We’re from North Carolina. We grew a Sandwich Tomato Plant in a wine barrell filled with organic dirt and it grew up to 10 feet! 😂 We reaped lots of tomatoes from it… we stacked several (4) green square cages and tied them together and it stayed upright until Hurricane Ian toppled it over yesterday, but it was still in its roots unharmed. We still had several medium-sized green tomatoes left at the top of the plant and some baby ones! It’s getting late in the season so we just decided to pull it out today. We saved some seeds from it for next year since it has done so well for us. 🍅🍅🍅 Have a great weekend, James - and y’all!
Thanks so much James for the inspiration and constant sweet loving kindness. We are all pretty lucky the Tuck Boss let us wander in his food forest. Love you guys so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Furring strips at Lowe’s are usually in a cull bundle at discounted price because they have a little bend in them on one end - makes for strong, long piece of lumber with no chemical treatments. I pick up any culled lumber bundles when I see them for all the gardening projects.
We're building a greenhouse this week. I have lots of windows so I'm using culled 2x4s for frames for them, about half the cost and usually almost perfect. Luckily we have a locally owned lumber yard so it's less expensive than the big box stores as well.
I put my tomato clips, hooks and fruit bags through the washing machine on a hot cycle in a mesh bag at the end of the season. It helps stop disease and saves money. Muffy from Oz (Australia)
I think it's great you're always exploring and experimenting new ways to grow things. Great idea for your tomato trees, too. I never thought a tomato could be a tree!
Love your video, James…..and Tuck is a star! Your enthusiasm is contagious! Amazing what you’ve done in your backyard. It certainly is a food forest. 😊💖🦋🕊
I did something similar to this in 2017 but it turned into a giant tomato teepee when my 4 bamboo staked tomatos all started falling over- I just leaned them against each other at the top and tied them together up there with tomato wire. It was really cool looking. Especially since it was exactly in the center of the Hole part of my large Keyhole shaped bed (12' x 12'). The tomatos were Black Vernisage. I look so forward to your videos every Saturday.
Always a joy to follow your gardening obsession 💚😁- Thank you! This year I planted my tomatoes horizontally - a method from the colder countries: Russia, Ukraine. The result was: huge stems, massive fruits, melting in the mouth flesh and watermelon sweetness. Next year I'm planting horizontally: peppers, cucumbers ... anything I can. The logic is that in depth the soil is getting colder and the roots are suffering longer time adaptation in cold and anaerobic environment. By planting horizontally the plants have more aeration, can be treated with warm water and any fertilizer has direct access to their root system. My pink and yellow flesh tomatoes are 400 - 700 g each. The cherry tomatoes look promising till next frost (around February). Btw: I have a micro city garden and my tomatoes are in 2 raised beds each 3 x 6.7 feet. Due to the limited space, some of my tomatoes run away in my neighbor's garden, because they reached 18-20 feet - and still growing 😅 Blessings and waiting for your next video.
I always enjoy seeing the garden boss. He's such a sweetheart. I've seen some really tall tomatoes, but never thought to grow them as trees let alone graft them, but that's a very interesting idea. I hope next year you'll show how it's done. Thanks so much for sharing your talents and Tuck.
Brilliant! Love your enthusiasm. Love Tuck. I was JUST pondering the grafting process. Please do a demo for us? It seems so 'green' and 'soft' unlike a tree twig or branch. Thanks James
@@JennTN411 thanks Jenn. Indeed fascinating grafting very soft green stems! Fruit trees, easy. Just had 100% success grafting apple/pear and nectarine/apricot and cherry/cherry and apple/apple. It is so rewarding!
@@carlyblankevoort3856 I have not started the adventure of grafting just yet, but seeing others having so much success bring me hope that it won't be terribly difficult 😆
Beautiful solution for small yards! Love it! Will consider this for our garden next year. Spending the next few months before the next season to get our blank slate of a yard turned into a mini food forest! So excited! Thanks for the great content!
Thanks for the tips. We grew our cherry tomato up the bean trellis from last year.. here inzone 7 we are still gett6 some. We did get some fungus, I tried to keep it at bay but, I'm still learning.
James, Just want to say Thank you. Your videos are informative and your How-To's are excellent. Keep up the great work. Me and my wife started our garden this year. We even put up a greenhouse and I have gotten into seed starting. So far, some failures and some successes. West Texas weather is very unpridictable but learning how our weather impacts our gardening has been the most challenging. It's October 3rd and we are still in the upper 80's during the day. We just got out of the 90's, it's been unreal. Thanks again and keep on educating us!
My best tomato is an unknown volunteer Roma-type tomato that popped up under my pomegranate bush. I just let it grow up into the pomegranate and spread around. Now it looks like a tomato tree/bush because it’s prolific and the poms are gone! I’m now trying to grow some super sweet cherry tomatoes under a 10’ tall and narrow, but sturdy, purple diamond bush, using it as support. 🤞🏽
My dad used to say May 11th is the perfect day to transplant. I grew up in Frederick MD. Now I am in Martinsburg WV and May 11th is still my magic date. 💘❤️💓💕💖💗💝💞 For Tuck!
I have tomato’s that grew from last yrs throw aways in my pine trees. They are as tall as yours and I got them for nothing. They are the small multi colored ones you pay a lot for at the supermarket. Now I don’t buy tomatoes. Even have the big sandwich size. I love reseeders. Only problem was they were growing everywhere. It’s tricky picking the tomatoes out of the pine branches, at least they were easy to see being the yellow ones. Now I have them in my Apple tree and fig. It’s funny. I’m a little south of you. Love your garden. ❤️👍🏻💪🏻🖖🏻🐾🐾🐾
❤️❤️❤️❤️ For Tuck, he is so cute. He’s like don’t mind me, I’m just gonna get me a snack hahaha 🤣. When you do the grafting next year of that tomato could you make a video of it? I would like to see how that is done. My growing this year has been sparse due to back and other joint health issues. Hoping next year will be better. Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻💕👩🏻🌾
I would love to know how/if you over winter any of your existing varieties via propagation/clippings! I live in your zone and Didn’t have a great seed starting situation.
Thought it worth mentioning - I’ve been using bamboo in the garden for a few years now, and instead of relying on a single stick which may break, I use tripods - three pieces of bamboo tied together at the top to form a pyramid. if you have the bamboo, you can even double or triple up each leg so that if one piece of bamboo weekends, there are more to rely on.
Hi! Absolutely fantastic results! I have a question. I bought Italian tomato tree 2 feet plant today. Can I grow it in height bed - 2x2x2 feet (or 60-60-60 cm). I want to use horse composted manure, top soil and dirt 1/1/1 and mulch over. Because ground water is too close to top in my place.. Also I am not sure - is it annual plant or perennial? Thank you for your videos - a lot of enthusiasm ❤
Today I got some of these mini tomato from local food bank and I saved seeds planted them 😊three big red ruby purple mix colour ones very delicious juicy better tasted than strawberry 😊 I loved them so much 😊never seen it’s one plant grow three colours fruits purple red , yellow , pure red 😊 I have eaten all of them ~ two plastic baskets about 50 😊very happy better than tomato pasta sauce 😊of course but I need learn from you also shot documentary teach ppl how as our charity free teach and working we will get huge blessed 😊
Love the tomato tree and your Food Forest, thank you for sharing your ideas with us! I have two Jack Chis and their favorite snack is baby carrots, so I had to laugh when your dog dog up his own snack! 🥕🐕🥕🐕
Love this, and quite similar to the approach I took this year for my first cherry tomatoes. Just wondering how do you deal with the trees once they are taller than you? Just use a ladder to access the high fruit?
James, you and Tuck are one of my most eagerly anticipated videos. I have a question about the tomato tree but trying it instead with ground cherries?? Do you think that would work? I have fallen in love with them after finding volunteers in my raised bed. So I would like to raise a larger quantity of them next summer. I was thinking if you did your tomato tree idea and put some fabric cloth or something around it to catch the fruits when they fall might work. Peace and much love.
Hi James, Vineet here, I am your new subscriber from India, and you know you are really really awesome, here I am learning a lot from your videos 😀 Keep growing , keep creating 😃😃👍👍
Love your videos James, but I must be honest. I watch your videos to yes, learn more about gardening but Tucker. Tucker is Tha Man! My dogter, Billie, is a white and black shih tzu, and loves the sweet bell peppers I've been lucky to successfully grow this year. Which is great because we need help with eating them!
Laughs at Tuck! My Thumbelina (toy poodle) digs her own carrots as well and chomps down in the garden. She also really loves green beans and peas. James, try the Super Sauce Tomato. I would love to see what you can do with it. It's by far my favorite tomato.
Hey James! may God bless you. Does your honeycrisp apple tree change taste after 10 years because of rootstocks transfering the taste qualities to the top graft?
For ease of picking, you should grow your tomatoes over an arch so the plants head back towards the ground, then you can walk under the arches to harvest the tomatoes
Great idea, but i will need to grow mine somewhat shorter as picking them could be problematic. I wonder if a top plate such as is used growing dragon fruit could work.
We’re from North Carolina. We grew a Sandwich Tomato Plant in a wine barrell filled with organic dirt and it grew up to 10 feet! 😂 We reaped lots of tomatoes from it… we stacked several (4) green square cages and tied them together and it stayed upright until Hurricane Ian toppled it over yesterday, but it was still in its roots unharmed. We still had several medium-sized green tomatoes left at the top of the plant and some baby ones! It’s getting late in the season so we just decided to pull it out today. We saved some seeds from it for next year since it has done so well for us. 🍅🍅🍅 Have a great weekend, James - and y’all!
God bless y'all from Grandma Linda in Martinsburg WV. Hope there wasn't bad damage. Been praying for all in the path of the storm. 💘❤️💓💕💖
Hey I'm originally from Sanford NC! Glad you and yours made it out alright from Ian
Your rabbit is so cute I love him being in the videos
Next time save the suckers. You start the season earlier than any other person. Just pot it in a flower pot and keep it on Windows seal through winter
i live in Beaufort n.c. was the fruit at least 3 inches in size. if so what kind of tomatoes were they. i like to grow tall but not cherry type.
Awesome! Love seeing lil Tuck eating them veggies he knows how to eat right!🥰😍❤❤😘
Thanks so much James for the inspiration and constant sweet loving kindness. We are all pretty lucky the Tuck Boss let us wander in his food forest. Love you guys so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Furring strips at Lowe’s are usually in a cull bundle at discounted price because they have a little bend in them on one end - makes for strong, long piece of lumber with no chemical treatments. I pick up any culled lumber bundles when I see them for all the gardening projects.
We're building a greenhouse this week. I have lots of windows so I'm using culled 2x4s for frames for them, about half the cost and usually almost perfect. Luckily we have a locally owned lumber yard so it's less expensive than the big box stores as well.
So enthusiastic! Any man who is kind to animals is a good man.
I put my tomato clips, hooks and fruit bags through the washing machine on a hot cycle in a mesh bag at the end of the season. It helps stop disease and saves money. Muffy from Oz (Australia)
Thank you James awesome video...In Caribbean we love planting tomatoes...your technique and method is a must try 👍🏻
I think it's great you're always exploring and experimenting new ways to grow things. Great idea for your tomato trees, too. I never thought a tomato could be a tree!
Love your video, James…..and Tuck is a star! Your enthusiasm is contagious! Amazing what you’ve done in your backyard. It certainly is a food forest. 😊💖🦋🕊
I have never seen a dog eat veggies like tuck. It’s honestly impressive.
Gotta start them young! haha he was basically set from birth in that backyard.
They have to eat raw meat to be healthy
Thanks James for the handy hints, love tomatoes and they taste so much better when you grow them yourself 👍
I did something similar to this in 2017 but it turned into a giant tomato teepee when my 4 bamboo staked tomatos all started falling over- I just leaned them against each other at the top and tied them together up there with tomato wire. It was really cool looking. Especially since it was exactly in the center of the Hole part of my large Keyhole shaped bed (12' x 12'). The tomatos were Black Vernisage. I look so forward to your videos every Saturday.
Always a joy to follow your gardening obsession 💚😁- Thank you!
This year I planted my tomatoes horizontally - a method from the colder countries: Russia, Ukraine. The result was: huge stems, massive fruits, melting in the mouth flesh and watermelon sweetness. Next year I'm planting horizontally: peppers, cucumbers ... anything I can. The logic is that in depth the soil is getting colder and the roots are suffering longer time adaptation in cold and anaerobic environment. By planting horizontally the plants have more aeration, can be treated with warm water and any fertilizer has direct access to their root system. My pink and yellow flesh tomatoes are 400 - 700 g each. The cherry tomatoes look promising till next frost (around February). Btw: I have a micro city garden and my tomatoes are in 2 raised beds each 3 x 6.7 feet. Due to the limited space, some of my tomatoes run away in my neighbor's garden, because they reached 18-20 feet - and still growing 😅
Blessings and waiting for your next video.
That is very impressive!!!
I always enjoy seeing the garden boss. He's such a sweetheart. I've seen some really tall tomatoes, but never thought to grow them as trees let alone graft them, but that's a very interesting idea. I hope next year you'll show how it's done. Thanks so much for sharing your talents and Tuck.
Menakjubkan..
Cara mu merawat kebun sayur sungguh sangat menginspirasi saya, Terima kasih atas ilmu dan pengalaman nya..
your passion for gardening is great and is contagious my friend. thank you!
Brilliant! Love your enthusiasm. Love Tuck. I was JUST pondering the grafting process. Please do a demo for us? It seems so 'green' and 'soft' unlike a tree twig or branch. Thanks James
James does have a pretty recent video of grafting two tomato varieties. It was pretty amazing! Hope this helps you ❤
@@JennTN411 thanks Jenn. Indeed fascinating grafting very soft green stems! Fruit trees, easy. Just had 100% success grafting apple/pear and nectarine/apricot and cherry/cherry and apple/apple. It is so rewarding!
@@carlyblankevoort3856 I have not started the adventure of grafting just yet, but seeing others having so much success bring me hope that it won't be terribly difficult 😆
@@JennTN411 do it! in spring of course!
@@carlyblankevoort3856 Good advice! I don't remember that timing stated!
Beautiful solution for small yards! Love it! Will consider this for our garden next year. Spending the next few months before the next season to get our blank slate of a yard turned into a mini food forest! So excited! Thanks for the great content!
Seeing your garden always makes my mind happy.
Your garden is amazing. Tuck is the only dog I've seen that eats in the garden. Good boy Tuck 💞💞💞💞💞💞
Tuck is just super adorable. I thoroughly enjoy your videos/knowledge/passion but that little guy just steals the show 💖💖
Thank you for these techniques! 🍅🍅🌳🌳 I will definitely try this in the future!
James & Tucker are always joyful a pick me up!
Thanks for the tips. We grew our cherry tomato up the bean trellis from last year.. here inzone 7 we are still gett6 some. We did get some fungus, I tried to keep it at bay but, I'm still learning.
We have an abundance of bamboo growing here, come and get it!
James, Just want to say Thank you. Your videos are informative and your How-To's are excellent. Keep up the great work. Me and my wife started our garden this year. We even put up a greenhouse and I have gotten into seed starting. So far, some failures and some successes. West Texas weather is very unpridictable but learning how our weather impacts our gardening has been the most challenging. It's October 3rd and we are still in the upper 80's during the day. We just got out of the 90's, it's been unreal. Thanks again and keep on educating us!
My best tomato is an unknown volunteer Roma-type tomato that popped up under my pomegranate bush. I just let it grow up into the pomegranate and spread around. Now it looks like a tomato tree/bush because it’s prolific and the poms are gone! I’m now trying to grow some super sweet cherry tomatoes under a 10’ tall and narrow, but sturdy, purple diamond bush, using it as support. 🤞🏽
Great info as usual. Got to luv Tuck... Get and give all you can while you can..our fur baby passed this morning...
So sorry!🥺❤
My dad used to say May 11th is the perfect day to transplant. I grew up in Frederick MD. Now I am in Martinsburg WV and May 11th is still my magic date. 💘❤️💓💕💖💗💝💞 For Tuck!
James how do you put your bamboo in the ground? Do you drive it in or do you dig out then pack in around it?
I have tomato’s that grew from last yrs throw aways in my pine trees. They are as tall as yours and I got them for nothing. They are the small multi colored ones you pay a lot for at the supermarket. Now I don’t buy tomatoes. Even have the big sandwich size. I love reseeders. Only problem was they were growing everywhere. It’s tricky picking the tomatoes out of the pine branches, at least they were easy to see being the yellow ones. Now I have them in my Apple tree and fig. It’s funny. I’m a little south of you. Love your garden. ❤️👍🏻💪🏻🖖🏻🐾🐾🐾
love that enthusiasm and Tuck the Boss🥰🥰🥰 love from France.
Thanks for being so awesome!
❤️❤️❤️❤️ For Tuck, he is so cute. He’s like don’t mind me, I’m just gonna get me a snack hahaha 🤣. When you do the grafting next year of that tomato could you make a video of it? I would like to see how that is done. My growing this year has been sparse due to back and other joint health issues. Hoping next year will be better. Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻💕👩🏻🌾
I would love to know how/if you over winter any of your existing varieties via propagation/clippings! I live in your zone and Didn’t have a great seed starting situation.
With your help I have planted three raspberry plants, three 🫐 , and a 🍒 tree
I did it this year. Thanks
Tuk makes me smile everytime!!😍😍😍😍Love your tomatoe plants!!Thanks4 the reminder!I need2 plant bamboo! Great video! Thankyou.❤
Hello How are you doing??
Thought it worth mentioning - I’ve been using bamboo in the garden for a few years now, and instead of relying on a single stick which may break, I use tripods - three pieces of bamboo tied together at the top to form a pyramid. if you have the bamboo, you can even double or triple up each leg so that if one piece of bamboo weekends, there are more to rely on.
I love❤❤❤❤ Tuck and your energy. You are very inspiring.
Thank you for share a good idea how to grow tomato, so impressive😊
Your T-shirts are super soft. One of my favorites for sure
I am excited to try this next growing season! 🙂💜
My early girl tomatoe tree is at least ten feet tall and still producing in ct in october. ! Thanks for the tips!
Hello How are you doing??
Oh Tuck, having to get your on snack. You are such a precious little boy. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hi! Absolutely fantastic results!
I have a question. I bought Italian tomato tree 2 feet plant today. Can I grow it in height bed - 2x2x2 feet (or 60-60-60 cm). I want to use horse composted manure, top soil and dirt 1/1/1 and mulch over. Because ground water is too close to top in my place..
Also I am not sure - is it annual plant or perennial?
Thank you for your videos - a lot of enthusiasm ❤
show us how to grow bamboo!
Today I got some of these mini tomato from local food bank and I saved seeds planted them 😊three big red ruby purple mix colour ones very delicious juicy better tasted than strawberry 😊 I loved them so much 😊never seen it’s one plant grow three colours fruits purple red , yellow , pure red 😊 I have eaten all of them ~ two plastic baskets about 50 😊very happy better than tomato pasta sauce 😊of course but I need learn from you also shot documentary teach ppl how as our charity free teach and working we will get huge blessed 😊
All sealed with gate and effective air flow too 😊
Tuck the gardern Warrior fresh from the Dog Tribe, The new name for Tuck. Always love you 2 guys always making people happy. XXxx
How was your weather these last days? I'm in orange co NY and it's very cold at night already
have you tried growing the tomato around the bamboo stake? that helps stabilize my tomatoes when growing on a stake
Your dog is so cute, can you please make videos what he is doing in your garden every day. Thank you.
Love tuck in the background❤
one of the best youtube channels, no joke
Just got given 2 tomato trees. So will be fun growing.
Cherry Bomb is a great cherry tomato as you say. Grafting on Maxifort rootstock is recommended.
Love the tomato tree and your Food Forest, thank you for sharing your ideas with us! I have two Jack Chis and their favorite snack is baby carrots, so I had to laugh when your dog dog up his own snack! 🥕🐕🥕🐕
❤❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck. Thanks for the tomato tree so cool.
Blessings to all!
Love this, and quite similar to the approach I took this year for my first cherry tomatoes. Just wondering how do you deal with the trees once they are taller than you? Just use a ladder to access the high fruit?
I love you in your garden 🌷
I’m from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Bro ! It beat the super sweet 100 💯 🤩 wow ! You and tuck have a new top tomato tree 🥳 epic
太棒了🌟👏！在這裡也能看到你的拍攝🎬！真行！😊😊😊
I wanna know how you made your hoops. Looks like pvc pipes? Did you ever do a video on that?
He did! I have watched it several times myself, to nail down the design for next year. Hope this helps❤
James, you and Tuck are one of my most eagerly anticipated videos. I have a question about the tomato tree but trying it instead with ground cherries?? Do you think that would work? I have fallen in love with them after finding volunteers in my raised bed. So I would like to raise a larger quantity of them next summer. I was thinking if you did your tomato tree idea and put some fabric cloth or something around it to catch the fruits when they fall might work. Peace and much love.
i enjoy all your great advice and Tuck is soooo cute!
Hi James, Vineet here, I am your new subscriber from India, and you know you are really really awesome, here I am learning a lot from your videos 😀 Keep growing , keep creating 😃😃👍👍
thanks your sharing
I love Tuck so much!!!!
Great info and enthusiasm. Keep up the good work!
Hey I was wondering what kind of bamboo specifically? I have some sort of Japanese bamboo but it doesn't get very big...
Love your videos James, but I must be honest. I watch your videos to yes, learn more about gardening but Tucker. Tucker is Tha Man! My dogter, Billie, is a white and black shih tzu, and loves the sweet bell peppers I've been lucky to successfully grow this year. Which is great because we need help with eating them!
Laughs at Tuck! My Thumbelina (toy poodle) digs her own carrots as well and chomps down in the garden. She also really loves green beans and peas. James, try the Super Sauce Tomato. I would love to see what you can do with it. It's by far my favorite tomato.
Hey James! may God bless you.
Does your honeycrisp apple tree change taste after 10 years because of rootstocks transfering the taste qualities to the top graft?
Love this channel
For ease of picking, you should grow your tomatoes over an arch so the plants head back towards the ground, then you can walk under the arches to harvest the tomatoes
I came here expecting to see tamarillo plants. The algorithm actually grouped it with tamarillo vids.
Thanks!
We love the Boss...!
Any other short folks wondering how the heck we would harvest the tomatoes up top? 😅
Thank you for your great info and inspiration 😊😊👍👍💕💕
Great idea, but i will need to grow mine somewhat shorter as picking them could be problematic. I wonder if a top plate such as is used growing dragon fruit could work.
Hello How are you doing??
I live In a new subdivision, collected all the rebar I could. Makes the best tomato stakes and will last a long time.
❤🧡💛 for Tuck right off the bat!
Let's Gooo!!! 🐕❤️❤️
awesome tomato trees..
Might want to use the 10 feet, 1/2 inch galvanized metallic electrical conduit as an alternative for wood stakes.
We can grow anything we loved in a protected crystal garden 😊
This is awesome! Our tomatoes were a great success this year too. We should try this "Tomato Tree" method next year :)
Always waiting for the next upload let's gooooo
l love these kind of tomatoes where can I get the seeds?
Tuck is on his job and getting his own snack
Yup, but not taking a full break he is still scouting and working while he's snacking
Do you over winter your tomatoes or do you replant new tomatoes every year?
I think the smell of tomatoes is the best thing about them, I think that's why they're a vine and try to grow everywhere ehe
How do we handle the pest?
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
my favorite video : tomatoes video
I love Tuck!!!!
Tuck is the man ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'd like one of those apples. Nice dog too.
I wonder what you do with all these tomatoes