that shouldn't be an issue or concern for us!
Are those Straw Flowers in front of the newly planted tomatoes? If they are, are they heat sensitive?
Indeed they are straw flowers and they actually tolerate heat quite well!
@@jacquesinthegarden they didn't seem to like my Central Florida heat. But, yours were so beautiful, that I will give them another try! Thank you for the response!
Black grim ? One the best slice tomatoes ever !
Black Krim - originating from Ukraine Crimea . Very tasty tomatoes 🍅
Black Krim and Cherokee purple are two of my favorites. This year I bought a plant called Cherokee x Carbon which I think I may like even more than those two! I will definitely be looking for seeds!
@@jacquesinthegarden did you end up liking the cross variety of tomato?
This year I started about 55 varieties of tomatoes. Made huge mistake trying to hardening them off and went away for few hours in evening and couldn’t make it back home before sunset (temperature dropped ) and lost quite few. I don’t have any idea with how many varieties I left 😂
I got carefully labelled tomato seeds of varioud interesting kinds from a friend. I had no time to label them myself. I just sowed them, didn't water enough and only a few survived. I thought they were sunflowers and planted them accordingly, although the roots did look like tomato roots. Now I have a funny kind of tomato growing all over the garden. No idea what kind it is, but they have those "potato leaves". Determinate? Indeterminate? No idea 😄 We'll see. (I do have more traditional tomatoes that I know what they are too, so it's not all chaos).
@@thatsalt1560 same here. Best part is that we also grow for market and have greenhouse specially for tomatoes. I did have labels for everything but it did wash out and we are guessing which to plant in greenhouse and which in field 😂 hopefully we will get it right 😂🍅
It definitely happens to everyone!
Jacque! I need help! Every time I use agrothrive, my plants turn yellow. What am I doing wrong?
That is very odd I am not sure how that would be. Are you diluting it and watering it in too already moistened soil? If the plants are dry and then get fertilized with too much at once they would definitely not be happy.
That could be. I try to make sure it’s been watered beforehand and I definitely dilute it. I’ll try again.
Have you tried EM5 for powdery mildew?
I haven't! I may have to check that out.
What can make tomato growing faster? I plant several its okay flourishing and flowering but suddenly it becomes like overwater or underwater.it dies even im sure its not about watering.what can i do?
Hmm, they usually grow quite fast themselves but having temps above 60 at night and below 90 is really when they will explode with growth. I wouldn't try messing with them too much, just let them settle in and they will take off.
What did you call the first companion plant? Sweet something?
Sweet Alyssum!
@@jacquesinthegarden thank you. Love the channel.
I'm confused though. Does the one side have two weaves because you have 3 plants on that side, whereas the other side only has one so far because it has only 2 plants?
Every side has two weaves in the end. The only difference is that the stake either separates 2 or 3 tomatoes from the end points. If you mean why I have two separate height levels of weave its mostly because I wanted to demonstrate a close up of a short sections and then also show a full span. In this case these tomatoes would have been fine with just one layer.
Damn, wish my soil was soft enough to just use a hammer to put t-posts in. In my hard clay soil I have to use a post driver. Loved the video though. I'm gonna try something like this for tomatillos.
I am afraid that I am a lazy gardener because I just stick a tomato cage on them and come up with creative supports as the plant outgrows the cage, lol!
That was me the first year, it was a site to behold, sticks and string hanging all over the place!
@@jacquesinthegarden , LOL! Glad I was not the only one.
Good video, Jacques. Can you tell me what BG varieties you planted? I am growing four different BG varieties this year. Rozov Blian, Rozova Magia, Rozov Dar and Ideal.
Oh that is exciting to hear! I have Ideal Roz, Blyan, Giant Red, and Magia Roz. I have a few others that I will try later in the year or next year as well!
@@jacquesinthegarden Fantastic! Curious to see how they'll do over there. I've been growing Magia and Blian for several years. Both not the most productive but very delicious. Magia is a later variety though. If Giant Red does well for you I may ask for some seeds :)
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Try getting a T post driver. $30 and it’s well worth every cent
I almost grabbed it and felt silly when I already have a perfectly good mini sledge, low and behold I couldn't find that anywhere and immediately regretted not buying the driver haha.
@@jacquesinthegarden I used a sledgehammer for a long time. Drive one post with the proper tool and then I slapped myself for not buying it sooner. Then I finally got a post puller. Work smarter not harder and save you body for more gardening
Bro, let me give you the best piece of advice you'll ever get as far as t-posts go... Spend the 45 bucks on a post driver. It's well worth the money and it's way easier than a hammer and ladder!
This time I finally decided that I am ready to splurge on the t post driver haha
Word of caution, though - DO NOT pick it up too high. That is what the white paint at the top of most T posts is for. I know someone who hit the top edge of a T-post and the driver kicked back and hit her right on top of the head. She's ok, but it left a pretty nasty gash and could easily have given her a concussion. Ouch
Have ever grown/made your own tomato paste?
Actually I haven't made proper paste before, I should try that this year!
My tomatoes are not even FLOWERING yet....pruned the suckers and everything
Huh, could be a sunlight thing or temperature, not enough sun and too cold?
Dude...what is with that "ladies" hammer?? Get a 1lb sledge to pound those posts!
Sigh...I can't find my mini sledge! I have a perfect 3lb mini sledge that I usually use but I can't find it anywhere!
The smuggled tomatoes are going to taste the best. Queue Judas Priest Breaking the Law for the first harvest 🤘🏼🍅
Hahaha at least they were in sealed packages that makes it pretty legit!
don't use a hammer without safety glasses
Man from Florida..
It's pronounced Tomato