My Tomato And Pepper Plants Were Dead. Now They're Spectacular

[@TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Storm Damage Almost Ruined My Season 2:53 My Plant's 13 Day Miraculous Recovery 4:24 Step #1: Life Saving Fertilizing Formula 7:58 Step #2: Rejuvenation Pruning 12:03 My Healthy Plants 2 Weeks Later 15:20 Using Water Soluble Fertilizer Safely 18:50 Adventures With Dale

[@MichaelRei99]

You are the Tomato Whisperer!!🍅

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Haha. I just hope there is enough time left in the year for a harvest.

[@keithmccracken5557]

Dale's a good boy.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Very. Even when he doesn’t listen he’s a sweetheart 😂

[@markbiggs7689]

I love the little bonus clips with Dale! 😂

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I'm glad you enjoy them. Dale pretends to be aloof, but he loves the attention.

[@erikahuxley]

I'm taking succession planting more seriously so I can eat more from the garden for longer and not just just 3 months during the summer. I could have kept my tomato plants going by pruning away all diseased leaves and extra stems, but it make more sense to grow fall crops than to keep around tomato plants that won't produce optimally. First frost date is around mid-October, most tomato plants have produced an average of 25lbs+, even some of the cherries, seeds have been saved. They have fulfilled their purpose so I yanked them and planted snap peas in their place. Bell pepper didn't get any disease at all this year so far despite the hotter humid summer than usual, and they are still producing. I'm going to grow a lot more pepper next year. I overdid my synthetic fertilizing over the summer because the leaf stalks for the swiss chards are saltier than usual.

[@Patricia-v7z]

Wow! What an amazing recovery. Appreciate you sharing methods that you used to bring your plants into recovery. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You're very welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.

[@gardentours]

That's amazing 🍅🌶🌱👍

[@TheMillennialGardener]

It was a stunning recovery.

[@laddieokelley6095]

I appreciate your take on water-soluble, non-organic fertilizers and will think toward more fertilization than I usually do. The extent of my organic approach has more concern with using toxic pesticides than with fertilizers. I look forward to your video and chop and drop.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I agree with that. The benefit of organics is removing toxic sprays. Small amounts of “non-organic” fertilizers aren’t a problem and actually can increase yields.

[@charonjimenez82]

Dale good boy we love ❤️ you

[@TheMillennialGardener]

He's the best 🐕

[@JohnnyVMcPhersonII]

Thank you for the information , here in Fayetteville we didn’t get the wind as bad as you did , my wife and I were worried with our garden , I’m glad you posted this because now we know what we can do if later this month we get bad weather, again , thank you Sir

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Say a prayer for no more hurricanes 😅 We are supposed to get a major tropical soaker this weekend, unfortunately.

[@tammyohlsson7966]

Great job! That straw will be gold for potatoes or onions or garlic. I love my straw bales!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I was planning on putting the old stuff around my fruit trees. It is very good.

[@rosemaryus-ct6151]

i'm in the northwest corner of nc. luckily we are out of range of the worst of it when it comes to hurricanes. i'm sorry to see all the damage it did to ur beloved garden. u are proof positive that love heals.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You get used to it, fortunately. Luckily, hurricane season is typically late enough that we got our summer harvests complete.

[@irisdude]

For the past couple months i've been having trouble getting Moringa Tree seedlings to survive in this heat. I was told they love the heat and germinate well here during summer. Well, not at my house...lol. Today, I went to water it and it was around 10am, already 100 degrees by that time, and the seedling was laying flat on the ground in full sun. I gave it a little water right away, but then got some excelsior packing material to put over it lightly to shade it and it began to come back in an hour. I then put the excelsior all around it to hold it up a bit so its not laying on the soil, and put some around the well as mulch, then watered well with just a little (since it is a seedling) water soluble fertilizer and fish emulsion and now several hours later, it has rejuvinated and the two leaves have turned upright toward the sun and are fully open. I'm hopeful. Thanks!

[@TexasNana2]

Congratulations on saving your plants 👏 Thanks for sharing 👍. Love good boy Dale ❤😊

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you. Dale, the “usually good” boy 😂

[@nildaotero2933]

Good job. Hope you have a great harvest. Like the little Dale video.

[@robertmoore661]

Great information as always. Glad you were able to save your planet.

[@wendyburston3132]

This is my second or third watch. I've watched others but the visuals are not close. You gave me the confidence to stop watching videos obsessively!😊 Thanks.

[@cybersanta1413]

Love your channel!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you! I appreciate that very much.

[@collinsddc1206]

Thank you so much, I thought I was going to have to pull them out, I live coastal Va. appreciate your channel so much.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I’m glad it’s helpful!

[@chinfuzzchet3616]

Dang! Your channel nearly doubled it subs this season! Congrats

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thanks! It’s been very rewarding making these videos.

[@ajrichardson3871]

Great advice! I appreciate your honesty!! Hope this last storm didn't hit you hard. Take care!!

[@Mama420Redneck]

I grow in my house in a tent... my tomatoes are alive and thriving using your outdoor techniques! I feed a little different but that's just trial and error! Thanks!

[@lisapop5219]

I am not familiar with this. You grow in a house that is a tent? You tent your plants in your house? Are they grown in different soil? I am seriously curious. I'm in Georgia (us) & if I could do this, I would appreciate it.

[@bethb8276]

Ha! You are the first person I've heard that uses "stinker pot" just like me! Thanks for this great advice too, living in South Fl storms and hurricanes are pretty common, I now will have knowledge on what to do. Glad your gardens are recovering!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I think my grandmother used to call us grandkids that 🤔

[@bethb8276]

@TheMillennialGardener I'm sure I heard it from some family member as well, just can't recall who anymore. Funny the terms that go in and out of culture.

[@sylvia10101]

Thank you for sharing! 😊👍👍

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You’re welcome!

[@jaimietatum5140]

I didn’t know you were in Wilmington!!! I stay in lake Waccamaw!! And I’ve needed so much help with my figs

[@bernadetteteague4859]

Since my plants look so sad Im going to take a shot at it. The last three problems plus they still chose to put out flowers. Hope it works. Thanks for the info.

[@1165slugman]

I like the use of that shade cloth. I think that's what i need to do here in San Antonio. Sun scalding is killin me growing plants.

[@RA-rf4nz]

Glad your garden survived for the most part. I noticed your shade tunnel for your container plants seems to be missing. Were you able to take it down before the winds took them away?

[@mr.lourod6175]

THANK YOU!!! I am so glad I wasn't the ONLY ONE going through this problem :) in a good way that is. I did the same but only using the fish and worm poop :)

[@leendaroberto]

Amazing! Another informative helpful video. Love seeing Adventure's with Dale. He's such a good boy. 🦴🦴🐾🐾

[@TheMillennialGardener]

He’s a sweetheart. We are lucky to have him.

[@feuby8480]

This is cool. I really appreciate the segment about non organic fertilizer. I think you are right. I'm taking a progressive approach not to be discouraged, and this may help me a lot especially with peppers. I had lots of troubles this year with my outdoor peppers because of the rain. I didn't have troubles with tomatoes because it looks like tomatoes are more hardier where I am, but the ammount of rain, (and lazziness from me, yes, because I don't like tomatoes, only my wife does) did put them into trouble. I'm looking to have some more strutures next year in order to be able to protect my plants from rain if needed, and also to extend my growing season with frost clothes. I think you may be right about the fertilizer. I don't think using it a bit as directed on our garden scale is that bad for the environment, it may be worse on regular agricultural fields, so i'm gonna take a look at it in order to boost my plants in spring (lots of rain) as I have a really short growing season.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Putting covers over them to block rain and some UV from the sun helps. When we get too much rain, the soil washes out of nutrients and the plants get sickly and hungry. The water soluble fertilizers work well to rescue them. Organics take weeks or months to break down, so they’re not good at promoting recovery when soil gets washed out. The water soluble stuff is life-saving in those cases.

[@barco581]

Nice to see your efforts rewarded. Another great video-nobody else on KZbin is putting out content like this. And thanks again for explaining why response use of water soluble synthesized fertilizers is not harmful to soil and the environment. All the misinformation and fear mongering on this topic gets a bit old.

[@patkrueger7353]

That's absolutely wonderful that you were able to do that. Good for you.our dog does the same thing. Love them though.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thanks! It was a good recovery. I hope there's still time left in the season for ripening fruit.

[@gabriellewis8699]

I really appreciate this information I live in the Orlando area and experienced much damage from the storms and the severe heat. I’m going to start first thing tomorrow applying this awesome knowledge you shared, Thank you very much.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I recommend 40% shade cloth. Put it up May 1. Take it down Oct 1. That should do in Orlando. Your plants will live months longer and produce many more tomatoes.

[@54cal54]

Glad you didn't get much damage from the storm. Those fertilizers really kick in fast on dying plants. My peppers are a bust this year other than the ghost chilies lol.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Unfortunately for us, we always get some type of storm. I hope this is the only one we get for the year. There's still plenty of season left. The next 6 weeks is white-knuckle anticipation. I wish we could go one year where we don't get anything at all, but that's never happened in the 6 years I've lived here. My peppers came back to life when I put shade cloth over them. They do enjoy some shade during the summer. I would bet that's the problem if your ghost chilies did well, but nothing else did. That tells me the ghost chilies could handle the heat better, but the others couldn't take it. Just an educated guess.

[@54cal54]

Only difference this year was about 4 weeks of wildfire smoke and more rain. Last year was a drought and they did amazing. Oh well try again next year.

[@ResearchQueen1]

This was a really informative video! Thank you!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You’re welcome! I’m glad it was helpful.

[@ShaitanPsyd]

Just watched your video on not pruning. Considering what you said on the newer video, what would you do differently with storm damaged plants (I live in the Texas Panhandle and we have high winds, hail, and tornados) now? What would you do the same?

[@Darksmirk1]

Must update us on the tiny tomato that rebounded! I want to know if it produces.

[@jasonmann5019]

Great sharing Anthony. I did see your banana plants in the background however can you tell us how they held up? Did you have to prepare them for the hurricane? Best wishes Jason from Melbourne Australia.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Bananas do not need hurricane prep. Bananas are effectively hurricane-proof. Their leaves naturally shred so they do not catch wind. It's similar to a palm tree. You'll see a major hurricane hit a town and there will be nothing left except palm trees and bananas. The only thing bananas need to be protected from is cold.

[@jackparton3198]

Fantastic video will have to give it a try

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you!

[@slamdunk58]

Can I ask you what kind of twine you use? The twine I bought is too thin and the tomato clips don't quite work with it. Thanks. Great video

[@lorihardman1833]

Amazing!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thanks!

[@carolhesterberg7526]

How and why do you condition straw bales? I am reluctant to use them because they seem to create grass.

[@HangNguyen-ty7zv]

Hello bro!! What month is best time for persimmon grafting? I am in Ga

[@markfields9841]

I had an entire pepper plant chewed off by a deer. After some time, it sprouted new leaf growth and now has a flower. It's too late here in SE CT to grow another pepper, but it's neat how it's trying to survive.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You could always dig it up and overwinter it. My cherry pepper in a pot is going on its 4th season.

[@Rachad2317]

Great video 😊

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you!

[@jeffreyboyd4719]

Sounds like common sense to me. Keep 'em comin' !

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Absolutely!

[@bradleylamadeleine4124]

What equipment do you use to get your indeterminate tomatoes to climb without snapping? It looked like, string/yarns, some kind of metal rings?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I have a playlist showing how I trellis here: kzbin.info/aero/PL1gY7BoYBGIFLZ7_GvDMcqll1Sx6PS2jO&si=X7_JN15OdUsS9Ffi

[@icsouls]

Awesome video, 😀

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jjbjjbh]

Wow. What an incredible recovery! Just out of curiosity, what are your yearly expenses on fertilizers alone, not counting compost, peat, soil mixes etc?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I don't calculate it. I buy most of my fertilizer on clearance. For example, I bought so much fertilizer 2 falls ago that I still have about 100 lbs leftover when I found some on a huge markdown. The only fertilizers I've been buying lately has been fish emulsion and bone meal, which lasts awhile. Compost is probably by biggest expense. I have to buy a lot of that.

[@lenevinding8120]

How did you “condition” them?

[@coachavon]

Hey. I'm in Maryland. I ALWAYS think about how you say your plants wilt and die in the summer sun. Mine have done really well this year, though I did have some seedlings that never took off, maybe due to the heat.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

The shade cloth kept mine growing an entire 2 months longer this year. It was miraculous. Even in Maryland, shade cloth will help. I’ll never grow tomatoes without it.

[@EddieGilliland-m3v]

Do your square bales come from farms that do not use grazon on their pastures?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Grazon is used on hay, not straw. Straw is the byproduct of cereal grains. Animals do not graze on them.

[@lilliewilliams3331]

Hello. Have you attempted overwintering indeterminant tomato plants?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Yes. It isn’t worth it. I only recommend growing determinate and dwarf tomatoes over winter. No vines.

[@lilliewilliams3331]

@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you. 🙂

[@ChrisKsGarden]

Where do you get you straw bales?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Farm feed supply stores.

[@ChrisKsGarden]

@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks. I'll have to see if there are any near me. I'm in South Jersey, Haddon Twp. 7a

[@hazeysgarden]

Hey man, I have several SS100 plants that I started at the same time. I have one plant that is much larger and more vigorous than all the others. It has a bunch of flower clusters, but for whatever reason the fruits aren’t really forming on the flowers that didn’t drop. I’m familiar with failed pollination where the flowers turn yellow and fall off, but even the flowers that don’t drop aren’t really fruit. The plant right next to it IS fruiting. So I’m confused, super vigorous plant, with flowers that don’t fall off but also don’t produce fruit. Any ideas?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Are you fertilizing them differently? It almost sounds like too much nitrogen. It sounds like the plant has an over abundance of nitrogen and is responding by dropping its flowers and going crazy with vigor. Something may be up with the soil that plant is growing in.

[@hazeysgarden]

@@TheMillennialGardener I am fertilizing them all the same, but I have thought about using the bloom booster on them just to see if it would help the flowers start fruiting.

[@randyadams7269]

⁠@@hazeysgardenbloom booster and his battery toothbrush trick, it’s cooling off keep trying.

[@Rachad2317]

Any advise on the best fire ant treatments. They started to invade my yard. Thanks

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I have a video on that subject here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqOYY2R8hJmmg7s

[@barbkenas5663]

Dale wants your seat!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

He wants everything he doesn’t have at the moment 😆

[@cassandrawright-mq5kp]

@@TheMillennialGardener Nooo, Dale's just keeping his 'Best Bud's seat warm for him. 💞

[@CCAnne]

My gardens a mess after this wind storm, it’s heartbreaking & financially we’re not able to do much 😥 I’m being plummeted with unbelievable expenses this just took the cake, I hope there’s something cheap I can do. I lost everything my garage flooded my stock room, at the same time the baby had his surgery, and the dog got a cantaloupe size mass.. then the engine went on the truck lol 😂 I’m being serious I need cheap alternatives because i can’t restock my products right now, is there anything I can try ? I thought of calling jacks classic and seeing if they had any smaller sizes not listed, because I lost 3 bags of the water soluble 20-20-20 you know how much that costs 😭 I am just devastated honestly we don’t do vacations we don’t do fancy anything, everything we have goes into our home, garden, and I am just so disappointed I stocked up before the prices went nuts, and now I feel so defeated.. I don’t know what options we have if we can’t shell out the cash now. Thank you though for this I have some friends that may be able to lend me some lol 😂 can I have some fertilizer I know you use Pete’s original lol 😆 instead of sugar haha.. I remember you encouraging us get it in clearance an the suggestions do what to stock up on, I always appreciate that. You don’t push only one product an I did two years ago about, stocked up big clearance at tractor supply and our local garden farm center, I need to find that video to see what else I could use in its place

[@bobobaggins95]

Not quite the same but we had crazy rain in autumn and it nearly drowned my cherry tomatoes, plants looked basically dead and then all of them shot a new stem from the very lowest leaf joint, all 3 grew back completely

[@TheMillennialGardener]

That’s great. They’re resilient and respond well to rejuvenation pruning if it’s warm and they’re well fed.

[@bobobaggins95]

@@TheMillennialGardener yeh definitely, probably the plant in my garden that experiences the most "stresses" whether it's cause they're flimsy compared to other plants or just lack of care yet bounce back more often than not

[@lisapop5219]

I had to look up fertigate.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

It’s the process of fertilizing through drip irrigation.

[@joycreated]

Can anyone guide me to organic straw? Thanks!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Straw is a byproduct of grain production. Finding organic wheat is almost impossible, so finding organic straw is going to be extremely difficult in full bales. It isn’t necessary to do so, though. Just check with your local feed store where they get theirs and if it is safe to plant in.

[@joycreated]

@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you. I'm an organic gardener. I would not be comfortable growing plants in a non-organic environment. With some people think is safe I do not. I have been able to find organic straw but I have to order it online in small quantities which of course is not viable for a great amount.

[@unpopuIaropinion]

Hey man do you ship overseas ?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I don't sell products. The only thing I ever ship are fig cuttings, and they cannot be sent internationally.

[@unpopuIaropinion]

@@TheMillennialGardener Why can't fig cuttings be shipped internationally?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

@@unpopuIaropinion other countries do not allow foreign budwood in. That is how you spread invasive species. It's why we're overwhelmed by these devastating insects from Asia - from people bringing things into the country illegally or missed inspections during the importing process. Invasive species, whether insects, diseases or plants, can destroy entire ecosystems.

[@unpopuIaropinion]

@@TheMillennialGardenerI am sorry I have to disagree here. This is dumb. From the people to most fruit trees, everything has been brought in the United states. Do you think figs are native to the USA ? There are diseases, however if todays rules applied 200 years back, supermarket would be really boring today. Most fruits have been introduced from places far far away.

[@bballerforever]

Dale has such a rough life

[@TheMillennialGardener]

That's the story he tells if you ask him 😂

[@lilspittin313]

Dale demands more respect, he feels perhaps your tomatoes didn't live up to par

[@TheMillennialGardener]

He is spoiled rotten. He thinks he can get away with anything. And usually does.

[@kerrydeshotels9691]

Have you tried Hydroponics?

[@TheMillennialGardener]

No. I don’t have an indoor grow space, and we do not have basements here.

[@tradermunky1998]

The holes in the tomato leaves might be caused by that inch worm you had crawling on your thumb 😂

[@oluwanifemikim1996]

Just plant new ones