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My tomatoes are about 18” apart. I plan to let most suckers grow, and maybe prune only to like 4 or 5 main stems.
I guess it’s finally time for me to transplant my tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers soon here in MD. Woo hoo! Thanks, Gary.
Year after year always great…👍 thanks Gary!!!
Those beds are beautiful! I sure wish I had that kind of room. I'll be happy with whatever I manage, but I'm still dreaming of a large piece of property to grow lots of everything! Thanks for spacing info, Gary!
Planting veggies before Mothers Day in Maryland? 😮
I'd like to see how you choose to support the tomatoes in their beds.
Yeah, we’re growing pretty close as well. We plan on keeping everything pretty pruned to avoid issues.
I love this. For me – because I am greedy with my limited summers and growing time, I have been "cramming" up to 20 tomato plants in a standard bed of 8' or 10' by 4'. No more than 12" to 14" apart. Now, I do prune heavily and utilize a variation of the lower/lean method. Peppers, always 2 to a hole and closely planted as well. But this way, I get to play around with varieties I can't find locally. As the season progresses, I tend to pull plants not thriving – or I just don't like – which creates more room and then I decrease pruning. The only problem I have with this method is – I really LOVE a lot of varieties and this year I am having to make choices. I certainly can't do 100 plants, altho I would love to. But ain't it fun? 😜
I dont need a ton of veggies i also dont know if I got a lot more pound of peppers planting peppers closely they were def smaller fruited and I think shaded each other
Loved Your Video, Gary 💟
Gary, i am planning to plant on Saturday because according to the weather channel on my phone we will be getting fifty plus nights starting on Sunday. Most of my tomato plants are more than 9ins and the peppers around 7ins. You know how we miss our kids when they go off to college, but can't wait to enjoy our privacy once they're gone? Well that's how much I want to get these plants out of my kitchen😅
I’m in Northern VA and have my tomatoes/zucchini/cukes inside till maybe next week or even the following week. The nights are so cold I’m afraid to plant yet. It’s a raised bed so probably more cold with the wind above ground. Hopefully we will get nights above 60 degrees soon🤞🤞thx for video!
Great video Gary. Thanks. Havagudun.
Dang! I wish I had seen this video before I jumped the gun and planted out my bell peppers. I only put 24 in a 3×8 bed, 1 in each hole. I was going to wait until next week but I was too excited with this weather, lol. I still have jalapeno, habanero, poblano, and hot banana peppers left. I will definitely be rethinking my planting scheme! Tomatoes are a whole different story, I am not sure how many plants I have, lol. I give away some of my garden harvest, and I can, dehydrate and freeze some. Thanks for an excellent and well timed video!
Great video, Gary!
I'm really interested in trellises. I've done a couple ways now trying to figure out what is best. Also with cucumbers should I let them keep going out or trim up? The one I have going now has 8-9 leads heading out in all directions taking up a good 4×4' section of my raised bed.
I planted my peppers, eggplants and tomatoes in grow bags. They are growing like crazy. My community garden in raised beds, deer at down the pepper plant leaves (left the peppers). I didn't think they looked them.
YES!!! Please do some wood fire cooking videos!!! Love me some wood fired food. I became the camp cook for many years on camping trips, cooking for usually 20+ people, over a campfire. I wish I could post some pictures on here. I carried it over to my home and family now. I have a keyhole firepit that I designed to cook a lot of food on. I can't wait to use it this year!!
Hello Gary. Really appreciate you putting these videos out. I noticed at the very end of this video that some of the tomato plants in the market garden had some white on the leaves. Is this sun scald? My new transplants are looking similar, though I thought I'd hardened them off sufficiently.
This is the weekend to plant!
I grow my tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers on a cattle panel arched trellis
Good morning Gary, another great video! QUESTION, I always over plant during the planning stage and end up with more beautiful seedlings than space to fit them in my garden. I was planning on creating a tomato bed in a 3 x 8 raised bed, I was going to use the square foot method, which would be a total of 16 tomatoes (8 on the left and right but leaving the middle row empty or planting companion plants). However your video and other people have recommended because of the size of the tomatoes I’m growing, in this case tomato paste types, I should leave more space — 18“ btw plants, my planned 16 tomatoes has to be thinned down to eight total. I have tomatoes in other sections of the garden, taking up space, where do you recommend me planting the eight that won’t fit? I had a huge container garden last season, and it was a lot of work keeping up with it. I was hoping to not have as many containers this year, but that is looking unlikely lol. I know indeterminate tomatoes should be in a minimum 10 gallon pots for success, The only other option I have is planting tomatoes outside my fenced in protective garden area around my property. Last year I had a heavy pressure by rodents, biting into my tomatoes. Do you have any pointers or recommendations on where I may be able to grow safely? I used to deterrents last year like the sonic repellent you see on Amazon, this year I’m going to try Irish Spring soap lol. Am I asking for trouble by planting outside my protect gate?