Tomato Trivia: 12 FUN FACTS You Didn't Know! || Black Gumbo
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2024
- For me to up pot, my tomato seedlings to get them ready for the last leg of their journey to my garden. While I work in the cool of the afternoon, join me as I gave you 12 fun facts about tomato plants and tomatoes. Some of them you probably have heard of before, but I'm pretty certain that you don't know them all.
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Compost is ok but I give my extra plants away. Set them in a chair by sidewalk a sign that says free. People have left me thank you notes.
Cool! I'm wondering what to do with my extra plants. I may do so also. Thanks
You may just plant a "seed" in some future gardeners. 🌱🌱
Thanks for the great content Scott. Another fact about tomatoes is the confusion people have about the stem 'hairs' growing roots. I believed it for 40 years so... Anyway, the hairy growth on tomato plants (which grow on stems, leaves etc) are called Trichomes. These act as a protection for the plant against invasive issues.
The cells that are on the stems that look like small bumps can turn into roots if in contact with moisture from soil are called parenchyma cells. They are triggered to grow when the plant finds the ability to get more moisture and even sometimes during times of drought looking for any moisture it can whether in contact with soil or not. You can see the bumps and then the roots growing out of them if you leave one of your tomato transplants in to small of a container for to long before up planting it. Thanks for the content and Happy Gardening everyone.😊
I give my excess plants to other ppl or leave them at the community garden
The gmo seeds concern me because if you plant them in a neighborhood, they could cross pollinate a neighboring garden that may be growing heirloom variety that is important to them. Any saved seeds from those gmo crossed fruits will no longer create heirlooms. This could be the brginning of the end of our heirloom varieties that have a great history in our country.
Good thing tomatoes are self pollinating and rarely cross.
People will forget which purple tomatoes are which and give or sell them. Then you will be introducing GMOs when you don't intend to.
I don't pot up anymore, I start 4 weeks before last frost and then straight to the garden once about 3 inches tall that is not only cheap and easy but you get much better and healthier plants
Only thing I'd consider uppotting is peppers. I've started early this year and I have a few I need to separate. But tomatoes are so fast I do the same thing you do.
Great viedo good to see you back
Scott, I start my tomatoes in either Styrofoam or solo cups at a level of about 1/3 of the cup, then fill in as the tomato grows. It gives the plant a great start and then I transfer into the raised beds when the weather permits. I'm a Master Gardener and grow tomatoes for our plant sales as well as for myself. I'm also sharing some with friends. Growing eight varieties this year. My tomatoes are always the best ones of the bunch and sell out early. My best tomatoes for 2023 were Juliet and Bosque Blue Bumblebee. What are your favorites? I enjoyed this video and the fun facts. Have a blessed day.
I tried Juliet but didn't care for the tough skin. My favorite is the Edox cherry and I never get tired of Amana Orange and Cherokee Purple.
I take my extra seedlings to flea market or give to little guy down street that don’t have much. He grew his own tomatoes peppers n sweet potatoes from my extras last year. Hope he continues.
Thank you, Scott, for all the tomato information! We always enjoy your videos and appreciate the time it takes.
Oh my gosh. Your "in between facts" music selections. Makes the video entertaining even if there were no "facts". Well done!
I really enjoy your training videos, you are a good teacher!
Thank you, from Spring Tx!!
What a fun and informative video. Thank you.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching you up-pot tomatoes today. Learn some interesting fun facts and was very entertained. THANKS!
Hey Mr Scott! Do you break out in singing "Jolene" every time you handle those tomatoes? I would, lol.
I love Heirloom tomatoes mostly for their stories (I'm a sucker for a good story), but because I can save their seeds.
Lol no but the other variety is Harvest Moon and yes I did break out singing. 😂
@ScottHead Good ole Neil Young. That's a great song!
Your tomatoes look great!
Entertaining trivia. I try not to criticize someone else's gardening practices. We all do things others choose not to do. I reuse the six packs that I get my annual flowers in to grow my vegetable seeds. Also, I seed each cell with at least 2 seeds to ensure complete germination, then thin to 1 per cell. When up potting, I select the best. Along the way, I compose those not selected. At the end, I give any extra plants I have to a couple of fellow gardeners. Happy gardening. Peace.
Cool info about tomatoes:
The tomato (also called the "poison apple") was feared by a large percentage of Europeans for over 200 years starting in the late 1700s.
The nickname began because it was thought that people got sick and died after eating them. Actually, it wasn't from eating the tomato. Tomatoes are very high in acidity. When placed on the pewter plates with a high lead content used by the aristocrats of the time, the lead would leach into their food due to the acid. It, of course, resulted in many deaths from lead poisoning, but no one made the connection between the plate and poison at the time.
Around 1880, the tomato was considered a mandrake, which was thought to be an aphrodisiac. It was also classified as a deadly nightshade, a poisonous family of Solanaceae plants that contain toxins called tropane alkaloids. Like similar fruits and vegetables in the solanaceae family (the eggplant for example), the tomato gained a reputation for being both poisonous and a source of temptation due to its dubious past.
Like a potato, the fruit when ripe is safe to eat, but the stems and leaves are highly poisonous and are not recommended to be eaten.
I did a painting about this called "The Poison Apple."
What an incredible variety of world music to introduce each fun fact. From sub Saharan Africa to Latin America to probably Siberia or something- all great music. Great video as always- nice to see you again Scott.👍🎶
I have two cherry tomatoes that I started in fall and brought in during freezes. They have tomatoes on them now! I actually saved the seeds from a tomato that was in a salad from a local deli. They order them from France 2 months out of the year. They have been really hardy! I had volunteer tomatoes come up in my chicken yard last year that were very different…saved seeds from those too. I have no idea of the variety or where that came from. At first I thought they were romas but they ended up being a strange sort of striped long cherry.
Good video! One of the best you have done in a while. Keep them coming.
i for one have surely missed you all winter long!!! i am way behind on my starts but for some i can just toss in the seed!! in tucson az we are warming up fast!! never boring!!
This was so fun! Thank you! Oh - and Edox!!!!! Started growing those 2 years ago because of you and I am hooked.
Enjoyed the video of fun facts. Thank you, Scott. Wanted to share that I had a little fertility problem with my tomatoes and i just couldn't figure it out. It turned out that the the humidity was too high here in SWFL for the pollen to transfer/travel properly. Ya learn something new all the time...
Great video and thanks for sharing those facts. Interesting trivia to know for 'gardening conversations' with others. One of the tomatoes I'm growing this year is an unknown. I bought it at a local farmers market. After I got home and ate it, it was wonderful, so I saved the seeds. I looked for the lady selling them again but didn't see her there anymore, so I have no idea what type it is. I'm going to call it my Mystery Tomato and will use one of the seeds for my single seed challenge.
nice tomato plants and your tomato facts were interesting thanks for sharing that
I like the music with the fun facts. Really enjoyed the entire video.
👀 I searched your question. Siri said “Polenta “ was the food eaten in Italy in the 16th century. Before tomatoes 🥰 I would not know that had I not watched your channel. Thanks for raising the question.
👀I just had to search and see for myself 👀
Oh great! Now I need to search how tomatoes came to Italy? Thanks.
fun to watch video.i must say there were 4 of those facts i did not know. well i do now
Great information Scott! Always enjoy your content.
Loved the tomato facts. Try Cherokee Purple heirloom. Beefsteak size. Best tasting IMO. Ugliest tomato ever.
Thank you Scott. 😊
Scott, first of all your videos are never boring! Second gardening isn’t boring , to me you make everything so interesting ! Now here’s a question for you. Have you ever thought of putting up any shade cloths in your backyard? Especially with your hot Texas summers ? I’ve seriously been thinking about it because I am in zone 10 a in southern California.. I have 4 x 4‘s that are treated and I think I’m gonna ask my son to dig some holes for them so I can have some shade over my garden.
Lastly why don’t you sell your starts instead of composting them ? or give them away like you have mentioned other videos. So -so glad you are Back ! Garden On !🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
To sell them adds one more layer of tasks on an already full schedule. :-)
Got it !
Thanks for info didn't know all of that have good day
Best up potting video I have seen yet. My tomato seeds havent even been started and you are already up potting Scott. I try and keep the seedlings small because of limited space and if I started them in Feb they would be huge by Mothers day. I also multi sow, so its best to separate them small. I start them in sifted potting soil so no need to feed them unless they show they need it. Purple tomatoes? If getting away from dark tomatoes, to hard to tell when they are ripe. I dont toss out seedlings, friends, neighbors, and church members take all my extras. The Bible tells us to do good unto all men, and thats one of the ways I do that.
As a note, the darker tomatoes usually start out greenish, they're ripe when they achieve their stated color. There are Indigo tomatoes, blue-purple, not GMO. This new GMO, just this year, is a boon for nutrition because they managed to put anthocyanins in the actual fruit, normally only found in the stems & leaves of nightshades/aka poisonous. I'm going to grow some of these new tomatoes, excited to do so. They will help with boosting nutritional value of tomatoes.
Loved this video and fun facts! Thank you for sharing!
Nice video. Chinese cuisine does use a lot of tomatoes, however. Eggs and tomatoes cooked together with some garlic, ginger, salt and a tiny bit of sugar served over steamed white rice is a classic home style dish. It's kind of like the mac and cheese of China. Try it sometime!
Scott would agree! He was using Chinese cuisine as an example of one his viewers might not think uses tomatoes but which actually does. 11:32
I started to harden off my tomato and pepper plants today. Also got a new raised bed that I’m going to use this year. I’m ready for spring.
I have been up potting my tomatoes just like you are doing. Same size cups and the container to set them in. Withe the holes in the bottom of the cup you can bottom water and not disturb the plants.
Good info!!❤❤
Good looking tomatoes Scott. Our tomatoes are just babies right now, I'll probably pot up maybe late March. Im so ready for a home-grown tomato sandwich. Getting ready to harden off cool season crop here to move out soon.
Fun video! 🍅🍅🍅
Thank you!!!
Great video!
Also, I was against styrofoam HOWEVER, that's a good point about insulating value of that material. I used 16 oz Red Solo cups, heated a drill bit up drilled holes in bottoms.
Thanks Scott this video is fun. Fact number 3-- The US government supports a lot of incorrect information. Our supreme court can't even define a "woman". What makes you think they can define a "tomato" ? (Is a woman a "tomato?") Fact number 1. I learned something new. Being of Italian heritage I will now have to do the necessary research to find out what the Romans ate prior to the 16th century. --- I noticed you didn't have drainage holes in the cups. What's up with that? Ray Delbury (prior to WW-2 DelBouno) Sussex County NJ USA
There are holes in th cups, just hard to see in the video. I punched them all before with a pencil. :-)
Thank you for sharing. It was fun ❤ I never thought China
Sometimes, after a long summer I feel like I never knew my tomatoes after all.
Interesting! I had to laugh when you said the purple tomatoes would be cool to grow. I’ve thought that myself 😁
😂Norfolk produce sells the seeds! 20 seeds for $20. A friend of a friend of a friend told me 😂🫣
I save cuttings from my best tomato through the winter under weak light to grow outside again next spring. If you find a rare type with very expensive seeds then transplant them in a little all-in-one tabletop hydro grower and use the same grower to root cuttings from it. One tomato plant can literally supply tomato plants in abundance for years without worrying with seeds which is easiest for what I do. I had issues with several potting mixes I attempted to use to start seedlings of an expensive 10 seed pack of indoor micro dwarf Pinocchio Yellow tomatoes and only three miraculously survived. No problem.
They`re heirlooms and I`m using them for seed saving and propagating suckers so by next winter I can be eating tomatoes indoors by the time no more can survive outside plus I got bucket lids with four 2 inch net cups to grow four per bucket under a ten of fifteen watt bulb, whichever they thrive best under. These types are very sensitive to bright sun so they grow best under dimmer lighting conditions.
I`m also gonna grow self pollinating cucumbers inside next winter after experimenting with a variety I`m testing that supposedly grows smaller vines. I`m still learning about these methods though but I like knowing I can grow some fresh produce without worrying about Arctic blasts. I grew salad greens and herbs this winter and my outdoor mint, mustard greens, turnips, and radishes survived so I only used 5% of my indoor growing capacity and half of that was dedicated to rooting more fruit tree cuttings to plant for the birds and I and starting seedlings.
There are at least a dozen fruit trees in this room right now. LOL! I can`t wait to have thousands of figs and mulberries to eat fresh off the trees. I`m gonna have a plan ready before winter to protect them from these freak freezes though. I kept a basil plant, mint and some lemonbalm growing in here too to get a fast headstart on those and eat fresh and make it smell great. Just rub the leaves and it`s instant air freshener.
I really like the idea of saving the plant indoors. I might try that! Great comment, thanks for stopping by!
I had a cherry tomato that was absolutely loaded with fruit and it survived multiple frosts so I took cuttings from it. The outdoor plant finally died after a hard freeze in January. But I still have part of it alive inside. I have to grow that one again. It came up from seed in a pot of basil and fell over and rooted by my outdoor faucet and grew like crazy with no care. I`m gonna keep it going if it continues to do well. @@ScottHead
Love this Marie’s but bad for my arthritis. 😩😩
Hello Scott! I believe that I may have some of the black tomato seeds you were talking about from Baker Creek. I ordered seeds from there very early and they sent me a free pack of these for ordering the quantity of seeds I did. If you would like, I could share some with you. Just reply back and we can make arrangements for me to send you some.
Scott P.
Hi! If you decide to buy and grow the GMO purple tomato will you make a video about it?
Yes, most certainly.
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I hope people will reject the GMO Tomato.
Hi Scott…another unknown fun fact is that tomato fruit are very delicious but also the leaves are edible and very delicious too…I made a couple of videos on my channel about the benefits and uses for tomato leaves…the first video is called Tomato Leaf Tea/ Have I Loss My Mind…the other video is a harvest video where I eat a tomato leaf right off of my plant and I share how I dehydrate the leaves to use as an herb in my recipes…please check it out when you get a chance…many blessings 🥰
Most of my left over plants go to anyone who wants them.
I was told night shades were hard on your joints....?
When using totes do you fill with potting soil or raised bed soil?
I use potting soil. It drains well and is less dense than raised bed soil
@@ScottHead thank you.
The styrofoam cups do sound like a good idea, financially, but my question is like wouldn’t the petrol from the styrofoam leak into the cup during the heat?
Not enough to bother me.
What size cup are you using?
16oz I believe
HELP! I want to grow some tomatoes but don’t have much luck with them. I have a small garden (pots) where I grow some vegetables. I live in Houston, Texas. What is a good tomato that you can recommend for me to try?
Have you tried growing the Floridade tomato from MIGardener? If you are new to gardening maybe a very heat tolerant, disease-resistant variety will get you off on the right foot. You will soon be enjoying many tomato sandwiches!
If you can get the starts they are selling at HEB right now, those are all good varieties for here. Others I've had great success with from seed include: Roma, Cherokee Purple, Jubilee, Edox (from Johnny's Select Seeds), Amana Orange, Brad's Crazy Cherry... so many others. You should be able to grow most tomatoes here, just some of the varieties that have their origins in northern Europe and Russia don't seem to produce well here.
Thank you so much! I will give it a try.👍🏻
Do you "bottom water?" I've found that's easier said than done.
Are there holes in the bottom of those cups?
At ~ 1:12 he tells you about the cups.
Yes, always have good drainage.
Actually the Spaniards colonized Aztec Native Indigenous Indians here in so called usa (my people) and took it back to Spain.
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While I appreciate the fun facts. I didn't appreciate the quotation marks when you said colonized. They were colonizers. 😂