My 11 Tips for Planting Tomato Transplants: Love the Roots for Vigorous Growth & Amazing Harvests!

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Thank you for producing and sharing your knowledge. I started growing two 1/2 years ago all because of a packet of basil seeds I put in a pot in the backyard and forgot about until one day I smelled pizza and thought someone was making pizza nearby. I looked around and there was a pot of fresh basil. Now after lots of failures and not spectacular harvests I've started to understand gardening more and more because of your videos and lectures. Thank you so much!

[@nightrush79]

You’re the best TEACH

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[@jayduplessis7698]

After all these years (decades!?) you are still the best Gary! I learned so much from you when I first started vegetable gardening about 10 years ago, and I still do... I know from experience that your information is the most accurate. There is SO much misinformation on KZbin from over-eager gardening "content" creators... (and they block comments from people who point out their mistakes, so inexperienced viewers never realise they are being led astray - with the worst 3 being "Next Level Gardening", the "Millennial Gardener" and even the "MI Gardener")... But I have NEVER heard you say anything that wasn't true. So THANK YOU for all your effort, and for always telling it like it really is! It shows that you still do this because you genuinely want to help people, instead of prioritising clicks and money.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

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[@erikainharmony4465]

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[@ronindan2539]

Greetings from the UK and Thank You for another fabulous video !!! All the best !

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[@stevierysie]

I’m doing my vegetable garden from seed this year. I am just getting ready to plant the rest of them outside. You have been my guide though this. Thank you.

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[@gardeninglife-wt8bd]

Wishing you a good day with green tomato plants

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[@sproutingemily]

Thank you for the great tip on letting the suckers flower and then topping it off!

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[@jaclynwhitmore3960]

Great tip with topping the suckers never heard of that before!

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[@kathybrooks-uz2kv]

Love my garden book got your book from Amazon

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[@followingthelight.]

Thank you Gary! Fabulous video!

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[@JeanneKinland]

You are so correct and those tomato plants look beautiful as the rest of your garden. I love watching your videos. Everybody does things different according to their environment and type of tomato. I don't know about you but, I grow my tomatoes like little trees. We plant them 4 ft. apart to allow them to spread out. Our favorite variety is "Celebrity" semi-determinate. They grow to five feet tall and about 4ft. wide. We had a huge production last year. Here in Zone 5b in SE Nebraska we are putting our transplants out right now.

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[@dawnpelz8570]

I've seen you doing and mentioning your "planting hole" technique but for some reason this video really made sense. I usually treat the whole bed or row the same way, and only do the smallest planting hole I can get away with according to the root ball size. I'm going to try the aspirin treatment on my tomatoes this year. I thought it was only a a foliar thing.

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[@JohnWood-tk1ge]

Thank you I will be trying the aspirin on my plants. Now may I offer you a tip,where I’m at in upstate New York the soil warms up but we still have some cold winds. I started staking my tomatoes but I also put a large tomato cadge over the staked plant then wrap it half way up with landscape fabric. It protects the plant from the cold wind plus draws some heat. Another benefit is if you get a frost you go out with garbage bags and put over the top and have a hot cap.

[@michaelmcclenon6663]

You sir don't get to give tips to your master Gardner

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[@copasetic216]

What a great video!

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[@ScotWalt858]

Thanks

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[@ceecee-thetransplantedgardener]

Aspirin in the planting hole - that makes fabulous sense. Whole or crushed?

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Whole works.

[@Ivan-xe9ij]

Interesting comment about topping suckers, I’m going with a single stem approach (double stem for cherry tomatoes) and completely removing suckers I may actually try the topping approach on one of them to see the difference would be great to know how big you let the suckers go before topping them. Great channel, great videos, I’m also in MD near DC

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Ive been topping suckers for a few years. Its effective. Ill have a video on it but I let two or three leaves form above the flower and top. Thanks for your support and please visit. The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seeds & Home Garden Supplies: www.therustedgarden.com Earn 15% and become a TRG Affiliate for our seed & garden shop Sign Up Here: bit.ly/4aarkDD

[@Ivan-xe9ij]

Got it, I’ll try it out, thanks for the tip 👍🏻

[@joanneholcombe735]

Do you pour the aspirin water just at the roots or over the leaves, too?

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[@Psa141]

Thk Y for this very informative vid. The aspirin reminder is good. Didn't do that last year and blight was rampant in August, affecting harvest. So disappointed. Small gardening, Ontario zone 4b, just planting out now. Will stake. What are your thoughts on using plastic garden fencing as well to support?

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Aspirin really does help. I never found I needed anything in addition to the big stake. I have done weaves before and they work. I feel like the plastic fencing could be a tangle mess a bit. Depends on how rigid it is and how big the holes in it are. Thanks for your support and please visit.. The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seeds & Home Garden Supplies: www.therustedgarden.com Earn 15% and become a TRG Affiliate for our seed & garden shop Sign Up Here: bit.ly/4aarkDD

[@yaakovrosenfeld2129]

Could tomatoes be started in straight compost?

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[@lidip8700]

My plants are tall, most have thick stems but the leaves roll down, the branches point down, and the green leaves feel thin. I bottom water with the diluted Miracle-Gro, and had good strong grow lights & fans on them. I started planting a few of them. They look so weak. Why are the leaves so thin? What causes the branches to point downward? Thanks Gary!!

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Not sure. Its a question that hasn't really ever been answered beyond plant stress but you can give them a stronger does of water soluble fertilizer now. Thanks for your support and please visit.. The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seeds & Home Garden Supplies: www.therustedgarden.com Earn 15% and become a TRG Affiliate for our seed & garden shop Sign Up Here: bit.ly/4aarkDD

[@kaybegley9566]

So you use aspirin water at the bottom of the tomatoes or should I spray the leaves too?

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[@jesuslovesyou9032]

My tomato is not in raised bed but rather straight into the ground. It has been really hot here so i have been watering everyday. Am i overwatering? They look really great! I have mulch on top too.

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[@angelaraum1545]

Do flea beetles stay on the leaves or can you just sprinkle on the ground around the plant. Also can you just plant an asprin with the plant when planting instead of spraying?

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You can get them on the ground but they tend to stay on the plant once on it. You can press in the aspirin in the ground. Thanks for your support and please visit.. The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seeds & Home Garden Supplies: www.therustedgarden.com Earn 15% and become a TRG Affiliate for our seed & garden shop Sign Up Here: bit.ly/4aarkDD

[@bobbybrown840]

💙

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[@jaytoney3007]

Angel is a she-devel, or at the least, a demon. I should have named her Lilith. She has dug up three tomato seedlings, killing two of them. I have cages in place to protect the seedlings from my cat, but it isn't enough. I've surrounded my three time replaced seedlings with plant stakes, so far, it has survived two days of her digging. I'm down to two seedlings (a Black Krim, and an Ace-55) for late season tomato plants. Hopefully they will survive my cat long enough to be planted elsewhere in my garden. That will give me... twenty-five tomato plants, mixed determinant, and indeterminant. I have chard, mustard greens (third reaping), and squash ready to harvest, and four-inch-long cucumbers on the vines. Bugs, bugs, bugs, I am seeing damage to my pepper plants, which is unusual. I removed three patches of eggs from my crookneck squash, and saw two squash bugs. No eidence of pickle worm damage yet, but I've been preemtively spraying since May 1st with spinosad after 7:00 pm. The Japanese beathles are late! I have to spray my fruit trees to prevent Cedar Gall Rust, so while I am at it, I've been spraying my squash, melons, and cucumbers with Immunox. Powdery mildew and rust fungi are really bad here in Alabama. I am hoping I can extend the harvest time using it. So far, no fungus issues, but it is a couple weeks early. From mid-Junt until November, fungus is a major problem. It comes with the heat and humidity in Alabama. I'm an odd ball in my area, Most people here don't start their gardens until after May 20th. I have plants in the ground by February 20th, earlier if I think I can get away with it. People here are finished gardening in September. I keep going until a hard freeze kills my garden, and even then, portions of my garden keep producing until planting time in February. Fordhook Swiss Chard is indestructable. I've had it shrug off a five day freeze with temps in the single digets, and day time highs of 20F. Happy gardening!

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[@katipohl2431]

15,5 degrees Celsius is a good soil temperature for transplantation outside. Cold soil is not good. Salicylic acid triggers defense mechanism in Tomatoes - 325 mg Aspirin per gallon every 3-4 weeks. .

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[@jimmydick-y2q]

Do you pinch out your suckers on the indeterminate tomatoes?

[@jimmydick-y2q]

Love your videos

[@jimmydick-y2q]

Live in Frederick county Maryland

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

I mix it up. Some single stem. I do it more to manage the overall size of the plants. I'll be doing new videos on it. Frederick is right around the corner. The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seeds & Home Garden Supplies: www.therustedgarden.com Earn 15% and become a TRG Affiliate for our seed & garden shop Sign Up Here: bit.ly/4aarkDD

[@Joseph_Dredd]

My tomatoes in the greenhouse are doing well - but outside, the slugs are all over them overnight. Whats the best way to get rid of them please... Fortunately I have grown loads of starters in the greenhouse, so have plenty to replace them with...but it's a tad annoying. thanks

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[@Joseph_Dredd]

@@THERUSTEDGARDEN Thanks will chase down the video youve done

[@lidip8700]

Here in the Hoosier state, we had weeks of temps well below 50° which is not the norm (global warming, ha ha). Anyways, so yes, all my plants i started are very over-due getting planted in the garden. But as you mentioned, temps are so important.

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[@levanera]

I always end up underwatering. it doesnt FEEL that hot to me so I dont remember that they are affected more by evaporation than I am

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