5 Tomato Grow Mistakes To Avoid

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Eggshells are a very healthy fertilizer addition if they are coming from a homemade aggregate compost bin of mixed organics that are fed upon and broken down by earth worms.

My tomato plant is growing straight up with not many leaves at the bottom… I have three tomatoes growing now but I’m wondering, will my tomato plant just keep on growing tall ?? 😅

Well, I've made at least 4 your 5 mistakes already. But, its not to late to correct course. I had no idea that just spraying water on the plant was a bad thing. And I got exactly the lattice you said was garbage. But it was given to me by a neighbor, so no loss there.
Mulch. Hmmmm.

We had a summer when the temperature stayed around107 degrees for weeks on end. I figured I was boiling the roots. What can be done to cool the container-grown soil?

I'm so glad I found you.
I'm excited for my tomato growing season and not making all the mistakes that I have been over the years.

Thank you🙏✝️🙏🇨🇦

You can use the tomato cage upside down. It gives you a wider base.

I have a soaker setting on my spray nozzle. I lay it down at the base and water that way. No splashing.

I’m growing a grafted tomato. I don’t know if it’s determinate or indeterminate

I thought you're supposed to leave sucker's in cherry tomatoes but remove in large tomatoes?

Also do you need worm compost plus fertilizer?

First get a billion bucks.

This literally answered every question i had, thank you!

Roma, San Marzano, Sweet 100's, Teardrop, Campari.

Writing from central coastal CA here. Based on my tomato experience you are right on with these recommendations. One comment I would like to make: Learn your most likely local plant diseases and pests. I don't grow heirloom varieties here, because we are in the middle of a valley filled with large-scale industrial ag that has ninja evolved bugs AND diseases from decades of heavy chemical use. I look for the most disease-resistant varieties I can get, and usually have to order seeds and start my own. Here, the tomatoes are more prone to wilt than blight. I grow them one plant per 20-inch outdoor planter. Disinfect the planters and get fresh soil mix every year. Cages are six feet high and made from woven wire. I do my best to never get leaves wet, and clip off any that touch the ground, because that will start the wilt. If wilt does appear, prune the infected foliage but leave the suckers alone; my experience is that a well tended tomato with wilt, if it it is a resistant variety, can still grow and bear good fruit for some time even though the foliage will suffer. Also: basil is a magnet for whiteflies. In this area I grow it exactly as for tomatoes, except the cages are shorter. I keep the cages covered with caps I sew out of extra fine mesh UV rated netting, and it keeps the flies out.

What are the purple flowers that are climbing the fence?

You can top indeterminate plants only later in the season after they are loaded up with tomatoes

Ok, got a story. During covid, the good governor of MI banned buying garden supplies or seeds or anything. (Oh but weed was ok.) So I found a seller on ebay with tomato seeds and such a great description of these tiny sweet tomatoes I went ahead and got some. So they are indeterminate, and OH SO PROLIFIC! And sweet as can be. Best tomatoes I EVER had. And I don't have to worry about replanting them, they self seed. Well last spring my whole raised bed started sprouting something I did not recognize. Mind you until this covid experience I never planted tomatoes from seed. Always got a few trays at a greenhouse in spring. So didn't recognize all those babies until I let them get their first actual leaves. OMG It was these tomatoes. They must have had a very good year because there had to be thousands in there. FIlled the whole bed. IN fact I had seedlings in a bed two beds over where I never planted any. I put an ad in a local forum board and gave away FIST FULLS of babies. Still had way too many and just took a spade full out of the bed and planed them in among the weeds along a chain link fence. They did great. I never pruned or did anything to those yet I was out there snacking on them every time I walked past. Don't know exactly what variety those are, smaller than regular cherry tomatoes, not as oblong as grape, but sweet as cotton candy they are.

sweet million has been a great cherry tomato for me. Grown outdoors and even in a poor summer they knock out so much fruit.

I grow indeterminates up a string which is attached to a “tomato hook” which I attach to a hook on PVC pipe structure I built around a bed. I use the “single stem” method which means I pinch all the suckers off. It is similar to what hot house growers use. Works great.

When are we getting seeds sent

All of your videos are so helpful! Thank you!

I really liked the row weaving idea. Have always put wooden stakes beside the individual plants. Last year they blew over with the weight of the plants. Not good. Thank you for your help.

Idomt know I have to cut from down . Know i have huge branch at the bottom

https://youtu.be/JXgZTkiIgSw?si=XwgTBPMyNRAzOB-6

tomatoes are more a desert/rain forest type of plant.

Thanks for the tips❤

What Tomatoes? There are no more natural tomatoes anymore.

Youtube is getting ridiculous, this could have been a 3-minute video.

This is good. Tips on how I should feed my tomatoes at each stage

I need a better support system. Our tomato plant keeps growing up. and all of the tomatoes are on the top and the bottom doesn't have any fruit. So the top gets so heavy. I use those cone things which works ok while it's small but once it gets taller it fails.

Thank you for sharing those extremely helpful tips!💖🙏🏽

Somebody almost crashed their car and my man didn't even blink😂

Where may I find a man like him, asking for a friend 👀😅

I feed my plants tomatoe tone one week and bone meal the next and keep alternating is this ok for the plants?

We are behind in the season. Is there anything to speed it up?