The Most Beautiful Tomato Bed Ever - Companion Planting

How to grow tomatoes so you have the most beautiful garden bed? I share my companion planting experiment with tomatoes and flowers. Support the channel: www.etsy.com/shop/siloeoliveira or / suburbanhomestead
Growing tomatoes in the city can be done if you camouflage the vines with plenty of flowers. This principle of permaculture, of stacking functions, works well in the urban vegetable garden. Suburban Homestead S3EP5
Created by: Siloé Oliveira

[@chrissymae5429]

Anyone else find his voice so soothing? I just found his videos and could just listen to him talk about tomatoes and flowers all morning.

[@melissafields2459]

I tried the zinnias alongside my tomatoes on a long narrow bed straight across my front lawn this summer and it brought me SUCH PLEASURE all summer long. Every day on the way in and out of work, I would take a short walk along the bed, pruning the tomatoes and appreciating the zinnia blossoms. Best 10 minutes of the morning and evening!

[@pristinv500]

I love your videos! Your style is Zen-like; not too loud, not fast. It is actually relaxing watching your videos! I try to stay away from other videos that are too loud, fast talking kind. It stresses me out! Great job🎉

[@Sacmagique]

Seeing your garden brings me so much happiness during the depths of winter, here in Scotland. Next year, I'm going to try and make my garden as beautiful and productive as yours. Thank you for the inspiration! 🌱🌱

[@ashleylaura1427]

I love all your shows I was so excited when you started making them again! I just bought some of your garden tags you should keep making them with different veggies and herbs on them so your viewers can collect them each month! It would be cool to have a tag for each plant in my garden while supporting your show! Thanks again keep up the good work I love to watch your shows over and over!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks Ashley for your support! It means a lot! I will plan to have more tags in the future.

[@SwahiliSpicE]

I can’t recall how many times I’ve watched this video. Has to be one of my favesp

[@kerathome5920]

Beautiful! Thanks for the tip on planting the shorter Marigolds at the foot of the tomato plants, and zinnias in the middle. I will do that plus throw in nice tall cosmos for good measure. I mostly grow cherry tomatoes (and lots of hybrid varieties) to overcome only getting 3-4 hrs of direct sun in my garden, but I can't wait to see how it all looks with the flowers growing within. Thank you for the wonderful video!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Cosmos would look awesome with their wispy foliage. I wish you had more sun. (that should be a human right- a plot with sun exposure. :-)

[@bmotzbmotz]

That was a wonderful mini-film!

[@darlenecuker9711]

The most beautiful tomato garden. I've been binge watching your videos because they are the most beautiful concepts in gardening. I just love your aesthetics, gardens, philosophy, and concepts. I will be revisiting these videos regularly as I learn to garden beautifully. I'm not sure if it helps or not, but I let the ads play. I hit the like button and revisit your videos often.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you. It helps a lot.

[@JRileyStewart]

I haven't decided which I like most: veggies or flowers in the garden. This year I planted more flowers and herbs; let them go to flowering/seeding (even the veggies). Something about watching pollinators and birds enjoy what you've created. !!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Yes, that is very true. Watching the ecosystem that starts to develop in the garden is the most interesting aspect.

[@driftwud1978]

watching your video is so relaxing and feel-good. love your choice of music too.

[@p.c.6706]

I can't wait to see what you do this year. This design is gorgeous and thanks for the tips. They will be very useful this year!👍

[@suburbanhomestead]

They work wonderfully together.

[@elizabethgarza4951]

I love the butterfly in the foreground on the zinnea as u pick ur heirloom tomato in the background while u narrate the beauty of self pollinators. Lovely.

[@annierosha5946]

I love your use of the English language, such beautiful and descriptive adjectives!

[@babyenglish6426]

I really loved this video. It was so inspiring. For the last few years I have taken your advice and planted zinnias and marigolds with my tomatoes.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Glad to hear that!

[@luckychicav7981]

Siloé, I don't know you of course, or pretend to just what I see in your videos. I love your tender heart, maybe it's the artist in you, even my heart ache the way you said, 'if it were up to them(the tomatoes)they would live on', but that's any living thing isn't it? I Love your work! All of it! ;) Thank you for sharing.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks. I wish i could get to know my viewers better. I understand that as they watch me week after week they get accustomed to me.

[@californiagardeningmom3441]

So pretty! I love growing flowers amongst my veggies!

[@suburbanhomestead]

It always makes picking veggies more of an event :-)

[@suemar63]

Mid January in Illinois and this video is being watched over and over and over again. Such beauty. It beats the view out my window---30 MPH winds and blowing/drifting snow. Thanks for this video. It's wonderful!

[@noneyabusiness1302]

I 💖💖💖 what you said about tomatoes grown in the front yard! I've been wishing for years everyone would start doing it!! 🤗

[@marionsgray]

Was in my garden today and remembered how I love the smell of the tomato plant. Wish I could eat the entire plant. Happy Growing 😊

[@AgroforestryAcademy]

Greetings from Brazil! Beautiful tomatoes, and nice looking garden, man! Thanks for sharing, great stuff! Cheers

[@tkomla]

Thanks for that! Have always kept my plants close to the house but love the look of your tomatoes side by side with zinnias. And now I have to plant them along the front of the house near the road. So lovely!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks Tamar! I wish you a beautiful edible garden.

[@isabelladavis1363]

Quite a beautiful garden tended with much love…

[@PrivacyPlease_]

Perfect timing for me. Thank you as always for the beautifully presented content.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Hope it helps to plan your garden

[@angelasheppard7197]

Thanks for sharing this idea for disguising tomato plants

[@sunday8979]

Front yard gardens forever! Love your videos!

[@bzz5601]

Tomatoes! They're why we do all that work and preparation. You really know how to make people want fresh tomatoes from the garden. I grew Rainbow one year, hardly got any fruit as I was new, but what I did get was the caviar of tomatoes. Glad you're back. Thought we'd lost you.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Glad to be back. I have yet to try Rainbow.

[@smittenkittenfiberarts5025]

such a beautifully shot and put together video.... wonderful always. thank you for brightening my day

[@skydancer1088]

So happy to have found your channel. Thanks for your hard work.

[@WombRootOfferings]

Such a beauty and way to coexist thru these plants!

[@suburbanhomestead]

:-)

[@kristenthomas3530]

So excited to watch your videos this season! I’ve been going back and watching a TON of your videos. Please keep making vids

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks for watching the older videos.

[@anonymousblade13]

Absolutely love it! I have tried to recreate this. Of course down south hotter weather means my little feelings die more often, but I have not given up hope

[@TraceyMcCarriar]

I love this video. Good info and so tranquil. ❤️

[@americanhottopics7373]

Totally agree with the difference in taste between vine ripened and store bought. Like you I usually dont eat tomatoes in the winter because of the poor flavor.

[@bevonviechweg7891]

Love how you love your garden ing beautiful

[@austinrizzo872]

Those bee houses are so cute! Build more please!!!

[@Aryagouri]

I'm coming back to your videos, trying to remember techniques and ways to grow these beauties. Wonderful video, as usual. :)

[@aniverac]

So poetic and inspiring. So beautiful. You make gardening look so classy.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks! I appreciate that

[@fabiolacanta]

Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing!

[@stephkrunic3884]

Happy to see this this morning! Thank you Siloe.

[@suburbanhomestead]

You are welcome!

[@freddieivory625]

Great video!! Awesome, tomato harvest!! Thanks for sharing

[@cathiegalbraith475]

As always, this was a great video. I love the combination of instruction and artistry.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks Cathie. We all need more natural beauty in our lives.

[@Sam-Mort]

Love this video. I'm planning on adopting the tomato flower combo bed. Thank you :))

[@suburbanhomestead]

it really brightens up a utilitarian space.

[@suefernandes8582]

"BEAUTIFUL" is all that i can say to sum up your video in a word Siloe,your yellow brandy wine tomatoes looked like little pumpkins loved the zinnias and the marigolds too...Thank you & God Bless :))

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks Suzanne. God Bless

[@karlab9557]

Beautiful video and plants.

[@PrivacyPlease_]

Love the photo/stamp image combo.

[@suburbanhomestead]

I'm trying it out to see how it works

[@rachelmacdonald9195]

So beautiful to watch and think about. Thank you :)

[@odiousmelodious2410]

great videos and fun vocabulary! I like your style dude!

[@nancyfahey7518]

Nice. I just ordered some Russian comfrey root, planted it March in a not so great soil and it's coming up as if I knew what I was doing. Thanks for the tip, I'll add some chopped up leaf to my Everglades tomato plant. Florida.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Awesome. Tell me how well it does with the comfrey

[@daniele.5163]

Beautifully edited and shot. Great work!

[@rachaeldrury8744]

This was informative on so many levels...

[@rachaeldrury8744]

"It's like a peacock"

[@thegardeningaddictchannel4112]

Hello Siole', it was a beautiful tomato bed. My favorite 'fruit" are tomatoes. The store bought tomatoes will never equal homegrown. I even grew a cherry tomato indoors during the winter. The harvest wasn't as big, but it got me through until I could get outside again. I always use zinnia's, marigolds, petunia' and nasturtiums around all of my vegetables plants. Thanks for sharing, T

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you!

[@AnOldSchoolHome]

10:03 👍🏼. Very nice! And I agree on the taste of the tomatoes 100% - I grew up in the village with my grandma and ate the most delicious tomatoes ever grown. She was a tomato goddess! The seeds have been in the family for many decades and now my uncle continues the tradition. I’m trying here in Arizona, but gardening here is nothing like gardening in Bulgaria. A couple of weeks ago we had a very heavy rain pour and splashed soil all over the tomato plants and now the leaves are all wilting... Thank you for another fantastic video!!! Best, Sasha

[@suburbanhomestead]

I hear that there are some delicious varieties of tomatoes from Eastern Europe. It seems that generations were careful to select for flavor especially.

[@AnOldSchoolHome]

There are! I will send you an email one of these days with some pictures :) Thank you again for your beautiful videos and educational content!!!

[@thebluecottage9952]

My heart is so happy that you are back to making videos! I’ve missed them!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Awesome. It is great to have you watching

[@inova4556754]

Great video, as always! I love tomatoes, they are one of the main 'crops' i grow, and I currently have more than 30 varieties. I also use grass clippings for mulch. Lemon cucumber is something new for my garden, I'll be testing it out this year.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Lemon cucumber is very unique I think.

[@harriettejensen479]

Thanks for the idea about having flowers in the tomatoes. I am planting flowers in my garden for the first time in many years and I just happen to be growing zinnias. Yours are beautiful.

[@suburbanhomestead]

They may not produce an edible product, but they provide food for the soul.

[@harriettejensen479]

It's nice when they can do both. I always have borage and nasturtiums. Now I'm adding additional flowers just because I like them.

[@suburbanhomestead]

that is true

[@elke7836]

I Love your gorgeous Videos, its like meditation, trank you so much, Elke from Germany

[@wilmagregory8967]

Beautiful garden vegetables and flowers. Thanks again for a taste of summer when most needed. Blessings

[@suburbanhomestead]

I'm glad to bring a bit of hope and joy in this dreary March.

[@farmtasticliving8832]

BEAUTIFUL garden. I hope one day mine will look as lovely. Thank you for the valuable information and your time that you share with us.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you! We are always striving for more beautiful gardens.

[@screechinglilies]

You make such beautiful content. Im just sad I am now just seeing your videos but I am happy that I get to view all your old content at once, haha.

[@pattyallen1994]

I love watching your videos. I was so happy, today when I saw I had a brand new one to watch. You have a very enjoyable voice to listen to. Its almost like you are telling a story but then, you are, aren't you? It's the story of your gardening for this past year and what a beauty it is!!! Thank you so much for doing your videos. They are all wonderful. I love your tomato cages. You must have made them yourself. They are beautiful. I, too, choose not to eat tomatoes, except for in tomato sauce form because the ones in the store just cannot touch the wonderfulness that comes from my homegrown tomatoes. I have already started mine in the house. They have their first true leaves. My seedlings for this year are all heirloom as I agree with you and like them the best. I have Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, Brandywine and a couple of others. I will grow my zinnia and marigolds with them, this year. I usually put basil nearby, as well. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you, Happy Gardening from Patty in Merrimack, NH (close to Boston, Ma)

[@suburbanhomestead]

Awesome Patty. I'm happy to be able to provide an enjoyable and inspirational experience. Happy gardening!

[@michelles1517]

Gorgeous

[@mishmishm7847]

DEAR SILOÉ I hope you still read comments, after your videos have been watched by thousands. So what a magical person you are! An artist .. A painter ❓ a musician, a singer 🎵❓a garden designer 🌷🌷❓ a gardener... A video creator...❓ So many talents . It's my challenge to grow tomatoes this winter spring and early summer . I live in a frost free climate . My tomato seedlings are growing strong and vigorous plants and I'm so hopeful. Your beautiful garden and ideas stand as inspiration to me. As a model of vibrant combination between the beautiful and tasty. What are the lemon 🍋 cucumbers 🥒 you mentioned in this episode ❓ Would you grow them again ❓

[@janesanford2701]

Really lovely garden with such nice filming. Plus I like the music.

[@toomuch3208]

Dude you should write movies... I love it...So calm and peaceful

[@suburbanhomestead]

thanks. I do want to make more in-depth documentaries, but I would need the channel to grow more for it to be financially feasible.

[@inpsydout]

Beatiful vide, brother! I love your flowery tomato beds! I wish I had the space to grow like that.

[@Annie.xx-xx]

That's a beautiful garden. I can't wait to get my tomato plants and flowers 💟

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks. Happy gardening

[@Ssupermom12000]

Beautiful tomatoes. Thanks for the mulching tip.

[@suburbanhomestead]

You are welcome

[@CJSInventor]

Great Video! Thanks...Just FYI...In case you didn't know...At the end of the season, just before or right after the first frost, you can pick all of your green tomato's and place them in a cardboard box or even a paper bag, lined and covered with newspaper (paper is mainly if you have one or two that spoil). The tomato's will gradually ripen ( can speed up by placing a banana peel in with them).

[@lorilucas8232]

Great video!

[@elinorearts]

OMG, I love those trellises! Did you make them? Are they old table legs, they seem too tall for that. I'd love to know how to make them too!

[@moniquegebeline4350]

Same question lol!

[@nancydb1390]

Great video. Must watch again.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks!

[@dhunyamohamed1376]

Keep up the great work. Your channel is amazing☺

[@zullylozano1840]

Beautiful!! I’ll be planting the tomato/zinnia conbo this year, and you have inspired me to grow some yellow brandywines too

[@suburbanhomestead]

They work really well and the yellow brandywines have a nice milder flavor.

[@zullylozano1840]

Btw... I love your music selection. Keep up the good work and thanks for inspiring me to grow!

[@blueskyeranch6495]

zully lozano I was just going to same the same thing! What a magical idea!

[@blueskyeranch6495]

zully lozano *Say

[@missfloflowers]

Well done ...!!

[@leslieortiz7495]

Omg I love your yard!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks!

[@KristinEspinasse]

So grateful to have found you! Siloé! I appreciate your creativity in telling each story, your producing these glorious (borrowed your word) videos, and the helpful and inspiring information you share. You are a gem! Thank you! Will gladly sign up for your Patreon. The thought that you might ever stop is already stressing to me!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you very much for your support of the channel. It means a lot.

[@danachavous7110]

Now I want to grow some Yellow Brandy wine tomatoes. Yours were gorgeous!

[@danachavous7110]

Marathon Suburban Homestead!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Remember to keep hydrated :-)

[@danachavous7110]

Lol

[@iwanttogotohawaii11]

You are great at storytelling, I just love your videos

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you!

[@bevonviechweg7891]

I love your display

[@carterr87]

What a great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you!

[@gypsyvanneraddict]

Legal!! Muito Lindo Jardim!

[@millietejeiro9819]

Great Video.

[@BackyardBliss]

This is an extraordinary video! I found your channel a few months ago and I’m so impressed! Thanks for such wonderful content! ♥️ Romi

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks Romi :-)

[@Agr414]

I'm definitely going to try interplanting zinnias and marigolds this season. Last year i had too much exposed soil that dried out too quickly.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Yes, covering the soil with plants and mulch is key

[@mysoutherngardeningjourney]

Mix dry leaves with the grass to aerate the grass clippings as well as add diversity of nutrients. Beautiful bed! and beautiful script. :-)

[@suburbanhomestead]

That is a great tip. Thanks

[@laurajean5705]

Beautiful video! Thank you!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks!

[@carmenwalsh2924]

Love ur videos

[@NorthernThaiGardenGuy]

Beautiful! The greatest of the annuals, and a pleasure to grow. Black Krim is also my favorite! :)

[@suburbanhomestead]

:-)

[@hugshoney3409]

Love ❤️ this.

[@kater4052]

I really enjoy your videos. It's very hot and humid here in northeast Texas. I'm growing 10 different types of tomatoes this year - most of them heirlooms. I'm growing Jubilee tomatoes just because they are so beautiful. To fight blight, I remove the lower leaves and plant flowers, radishes and carrots at their base to help fill in, make it beautiful and help shade the lower tomatoes. Fire ants and leaf-footed bugs are my biggest pests. Happy gardening.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you. Hope you can overcome the pests. Happy gardening.

[@chanramnarine4023]

Discover your channel yesterday, wonderful! I sudscribe , you showed me that gardening is a beautiful thing, it calms ,mind ,body, an soul. Thanks

[@suburbanhomestead]

Welcome! and happy gardening.

[@Zalakajin]

Very inspiring! Thank you

[@suburbanhomestead]

You are welcome

[@pickronk]

Love your video, I will have to watch more of your videos! FYI tomato flowers are wind pollinated like wheat or corn. The zinnias just make your bed look better and actually support pollinators, which is a double benefit. Good job.

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks!

[@kmwilkinson311]

Lovely!

[@suburbanhomestead]

:-)

[@jennifern2805]

Beautiful!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks!

[@SD-co9xe]

Love the cages!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thanks

[@skippersailor8272]

Nice one keep planting away !

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you!

[@nancyfahey7518]

Brandywine sounds delicious. I'm going to try it. Thanks for the info.

[@suburbanhomestead]

It is!

[@dramatriangle]

Great video! I loved the music on this one as well 🎶... such an inspiring harvest video!

[@suburbanhomestead]

Thank you! I appreciate it.