Wow, Scott! Each and every time I watch you, I learn something new! And I thought I knew everything 😀 The compost pit is fascinating and I am sure going to try it. Thanks for all your valuable information and the enjoyable way you present it. You are a natural, and I really appreciate your channel.
I like the compost pit idea. Especially for being able to compost meat and other things I don't want to put into my compost bins. Thanks for putting out another informative vid!
My husband and I really enjoy these Q&A videos. We are learning a lot. We are new to gardening so trying to learn as much as we can. We have taken your recommendation on potting mix and fertilizer. We went to Home Depot the other day and bought a lot of items. We have been working in the greenhouse and have 19 large containers with tomatoes and peppers and herbs. He is already talking about building a 10 ft x 16 ft cattle panel greenhouse next year if we have good success with this greenhouse. We live in Alabama zone 7. We are excited about this new hobby and are loving your videos and your cute dog who is Queen of the garden.
Cloning tomatoes is so easy. Its a shame you have such a short time to grow them Scott. Perhaps if they had a water reservoir in a large container they would grow longer into the summer. In 5b we cant grow year round, but the tomatoes will grow and produce until frost takes them. So cloning is a good way to stagger the harvest. Great video, love the Q & A's.
Mr.Head try that aluminum foil trick to protect your squash from the boaring insect, I did and my squash last all summer till frost Thanks for your teaching Sir
Boy, are you ahead of me! Just planting my tomatoes this week here in Alabama. We had frost just a week ago. I remember last spring was long, wet and cold so I decided to wait for May 1st. Wish I had all your sun; but we have a fairly shaded lot. Makes rotating crops a challenge. Thanks for the information.
Scott, you are my favorite gardening channel on youtube. I love the style of your videos, but also we live in the same area, so whatever's happening in your garden is usually also happening in mine. And with the number of videos you've made this season I'm absolutely delighted. Thank you.
Oh those cherry tomatoes look so good. I tried square foot gardening ...once, I found it to be way too crowded. i still do my carrots and beets that way. I grow in patches, containers or short rows, with marigolds and nasturtiums here and there. A lot of companion gardening. This year i have more containers and a melon arch 😊, I am so excited . Another 3 weeks !!!👩🏽🌾👏🏽🙏🏽💖
Wow...I can’t believe how wonderful and huge your tomatoes are even after the freeze. I just planted ours last week and the week before, and we only have one about the size of small grape. I LOVE tomatoes and are growing some heirloom for the first time in years. I’m trying to find a couple that we love and the skin isn’t so tough. Your garden looks really good, condos!!!
Scott, for your next Q&A, what causes the nodes or bottom of the branches on green peppers to be dark, almost a deep purple color? Also, have you ever grown tree collard?
Last year we rooted a sucker from our most productive tomato plant as the summer heat was killing them off. Grew him through the summer and when it cooled back down in the fall we got another nice flush of tomatoes. 8b gulf coast
Thanks for another entertaining and informative Q&A session. I’m trying the insect barrier thing for zucchini, and your comment about the SVBs overwintering made me double-check; I was pleased to confirm that I didn’t try zooks in that new bed last year (I had very disappointing tomatoes instead!). Anyway, my fingers are crossed and at least it’s an interesting experiment. So far, so good. Q (for your next Q&A perhaps): if you top indeterminate tomatoes when they get too tall (whatever that means in the circs), will they push out more fruiting branches?
I look at my plants the same as you do. I have 9 squash growing on one tiny plant. I have several squash plants with back ups in the greenhouse. I will let them do their thing until they stop producing or get infected to the point they might damage other stuff. So far, so good, though. No bugs yet, no signs of disease. :) I would like to offer to any gardeners that can grow Cherokee purple tomatoes free organic started from seed tomato plants! I had a butt ton sprout late and I’m afraid they will not be big enough in far west Texas before the extreme heat hits. If y’all are in the big bend area visiting let me know!! I have so many. It breaks my heart to throw them out :((
Scott, I really enjoyed this Q&A .. you answer Q's that are very appropriate to us urban gardners that do not have unlimited space. I have less than 500 Sq. Ft. And things like my latest lasagna bed raised questions like you discussed at the beginning of the video. Nicely done 🙂🙃🙂😉
Yup I would totally keep pepper ‘suckers’. It actually feels weird even calling them that since they’re so awesome. I look at peppers like I do basil. If I top it, it’ll grow out. The beauty of this is that the plants always stay shorter than me (hehe), I can increase my yield, AND those ‘suckers’ are what brings your peppers back when you overwinter them. So, they’re kinda my favorite part of the pepper plant. 🤷🏼♀️ I have a question, but more asking about your experience with cabbage loopers. I think I mentioned this in a previous video, but I’m finding rosemary essential oil is totally keeping cabbage loopers away (they decimated me last year!). Is this a fluke? Have you used it before for this? It’s something I stumbled upon that kinda feels like the holy grail of gardening in my area. 👀
New at container gardening, my question...if I go away for a weekend and make sure plants (tomatoes, spinach, kale, swiss chard, herbs) are watered good, can I leave them in the shade with a light microfiber bed sheet over them? The reason for the sheet is I get lots of deer, 6-8 at a time, they travel together, and they show up often at dusk. I plan to cover my plants with these sheets every evening so they don't eat it all. I will have most of them off the ground on tables, etc. (so the deer don't have to bend over so far, 😂 jk) Another option I could put them all in my basement, I have an exposed basement with a patio door and I plan to garden right outside it. I live in Wisconsin.
Pepper info is great! And the cherry tomatoes look great! Last year mine were prolific but as the branches grew out (it was in a pot) I had to keep finding sticks to hold up the long branches. Wish I'd known all this last year. This year will be great. Thank you Scott.
Thanks, Scott...I think I will start deeply burying gnarly scraps , My pumpkins are already in mounds this year ..But plan to make the pits next Spring .Thank you for the idea.
We are trying to trellis this year!! "Tomato alley" is small .. 4 foot 6 inches.. but im going for 2 rows of 4... hopefully!! Using your string trellis method and hoping for the best! I super appreciate how you educate and talk in plain English
I don't know how you have tomatoes already. My plants are big ,blossoms are coming out but the cold weather we've had gas like stunted the growth,they aren't doing much yet,and I'm in league city near you
Those squash plants actually didn’t look too bad at the start,I often have those yellow leaves on the young plants and they do die off (the leaves that is) but it’s never been a big trouble for my squash in the end.🤔
I've always been curious about pruning the tops off of bell peppers. I never good to see what my dad did years ago. I was either in school or at work. He lived 20 minutes from me and his growing season was about 2 weeks longer. So having a short growing season..3 months at best, I don't crop the top off my peppers. I strip off everything below the blossoms. I do have to stake them, but I get a very nice crop of peppers and a good size as well. The pepper are usually about 3 foot high and have bark up the base. Any thoughts on that? Has anyone else done that? I've had good luck over the years. Take care!
Hi Scott, definitely learning a lot from your vids. I do a small garden every year. Tomatoes , sweet bell peppers and hot peppers. Usually 4 tomato plants is plenty because I'm the only one in the house that eats them. This year I want to vine my tomatoes up the string. I've never done this before I always used cages and I'm tired of the jungle it turns into. My question is: If you decide to keep a sucker or two , how do you string the 2 or 3 vine plant? Do you just add a clip ring with string right where that sucker begins and train that branch on the new string?
Can you please explain how to prune cherry tomatoes? I was told there's a difference in pruning between these and your larger tomatoes? Thank you for your help
I rarely grow cherries, but the method I'm using this year is the way they are grown commercially, so I don't know if there is a difference. I'm growing all of them the same.
Scott I have a question. I am a little confused by indeterminate and determinate tomatoes. We have a greenhouse we are growing tomatoes in but also want to have some outdoor containers. I just heard on another channel they do not understand why people are still growing indeterminate ones. To me maybe I am incorrect in my thinking because I am new to gardening but if you want to can I can see having your tomatoes come in at once time but if you have a small family and do not plan on canning just eating and enjoying then I think the indeterminate ones would work better. It is just myself and my husband with no other family so I really don't need a lot at one time. They talked about how much more disease and problems you have with them so I am confused. Could you maybe touch on this in one of your videos. Thank you,
I prefer indeterminates because they produce longer, not all at once. Its a personal preference thing. I'll mention it around harvest time (I'll try to remember).
What type of good tasting and prolific and hardy fig would you suggest to grow for North Alabama, near the Tennessee border?.......Larry @ Scoot's Organic
My second year of planting Potatos ~ and they ALL have Blight~! Should I pull them all up~?? How many years before the Blight is gone in my soil and leafs? What should I do?
I just love Phoebe! She cracks me up. Love your videos Scott, they are very informative! I so appreciate how you provide real life examples!
Wow, Scott! Each and every time I watch you, I learn something new! And I thought I knew everything 😀 The compost pit is fascinating and I am sure going to try it. Thanks for all your valuable information and the enjoyable way you present it. You are a natural, and I really appreciate your channel.
Great video, enjoyed all the info as always! 😀 I love Phoebe's participation haha
I like the compost pit idea. Especially for being able to compost meat and other things I don't want to put into my compost bins. Thanks for putting out another informative vid!
My husband and I really enjoy these Q&A videos. We are learning a lot. We are new to gardening so trying to learn as much as we can. We have taken your recommendation on potting mix and fertilizer. We went to Home Depot the other day and bought a lot of items. We have been working in the greenhouse and have 19 large containers with tomatoes and peppers and herbs. He is already talking about building a 10 ft x 16 ft cattle panel greenhouse next year if we have good success with this greenhouse. We live in Alabama zone 7. We are excited about this new hobby and are loving your videos and your cute dog who is Queen of the garden.
Cloning tomatoes is so easy. Its a shame you have such a short time to grow them Scott. Perhaps if they had a water reservoir in a large container they would grow longer into the summer. In 5b we cant grow year round, but the tomatoes will grow and produce until frost takes them. So cloning is a good way to stagger the harvest. Great video, love the Q & A's.
Lol, you will eventually wear me down and I’ll do the self watering container.
@@ScottHead Who, me? :)
Love the Q and A videos!
I greatly appreciate the extended appearance of Phoebe and her shared expertise in garden soil.
Mr.Head try that aluminum foil trick to protect your squash from the boaring insect, I did and my squash last all summer till frost
Thanks for your teaching Sir
Loved this Q&A session. So much information in one video :)
Boy, are you ahead of me!
Just planting my tomatoes this week here in Alabama. We had frost just a week ago. I remember last spring was long, wet and cold so I decided to wait for May 1st.
Wish I had all your sun; but we have a fairly shaded lot. Makes rotating crops a challenge.
Thanks for the information.
Scott, you are my favorite gardening channel on youtube. I love the style of your videos, but also we live in the same area, so whatever's happening in your garden is usually also happening in mine. And with the number of videos you've made this season I'm absolutely delighted. Thank you.
Great video Scott! Can’t wait to get my pumpkins in, using the pit! Mine grew great last year!
Thank you so much for all your information. It's a real big help for me for my garden !!
Oh those cherry tomatoes look so good. I tried square foot gardening ...once, I found it to be way too crowded. i still do my carrots and beets that way. I grow in patches, containers or short rows, with marigolds and nasturtiums here and there. A lot of companion gardening. This year i have more containers and a melon arch 😊, I am so excited . Another 3 weeks !!!👩🏽🌾👏🏽🙏🏽💖
Wow...I can’t believe how wonderful and huge your tomatoes are even after the freeze. I just planted ours last week and the week before, and we only have one about the size of small grape. I LOVE tomatoes and are growing some heirloom for the first time in years. I’m trying to find a couple that we love and the skin isn’t so tough. Your garden looks really good, condos!!!
Oops...kudos...
Cherokee purple are so yummy. Read my post! I’m trying to give away some! ❤️
Yes, got Cherokee purple, black Kim, brimmed brads atomic & German pink plus a few high bred varieties!
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New challenge...one sucker challenge! Lol! I’m thinking this might work to get a fall crop when I’m trimming suckers off in the summer. 🤔
Scott, for your next Q&A, what causes the nodes or bottom of the branches on green peppers to be dark, almost a deep purple color? Also, have you ever grown tree collard?
Excellent video! I'm definitely going to try the pumpkin pit method. Thank you.
Last year we rooted a sucker from our most productive tomato plant as the summer heat was killing them off. Grew him through the summer and when it cooled back down in the fall we got another nice flush of tomatoes. 8b gulf coast
My Chard was yellow early on. They eventually turned deep green.
Also I add fish fert every 14 days.
Loved your video.
Thanks for another entertaining and informative Q&A session. I’m trying the insect barrier thing for zucchini, and your comment about the SVBs overwintering made me double-check; I was pleased to confirm that I didn’t try zooks in that new bed last year (I had very disappointing tomatoes instead!). Anyway, my fingers are crossed and at least it’s an interesting experiment. So far, so good.
Q (for your next Q&A perhaps): if you top indeterminate tomatoes when they get too tall (whatever that means in the circs), will they push out more fruiting branches?
I look at my plants the same as you do. I have 9 squash growing on one tiny plant. I have several squash plants with back ups in the greenhouse. I will let them do their thing until they stop producing or get infected to the point they might damage other stuff. So far, so good, though. No bugs yet, no signs of disease. :)
I would like to offer to any gardeners that can grow Cherokee purple tomatoes free organic started from seed tomato plants! I had a butt ton sprout late and I’m afraid they will not be big enough in far west Texas before the extreme heat hits. If y’all are in the big bend area visiting let me know!! I have so many. It breaks my heart to throw them out :((
Scott, I really enjoyed this Q&A .. you answer Q's that are very appropriate to us urban gardners that do not have unlimited space. I have less than 500 Sq. Ft. And things like my latest lasagna bed raised questions like you discussed at the beginning of the video. Nicely done
🙂🙃🙂😉
Your garden is looking amazing. Today is the first day I’ve gotten good warm weather. Can’t wait to watch my garden grow.
Great info. Surely I am going to try the same method! God bless!
great information scott..i will have to try the pumpkin pit idea..
Yup I would totally keep pepper ‘suckers’. It actually feels weird even calling them that since they’re so awesome. I look at peppers like I do basil. If I top it, it’ll grow out. The beauty of this is that the plants always stay shorter than me (hehe), I can increase my yield, AND those ‘suckers’ are what brings your peppers back when you overwinter them. So, they’re kinda my favorite part of the pepper plant. 🤷🏼♀️
I have a question, but more asking about your experience with cabbage loopers. I think I mentioned this in a previous video, but I’m finding rosemary essential oil is totally keeping cabbage loopers away (they decimated me last year!). Is this a fluke? Have you used it before for this? It’s something I stumbled upon that kinda feels like the holy grail of gardening in my area. 👀
Never used rosemary oil myself, but it makes sense, it is a strong aromatic and that's a repellent of many kinds of insects. And smells good too.
Thank you! Your tomato plants look amazing. Mine -- the single survivor -- is pathetic. The iguanas are having a banquet 😭
Thanks for the pepper advise, I will try it. :)
New at container gardening, my question...if I go away for a weekend and make sure plants (tomatoes, spinach, kale, swiss chard, herbs) are watered good, can I leave them in the shade with a light microfiber bed sheet over them? The reason for the sheet is I get lots of deer, 6-8 at a time, they travel together, and they show up often at dusk. I plan to cover my plants with these sheets every evening so they don't eat it all. I will have most of them off the ground on tables, etc. (so the deer don't have to bend over so far, 😂 jk)
Another option I could put them all in my basement, I have an exposed basement with a patio door and I plan to garden right outside it.
I live in Wisconsin.
Not really sure since I've never had you circumstance come up. Try and see how it goes . That's all I can say.
Pepper info is great! And the cherry tomatoes look great! Last year mine were prolific but as the branches grew out (it was in a pot) I had to keep finding sticks to hold up the long branches. Wish I'd known all this last year. This year will be great. Thank you Scott.
Appreciate the info.
To busy to stay but I will get the video
Thanks
Thanks, Scott...I think I will start deeply burying gnarly scraps , My pumpkins are already in mounds this year ..But plan to make the pits next Spring .Thank you for the idea.
Great vid! I know you've said before but how big is the main tomato bed? And your 'gnarly pit' was the perfect ending. Thank you!
4 x 2.5 feet growing space.
I've harvested green beans,and radishes,have crook neck squash on the vibe,still small,peas are looking good too.
Interesting about the cherry tomatos id imagine they should be bushy... good to know you can do this method for the cherries!
We are trying to trellis this year!! "Tomato alley" is small .. 4 foot 6 inches.. but im going for 2 rows of 4... hopefully!! Using your string trellis method and hoping for the best! I super appreciate how you educate and talk in plain English
Amazing 👍🏻
Good to share Q&A😍
I don't know how you have tomatoes already. My plants are big ,blossoms are coming out but the cold weather we've had gas like stunted the growth,they aren't doing much yet,and I'm in league city near you
Those squash plants actually didn’t look too bad at the start,I often have those yellow leaves on the young plants and they do die off (the leaves that is) but it’s never been a big trouble for my squash in the end.🤔
U to u ty Terry C F and I shared a beautiful
I am going out to prune my tomatoes after this video. Mine are out of control!!!
Mr Head's well-trimmed beard!
A little scraggly today tho.
Young zucchini plants can turn yellow if nighttime temps fall below 60
I've always been curious about pruning the tops off of bell peppers. I never good to see what my dad did years ago. I was either in school or at work. He lived 20 minutes from me and his growing season was about 2 weeks longer. So having a short growing season..3 months at best, I don't crop the top off my peppers. I strip off everything below the blossoms. I do have to stake them, but I get a very nice crop of peppers and a good size as well. The pepper are usually about 3 foot high and have bark up the base. Any thoughts on that? Has anyone else done that? I've had good luck over the years. Take care!
Scott are your tomato strings secured to the ground with a stake are something?
No, just secured to the first clip on the plant.
Really enjoy your videos, you're very knowledgeable about gardening! Are there any gardening books you recommend?
I like Steve Solomon’s book “Gardening When ItCounts” and all of David the Good’s gardening books.
@@ScottHead thank you!!
Hi Scott, definitely learning a lot from your vids. I do a small garden every year. Tomatoes , sweet bell peppers and hot peppers. Usually 4 tomato plants is plenty because I'm the only one in the house that eats them. This year I want to vine my tomatoes up the string. I've never done this before I always used cages and I'm tired of the jungle it turns into. My question is: If you decide to keep a sucker or two , how do you string the 2 or 3 vine plant? Do you just add a clip ring with string right where that sucker begins and train that branch on the new string?
Yes, just drop another string for each vine you grow.
Can you please explain how to prune cherry tomatoes? I was told there's a difference in pruning between these and your larger tomatoes? Thank you for your help
I rarely grow cherries, but the method I'm using this year is the way they are grown commercially, so I don't know if there is a difference. I'm growing all of them the same.
Scott I have a question. I am a little confused by indeterminate and determinate tomatoes. We have a greenhouse we are growing tomatoes in but also want to have some outdoor containers. I just heard on another channel they do not understand why people are still growing indeterminate ones. To me maybe I am incorrect in my thinking because I am new to gardening but if you want to can I can see having your tomatoes come in at once time but if you have a small family and do not plan on canning just eating and enjoying then I think the indeterminate ones would work better. It is just myself and my husband with no other family so I really don't need a lot at one time. They talked about how much more disease and problems you have with them so I am confused. Could you maybe touch on this in one of your videos. Thank you,
I prefer indeterminates because they produce longer, not all at once. Its a personal preference thing. I'll mention it around harvest time (I'll try to remember).
What type of good tasting and prolific and hardy fig would you suggest to grow for North Alabama, near the Tennessee border?.......Larry @ Scoot's Organic
Chicago Hardy is said to do well, Celeste will do well too. I love Celeste.
Over watering? But their plant looks fine? Lower leaves die first.
My second year of planting Potatos ~ and they ALL have Blight~! Should I pull them all up~?? How many years before the Blight is gone in my soil and leafs? What should I do?
Not sure with spuds, I don't grow them often. I'd give three years, that's the standard rotation for most crops.
If you use shade cloth,doesn't that prevent bees from pollenating the flowers!
Not if you leave part of it open
On your tomato plants... Do you pinch off the first set of flowers?
No.
Is Patty Pan squash harder to grow I've not had good yields on patty Pan but I love them gonna try again help please!!!
Never tried, so I can’t speak about that variety.
They are awesome ☺️
Can I grow winter green's in a container? Would a stock tank work for growing mustard greens?
Yes, just make sure it has drainage. Pope the drain hole, better yet drill holes around the base. I filled a tank in my Hugelkultur video.
Thanks, we love greens of all sorts but don't have garden space.
Thank you. What state are you in?
Texas coast near Houston
I'm having tomato problems.............85% of the planet has turned yellow.
It took me a little longer for me to put into the dirt. Could that be a?
Not sure, hard to tell without knowing soil and weather conditions. Maybe too much water or not enough nitrogen, both can cause yellowing.
How do we get our tomatoes to be bigger?
Fertilize regularly if you are not, and keep them consistently watered. Other than that, its all up to the plant.
Did you say dead rats in your compost 😮, was that a joke?
There have been dead rats and dead cats in my compost. Why would that be gross? Talk about good nutrients!!!
Did you say rat!!!🤮