Tomato Growing Mistakes - How to Avoid or Fix Them...How to Grow Tomatoes.

In this organic gardening video, Brian with California Garden TV covers 10 mistakes you might be making and how to avoid them or fix them to grow a ton of tomatoes. Whether you are growing tomatoes in pots on a balcony, growing tomatoes in raised beds, or you have a homestead, these tips will help you with planting tomatoes, pruning tomatoes, tomato pests and diseases, watering tomatoes, fertilizing tomatoes and so much more!
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[@kathleenzimmerman8227]

I've been following you for YEARS, and, ashamedly admit that I have never taken time to comment, or even say THANK YOU! I have seen more than 90% of your videos & have learned something from EACH & EVERY one!!! SOMEhow, I managed to miss this one until just now. (Unless YT removed my *like* which they are FAMOUS for!) I just heard you say: *We LOVE our plants! They're OUR KIDS!*. Well... I love you even MORE now! I thought I was a weirdo for feeling that way...now I know I'm not the only one!!!🤣 Plants are LIVING and need love & nurturing, just like our kids. Thank you for making me feel normal! AND ... CONGRATULATIONS on your silver YT button!!! You're doing it RIGHT!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!!! 🤗😘❤🙏✝️

[@ryanedwards4153]

I feel so lucky to have a neighbor that raises bees! They probably like living beside my garden, too.

[@darknightofthesoul7628]

You have such a kind and gentle soul, my friend. I adore the care and even, affection, you show to your plants. They are living, sentient beings and so appreciate the bond you form with them. Makes my heart smile to see you being you.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

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[@betsybeecolorado]

As a beekeeper in Colorado, thank you for speaking on pollinators!! Yay Brian

[@fmiller1911]

Thank you for caring for the bees!

[@monkeywrench2800]

I will not admit to all the mistakes I've been making, and yet still surprised at how well my poor neglected tomato plants have been doing each year! Thank you for this video. My tomato production is going to rock this year!!

[@jgehbinv]

For supporting a tomato, I have had great success using 3/4" pvc pipe cut to 8 feet. You can always add on to it if needed.

[@greenwhale3976]

Believe it or not guys, I'm a Saudi citizen, of course living in Saudi Arabia, and I am growing tomatoes and other veggies, I truly benefited from the advice you're giving throughout your channel time. Thanks a lot guy.

[@theequalizer4justice879]

1. Know the type of tomatoes you R growing what are it's needs 2. Planting in too much shade 6-8 hours of sun 3. Planting tomatoes incorrectly Plant them deep 4. Tomatoes need proper nutrients Not giving proper nutrients can stunt growth and fertilizing too much can grow a big plant but not increase production 5. Pruning is crucial It depends on variety pinch out the armpit, clip off yellow and old leaves 6. Proper support Sturdy support is important, string/ cage 7. Improper watering water from below be careful not to get water on the leaves 8. Not hand pollinating This has become a problem, we have to do it organically, less bees, less pollinators Just a simple vibration will do it 10. Not paying attention to your plants and their needs Spot pests and look at them, feel the soil, are they wilting, are the blooms falling off, is the soil dry.....

[@beatcat1265]

Thank you!

[@tdsims]

Thank you for the information. This is my first year growing tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and lettuce.

[@jennyhoang8781]

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[@DIYivan04]

If you made an hour long video about tomatoes, I’d sit through it

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@grantfuller5011]

Me too 🤣

[@mammacass5311]

Absolutely the girls and I sing a Tomato Tuesday song all day till it gets here 🎼 🎶

[@CLMaxey67]

I was thinking the exact same thing! LOL

[@normanmfakierjr2387]

We plant 42-56 tomatoes every year in a 3' X 3' X 50' very raised bed. I'm going to try really hard this year to hold them past July in Lafayette, La. We're in the 90 degree and 122% humility summer in the deep south. I've pruned them back (my wife says "viciously") and have begun fertilizing the heck out of them. Ooh, we can 45 to 60 quarts of stewed tomatoes every year. THANK YOU FOR TOMATO TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Wow you're welcome!

[@RooeyG]

Thanks I needed this. New to tomato growing. You can always learn something new even if you are a master gardener.🙂

[@samoatodd8730]

❤️ I’m a first timer gardener in Colorado...loving the whole process and really enjoying your channel! I consider this a great stress reliever! 😊

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@LowcountryGardener]

Welcome to gardening! Do you also follow Gardener Scott? He's from your neck of the woods. Yea I'm one that's addicted to watching many KZbin gardeners...lol

[@willow3310]

As a new gardener I had no clue there was so much to growing tomatoes!

[@louisegritmon2642]

My husband and I just LOVE your videos. We live in New Port Richey, FL which is quite different that the north. Our patio looks like a farm! At night instead of watching the tv, we put your videos on the big screen and really enjoy them. I always keep a pad and paper while watching them to take notes because every video gives us so much knowledge it is hard to remember all of it. Thank you for making these and we hope our tomatoes and peppers will be great this year now that we know what we are doing wrong and right. LOL!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@denisesc21]

EVERY SINGLE TIME I watch your videos I learn something. I didn’t know you could pollinate by just shaking the stem. Also I’ll be throwing a mound of dirt out there because I forgot to plant deep this year. Thank you. As always great info!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you. I'm so glad about that!

[@robertslocum2555]

Saw that white moth flying around

[@johnboyle7757]

If you are using grow bags you can cut base out 8 inch flower pots then split them down the side cut lower leaves off plant and place pot round and press down into grow bag before filling with compost gives extra root depth and support for plant .

[@carollehr5326]

Your fastination with tomato’s fast growth fastinations me.

[@carollehr5326]

@@NextLevelGardening is fastinating to me.

[@feliciascraftyadventures4734]

I have had a tomato sandwich with a from my garden tomato every day for the last 5 days! My plants we flowering but not fruiting. My 5 yr old and I have a kind of game of shaking the crap down the tomatoes, as she puts it, every morning and night. After 3-4 days, we had baby tomatoes again! Also, when you are pruning, don't toss the suckers in the elbows. Put them in water and they will take root and have more tomatoes. I have not had luck with the determinate one in rooting in water, but all the rest have worked. And we planted a second crop of 12 tomato plants from the suckers for later harvesting since we still have plenty of time until frost! Free plants!

[@honeybee2356]

That's awesome! Thanks 💚😄🍅

[@patottley7224]

When your tomatoes produce flowers and don't see the expected amount of fruits. 1-fertilization was not successful, due to the absence of the pollinating agencies eg:bees,wind etc. 2- due to blossom end rot disease 3- hot condition (heat) stress.

[@tb-yr6wy]

Use an electric toothbrush on the flower it will push the pollen out like a bee does. You can look it up it works. Also fertilized with calcium nitrate it stops the black rot.

[@1948tedebear]

First there are many things you need to do: Epson Salts is an absolute to have super fruit the Magnesium Sulfate, Magnesium causes the plant to produce more Chlorophyll (dark green leaves) which produces more sugar thus making a super sweet tomato as that is where sugar (energy) it is stored. Second bees other than bumble bees don't like tomatoes, I had a wild hive that visited some of my plants but tomatoes being a nightshade which is a poisonous family, so what I do to strengthen my plants is put a small fan on them after 2nd leaves form while in the growing trays and use my leaf blower about 2 times a week on low just enough to move the plant, to spank/pollinate my tomatoes 40 plants 2minutes I'm done. Next you need to tell people, if they smoke or others do then to enter the garden, put the cigarettes down wash hands change clothes and wash hands again to prevent tobacco mosaic which all tobacco carry. And to solve the problem of watering take a paper cup and put 2 vertical slits in the cup 2" below rim to base and bury it about 4" from the plant slits toward the plant fill the cup with water done. In the fall My Troybilt Big Red,, composts the cup. Another thing is never put any parts of tomato plant in or on the compost pile the stuff goes to the dump as you could spread disease. And when I cut off the suckers my Scissors are wiped with Chlorax wipes or Alcohol and friction as each plant could infect another. Any leaf touching the soil is removed. Only water in the morning as it gives the plant drying time. To plant: I also break an egg shell & all in a deep hole add 2 - 5 gr. ASA, 1/3 cup Oyster shell for chickens, 1 cup AZOMITE (all the minerals from A-Z including trace elements, 2 Tbs blood meal + same for bone meal, 2 rounded Tbs Epson Salts, 1/4 cup cornmeal, 2 large handfuls of fresh mowed grass, & 3 cups of peat moss, mix it with a stick and cover with 1-2" soil, then plant my tomato and water with a weak solution of miracle grow 2 TBS IN 5 gallons of water drawn the day prior due to chlorine, the tomato will grow into it and you'll see the change. The egg, cornmeal & fresh mowed grass feeds the worms, which leave worm castings, and make tunnels for roots, Well I'm done hope this helps.

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[@1948tedebear]

If you put it in the planting hole that is enough!

[@dean9786]

I love your enthusiasm about growing vegetables from one gardener to another. Nothing tastes like the vegetables that you grow! Thank you for sharing your awesome advice!

[@vanessaweis2859]

Perfect timing! I needed this, thank you Brian. 🍅

[@jalepeno5903]

I’m watching this video over and over to be successful with my first big stock tank and greenhouse garden this summer. Your videos are awesome!

[@TheRealJohnJ10]

You’re the best B. I follow you instructions and my garden has never looked better. The Neptunes harvest is awesome too.

[@johnbecich9540]

All great advice. I respectfully suggest the following additional concerns: 1) If you grow in pots, they should be 10 gallon pots at least, and never put more than one tomato plant in a pot, or they'll compete for nutrients and both lose. Moreover, all veggie plants are heavy feeders and that soil must be dumped and re-invigorated each winter. 2) California summers are HOT, and heat kills pollen. Moreover, cold nights (early season) cause blossoms to die. Thus we have a season, and seasonal timing. You should plant EARLY, by national standards, so that you have fruit set (i.e., pollinated blossoms) by June, before the summer heat arrives. If you procrastinate, you'll have lots of green, and no fruits... because you had blossoms whose pollen was killed by heat. 3) Then the August heat arrives and kill my (Long Beach CA) heirloom tomatoes, even if they're well founded in soil (i.e, not in pots). So that's the end of the season for many of us. My favorite strain of heirloom is cold weather tolerant, but gets killed by August heat every year. 4) The better term than the commonly-used term "open pollinated" would be "dehybridized." These strains are homozygous for essential traits, and therefore will reproduce the same plant in the next generation because there is no genetic variety in the blackjack game of sexual reproduction. Don't worry, tomatoes don't suffer from inbreeding depression, like humans do. 5) Never keep the seeds of hybrid plants. The nature of hybrids are trade secrets, and the seeds you (must) buy each year are F1 hybrids. Their progeny are F2 hybrids... and therefore JUNK. 6) Novice tomato growers will have much higher gratification growing hybrids than heirloom. Try Better Boy or similar. The yields are good, because the flowers have an anatomy that favors pollination. Heirloom blossoms ("open pollinated") have flower anatomies that have separation between the male and female parts and therefore make self-pollination less likely. 7) If you want to keep seeds from heirloom plants, you'd better be sure those seeds were not crossed up by pollinating insects, in which case you have some wild hybrid. The strains you keep (like I do) must remain dehybridized... which is against nature, really, if you let pollinating insects into the picture. Furthermore, my strain of tomatoes (grown for over 20 years) present a recessive phenotype (potato leaf) which gives me high assurance early in the next season that my new plants are "true." Any cross in the seed would likely present a plant with standard or rugose leaf shape, thus alerting me to that undesired cross. 8) Anyone who grows backyard toms in 10 gal pots must water daily in hot weather, or as soon as the plant starts to wilt. Don't overwater. But potted plants are much more vulnerable to heat stroke than in-ground plants. PS I'm a better geneticist than gardener. Listen to Brian on all his excellent gardening skills, which I will be adhering to next year.

[@mikezupancic2182]

Great advice. I'm using 5 gallon buckets, but apparently 5 gallon buckets are actually like 7 gallon pots because of the way things are measured. Anyway, my plants are huge. I usually don't even see them this large even when I was planting in ground. However, watering is an issue as they must be watered daily, sometimes twice a day but I'm getting blossom end rot on many of the tomatoes. Its frustrating.

[@joanies6778]

@@mikezupancic2182 I have both in ground and self watering 5 gal buckets. I have to water the ones in ground almost daily due to high 90°- low 100 ° heat. The self wicking buckets have some very happy plants producing, too. If your buckets have proper drainage... Do you think maybe it's a calcium issue causing the blossom end rot? I take egg shells, bake them at 225° for 20 min. Grind them in the blender and sprinkle around my plants, lightly raking it in the soil. I did that last year when they had blossom end rot and it fixed the problem.

[@pinkpearl1967]

Regarding Number 5.... I kept the seeds from some grape tomatoes I bought, planted them, and had a great harvest. I keep seeds from the harvest and have planted them this year. They look good so far! (No fruit yet, but lots of blossoms.) But I don't know if they are hybrids or what. How can I know and how much does it matter?

[@user-cu8bm9tw7s]

I have a combination of 5 and 10 gallon planters that have more than one tomato plant as well as marigolds, basil and nasturtiums which my gazillion pollinators LOVE...I have a TON of bees of all kinds...so blessed! I think what helps me not water every day is a few things: I prune very well so less greenery that needs water, I water in the evening and at soil level, I used compost in my mix and I use a wonderful chopped straw nice and thick that helps with evaporation. I use a soil meter, too, that helps with water and ph testing. This year I’m going to try core gardening instead of dumping everything at the end of the season. I’ve seen different sources talk about the logic behind it (basically you’re making compost stuffing in the same planter of that plant’s leftovers thus returning the nutrients it took) and it makes sense so I’m going to give it a whirl.

[@JMitchell478]

I've been growing yummy tomatoes for years, but learned new stuff today from Brian. LOVE this!! Thank you!!

[@allashenkman9706]

Your channel is wonderful!! As a new gardener growing things in containers on my patio I learn so much!!! Thank you!!!

[@dandelion1627]

You give one of the BEST helpful instructional videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️; they are always super informative and well organized, straight forward, stay on topic, minimal small talks and distractions, sharp video and clear great voice. You are simply awesome. Thank you so much for the videos and for helping us.

[@mollynixon9386]

Fascinating info...I want to read absolutely EVERYTHING on tomatoes!

[@MichaelRei99]

Your advice has launched my garden game to a whole new level!! Thanks!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you 🙂

[@kellyskountrykitchen6285]

Some of this I already knew. But this is the single best tomato growing video I've seen! I learned a lot. Thank you:) Great pointers. I think you covered everything! 👍👍

[@josysteinbach4097]

Great information all around on tomatoes 🍅, it keeps me on my toes , not to forget to check them every day 👍👏Merci 🍅

[@heatherchesshire]

Fellow West Texas gardeners: when he said full sun, he doesn’t mean OUR full sun: you have to select heat resistant varieties for that. He’s not referring to our 100-120 degree days for months at a time. On a covered porch is fine.

[@KC-ro6gm]

When I watch your videos, besides learning a wealth of info, I find that I relax and "come down" from all the craziness that surrounds me in this insane world. THANK YOU!

[@NextLevelGardening]

I appreciate that very much! ❤

[@danielleterry180]

Thank you so much for your time in teaching

[@marydavidson4816]

Your garden is beautiful!!

[@murdog04]

Another great video! Thanks Brian!

[@cherylanderson9733]

Yes, it was helpful to go over the hybrid description. I am looking forward to your video with combining flower's and plants. I imagine it is very helpful for pollinating reasons. Great job!

[@rockinmillers547]

So much gratitude to u for sharing all this knowledge 🙏🥬🍅🍅🌽🌶🥕🍠🥔🌺🌞🌱... you have helped me so much in my small garden 🌱🌱🌱🌱🙏💚.. vertical growing , pruning , fertilizer, timing , and much more🤗🌱🙏... and yes as the organic caring gardener- we must do it right and right for our planet🙏🌠... Few bees 🐝 here in Northern New Mexico as well🤔.. hoping to see more soon tho🙏🌠🐝🐝🐝... Off to do some pruning now🤗😁🍅... Thank you again🌱🙏🤗

[@kahtyconcannon7585]

Thank you for your videos I love watching them I have learned so much.

[@Cezz00429]

I’m new to growing tomatoes which I love watching your videos.

[@kiptomkin8549]

And i would sit through any hour long video of yours. You're BRILLIANT! Thank you for being a WONDERFUL teacher.

[@douglasmukuma7393]

This is one of the best videos I have heard. Am sure next time I plant tomatoes I will succeed to ha have a good harvest. Thank you very much.

[@kathleenm.talkie9202]

Thank you again, Brian, for sharing your garden knowledge. =)

[@bethwatkins4211]

Thank you! Learning much! I will start growing with tomatoes but before then, I will watch all your videos you posted below and all on tomatoes to be prepared and ready! I❤️🍅🍅🍅! 🌱☀️

[@maryfowler9722]

Love your info on tomatoes very informative helped me a lot since I am a newby

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@missadams1330]

I visit my plants at least 4x daily in total amazement 👍🏻👍🏻. Thanks for all of the great information!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@lindakangas1045]

I'm 20 miles SW of Fresno. Using only organic and have a garden full of happy bees. My parents were beekeepers so I totally understand the need for bees. Loved your video.

[@youbetterwakeup2449]

Wow. Every single one of these explains why my parents can never grow tomatoes. I would also add a number 11: Not listening to or taking the advice of others who are FAR more knowledgeable and continuing to make the same mistakes every year, then wondering why nothing ever changes. I'll recommend this to them, even though it probably won't do any good.

[@sandrahowell4230]

❤

[@theacurry8621]

As a beginner gardener, I have learned so much with this first garden. You have really helped me with this video and I see where I have made many of these mistakes, but now I know so My next garden will be even better. Living in south Mississippi, I definitely have humidity so like you pointed out air flow is essential. I have visited California and so loved the weather there. But since the Deep South is my home I appreciate you pointing out the helpful tips for all climates. Look forward to seeing your other videos. Thank you.

[@NextLevelGardening]

So glad to hear that! Yes we are a bit spoiled with the weather. My sister lives in Tennessee and 3 out of 4 of my grandparents are from Arkansas. So I definitely have some Southern roots.

[@sheiba09]

Hand pollinating ! Wow! Awesome!

[@gildamolinar5155]

Hey Brian, I'm just gonna jump the gun and say congrats on your soon to be 300,000 milestone. So excited to see your channel growing so fast. Thanks for your always great info.🤗

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you ❤

[@bigsidable]

Yesterday I got so excited to see a big black bumble bee going to each flower. It was just so beautiful too see. I was to slow to get a pic. But it’s the first time this year I saw a bee pollinating my plants.

[@thebluerobin]

Thank you, very informative , I will take your advise on so many mistakes.

[@camuchacustodio2661]

LOVE ❤️ LOVE ❤️ ❤️ YOUR CHANNEL.... I learn so much and it’s helping my veggie garden

[@NextLevelGardening]

❤🙂

[@jacquelineanthony881]

Your garden channel is the only one I watch. I try to watch others but yours is the ONLY best one out there! So excited to hear there will be a seed saving video! Love that you link previous videos as a reference. I had never hand pollinated until I saw your video. My tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and zucchini. Absolutely love this tomatoe session.

[@dee33912]

MIgardener is a great channel too

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!❤

[@Seahsep-Tink]

I listen to you while working... I'd love some longer in depth videos 😀

[@Patty-vn8kn]

Never heard about self pollinating. Very helpful. First time tomato grower so I am all ears. Thanks

[@mariejean3136]

I really enjoy watching your advices you are a great teacher ,thank you

[@jesussaves9886]

This video , is the best video I’ve watched concerning tomatoes . Thank you 😊

[@user-zs7qn5yg6d]

I need a Brussels sprout info lecture too 😁

[@leynaabbey]

Yes. Organic is necessary. This year, is the first in many that we have seen honey bees in our yard. ❤❤. We have eastern yellow jackets, and bumblebees this year too.

[@michaelwiener6497]

First time watching a gardening video. Great beginning. I learned at least four things I will never do again!

[@sharlynnc8018]

Thank-you Brian! I always enjoy your videos and learn a lot.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@freddieivory625]

Always helpful, thanks again

[@omegaranch6579]

Brian I love your channel - we've gone all in on your advice. We planted late (April 28th) and went exclusively with heirlooms some of which are 7" tall now. We live in East Texas and have already been into the 90's sprinkled with triple digit heat. We started to see leaf curl so I covered them loosely with tyvek - which dropped the temperature dramatically. I have gaps between the sheets and slits cut to let sun, air and rain pass but I'm afraid I've taken them below 6 hours of sun each day - will maybe 10 hours of indirect compensate for the brutal direct sun? Or am I going to stunt their growth with shade? Your "bury deep, with rock phosphate and prune.." strategy made these guys take off like slow-motion bottle rockets - but I've gotta have fruit!

[@bristonknight9315]

One of the best presentations! Short and precise. Thanks a lot. I wish there were a video about tomatoes seeds vendors, so I could get some popular varieties before the next season.

[@dianamamere6373]

Love this channel. It's helping us alot with our backyard garden. Thank you for sharing what you've learned. 🌱🌿🍓🍅🌶🍉🍋

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@dianac2596]

Very interesting information. I’ve learned a few new things today. Thank you.👍

[@simonadunn7168]

I am happy for you and anyone who can harvest beautiful tomatoes. We have many beautiful tomato plants with various sorts of tomatoes. Recently the squirrels attacked our plants and took almost all of the tomatoes that were ready to turn red. We tried everything: fencing and netting, socks holding them up, pinwheels, a dollar store tacky hoola skirt, and finally hot pepper spray. The hot pepper spray worked, but only for two days. We are heartsick. I now have three plants completely wrapped in bird netting. At least they have not attacked my peppers. I hope you get to enjoy a marvelous tomato soon. We buy ours from a pop-up seller.

[@maffetsandhu8139]

Thank you so much for your gardening videos, very helpful and informative. My gardening will be better from now on 👍

[@khalidnaseem3806]

Very comprehensive information. Thanks.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@tnphung]

It is simply the best educational video on tomato planning.... greatly appreciate that you make this video and sharing with us.... Thanks

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@GizellaNyquist]

Very informative video, just like your other ones. I completely agree with your statement that our plants are our "babies". I look through every plant in my backyard every morning, and sometimes at night as well. I found the first two Tomato Horn Worms on one of my tomato plants this morning. They were very small, I caught them on time. I also wanted to mention, that my hubby and I watched the documentary you recommended (The Biggest Little Farm), and it was amazing. I wonder if they have been able to continue their work and sell their eggs and produce during the pandemic. We'll be for sure visiting them for a tour when they can reopen, we are just an hour and a half away.

[@patbarnao4231]

😊

[@robertwaller9488]

Another worthwhile video !

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@annaklijn7589]

I live in Sweden so a totally different climate. Sometimes we have frost until end of march so I have to do something’s a bit different. But I have learnt a lot about tomatoes after seeing your video. Thank you so much, Hälsa, Anna

[@mrssaunders2]

I'm 2 yrs late however I need this video today😊 My first time growing heirloom tomatoes and I've noticed some things about my plants I didn't like. Thanks for the great tips!

[@scorpiocj1960]

Thank You Brian!! Love your videos!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you🙂

[@RetrieverTrainingAlone]

Excellent! Up here in interior Alaska we grow 50-day to fruit, determinant types: Tumbler, Beaver Lodge are our favorite varieties...short growing season but over 20 hours of daylight.

[@macycharmin]

Greetings from North TX! I'm a very green beginner in gardening. I just finished watching your video on growing tomatoes in a container. Thank you So Much for being so in-depth with your instructions, you're a great teacher! I'm hoping next year (I think it's way too hot now to start, weeks over 100 degrees with a few daily breaks here and there being around 94-96 degrees). I'm hoping to not have to buy a tasteless grocery store tomato very often again.

[@robertjohnson9832]

Great class/video, as usual. I learned several things that I didn;t know.

[@robertjohnson9832]

I forgot to mention that I have a device that hocks to a garden hose for going under sidewalks and concrete pads. it concentrates the water into a strong stream and just pushes the dirt out of the way. I do not know where I got it (sorry). I only had to go under a four foot walkway and it did it surprising fast.

[@mammacass5311]

The girls loved when you hugged your tom!! That was great. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with leafhoppers? Thank you

[@leannecahill2865]

Thank you for a fantastic (informative) video. 🙂

[@victoriaoshea4865]

Very helpful thank you

[@wobblybobengland]

Great post again Brian. Yes the bees! Maybe you could do a show on making the garden bee friendly. Thankfully I have a beekeeper about half a mile away so honey bees are in abundance for me. I have a bee hotel and flowering plants that are selected for a year round pollen supply. I have a carpenter bee visit my greenhouse daily who eats through the sides of companion nasturtium to get to the pollen, I call him sir! My problem this year seems to be that I have planted two tomatillo in the back of my greenhouse alongside my tomato, the bees make a beeline for the tomatillo and seem to ignore the tomato! Nothing like experience!

[@Agrofutur]

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you.....forever!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@davidjudd221]

Another point on herbicides. Don't mulch your vegetable garden with grass clippings from those strong all in one fertilizer/ weed killer.

[@THETHINKINGMINDS]

Great stuff, I'm learning a lot. Thanks.

[@cleverhonky7186]

Here in north Alabama where the summer heat stays 90f plus for weeks in a row I personally never experienced flowers falling off but blight is an issue later in the summer. I do like your single stem method.

[@martinmyers6725]

Thanks for sharing that information

[@larrymoorer1118]

Brian, I learn a lot about tomatoes. Thank you for sharing your expertise. My tomato plants started wiltching..

[@yvonneambrose9925]

Thank you, I learned a lot!!

[@KhalilAlsaghir]

Thanks for the informative video, hope to make a video about tota absoluta and its prevention .

[@BloomingAnomaly]

I just started growing tomatoes for the first time this year and am so excited about how they turn out! I already have some growing so I hope to avoid most of these as a newbie!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Awesome!

[@cjd2in]

Thank goodness

[@jerrymatthews8968]

Very good video, thank you!!

[@appleholic1553]

Thank you. I enjoy learning from your videos ✌🏽️

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@farmerbob4554]

All good ones. Thanks for the informative video!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@LiveLaughSmile]

Thank you for making this video! I learnt a lot with you....Stay gardening ! Watching your video made me feee so relaxing!!!!

[@tinadelewis4183]

Excellent video, thank you so much for your teachings...🙏❤️

[@kieshaannpetersen9854]

Excellent video, thank you.

[@pattallant2398]

Thank you, very informative for a new tomato planter!👍

[@muliadyang2159]

You explain like a prof. Thanks for sharing

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you 🙂