Loved your description of the smell of the tomato leaves. Love that when working around them in the garden and looking forward to it again. Thanks Vivi.
Good seeing you so excited about your little baby plants. I'm the same way. I have a 98 year old gardening friend that's ill. Yesterday I went for a visit and she gave me a start of her favorite spring flower. It's called Indian Pink. She never gives them away. I was so honored and will baby it and cherish it forever. Happy Planting! ✌🏼❤ &🌱🌱🌱
Another great video! Love hearing all your happy memories of planting in your grandparents garden. I am sure that your tomatoes will love their new pots and the added nourishment from the compost.
I can't help but smile a big happy grin when I hear about what you are doing and how you are organizing your day and your passions. I absolutely love your vids
Thank you for a great blog Vivi. I have a new greenhouse and am potting on like mad. love to hear about all you are doing. You reminded me that every time I smell Geraniums it reminds me of my beloved grandma. Maybe that's why I love gardening .
Relax and enjoy the process and it will all work out. My grandparents always had amazing gardens and every once in a while I will catch a fragrance that makes me think of them
You've got me wanting to prune my tomatoes. Great video. I grow a lot of tomato seedlings, and they quickly get too tall. To reduce their height I do one or more of three things: remove about 90% of the root system and re-pot deeper; cut off the main shoot to the lowest leaf and allow stem to branch; cut off shoot top and plant it, allowing it to re-root. All work well and they buy me another 2 weeks or so in the greenhouse.
loving these videos vivi. here I am clearing out the vege beds for winter and moving my chooks into the large vege garden for winter. meanwhile the chook pen is lovely and fertile from my girls and we scatter winter vege over that. it's amazing what grows on the chook pen after all the vege scraps I've thrown them!! I'm loving the cosiness of autumn. summer was so so hot and dry!!
Vivi - you are right. Us gardeners are bonkers! I discovered a Hosta that I planted last year and said "hello" to it like it was a long lost pal. 🤔 I'm with you on tomatoes. I have 5 varieties growing on my windowsill and they are such a joy to grow. I'm going to grow one of each in my (plastic - sorry!) greenhouse in my garden and plant 2 blight resistant varieties (Crimson Crush and Resi) at my plot. Seeing them grow is one of life's great pleasures although I have a huge soft spot for my squash plants. Just GORGEOUS things! I'm no expert in any shspe or form but anything i've grown in cardboard or paper hasn't worked out either. Maybe it's this gorgeous spring we're having? Who knows? Hurrah for your own special fertiliser! The local authority have removed the facilities from our plot in deepest, darkest Surrey. To save CASH! So I plan to treat my plants to my own brand of feetiliser over the coming months too. Lot's of love, as always. 💋
Boooo to the local authority! Hurrah for sheds with curtains! ;-) The paper pots have never been an issue before......I think I over-watered.........they're looking a bit perkier now they're potted on. Mmmmm......can't wait to get them in the ground. :-)
Good morning Vivi !! structure is the key Vivi, as my life falls apart without it !! I'm sure your days was always full and you knew what you were doing at work from the minute you arrived to the second you left. so if you don't structure your life now it will soon fall apart as i found myself having to leave a full-time job in a very stressful busy place. so structures on the plot help you fit more in, so does structure in your life do the same !!! thanks for sharing and happy gardening !!
You look happy & productive here Vivi! I totally know what you mean about the sounds, smells and textures of tomatoes and their leaves. My dad and uncles grew them commercially here in California. Our entire town smells like tomatoes, leaves and even the steam coming from the factory where they can them, permeates the hot summer/fall air! All of us kids say it's the scent track if our childhoods! Well that and fresh cut hay, horse and cow manure but those even smell good when you are a ranch kid (hicks from the sticks), lol!!! So plant and fawn over those plants, I could watch you doing that on YT for hours! They are human catnip as far as I can tell 😊🌞🍅🍅🍅🍅🐝🐝
Funnily enough, I potted on my tomatoes this evening. I'm sure they will be a lot happier. Got several cherry and loads of bush tomatoes from the Real Seed Catalogue. Love them. Just ordered some pumpkin, (wow what a range they have) butternut, patti pan and some chard. Yay hey it makes me so happy!
I've been planting a few things in th garden each day. So far I have potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, oca and several varieties of carrots in. I still have so much more to do, but it's a start. You are looking so happy and refreshed, best of luck with your tomatoes.
Vivi I thought of you and Sean today. My cousin did a lot of research on our family and created a spiral bound book of it. It is about an inch and a half thick. It shows that some of the grandparents (too many greats to count) are from Bromley, Kent. I looked it up and it is on the outskirts of London. I was like wow that is where Sean and Vivi live. We are also from Bury, Lancashire. Your plants are looking great. I cannot wait to see your beautiful garden. Keep up the good work girl!!!
Finally catching up on videos. I always think of my great-uncle with tomatoes. He grew them every year, and I loved to visit during tomato season. I'd eat my way through loads of them while he and my mom visited. Great video. 🙂
Vivi, my earliest garden smell memories are from the Dill weed plants that my mother always had in the garden. I'm not sure what she did with the Dill as I don't remember eating a lot of pickles which would be the first thing I could think of using Dill. I too like the smell of the tomato plant and it makes me anxious for the taste of that first tomato bite. I have the potatoes planted and will be planting the lettuce, radish, onion, and cabbage plants this week. In three weeks the rest of the plants will go out in the garden. Have a great kitchen potting day. Nebraska Dave
When I was thinning my herbs, I was surprised, to notice, that they smelled..... and tasted.... just like the mature plants. Love the smell of tomatoes too. Spring; what a joy!!
Haha .. we need a job in order to get a little REST! I'm doing the same thing ... renovating my back garden completely. PS .. love, love, love, love my garden which I am planting in pots this year! PPS I have a wall cabinet where I've put a florescent light in which acts as a greenhouse to help my bell peppers, aubergine and tomatoes stay warm and lighted. Once they get bigger, I put them under a reading. lamp and under my kitchen overhead lights until it's time to plant them out. Now, to get some more seeds started. Whew, where can I put them now??????????
Great video. I'm sure your Chadwick's will do fine once you repot them and they will catch right up. I usually buy my tomato plants because I never seem to get them started early enough. I'm hoping to get some of those blight resistant varieties that Sean has spoken of. I found one with a similar name last year and although most all the other varieties of tomatoes did well last year (for the first time in three years) that particular plant stayed a beautiful deep green - no yellowing or spotting of the leaves at all. And the fruit was sweet and tasty. But I did sow a few San Marzano's from seed. We'll see how they do. I was reading through some of your comments and didn't realize that tomatoes are associated with inflammation. Wow, don't know if I can bring myself to cut back. Nothing like fresh tomatoes and sauce from your own tomatoes through the winter. And it must be that grandparents and tomatoes go together because the smell of them reminds me of my grandparents too!
I think you are quite right about the newspaper ink. I stopped doing newspaper pots a few years ago. I had noticed the plants were really well, 'weedy'. There seems to be more 'size' or like a coating on newspaper these days.. I have a log burner and noticed that the newspaper wasn't lighting the same.. It seems to have a fire retardant coating in the print.. . I got a load of pots off freecycle and just re-use them now. No problems since.
I don't understand it really.....as some things are fine but the toms definitely weren't happy.....didn't make sense to me. Hey-ho.....I'll keep my eyes peeled for discarded pots.... Happy potting on to you. :-)
My Granny had a victorian greenhouse at the top of her garden and I loved it in there. Everytime I go into my own greenhouse, the smell of the tomatoes takes me right back to my Granny's place. It's so lovely.
I feel the same about tomatoes. My dad and i grew them and mom and I canned them. I manage both jobs myself now. more than any veg, a good crop of tomatoes pleases me the most. This year my returning new favorites are Japanese Black. great videos, Vivi.
I love those few weeks in the late summer when life becomes all about harvesting and bottling the tomatoes........when everything else in life gets put on hold for yet another session in the kitchen with mounds and mounds of toms.... Happy growing and harvesting to you. :-)
the smell of tomato plants always reminds me of my grandad he was always down the garden in his greenhouse with his toms. with your toms could it be the position they were in as one side of the tray were fine? good luck with them
I've come to the conclusion that tomatoes are granddad plants! Everyone I speak to remembers their grandddad growing them.......and the smell seems to transport us all. Lovely. :-)
I love tomatoes and I am the only one to eat them. Last year I planted 13 plants and my kidney doctor told me to eat tomatoes very rarely. So this year I am only going to plant two. My favorite is sun gold.
This . year put out 5 varieties of heirloom tomatoes. All are blooming well and a few small green tomatoes on one variety. Starting to harvest English peas. Finishing up on my Snow peaches. Strawberries heading towards their peak. Live in Northwest Florida plus this was a very early warm spring.
When I rediscovered growing my own tomatoes that leaf smell was what hit me most. I also have noticed the smells of transplanting the cilantro and basil and leeks/onions. The cilantro always surprises me bc the plants are tiny and the scent is full. I have been overwatering my tomatoes also and they have been a bit yellower than they should be also. Their size is great but they are getting too big for the grow shelf with ideal conditions and the patio is too cold at night so I might be a windowsill dweller as well. I may try to make some warmth under them. I don't have extra lights for bonus lighting them. I need a set of shallow shelves for early starts and then taller shalves for the tomatoes. My two store bought tomatoes are still surviving and yet looking like they might need a sweater. Lol. They are an experiment. So when you planted your leggy tomatoes deeply last year did they do okay? We lost some to their leggy conditions but ended up with plenty of tomatoes. The one year we optimized a whole patch of only tomatoes they grew best but we also had the hottest summer. What did you do to reply the stressed tomatoes? Just put in plastic pots with more soil or remove old soil from roots and add more or? I just recently fertilized my with a super weak solution to get themused to the fert. I didn't see a huge difference. The one thing I did differently this year which I think added to their growth is used actual potting mix rather than seed starting mix. That was an oops when I did it but I see more health as a result. The mix was a potting mix made for veg gardening. I will have to see what was in it. I think the bit if nitrigen alreadybin them got the leaves growing faster from the start bc in the past when I used sterile seed starting mix they grew more slowly and seemed more fragile. Conversely I started my winter squash about two weeks ago and they look a bit stressed. I think they need to just go in the ground bc of their exposed roots growing miles out of the bottom but imUm afraid it's still too cold. They would require big pots and tons of potting mix so I'm debating on up-potting into larger pots or just risking it and putting them in the ground with milk containers over them to protect them. Hmmmmmm. Your smaller tomatoes on one end might also have just been from less light hitting them on that end or a cooler condition. I spin my trays around to optimize the light if anything is looking smaler or not growing equally. I do same for bottom beat bc sometimes the bottoms are only partly on warming lights and some not. They will survive. Just keep an eye on them and keep on sowinhbc and you will have time for sewing in that period around June when most things are in and there is a wait until a larger harvest starts happening. Thanks for the video as always. 💗💪🏻
They're all potted on a looking happier now......I'm not sure why some were so weedy (I, too, turn my pots and trays every other day)......think it was a bit of over watering and lack of nutrition in the small amout of compost they had. Fingers crossed!!!!! :-)
I can so relate. Spent hours last weekend potting on 60 odd tomatoes (why did I sow so many!?) and now with the frost forecast they have to live in my flat for a week. My poor cat doesn't know what to make of 6 totes full of tomatoes occupying space on the tables/windowsills/floors.
I actually think your tomatoes - at least the Gardener's Delight - look pretty good! Can't wait to see what this year will bring in terms of harvests:)
Great video Vivi. I love tomatoes, I've planted about 30 this year and have been potting on for what seems like hours today lol. Are you going to sell your sewing wears online as I would like to buy and support your journey. :-)
I feel like all I'm doing at the moment is pricking out and potting on!!!! Yes, I will start doing some sewing, once the garden is up and running.........I don't quite know where it will sell yet but I'll keep you posted. Thank you! :-)
For the plants in the paper pots - is the end that's doing better the area that was away from the light on the window sill? I ask because I had issues with keeping the right moisture level in the paper pots, and the ones closer to the window would dry faster than the ones further away, and kind of stunt the plants. I never did master keeping the right moisture going with those pots and have given up, but if you get it figured out I'll be very excited!
I knew before I started the video that the scent was your Grandparents......b/c the smell of tomato plants remind me of my Nan! Sometimes I will brush against the plants on purpose!
Beautiful tomatoes, would never have guessed you grew them on windowsill except that I have seen the windowsill in other videos. I love tomatoes too, but this year am cutting back because of arthritis :(
Hmm.......I should cut back because of that too........but I just can't resist them!!!! Apparently we should be avoiding the whole nightshade family.......gulp. :-(
I read about avoiding the nightshade family, and the number of people actually having this problem is really very few, and that it only affects those with an intolerance to the solanine, and that is mostly found in the leaves and stems, and not enough to bother the majority of people. The advantage of the antioxidants is far greater too. It's an old post, but I thought very interesting. If your interested, see it here. Nothing is going to take my tomatoes away! LOL www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/prevention/what-are-nightshades-and-do-they-cause-inflammation
I agree.......can't/won't give 'em up! I may try a fortnight without and then reintroduce them to see if there is a difference.............but I can't quite imagine life without toms in it! Thank you for the article. :-)
Sheila6325 Thanks Sheila, I will read that article because I really don't want to give up tomatoes! I remember Mom in the garden working and my brother and I sneaking a red tomatoes through the fence and eating it :0)
Sheila6325 After reading this article I believe I am not in the group of people that are affected by Nightshade plants because I have been eating Tomato based dishes once in awhile and Pickle jalapenos and no problems. It sounds like those affected KNOW it immediately after eating tomatoes, etc. Thanks again Sheila, back to the drawing board for the garden!
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention. I've seen babushkas in Russia spraying outside toms with a weak milk emulsion/solution (not sure what you technically call it? it's 1/4 litre bottle of milk to 3/4 water) early in the season. Another thing they do is hang an open bottle of iodine in the greenhouse where toms grow. Meant to help ward off blight Not tried any of this myself yet, but may have a few plants as a test run with milk thingy.
I think I may perform an experiment this year: two plants (control and milk sprayed), same variety (not known to be blight resistant), grown outside next to each other. Will report back at the end of the growing season. Hopefully there's something to it.
Loved your description of the smell of the tomato leaves. Love that when working around them in the garden and looking forward to it again. Thanks Vivi.
Roll on summer! ;-)
Good seeing you so excited about your little baby plants. I'm the same way. I have a 98 year old gardening friend that's ill. Yesterday I went for a visit and she gave me a start of her favorite spring flower. It's called Indian Pink. She never gives them away. I was so honored and will baby it and cherish it forever. Happy Planting! ✌🏼❤ &🌱🌱🌱
That's so lovely.........and she must be so pleased to have someone in her life to whom she can trust one of her special plants. :-)
What Vivi did next Oh it is! I think the the proper name is "Spigelia." It's beautiful!😍
As a new gardener, your videos are always a joy to watch. Informative and with a huge lovely dollop of enthusiasm! Thank you so much Vivi. 👍😊
That's great to hear - thank you. Have fun with the garden. :-)
Another great video! Love hearing all your happy memories of planting in your grandparents garden. I am sure that your tomatoes will love their new pots and the added nourishment from the compost.
Fingers crossed! :-)
I can't help but smile a big happy grin when I hear about what you are doing and how you are organizing your day and your passions. I absolutely love your vids
Awwww.......thank you.....and I absolutely love to read everyone's comments. Happy days. :-)
Thank you for a great blog Vivi. I have a new greenhouse and am potting on like mad. love to hear about all you are doing. You reminded me that every time I smell Geraniums it reminds me of my beloved grandma. Maybe that's why I love gardening .
Awwwww.......same here with the geraniums too. Lovely. :-)
Your tomato plants look GREAT! Tomatoes evoke memories for me as well - spending time in the garden with my father.
Lovely. :-)
Relax and enjoy the process and it will all work out. My grandparents always had amazing gardens and every once in a while I will catch a fragrance that makes me think of them
Lovely. :-)
You've got me wanting to prune my tomatoes. Great video. I grow a lot of tomato seedlings, and they quickly get too tall. To reduce their height I do one or more of three things: remove about 90% of the root system and re-pot deeper; cut off the main shoot to the lowest leaf and allow stem to branch; cut off shoot top and plant it, allowing it to re-root. All work well and they buy me another 2 weeks or so in the greenhouse.
Hahahaha - a perennial problem! Last year mine got so tall I had to make the planting hole about a foot deep! ;-)
loving these videos vivi. here I am clearing out the vege beds for winter and moving my chooks into the large vege garden for winter. meanwhile the chook pen is lovely and fertile from my girls and we scatter winter vege over that. it's amazing what grows on the chook pen after all the vege scraps I've thrown them!! I'm loving the cosiness of autumn. summer was so so hot and dry!!
I can picture them! Chook heaven to pick over the old veg beds..........and all that lovely poop to turn in come the spring. :-)
Vivi - you are right. Us gardeners are bonkers! I discovered a Hosta that I planted last year and said "hello" to it like it was a long lost pal. 🤔
I'm with you on tomatoes. I have 5 varieties growing on my windowsill and they are such a joy to grow. I'm going to grow one of each in my (plastic - sorry!) greenhouse in my garden and plant 2 blight resistant varieties (Crimson Crush and Resi) at my plot. Seeing them grow is one of life's great pleasures although I have a huge soft spot for my squash plants. Just GORGEOUS things!
I'm no expert in any shspe or form but anything i've grown in cardboard or paper hasn't worked out either. Maybe it's this gorgeous spring we're having? Who knows?
Hurrah for your own special fertiliser! The local authority have removed the facilities from our plot in deepest, darkest Surrey. To save CASH! So I plan to treat my plants to my own brand of feetiliser over the coming months too.
Lot's of love, as always. 💋
Boooo to the local authority! Hurrah for sheds with curtains! ;-) The paper pots have never been an issue before......I think I over-watered.........they're looking a bit perkier now they're potted on. Mmmmm......can't wait to get them in the ground. :-)
Good luck! You know your plants better than anyone. 😊
Look forward to the next update. X
Good morning Vivi !! structure is the key Vivi, as my life falls apart without it !! I'm sure your days was always full and you
knew what you were doing at work from the minute you arrived to the second you left. so if you don't structure your life now it will soon fall apart as i found myself having to leave a full-time job in a very stressful busy place. so structures on the plot help you fit more in, so does structure in your life do the same !!! thanks for sharing and happy gardening !!
Gradually finding a new rhythm and routine to my days.....so far so good. Happy gardening to you too - so much to do!!! :-)
excellent vid vivi i use these little pots too for my toms and chillies and brassicas initially.
I really like them......make great little plants. :-)
I LOVE the smell of tomato plants 😍😍😍
:-)
You look happy & productive here Vivi! I totally know what you mean about the sounds, smells and textures of tomatoes and their leaves. My dad and uncles grew them commercially here in California. Our entire town smells like tomatoes, leaves and even the steam coming from the factory where they can them, permeates the hot summer/fall air! All of us kids say it's the scent track if our childhoods! Well that and fresh cut hay, horse and cow manure but those even smell good when you are a ranch kid (hicks from the sticks), lol!!! So plant and fawn over those plants, I could watch you doing that on YT for hours! They are human catnip as far as I can tell 😊🌞🍅🍅🍅🍅🐝🐝
What wonderful memories.........and you're right....they're human catnip! :-)
Great video, great to see your passion for such a lovely plant, I potted on 72 the other day so plenty to pass around too. all the best
Gosh....72 should see you fine!!!......and your friends will be very happy to receive spares I'm sure. :-)
Funnily enough, I potted on my tomatoes this evening. I'm sure they will be a lot happier. Got several cherry and loads of bush tomatoes from the Real Seed Catalogue. Love them. Just ordered some pumpkin, (wow what a range they have) butternut, patti pan and some chard. Yay hey it makes me so happy!
It's the best medicine! :-)
I've been planting a few things in th garden each day. So far I have potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, oca and several varieties of carrots in. I still have so much more to do, but it's a start. You are looking so happy and refreshed, best of luck with your tomatoes.
It's that time of year - I love it - when there's always so much more to do. Happy sowing/planting/soil time! :-
Vivi I thought of you and Sean today. My cousin did a lot of research on our family and created a spiral bound book of it. It is about an inch and a half thick. It shows that some of the grandparents (too many greats to count) are from Bromley, Kent. I looked it up and it is on the outskirts of London. I was like wow that is where Sean and Vivi live. We are also from Bury, Lancashire.
Your plants are looking great. I cannot wait to see your beautiful garden. Keep up the good work girl!!!
Bromley is close........and I originate from near Bury! Small world. Have fun in your garden. :-)
Finally catching up on videos. I always think of my great-uncle with tomatoes. He grew them every year, and I loved to visit during tomato season. I'd eat my way through loads of them while he and my mom visited. Great video. 🙂
Ahhhh.......the memories that flood back with just the slightest whiff of a tom........ lovely. :-)
Vivi, my earliest garden smell memories are from the Dill weed plants that my mother always had in the garden. I'm not sure what she did with the Dill as I don't remember eating a lot of pickles which would be the first thing I could think of using Dill. I too like the smell of the tomato plant and it makes me anxious for the taste of that first tomato bite. I have the potatoes planted and will be planting the lettuce, radish, onion, and cabbage plants this week. In three weeks the rest of the plants will go out in the garden.
Have a great kitchen potting day.
Nebraska Dave
Cheers! So much still to do in our gardens.......what a great time of year, busy, busy and full of optimism. :-)
When I was thinning my herbs, I was surprised, to notice, that they smelled..... and tasted.... just like the mature plants. Love the smell of tomatoes too. Spring; what a joy!!
Utter joy! Those first smells revive us eh? :-)
I know what you mean, I love tomatoes, the smell makes me think of summer days and happy family time.
Bliss! :-)
One of the highlights of my week is catching up on your videos. I think you're ace!
Thank you so much. :-)
Haha .. we need a job in order to get a little REST! I'm doing the same thing ... renovating my back garden completely. PS .. love, love, love, love my garden which I am planting in pots this year! PPS I have a wall cabinet where I've put a florescent light in which acts as a greenhouse to help my bell peppers, aubergine and tomatoes stay warm and lighted. Once they get bigger, I put them under a reading. lamp and under my kitchen overhead lights until it's time to plant them out. Now, to get some more seeds started. Whew, where can I put them now??????????
Hahaha - true! ;-)
Great video. I'm sure your Chadwick's will do fine once you repot them and they will catch right up. I usually buy my tomato plants because I never seem to get them started early enough. I'm hoping to get some of those blight resistant varieties that Sean has spoken of. I found one with a similar name last year and although most all the other varieties of tomatoes did well last year (for the first time in three years) that particular plant stayed a beautiful deep green - no yellowing or spotting of the leaves at all. And the fruit was sweet and tasty. But I did sow a few San Marzano's from seed. We'll see how they do. I was reading through some of your comments and didn't realize that tomatoes are associated with inflammation. Wow, don't know if I can bring myself to cut back. Nothing like fresh tomatoes and sauce from your own tomatoes through the winter. And it must be that grandparents and tomatoes go together because the smell of them reminds me of my grandparents too!
I think ALL our grandparents must have grown toms. :-) Hope your San Marzano's do well for you. :-)
I think you are quite right about the newspaper ink. I stopped doing newspaper pots a few years ago. I had noticed the plants were really well, 'weedy'. There seems to be more 'size' or like a coating on newspaper these days.. I have a log burner and noticed that the newspaper wasn't lighting the same.. It seems to have a fire retardant coating in the print.. . I got a load of pots off freecycle and just re-use them now. No problems since.
I don't understand it really.....as some things are fine but the toms definitely weren't happy.....didn't make sense to me. Hey-ho.....I'll keep my eyes peeled for discarded pots.... Happy potting on to you. :-)
My Granny had a victorian greenhouse at the top of her garden and I loved it in there. Everytime I go into my own greenhouse, the smell of the tomatoes takes me right back to my Granny's place. It's so lovely.
Awwww.......perfect. :-)
I feel the same about tomatoes. My dad and i grew them and mom and I canned them. I manage both jobs myself now. more than any veg, a good crop of tomatoes pleases me the most. This year my returning new favorites are Japanese Black. great videos, Vivi.
I love those few weeks in the late summer when life becomes all about harvesting and bottling the tomatoes........when everything else in life gets put on hold for yet another session in the kitchen with mounds and mounds of toms.... Happy growing and harvesting to you. :-)
The singular scent of tomatoes is 'umami'. Aaaaah!
Bliss. :-)
the smell of tomato plants always reminds me of my grandad he was always down the garden in his greenhouse with his toms. with your toms could it be the position they were in as one side of the tray were fine? good luck with them
I've come to the conclusion that tomatoes are granddad plants! Everyone I speak to remembers their grandddad growing them.......and the smell seems to transport us all. Lovely. :-)
I love tomatoes and I am the only one to eat them. Last year I planted 13 plants and my kidney doctor told me to eat tomatoes very rarely. So this year I am only going to plant two. My favorite is sun gold.
I should cut back too because of inflammation........but I just can't bring myself to yet..... Enjoy you sun gold's in moderation. ;-)
It is hard for me to cut back. I grew up eating them and love them so much.
This . year put out 5 varieties of heirloom tomatoes. All are blooming well and a few small green tomatoes on one variety. Starting to harvest English peas. Finishing up on my Snow peaches. Strawberries heading towards their peak. Live in Northwest Florida plus this was a very early warm spring.
You have peas already!!!! I'm jealous......mine aren't even in the ground yet. Enjoy! :-)
When I rediscovered growing my own tomatoes that leaf smell was what hit me most. I also have noticed the smells of transplanting the cilantro and basil and leeks/onions. The cilantro always surprises me bc the plants are tiny and the scent is full.
I have been overwatering my tomatoes also and they have been a bit yellower than they should be also. Their size is great but they are getting too big for the grow shelf with ideal conditions and the patio is too cold at night so I might be a windowsill dweller as well. I may try to make some warmth under them. I don't have extra lights for bonus lighting them. I need a set of shallow shelves for early starts and then taller shalves for the tomatoes. My two store bought tomatoes are still surviving and yet looking like they might need a sweater. Lol. They are an experiment. So when you planted your leggy tomatoes deeply last year did they do okay? We lost some to their leggy conditions but ended up with plenty of tomatoes. The one year we optimized a whole patch of only tomatoes they grew best but we also had the hottest summer. What did you do to reply the stressed tomatoes? Just put in plastic pots with more soil or remove old soil from roots and add more or? I just recently fertilized my with a super weak solution to get themused to the fert. I didn't see a huge difference. The one thing I did differently this year which I think added to their growth is used actual potting mix rather than seed starting mix. That was an oops when I did it but I see more health as a result. The mix was a potting mix made for veg gardening. I will have to see what was in it. I think the bit if nitrigen alreadybin them got the leaves growing faster from the start bc in the past when I used sterile seed starting mix they grew more slowly and seemed more fragile. Conversely I started my winter squash about two weeks ago and they look a bit stressed. I think they need to just go in the ground bc of their exposed roots growing miles out of the bottom but imUm afraid it's still too cold. They would require big pots and tons of potting mix so I'm debating on up-potting into larger pots or just risking it and putting them in the ground with milk containers over them to protect them. Hmmmmmm. Your smaller tomatoes on one end might also have just been from less light hitting them on that end or a cooler condition. I spin my trays around to optimize the light if anything is looking smaler or not growing equally. I do same for bottom beat bc sometimes the bottoms are only partly on warming lights and some not.
They will survive. Just keep an eye on them and keep on sowinhbc and you will have time for sewing in that period around June when most things are in and there is a wait until a larger harvest starts happening.
Thanks for the video as always. 💗💪🏻
They're all potted on a looking happier now......I'm not sure why some were so weedy (I, too, turn my pots and trays every other day)......think it was a bit of over watering and lack of nutrition in the small amout of compost they had. Fingers crossed!!!!! :-)
I over planted my tomatoes this year ! but i gave some away it felt good to give them away to .
It's the best feeling! :-)
Gloria from the US love your RUclips
Thank you Gloria. :-)
I can so relate. Spent hours last weekend potting on 60 odd tomatoes (why did I sow so many!?) and now with the frost forecast they have to live in my flat for a week. My poor cat doesn't know what to make of 6 totes full of tomatoes occupying space on the tables/windowsills/floors.
Hahahaha - bemused puss! Hopefully we can start hardening things off in a couple of weeks......
I actually think your tomatoes - at least the Gardener's Delight - look pretty good! Can't wait to see what this year will bring in terms of harvests:)
Not to put any additional pressure on ;p
I'm already picturing myself bottling until midnight again - fingers crossed it's a good year! :-)
Great video Vivi. I love tomatoes, I've planted about 30 this year and have been potting on for what seems like hours today lol. Are you going to sell your sewing wears online as I would like to buy and support your journey. :-)
I feel like all I'm doing at the moment is pricking out and potting on!!!! Yes, I will start doing some sewing, once the garden is up and running.........I don't quite know where it will sell yet but I'll keep you posted. Thank you! :-)
hi vivi, ITried the link for ur blog. there is something wrong with it. (securety issue). Love what you do...👍
Oh. Hmmm.....will have to have a look at that. Thank you for letting me know.
xxx
Does it work if you type the address into a search engine rather than using the link?
then you get sean or what vivi did next
Ok.......but I wonder why it doesn't work as a link......need to do some head scratching!
For the plants in the paper pots - is the end that's doing better the area that was away from the light on the window sill? I ask because I had issues with keeping the right moisture level in the paper pots, and the ones closer to the window would dry faster than the ones further away, and kind of stunt the plants. I never did master keeping the right moisture going with those pots and have given up, but if you get it figured out I'll be very excited!
I turn the trays every day. I think I may have over-watered......still not sure! But they're happier now they're potted on.... :-)
I knew before I started the video that the scent was your Grandparents......b/c the smell of tomato plants remind me of my Nan! Sometimes I will brush against the plants on purpose!
Me too......and the pelargoniums...... :-)
Beautiful tomatoes, would never have guessed you grew them on windowsill except that I have seen the windowsill in other videos. I love tomatoes too, but this year am cutting back because of arthritis :(
Hmm.......I should cut back because of that too........but I just can't resist them!!!! Apparently we should be avoiding the whole nightshade family.......gulp. :-(
I read about avoiding the nightshade family, and the number of people actually having this problem is really very few, and that it only affects those with an intolerance to the solanine, and that is mostly found in the leaves and stems, and not enough to bother the majority of people. The advantage of the antioxidants is far greater too. It's an old post, but I thought very interesting. If your interested, see it here. Nothing is going to take my tomatoes away! LOL www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/prevention/what-are-nightshades-and-do-they-cause-inflammation
I agree.......can't/won't give 'em up! I may try a fortnight without and then reintroduce them to see if there is a difference.............but I can't quite imagine life without toms in it! Thank you for the article. :-)
Sheila6325 Thanks Sheila, I will read that article because I really don't want to give up tomatoes! I remember Mom in the garden working and my brother and I sneaking a red tomatoes through the fence and eating it :0)
Sheila6325 After reading this article I believe I am not in the group of people that are affected by Nightshade plants because I have been eating Tomato based dishes once in awhile and Pickle jalapenos and no problems. It sounds like those affected KNOW it immediately after eating tomatoes, etc. Thanks again Sheila, back to the drawing board for the garden!
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention. I've seen babushkas in Russia spraying outside toms with a weak milk emulsion/solution (not sure what you technically call it? it's 1/4 litre bottle of milk to 3/4 water) early in the season.
Another thing they do is hang an open bottle of iodine in the greenhouse where toms grow. Meant to help ward off blight
Not tried any of this myself yet, but may have a few plants as a test run with milk thingy.
Hmmm.......not heard of that.......will be interested to know how you get on with it. :-)
I have heard of the diluted milk spray before.. but in relation to stemming downy mildew. Didn't know it was a blight deterrent too... interesting.
I think I may perform an experiment this year: two plants (control and milk sprayed), same variety (not known to be blight resistant), grown outside next to each other. Will report back at the end of the growing season. Hopefully there's something to it.
Yay! It will be great to find out something as simple as milk could help. Keep us posted. :-)
Do you have to buy soil every year to start the plants at home?
Yes, a couple of bags of compost to get the indoor starts under way.
My Chadwick cherry tomatoes got huge last year for a cherry tomato. Is that normal?
Mine get to about 1 inch in diameter to 1.5.......are yours getting bigger than this. They are one of the larger cherry toms.
Hi Vivi,
Please do a vid on how you make your paper pots, and what type of paper you use.
Regards,
bill.
It's just strips of newspaper wound around a round stump (pot maker or bottle) then the bottom ends are squished in and under. :-)