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You’re Killing Your Tomatoes if You Do This, 5 MISTAKES You Can’t Afford to Make Growing Tomatoes
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You’re Killing Your Tomatoes if You Do This, 5 MISTAKES You Can’t Afford to Make Growing Tomatoes



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25 Comments

  2. Tori C

    So I’ve always pruned and removed the suckers. Down below. I have always been afraid to remove suckers from closer to the top because I’m afraid somehow I’ll top my plant. It’s ok to take suckers off all the way to the top? Thanks, love your videos!

  5. TheVernon52

    Do NOT mix Neem oil with any soap that has detergent in it! Especially when it is hot out and there is no rain. The detergent will stress the planets and harm the leaves. I don't recommend doing all that trimming of suckers etc. Yes do trim the low hanging leaves early on that's fine. But tomato plants know what they are doing and they need thick foliage for their fruits to hide them from the sun and to keep cooler in hot weather. If you just allow them to grow the way they want to grow with the suckers, you will get much happier plants, more tomatoes and larger over all tomatoes from all those leaves. Just make sure you space them a lot further apart then he shows here to give them plenty of root space for each plant. I plant them 2 and a half to 3 ft apart. Ten I just spry them from time to time with natural fungal and natural pesticide if I see any starting. My soil is so healthy with good mycelium, bacteria and microbes that I don't usually have a lot of those problems. All this trimming to open up tomatoes that you see all over YouTube is a bunch of bull to me. Let your tomatoes grow the way they want to grow. and they will reward you more than doing any trimming on them. Don't these people think the plants know what they are doing?! Who cares if it's harder to find them. That's the way tomato plants should grow, Thick with lots of leaves and cool places for the fruit to grow!! I had 8 plants last year and I got over 600 tomatoes.

  6. TheVernon52

    I give them fertilizer with a higher nitrogen level when I plant them until they start to get good and bushy and about 2 feet tall. Then I go with a good natural tomato fertilizer with lower nitrogen from then on.

  10. rudolfa1

    what are you planting in between the tomatoes? some kind of onion? great stuff thanks!

  11. Jenny Finn

    Thank you for all the great tips, James! Kisses to the hardworking little gardener Tucker! 🥰

  12. Loralee Wellington

    My dog loved lettuce stems/cores! She would do her tricks for them, as if they were bones! =D (But she didn't like chard stems.)
    I never knew another dog that would eat a stem like her… Hahahaha!

  13. ee

    great video. i learned a lot. thanks. i also liked how your "executive producer" kept a close eye on making sure you did your job @2:33-ff!

  14. Loralee Wellington

    We just had a very strange month – from mid-May until yesterday – of overcast mornings. May tomatoes and peppers get a lot of eastern exposure, so they are not doing very well. Is there anything I can do to compensate for less sun if this weather pattern returns?

  15. Chelsea Clerke

    This is everything I do for my tomatoes, so I'm glad to know I'm on the right track, since this is only my 3rd season growing tomatoes. A little tip for the suckers especially if you find one that gets pretty big before you notice it. Cut it off at the base with sharp, clean scissors and plant it into a small 4" pot and let it grow as if it is a seedling, keep soil moist until it roots, then water regularly, then once it is big enough plant it into your garden or into a 14"+ pot or grow bag and you have a new tomato plant that will give you a later harvest. If you live in a cold weather climate you want to make sure you are starting the suckers mid-spring or at the very beginning of summer, so basically right now, go find a sucker and plant it! ❤

  19. Craig Metcalfe

    Hey James! Tuck is your best student! He never stops turning up to James' Grow School!! I'm here too on the other side of the world refreshing my knowledge after 6 successful growing seasons. I grow large slicing tomatoes in my Winter, when the pest pressure is the lowest, and I grow smaller cherry size tomatoes in my Summer! Never ending tomato story here in the subtropics. Let's Grow!

  20. Debbie Vasileiou

    Love your tips n tricks xx I cut leaves in half too n place on soil under plant they help when soil dried too much..

  21. pamela walker

    What an amazing video. I always had trouble pruning tomatoes and for some reason didnt quite grasp the prunning of suckers. You explanined it perfectly. Thank you so much.

  22. Amélie Morton

    Could you please explain how little Tuck came to eat all these vegies…it is so precious to watch him eating with such relish?

  25. Timothy Suddath

    Remember. It's better to water less often, with more water, than a little water every day.
    Instead of 5 minutes every day. Go 20-30 minutes every 3 days.
    Let's then water really soak in and get to the roots.
    But, if you over-water your tomatoes they'll be less flavorful.
    Again, it always depends on where you live.

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