9 Tomato Growing Myths to Avoid!

When it comes to tomatoes, we've grown hundreds of varieties here at Epic Gardening - and we've tested just about EVERY method of growing them that you can dream up. Growing tomatoes comes with a whole host of interesting advice, tips, and tricks, but also a few myths that simply aren't true. Here are 9 of the most common ones from our journey through the world of tomatoes.
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Yellow Or Dying Leaves
01:22 - Sauce Tomatoes
02:27 - Tickling Flowers
03:26 - Sun Ripening
03:52 - Pruning Myth
05:18 - Blossom End Rot
06:09 - Vine Ripening
07:37 - Refrigerating Tomatoes
09:32 - Too Much Watering
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[@epicgardening]

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[@lukaslambs5780]

Not so much a myth but just a lack of awareness of what things are and aren’t good potential soil/compost additives. For example, if you have pet reptiles and keep colonies of insects as feeders, their poop (frass) is just as good as worm castings for nutrients. Pond scum is also fantastic. Egg shells are NOT nearly as effective in compost piles as people think they are.

[@itatane]

What about myths about weeds? I've found a great many plants that people stress about are edible and nutritious. For example, Galinsoga parviflora, a VERY prolific weed, is actually a wonderful herb for soups (guasca). Some weeds are also good companion plants as well.

[@epicgardening]

@@itatane Love this

[@epicgardening]

@@lukaslambs5780 Great call!

[@iamjustkiwi]

I'll echo the "weeds" issue. A lot of my plants seem to do very well when I let clover, dandelion, purslane and other supposed weeds hang out as long as they aren't completely choking the soil, and those are all edible to some degree or another which is an added bonus. Also my iguana and tortoise LOVE dandelions so they save me a ton on having to buy food during the growing months.

[@andrearc3002]

I started cutting my tomatoes at that 50% ripe stage and it stopped my tomatoes from being plagued by tomatoe worms. Thank you for posting this video. It's so informative.

[@Lilian040210]

My grandma always picks almost green ones, otherwise they crack.

[@WARHORSE465]

I absolutely love the fact that you all show your tomato plants as they exist naturally, warts and all. It’s a positive reinforcement for me to see a few yellow leaves or dried out branches on the plants when you make the videos. It helps me not freak out when, what I thought where “issues” with my plants, are just nature. Not cleaning everything up to be “Instagram perfect” before filming is very refreshing and it gives me more confidence to know my plants are as “normal” as yours are. Thank you, as always for your refreshing perspectives, positive energies, and super-helpful education. EpicG has a lifelong fan in me!

[@jaykeinnes6793]

As with most things online 95% of what you see is made perfect for the shot, gardening is no different :) Also something to remember is just because you're not doing as well doesn't mean your doing it wrong, I have changed from acreage to pots and was worried for a bit and stressed out as i wasnt seeing the results i had in the ground, started reading a heap and watching heaps online and now I know that pots are far more fickle than large in-ground beds and even though I'm not having the same success(don't mean to brag but my gardens where top tier is terms of produce per sqm) and now ive accepted that they will be slower and get knocked around a bit more by weather until I get my ratios of soil components nearly spot on and watering nearly spot on and if I don't learn that much then I know I can still keep them healthy and happy in pots, I just need an extra plant or two compared to my old modified huglekulture/Ruth stout hybrid beds. Good luck and happy harvesting my friend, big love from down under!

[@thepeff]

I was growing some turned garlic in a plastic container by my window with some homegrown compost. A tomato seed sprouted from the compost and I decided to see what would happen and left it there. It strangled out four garlic plants and started climbing my window and is putting down roots in surrounding potted plants. Instead of a trellis I've just been taping the vine to the window. I've been getting some decent cherry tomatoes lately and I plan on propagating the seeds since the tomatoes taste decent and clearly this plant will stop at nothing to survive.

[@ravenmc7630]

how's the plant now?

[@CWorgen5732]

I'm curious to know how it turned out!

[@wealthNwisdom63]

Helloooooooo ????? How’s the plant

[@NSF8112]

🤯

[@alindasue]

My cherry tomatoes produce fruit steadily for a good couple months or so. Last year, after a couple months of picking tomatoes every day, I still had a lot of green tomatoes left on the vine when the frosts started to hit. Before pulling the plants for the year, I picked off about 3 gallons of green tomatoes, figuring I would do something with them. What I ended up doing was snacking on ripe tomatoes every day for the next few weeks as they gradually ripened off the vine in my house. I plan on doing the same with this year's end of season green tomatoes too.

[@silkee1922]

Way to go.👍

[@kimberlygiacometti6041]

I did that a few years ago. One of my furbabies loved the cherry tomatoes; pooped...passed away....left us another cherry tom. plant. I cherished that plant. He killed(tilled) that plant last year..,...I was heartbroken.

[@CWorgen5732]

I know this is a year later... But we did that this fall. I pulled all the tomatoes the night before the first frost. The ripest cherries were immediately halved and put into dinner or frozen. The larger ones were sliced for salmon burgers. As soon as any tomato started to look a tiny bit soft, it was chopped and frozen for future soup. After a few days, the originally green tomatoes were sorted by color: solid green, green-yellow, yellow-orange, almost red, and Ripe! I kept them in mesh baskets and plastic blueberry cartonsfor airflow, and none of them rotted ❤ over time they all ripened, and nearly none were lost to frost or rot!

[@SpaceMiner007]

I pickled about 10 lbs of last year's green tomatoes.

[@rachelash7299]

An old gardener I know told me to pull the plant out whole at the end of the season and green ones on it, hang it upside down in the sun but out of the frost (like under the eaves for example). We're just about to get frosts here so I'm keen to see how it works.

[@iamjustkiwi]

I gotta say it's weird to me seeing that there are a lot of issues people have with tomatoes because I can't stop them from growing! The various spoiled ones I have tossed into my compost now pop up in ever plant I add the compost to so I just yank out the seedling and replant them somewhere else, and they tolerate it well because of the omnipotence of their stems to grow roots. Now I have like 8 random varieties growing all over my property and it's fun seeing what they come out with!

[@epicgardening]

It's funny the plants we do / don't have issues with!

[@iamjustkiwi]

@@epicgardening for me it's been cukes, and I learned that since I almost exclusively do container growing, that they are ESPECIALLY prone to standing water issues. This year I did side by side experiments with fabric vs traditional plastic pots and the difference has been amazing! That said I also have an aquaponics setup and the cukes in there do even better, so I think it actually has to do with oxygen in the water more so than the water itself. Since the aquaponic eater is constantly moving it is highly oxygenated and therefore the roots are happy even being constantly wet.

[@MrsB197something]

I have struggled with cucs for years. Im trying grow bags this year​@@iamjustkiwi

[@iamjustkiwi]

@@MrsB197something I hope it goes well for you, I actually just started all my cuke seedlings for this year yesterday! As long as they stay consistently moist, warm, and well fertilized in the grow bags they seem to do really well. The other thing I learned is that growing em on a trellis is super helpful because the slugs where I live go absolutely ham over them and I don't really like sharing with them so having them off the ground makes it much easier.

[@paulgaras2606]

One thing to remember about storing ripe tomatoes in the fridge is that tomatoes produce a ton of ethylene. In a closed container or small space like a fridge this could cause the tomatoes not to last as long as one might expect. I do refrigeration contracting and one of my customers is a produce wholesaler. Tomato storage is a big issue for them and over ripening can cost them a lot of money.

[@harambeegardens8705]

Blanch them & put them in the freezer.

[@thenicksgardenchannel]

@@harambeegardens8705 yes or I oven roast them, with some peppers too then freeze.

[@ChipClarkSD]

The main reason Roma and cherry tomatoes are better for sauce is that they have much more pectin which helps thicken the sauce

[@Bob_Adkins]

Roma makes a thick sauce, but they have a dull taste. Cherries have a brighter taste, and I wish there were more large varieties because of their great taste and hardiness.

[@karen_james]

Totally agree with you guys on the deep watering your tomato plants. Last year for me I was inconsistent with my watering and every plant got hit with BER. This year I made a concerted effort to be consistent with my watering by checking each plant at the soil level for moisture. If dry an inch down, I’d water. Kept up with regular fertilizing and big difference, I used deep compost as a mulch and nutrition. Not one plant developed BER this year! ❤️

[@2pugman]

I also plant with a powdered lime slurry as I plant the small tomato. It's been two years since I had a BER problem.

[@sunflowerhill4349]

Yep, I agree with all of these! Definitely things I have discovered by trying them out for myself. You can also save most of the green tomatoes at the end of the season by picking them, and layering them in cardboard boxes, leaving a bit of stem on, stem end facing down. They will ripen gradually in the box, so you get tomatoes way into winter (cool temperate climate where I live in Australia). They just have to have started turning from hard dark green into a paler green with white starting to come through.

[@sbffsbrarbrr]

I discovered your green tomato info last season when I cut back all the tomatoes in mid October. Saved a lot of the green ones to make fried green tomatoes. Made one batch and decided it wasn't worth the effort 😁. So the rest of the tomatoes were sitting in a basket in the house, intended for the compost pile. And low and behold, most of them continued to ripen. That was a nice end of season surprise!

[@gracehuey5160]

Thanks for the info. I’m going to try this.

[@pascalxus]

I thought I knew all the basics of tomatoes. But, you guys have taught me several knew things today! I had no idea tomatoes could go in the fridge. and thanks for the comment about bringing tomatoes in at 50% ripeness. My mice won't be happy about that lolz. Keep up the great work guys. You guys are Awesome!

[@eileenwineinger3173]

This tip is helping me too. Less for the birds/ mouse and more for my hubby.

[@SandraPerez-tz3fw]

Omgosh this year was my first time growing tomatoes from seed. I was beating myself up because the lower leaves kept falling off!! Happy to know that's totally normal. 😁😊

[@theshoemeister2582]

Oh

[@pennylaur7687]

It CAN be tomato blight as well. A fungus they get from the soil that splashes up when it rains or if you spray over tops of plants instead of just the ground. I try to be organic but gave in this year n bought a copper fungicide spray. I also keep the bottom leaves pruned up off the soil.

[@squashit339]

I really needed this video! Last couple years I've had a lot of lower dying leaves on my tomatoes and thought I had a HUGE problem and come to find out that it's normal 😅

[@Jacq892]

I'm glad you settled the refrigerate tomato myth! So much info!

[@danikashton13]

Thank you for the video! New gardener here in my first year of gardening, and my beefsteak tomatoes just started seriously yellowing at the bottom. I've been trimming them as I notice yellowing in an attempt to stop or prevent disease. It's reassuring to know that I haven't done anything wrong!

[@troygillespie]

100% correct myth-busting! Keep up the good work battling persistent gardening myths

[@NickMacKenzie]

love seeing the combined perspectives of kevin, jacques, and chris all together in a video

[@ceecee-thetransplantedgardener]

After 10 years+ of growing tomatoes and cukes in ground with zero problems, I moved them to raised beds (variety of reasons, too long to go into) and man - have I had the issues. It has taken 4 months to decipher watering, fert, and a bunch of other problematics. Very humbling. BUT - I'm hanging in; this video hit many of those points and affirmed my process is right on track. Great vid - Thanks!

[@helenmcclellan452]

I always learn something new or I gain greater understanding when I watch your videos. Thank you!

[@denisebrady6858]

What a brilliant video- Thank You Guys as you have answered a lot of my questions regarding my tomato growing. Cheers Denise- Australia

[@erinsmith2373]

Thank you for discussing blossom end rot!!! sooo many people keep telling others to put egg shells in their soil next season to fix it

[@Bob_Adkins]

Egg shells take about 10,000 years to decompose. Well, maybe not that long, but a lot longer than say bone meal.

[@Anjerz]

I follow a few of the Epic tomato tips. I TRY to leave my Everglade bushy when I can. But Florida can be humid, even for Florida varieties so I still get septoria on my leaves and about once or twice a year I have to groom the plant back to almost nothing and hit restart. It works fine for me. Mostly I groom the plant to avoid to much interior growth. I love my giant shaggy everglades tomato. 🍅

[@MyAussieGardenKitchen]

G'day. I LOVED the fact you shared about picking before ripening. I have a problem with mice here in country Australia and when it comes to tomatoes, I like to pick them before ripening, so they mice don't eat them. This has saved my from losing so many tomatoes. All the information was great, but that certainly is a great one to share when people have pest issues. Thanks as always for the quality content and all the best. Daz.

[@AjArpopP52]

Great video! Thank you! I watch a run of different videos and get great information but I really liked watching this video.

[@jayduplessis7698]

The flavour of some tomatoes ARE "lessened" if you pick them before they are fully ripe on the vine. So it is not a myth, it is true. This is especially true for some yellow, black and green varieties. It is particularly true for vine-ripened tomatoes picked at the end of the day, which are still warm from the sun - those have been some of the best tomatoes I have ever tasted (again, mostly yellow, black and green varieties - red ones seem to taste mostly the same if they are ripened indoors).

[@dustinpage123]

Great job with this video, I love to see a team of people making a video together.

[@scottscriticalmass]

Always enjoy the tri-expert videos and this one is no different... Thanks to all 3 of you for the great advice! I'd love to hear Jacque's recipe for his Sun Gold Cherry Tomato pasta sauce recipe. Thank you!!

[@johnduffy6546]

This was very informative. Thank you

[@barbiedueck2273]

We built “wicking boxes” this year….. the tomatoes love them. The water is in the bottom of the garden box so the plants roots grow downward and have a consistent source of moisture. We live in Canada and are experiencing a drought… with hot dry weather. This method has allowed me to only have to add water once a week (to 10:days ) thru this weather. My tomato plants (as well as everything else I’ve been planting so far 🤞🏻) are growing strong and well. I’m still watering with rainwater we caught over a month ago as we now use so little. I’m just so happy about how well they are working I had to pass along.

[@anniecampbell8554]

I love your faux ‘special gift’ teasers. Thanks for being such a fun presenter / teacher!

[@Kakuma-Notsori]

Thanks you for making things clear once for all about those myths 😉

[@cathleenbaldwinmaggi2252]

I LOVED this with all of you adding to the info. I will add... If you are a fish keeper, any fish that die through the year, freeze them. Bury them about a foot deep under your tomatoes, add a gallon jug with holes you have punched into it buried around the base of the tomatoes. You water by adding to the jug, any organic fertilizer you add to the jug, remember too much water gives you leaves not tomatoes.

[@jimscharfenberger2]

Thank you for this most informative discussion of popular tomato growing myths. Sincerely, Jim. Master Gardener, Orange County New York.

[@rachellemazar7374]

Such great tips, I didn’t know about the 50% ripe harvesting. The blossom end rot tip, the pruning tip and so much of this video will help me a lot. I have been a firm believer in never refrigerating tomatoes but I will give your tip a try.👩‍🌾

[@semillerimages]

Thanks for the video! Super informative!

[@evelynbarnes8060]

This old but very informative for me thanks you😊

[@PegsGarden]

Super informative video, really I have learned so much from your channel Kevin and I have been gardening now for 14 years, also really enjoy you having Chris and Jacque's input they have so much good information!!

[@garethjones3660]

Excellent informative video thank you please keep making these videos.

[@the-trojan]

Great video! good to have all this info in one spot and concise!

[@rockycannon4099]

Great video! I was totally falling for some of these.

[@siamstation]

What a fabulous information tomato video. In Australia, we are just starting to plan our crops of tomatoes for the upcoming season. I'm going to try this coming seasons tomato plants, growing them with some of your techniques. Had a fantastic season last year 😊. Blessings from Australia ❤️

[@teresaellis7062]

I am glad to hear the information when to harvest tomatoes. I often kept missing the timing of the '"perfectly ripe" tomato and having tomatoes go over ripe or splitting. I will pick them when they are 50% so we can have them on the counter when they fully ripen, not hidden in the leaves. Living in Western Washington with LOTS of rain, we do have to supplement our soil with calcium unless we cover the soil during the winter rainy season. My mom had very little success with onions until I researched what might be going wrong. Turns out tomatoes aren't the only plants that want calcium. Root veggies love calcium. We mixed bone meal in the soil before putting in onion starts, and that year she had MASSIVE onions.

[@sully9088]

I grew tons of cherry tomatoes last summer thanks to the amazing advice from this channel. I was hesitant to pick the tomatoes when they were 50% ripe, but it's really cool to see them turn bright red right in the kitchen after a few days.

[@sherde10]

Love you guys and your informative fun videos - I’ve never had much luck with tomatoes but this year I’m sure it will be a different story!

[@busker153]

Definitely well worth the time to watch!

[@manu_vuna]

Thank you for the awesome knowledge watching from New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@jbigfeather]

Wow! This is an impressive video having the three of you giving your info covers all the questions I have wondered about. This year I wasn’t able to have a garden due to a broken arm but there’s always next year. The squash video was really helpful as I have a few volunteers that are doing well, they popped up after the monsoon season started.

[@epicgardening]

Heal up!

[@GreenGardenGamer]

my neighbor is on holiday with his family and I'm watching his tomatoes while growing my own. he has sungolds and I just made a pasta sauce with them, some garlic and spices, and it was SO good. Can just snack on them off the vine or throw them in salads/sauces/curries for added acidity/sweetness

[@josephcarrera3953]

Awesome information thank you

[@rick6605]

Fantastic presentation of the facts!

[@AscendtionArc]

Thanks for this.

[@davinasquirrel7672]

Indeed I started harvesting the larger tomatoes earlier, at about 70% ripe. I figured that removing them at this stage would help the remaining ones ripen faster. Anyway, I only had five plants going this year, and way too many tomatoes! Thanks for the pruning tips. I am never quite sure what I am doing there, making it up as I go along!

[@das5842]

Great video, thank you!

[@DMLondon]

Loved this video I learned something new!

[@montanaliving4769]

I always pick my large tomatoes at half ripe, love them.

[@marvinbrock960]

I’ve said that it before, thank you so much for the content.. I’ve learned so much over the past few seasons from watching your vids! 🇺🇸

[@busker153]

I did not know tomatoes ripen from the inside out, and from the bottom up. Three cheers for a regular, daily regime of continuing education! (And, three more for Epic Gardening!)

[@mattdonna9677]

I gave up on container gardening due to compaction of soil and the hot sun baking the containers. I do raised beds made of stone borders and it works great. I appreciate your knowledge that you share with us,thank you from southern Indiana.

[@FlyingSagittarius]

Get a deep saucer and fill it with water. The water will be drawn up through the soil as the plant uses it. In order to prevent water logging, let the saucer and the soil dry out before refilling it.

[@mattdonna9677]

@@FlyingSagittarius thanks for that, I just find the containers to be more maintenance compared to raised beds.

[@Kittyfantastic]

Excellent tips!

[@evropej]

Thank you for all the advice! I can’t wait to harvest my tomatoes now

[@Cheezyjr]

I had blossom end rot my first year. Tested my soil to see if it was actually calcium deficient. As you said, my soil actually had plenty of calcium. BUT the pH was much higher than recommended for tomatoes (8.5 or so). Which can also interfere with nutrient absorption. I believe higher pH promotes the formation of calcium carbonate which is not bioavailable. I acidified my soil and haven’t had BER since.

[@Bob_Adkins]

Same here. My soil isn't bad at all, 7.0-7.5, but still get BER if I'm not careful. A light sprinkling of sulfur pellets and I get 6.5 and BER is not a problem.

[@hughjones1460]

I have been growing tomatoes for 25 years and five years back started growing San Marzano's for sauce making and lost 50% due to Blossom End Rot, something I had never experienced before. There are many reasons this could happen but as I applied regular liquid tomato feed enriched with seaweed, the nutrient problem and soil PH were eliminated. On the following years I kept my eye on making sure there was sufficient watering and that simple act resolved the problem. Cherry tomatoes in containers can be easily taken care off as these containers come with reservoirs that can be filled but tomatoes grown in beds are where BER happens and watering is not monitored as easily.

[@UrbanNatureSounds]

Thank you for the good information for us

[@celondelon351]

I grew my first ever tomatoes this year this video came at the perfect time and plucked them as they were turning red as thanks to this video. Thank you so much.

[@02markcal]

Celon, Once you have eaten a homegrown tomato, no other tomato but yours will taste as good nor satisfying!

[@harambeegardens8705]

Great info.

[@brandondavidson4085]

Jacques: "Not pruning your tomatoes, let's look at that" Jacques: *pops up out of a huge forest of tomatoes* "Hi" That made me chuckle.

[@nigelmccomb8106]

If you are growing indeterminate tomatoes,you will need to prune / sucker them.

[@pennylaur7687]

Great info. I was hoping for ideas on blight prevention or treatments since that seems to be a steady issue. Watering from the soil only not spraying, and tried moving to a new spot next year, but am running out of spots to move to. I used a copper fungicide this year but am trying to stay organic.

[@angelaanderson5360]

Leaving the stem on the tomato to ripen is a best practice or so I'm told.

[@brianschuster4235]

Hey thank yall so much!

[@VT-ix5oh]

Wow, the content keep on comimg,, im an avid gardner and i still learn new things from you all. Thanks

[@timisaac8121]

Thank You Epic Team: This is the best Tomato Vid ever, anyone that I ever see. Jacques spoke about the "suckers"- Wow. Can you clip suckers and "recycle" or re-grow these in some way? Thanks again. So great you make this useful and timely vid. Best wishes from Sunny Mexico.

[@Megan-nt7dm]

I didn't have time to deal with my pots/wood beds this year past dumping all my worm compost on them. I currently have an absolute tangled mess of cucumbers, zucchini and so many cherry tomatoes 🤣 I love that I didn't have to start seeds, but I still got the three things I like to grow on my porch

[@oldfashionedcountrycooking9343]

You have a beautiful garden. Until recently, I had about 30 types of tomatoes. Now I sow 3-4 types because we couldn't eat that much in the season. 🙂

[@thegardenscientist]

Great video guys! Spring is on its way soon here in South Africa! I cant wait to start my Tomato's!

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

I've been having massive pest problems this year, so I'm reluctant to leave my tomatoes on the vine too long, and have been picking them the moment they start to show any signs of ripening. It turns out this makes little to no difference, as they will continue to ripen off the vine anyway. Just as long as you don't pick them when they're completely unripe, they'll taste just fine in the end.

[@harambeegardens8705]

I've experienced the same.

[@johnshopkins554]

This was a really informative vid, maybe one of the best all rounder condensed together. Excellent. And the purple buds behind the woman with glasses...what is it plz? I had 3 come up in my garden, the leaves smell kinda like licorice. Thanks.

[@erdemalegoz1816]

1-) Tomato leaves that turn brown or dry out is not a matter of concern if they are the early leaves. 2-)Tomato types for best pasta sauce 3-) Tickling tomato blossoms are not that important. 4-)Tomato doesn’t need sun ripening 5-) If you don’t prune suckers you might get slow yield but in long-term it’s better to not prune them. 6-) Blossom end rot is generally caused by irregular watering schedule. 7-) Harvesting tomatoes just before ripening increases it’s shelf life. 8-) Refrigerating fully ripe tomatoes won’t change it’s flavor. 9-) Don’t overwater your tomatoes (…duh…) (It has details though so you better watch that part!) 10-) Freshly composted Kevin talks in that part

[@paddyoak1]

Tomatoes hardly need water.

[@BigboiiTone]

Great tips from this and I will continue investigating the fridge myth. I've only done it with storebought ones. (My few homegrown ones are used fresh off the vine!) So maybe those are just bad store tomatoes before they ever leave the store. Grocers in Alaska have no clue how tomatoes should taste regrettably

[@HurairaHerbals]

i'm a container gardener, and was definitely watering twice a day at the height of summer (Houston). Also, I put grocery store tomatoes in the fridge. Harvested tomatoes I keep on the counter. I've never had a problem with putting tomatoes in the fridge.

[@PorchGardeningWithPassion]

Very interesting things! I was listening while trying a new to me attempt to keep rabbits out of my peas this year.

[@BrightestBlessings7899]

Excellent video! Thanks fellas. It was kind of blurry. I hope there is not any camera troubles.

[@iamjustkiwi]

Oh man the point about the watering over the top inch or so of the soil is what I feel like 75 percent of houseplant watering issues are. Water thoroughly and deeply until runoff and then LEAVE IT ALONE until it truly is dry down to about 2 inches! So many folks just give their plants too much attention and kill them with love. That alone is the "black thumb" that many of my friends have claimed to have..."but I watered it every day, HOW COULD IT DIE"?! and it's just like, facepalm every time. All you are doing is giving fungus and fungus gnats a lovely home to kill your roots!

[@sunflowerhill4349]

Yes, this! You see it endlessly on houseplant groups, every second post is a plant dying from overwatering / dense substrate that holds too much water.

[@MattMilla76]

Great video!!

[@johnhooper1492]

Cool video Thank You!

[@StarSolaris1122]

This video is awesome and so helpful! My favorite tip was on watering! I really needed to learn this concept! Also I used to keep my tomatoes in the refrigerator and then I read not to… so I stopped. But now I am happy to learn that I can put them back in! I love a chilled tomato 🍅 😄

[@crassusm2587]

I had no idea that people didn't refrigerate tomatoes. My family has always put the tomatoes in the fridge

[@videodistro]

And they lose their best taste. The cold changes them chemically and ruins their best taste.

[@majoyap3403]

Growing in a tropical country, we really refrigerate tomatoes. There's no other way

[@cherylk1518]

@@videodistro I agree, they get mushy and flavorless. I’ve had lots of refrigerated tomatoes, always thought they were awful and nothing like they originally were.

[@jeremiahacuna4870]

Do you buy them at the grocery store in refrigerators? No so how can you have no idea

[@pamelamanning99]

My daughter-in-law always refrigerates the beautiful tomatoes I grow and share. Can't get her to change. Of course, her mother lives with them so I'd have to change both minds, chuckle. They are wonderful women, I love them both and you have to pick your battles!

[@MAMDAVEM]

Thanks!

[@angelaboucher5895]

I love sun gold tomatoes! I love the flavour in my sauces and tomato soup.

[@matthysloedolff]

I didn't realise it was so controversial to store tomatoes in a fridge. All my life all our tomatoes were stored in a fridge so they last longer. Also, a cold tomato is a lot more refreshing on a hot summer's day than a room temperature/hot one.

[@paddyoak1]

😮

[@snackhunt420]

yeah warm or hot tomatoes are super gross.

[@NGU09513]

Ty

[@philwood9760]

I worked in a 9 bay greenhouse growing tomatoes for a grocery store. We would pull all the suckers. I weighed some tomatoes that hit 1#. We would put golf ball size ones in paper lunch bags and go door to door selling them (1 pound bags). I had 9 bags one time. Sold out at ninth house. They were red when we picked them.

[@AntonGully]

Re: fridgeing tomatoes. Apart from the couple of months when I have tomatoes coming out of my greenhouse, I'm at the mercy of stores for my toms (frozen sauce notwithstanding). And in sunny Belfast that means I'm probably getting tomatoes that have more stamps on their passport than I do. I've always scoffed at the idea that refrigerating tomatoes was bad, because the alternative was almost always them turning into furbies after a couple of days. Never mind the fact that it's difficult to spoil the taste of a supermarket tomato when it has almost no flavour to begin with. Gotta check out if you have a similar video for peppers because that's my focus this year.

[@lynndietz490]

I can tell you from my experience is once I started adding garden lime in each hole when planting my bottom end rot issue stopped and not had it again in many yr's.

[@deecooper1567]

Great advice as usual 😻👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@lisag9752]

A GREAT team video! Question: Should all nightshade veggies be watered like tomatoes and kept consistently moist?

[@llamadeus11]

Should you choose to tickle the flowers I've found using a feather to not only be fruitful (heehee) but fun too! Thanks again for your team's wonderful tips!

[@BigboiiTone]

I am lucky if I can keep two small tomato bushes going for a few months. Luckily I have had success converting a catwalk upstairs into a sun-drenched, warm space that my plants just love! Cheers to all the growing and gardening family

[@mrsleannejh]

I love this! Team effort, really made me tune in! One negative though, last myth, the video showed the woman watering the tomato leaves!!!

[@Jorduan100]

There's been a CRAZY hot and dry summer in the UK; keeping potted tomatoes moist has been a challenge and i've seen some blossom end rot for the first time.

[@pgo301]

Thanks for the tips, enjoyed the video a lot, however on watering with a super low humidity of around 10% or less. I water my Tomato plants 2 x a day. Is that too frequent still?

[@samurphy]

My personal experience with watering container tomatoes is that, assuming you have well draining soil and good drain holes on the container, you can't really over-water, except in as much as any water that drains out the bottom takes some nutrients with it, so you may strip your soil prematurely if you have a lot of runoff. If you're growing hugelkulture beds, the same applies, with much the same caveats regarding the soil drainage. If the soil is heavy, it's likely to just get mucky and can lead to root rot, but with lots of wood underneath a bed, there's plenty of room for quite a bit of excess water to go without causing a soggy scenario. I water my bucket garden every day, twice a day in high heat, and note from one bucket to the next how much excess runs out the bottom. If it's more than a little dribble, i'll adjust the amount down that I water the rest.