Woow your tomatoes look amazing. I planted mine out a bit small too, but they are really struggling with the heat and the wind. Haven't really put on any new growth yet. Fingers crossed they look as good as yours soon!
hi Anthony following with much interest im a few weeks behind you but using cotton rags for ties has been the best idea iv herd all year as i have plenty of rags in bags not being used at all now i have a purpose for them thanks for your info vids have a great season mate
Thanks for watching. Yeah I find if you have either cotton blends they seam to last the best as they can handle the UV so you can use them every season. Try not to tighten the knots too hard so you can take them apart easier at the end and store them.
Looking good mate. Those tomatoes have grown fast - mine are half that size. The direct-sown beans I mentioned in a prior video are really taking off here - 2 sets of true leaves already. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the heads up I’m going to go and try direct seedling my beans this week I haven’t been impressed by the germination rates of my seedlings so I will try planting out direct this week
Good clear instructions for any new gardeners. Well done mate. I'm also going to plant some French Marigolds and Basil as well around the border and add yellow sticky traps to the stakes to deter QFF. Cheers
Thanks mate. I was thinking of planting a row of basil adjacent to them as they get bigger. I have used sticky traps in the past though the fruit flies still go through do you find it works well for you?
You’ve got room for big tomatoes and done an awesome job , I’m sticking cherry tomatoes as I’ve got small raised beds. Looking forward to more video updates
Thanks for another informative video Anthony! I need to get my baby tomato plants into my raised beds today as the bottom leaves are starting to yellow. Your tomatoes are looking great! 🙂
I really enjoy your videos. I’m just setting up my vege garden and I wondered if you could answer a question for me. I notice some gardeners plant on mounds but you plant in a trench. The trench seems better to me as you can make sure the plants get a good watering. I live in Australia too so this seems best. Are there technical reasons to build on mounds/trenches like airflow? Also, do you grow different veges different ways, such as tomatoes in trenches but other verges on mounds or level? Thank you
Hi thanks for watching. I plant a lot of the time in trenches at the beginning because it makes it easier to water and fertilise when the plants are younger but as they grow I mound or hill the soil around the base of the plants for support. I am actually making few videos now one of me hilling my caulies and the other hilling the tomatoes. Hopefully they will explain it to you. Mounds are good especially if you get a lot of rain in your area allows the water to get away from the plants but at the young plant stage I find it easier to plant and look after the plants in trenches
Thanks for watching. I like to try and get 80cm in between the rows and the tomatoes are planted 60cm apart within the rows. More space the better it helps when you start staking and harvesting tomatoes
Yep. The tomatoes were planted out on 15th August and this video was filmed 18th September. We had really hot weather early on so they put on a lot of growth. The cold weather recently slowed them a little but tomatoes respond fast to warming soils.
Hi mate depends at what stage of growth they are. If you have just planted them out I would go and get some unscented epsom salt and put a handful around the base of the plant and water it in. I would then in a few days time feed with a liquid nitrogen based fertilisier. This will help. Reach out to me on Instagram and send me a photo it would make it easier to assess
Great videos mate. What is the main fertilizer you use? I have a lot of chickens and I’m thinking of making up some chicken manure tea for all my veggies. Thoughts?
Mate I would want to make sure that the chicken manure is composted first. Making a tea with relatively fresh manure will be really strong and could burn your plants. Also be careful with selmonella spread if you use this fresh manure on leafy greens and make sure you wash everything well. Other than that you would want to dilute the tea to reduce its strength. I have a lot of chooks as well I have been opting to composting the poo with the run waste and using that on the bed before planting
In terms of fertilisier I use I use a lot of dynamic lifter pellets I also have a 20kg bag of potash and superphosphate that I use as needed depending on what I’m growing. I also use a lot of the home made compost or bagged cow manure
I had 4 tomato plants about the same size and we got hit with a late frost in SA. The plants weren't covered, they have frost burn on the new growth and flowering. I'm not sure what to do now. Will they recover.
Depends on how serious it is if it’s just burnt tips I would add some high nitrogen liquid fertiliser (powerfeed or something like that) and as it grows you can prune off the damaged leaves. If the growing tip of the tomato is damaged and they are still small I would start again
Initially I do this because I like to hill the soil around the base of the plant to encourage growth of my roots along the stem. I have been a little slow with my videos but I just hilled the soil as soon as I get the video out I hope it will explain more
big hardwood stakes are very expensive now, and only last a couple of seasons at best, which is why i prefer my more permanent setup, eventhough i spent around $200 for it. At $5 per 1800mm hardwood stake, 40 stakes paid for the frame.
i posted a photo on google drive but seems like youtube deletes those comments. i used rectangular tubing for uprights and also as top cross beam, as you need to hold up the stainless steel ballustrade cable (is cheap as roll) with sturdy hooks every three feet or so. also you dont need tensioning of the uprights this way. the uprights bolted onto the more expensive star pickets that dont rust straight away. so 2.4m uprights are not in ground to rust. i upgraded my drill bits to cobalt, as you need good drill bits to drill the star pickets. i'm using the not cheap tomahooks from activevista, which will now last me forever, but you could tie correct diameter poly for drops. needs to be not too thick as using the (large) clips, that clip onto the poly and encircle tomato stem.
Mate would love to see this set up please reach out to me on Instagram and send me a message. RUclips is painful in that you can’t message on this portal
if you need more details on materials etc, let me know. but it's essentially 1.5m moisture resistant star pickets driven half into ground, try to keep them straight and facing the right way to bolt onto uprights, two bolts will do, one high and one low. need cobalt drill bits to drill star pickets, which are 3mm thick steel. i used clamps to hold star picket and upright together whilst drilling. Once you got the uprights bolted use same tubing as a top cross member and bolt that on. then put some heavy duty bolt hooks onto cross member and the the stainless steel cable into it. the reason for the cable is so i can use the tomahooks i have. else if you just doing seasonal poly drops, you could tie directly to the cross member. as long as you end up with poly drops in the right places and reaching ground, you're good to go. if using own poly line and want to use clips, dont use a too thick poly, as clips have limited thickness of line they will clip onto. google web/videos for "tomahooks" or "lower and lean" for how to use this setup, or to adapt to your specific needs.
it" good to be able to watch you in australia growing vegies in our season i find you very helpful thanks
Thanks for watching mate I want to try to make the videos more regular so that the information is real time hopefully these have been helpful
Yes my tomatoes got blown over by the winds so I now what I need to do to help them
I've just had a tomato seedling pop through over here myself!! The exciting part when growing tomatoes is when you get flowers on them!!
Yep just did another prune on my tomatoes over the weekend and the flowers are starting to open looking forward to seeing some fruit form
Woow your tomatoes look amazing. I planted mine out a bit small too, but they are really struggling with the heat and the wind. Haven't really put on any new growth yet. Fingers crossed they look as good as yours soon!
If you can get them through these wind events they will be fine give them a little protection if need be
Another brilliant informative clip. many thanks
hi Anthony following with much interest im a few weeks behind you but using cotton rags for ties has been the best idea iv herd all year as i have plenty of rags in bags not being used at all now i have a purpose for them thanks for your info vids have a great season mate
Thanks for watching. Yeah I find if you have either cotton blends they seam to last the best as they can handle the UV so you can use them every season. Try not to tighten the knots too hard so you can take them apart easier at the end and store them.
Hi from Canada, new to your channel! Your tomato plants look great!
Thanks for watching! Yeah really impressed with their growth at the moment they have been responding well to the warm weather
Looking good mate. Those tomatoes have grown fast - mine are half that size.
The direct-sown beans I mentioned in a prior video are really taking off here - 2 sets of true leaves already.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the heads up I’m going to go and try direct seedling my beans this week I haven’t been impressed by the germination rates of my seedlings so I will try planting out direct this week
Good clear instructions for any new gardeners. Well done mate. I'm also going to plant some French Marigolds and Basil as well around the border and add yellow sticky traps to the stakes to deter QFF. Cheers
Thanks mate. I was thinking of planting a row of basil adjacent to them as they get bigger. I have used sticky traps in the past though the fruit flies still go through do you find it works well for you?
You’ve got room for big tomatoes and done an awesome job , I’m sticking cherry tomatoes as I’ve got small raised beds. Looking forward to more video updates
Very helpfull video thank you
Thanks for another informative video Anthony! I need to get my baby tomato plants into my raised beds today as the bottom leaves are starting to yellow. Your tomatoes are looking great! 🙂
Thank you! Hey if you plant your tomatoes and they are still yellowing add some unscented epsom salt it will help perk them uo
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I really enjoy your videos. I’m just setting up my vege garden and I wondered if you could answer a question for me. I notice some gardeners plant on mounds but you plant in a trench. The trench seems better to me as you can make sure the plants get a good watering. I live in Australia too so this seems best. Are there technical reasons to build on mounds/trenches like airflow? Also, do you grow different veges different ways, such as tomatoes in trenches but other verges on mounds or level? Thank you
Hi thanks for watching. I plant a lot of the time in trenches at the beginning because it makes it easier to water and fertilise when the plants are younger but as they grow I mound or hill the soil around the base of the plants for support. I am actually making few videos now one of me hilling my caulies and the other hilling the tomatoes. Hopefully they will explain it to you. Mounds are good especially if you get a lot of rain in your area allows the water to get away from the plants but at the young plant stage I find it easier to plant and look after the plants in trenches
Hi love your videos. How far apart do you plant them? Thanks
Thanks for watching. I like to try and get 80cm in between the rows and the tomatoes are planted 60cm apart within the rows. More space the better it helps when you start staking and harvesting tomatoes
Is all this lovely growth done in this present freezing weather?
Yep. The tomatoes were planted out on 15th August and this video was filmed 18th September. We had really hot weather early on so they put on a lot of growth. The cold weather recently slowed them a little but tomatoes respond fast to warming soils.
What does it mean and how to I fix yellow leaves seedlings on my tomato seedlings
Hi mate depends at what stage of growth they are. If you have just planted them out I would go and get some unscented epsom salt and put a handful around the base of the plant and water it in. I would then in a few days time feed with a liquid nitrogen based fertilisier. This will help. Reach out to me on Instagram and send me a photo it would make it easier to assess
Great videos mate. What is the main fertilizer you use? I have a lot of chickens and I’m thinking of making up some chicken manure tea for all my veggies. Thoughts?
Mate I would want to make sure that the chicken manure is composted first. Making a tea with relatively fresh manure will be really strong and could burn your plants. Also be careful with selmonella spread if you use this fresh manure on leafy greens and make sure you wash everything well. Other than that you would want to dilute the tea to reduce its strength. I have a lot of chooks as well I have been opting to composting the poo with the run waste and using that on the bed before planting
In terms of fertilisier I use I use a lot of dynamic lifter pellets I also have a 20kg bag of potash and superphosphate that I use as needed depending on what I’m growing. I also use a lot of the home made compost or bagged cow manure
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thanks for your reply mate. I’ll be heading over to Condell Park produce on the weekend and grab some stuff.
I go there to get all my garden stuff. Cheapest in the area and you can buy everything you need in 20kg bags. I go there almost weekly 👍
Morning, are you going to plant any flowers nearby?
No not really I will probably plant some basil at a later date but I find as these tomatoes grow there is going to need a lot of space for staking
I had 4 tomato plants about the same size and we got hit with a late frost in SA. The plants weren't covered, they have frost burn on the new growth and flowering. I'm not sure what to do now. Will they recover.
Depends on how serious it is if it’s just burnt tips I would add some high nitrogen liquid fertiliser (powerfeed or something like that) and as it grows you can prune off the damaged leaves. If the growing tip of the tomato is damaged and they are still small I would start again
Why do you like to remove up to first flowers? Beginner here
Initially I do this because I like to hill the soil around the base of the plant to encourage growth of my roots along the stem. I have been a little slow with my videos but I just hilled the soil as soon as I get the video out I hope it will explain more
big hardwood stakes are very expensive now, and only last a couple of seasons at best, which is why i prefer my more permanent setup, eventhough i spent around $200 for it. At $5 per 1800mm hardwood stake, 40 stakes paid for the frame.
Yeah every year I say I’m going to put a permanent setup and the season catches up to me. I’m going to aim to do the same thing as you next year
i posted a photo on google drive but seems like youtube deletes those comments. i used rectangular tubing for uprights and also as top cross beam, as you need to hold up the stainless steel ballustrade cable (is cheap as roll) with sturdy hooks every three feet or so. also you dont need tensioning of the uprights this way. the uprights bolted onto the more expensive star pickets that dont rust straight away. so 2.4m uprights are not in ground to rust. i upgraded my drill bits to cobalt, as you need good drill bits to drill the star pickets.
i'm using the not cheap tomahooks from activevista, which will now last me forever, but you could tie correct diameter poly for drops. needs to be not too thick as using the (large) clips, that clip onto the poly and encircle tomato stem.
Mate would love to see this set up please reach out to me on Instagram and send me a message. RUclips is painful in that you can’t message on this portal
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if you need more details on materials etc, let me know. but it's essentially 1.5m moisture resistant star pickets driven half into ground, try to keep them straight and facing the right way to bolt onto uprights, two bolts will do, one high and one low. need cobalt drill bits to drill star pickets, which are 3mm thick steel. i used clamps to hold star picket and upright together whilst drilling. Once you got the uprights bolted use same tubing as a top cross member and bolt that on. then put some heavy duty bolt hooks onto cross member and the the stainless steel cable into it. the reason for the cable is so i can use the tomahooks i have. else if you just doing seasonal poly drops, you could tie directly to the cross member. as long as you end up with poly drops in the right places and reaching ground, you're good to go.
if using own poly line and want to use clips, dont use a too thick poly, as clips have limited thickness of line they will clip onto.
google web/videos for "tomahooks" or "lower and lean" for how to use this setup, or to adapt to your specific needs.