Nothing says summer like tomatoes, and with warmer days upon us it’s time to get them planted!
Join Ben as he gets his tomatoes into the ground and explores different options for supporting both indeterminate/vining and determinate/bush tomatoes. There are top tips to help you get your toms off to a flying start, including a decidedly unusual recommendation for your planting holes! Watch on and give your tomatoes the best possible start this growing season.
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Hi Ben, where did you source your mesh arches you grow the beans on. I can’t seem to find any like them online. Cheers and thank you.
hey there, long time no comment! im still watching and learning new things from you all the time. i had a question about a pest, i think a clutch of spiders hatched in one of my beds this morning. spiders are beneficial but when i saw a hundred tiny spiders swarmed around a dead worm i just wasnt sure how beneficial that could be… it may have just been the unlucky victim at the time of hatching but will spiders eat up all my worms? i hate to eradicate something that i might want later, like good spiders in the garden to eat bad bugs. do you think i should get out there and kill me some spiders or let them be so long as i dont start finding worm carcasses all over the garden beds?
just wanted to thank you for bringing the joy of gardening to the world! your garden is amazing, i hope to keep adding beds and make mine as fantastic one day. i have two beds, a bean arch and a patch in the front yard for leftover seedlings to live. 🌱 all thanks to your inspiration!
Hi Ben awesome video as usual, I have a problem with a worm or caterpillar type bug on my tomatoes which leave black droppings everywhere. I’ve had this for the last 3 years. I’ve had to go every day and remove them from each plant, some days I’ve removed 20+. Any ideas how I can stop this happening this year. (All my tomatoes are in my greenhouse)
I will try growing them on my balcony. This is such a great video
Super video!
10 seconds in, first time watching a video from this guy and I'm already subscribing. He's excited. About tomatoes.
Love your videos, thanks 🙏
It’s pretty well known that fish are full of mercury,other heavy metals,pesticides and forever chemicals thanks to are destructive mass production farming systems… plus fish are the most exploited and killed animals on the planet, a rapidly declining ‘natural resource’… marine ecosystems are at breaking point across the planet… with this on mind can you recommend a more conscientious and less chemical fertiliser … genuine question… ✌🏽💕🐾🌱
Hey Ben I mentioned you in a short to show you my tomatoes and babbit leaks!! If you have a minute check it out. My tomatoes are at 4' going on 10'
I'm so glad iv found this channel absolutely love the videos, even if your not green fingers you'll definitely want to grow something… like i said I'm disabeld but it won't stop me trying, thankyou 😊
Always so encouraging, thank you. We're in the Colorado mountains so still several weeks from planting out the tomatoes. I was tickled that you kept on despite the rain and didn't blink or comment upon it. You are a TRUE gardener!
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You sir are an absolute pleasure to watch & to learn from 👍 Thank You 🌱🌿🥬😎 a pleasant dude doing pleasant vids with pleasant music and happy beautiful looking planting 🌱🌿🥰😎 tbh im a uk unpaid life carer for my elder brother ❤️ & society etc left me behind almost 2 decades ago 🌍 & so it's my pleasure to see my friends being well looked after in the care of your very pleasant self 👍🌱🌿😎😎🌍🕺 Thank You 🌱
So I live in the Australian sub tropics and so the garden planner has our region as harvesting throughout winter. You mention in warmer climates we may not need to prune … does that apply to our winters too? We get probably no lower then 4 C
when using the triangle supports I have found that having the openings of the horiztonal peices facing out. the weight of the plant will push them out otherwise.
Great video! Super content. Pity my place is loaded with slugs that destroy anything and everything 😢. Basil and dill from seeds….I can forget about 😭
why would you want to put your early plants into a bag of soil?!
I would love an in-depth video on how to prune indeterminate tomatoes. For some reason, I just can't wrap my head around the idea and I'm terrified to prune off something that I shouldn't prune off.
Hi, Ben. I'm really enjoying all your videos. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge with the world. I'm so impressed with how much you know and do. I'm learning a lot from you. Do you have any videos about peach tree care perhaps? We moved to a new house last year and the peach tree had so many fruits but many had either brown spots or oozing. So far this spring, we have many buds and I'd like to prevent any of that from happening if possible. Thanks either way!
Cover the raw fish with garden lime and then cover them with a little soil. I am on the coast, and that's how we incorporate the fish with the plants
THOUGHT I SAW YOU IN RHODES EARLY APRIL , IN OLD TOWN, WERE YOU THERE ?
Thanks so much Ben. Your videos are so good – always! Love it!
I had added my cage at the beginning, along with a marigold. I can’t wait for our move so I can expand & add to my garden & container garden. Ur such a joy to watch. Ur advice is immeasurable. Thank you. 😊😊😊
Is it wise to put manure in the soil which is feeding the tomatoes, which we eat?
Totally terrific toms – a three-word alliteration always makes your videos complete for me! Thanks Ben.
Great video, Ben! Do the fish trimmings have to be raw or does cooked work as well?
I usually buy my toe may toe plants from a local family owned grower instead of the big box stores. That is just my preference. I am in the USA Colorado flatlands where the daytime temp gets up to 104 F and night temp drops to mid 60 F perfect for weather for SWEET Cantaloupes. Great weather for Tow My Tows too.
I always add chopped banana peels and crushed eggshells to the bottom of the hole I plant tomatoes into, covering it with two inches of soil, then placing the tomato plant on top.
Never thought of planting straight from the bag. Genius!
Can we please stop using animal products in 2023? There is no need to cause harm to another living being.
Thankyou for this lovely video! It is my first time planting tomatoes, today I'll be planting salad and peppers aswell actually! I am a bit overwhelmed with all the informatipn, for it is my first time but videos like this are really helpful!
I love your bright and cheery personality! Greetings from the States! 😀
Love your idea for a tomato cage 👏👏🇬🇧
Been watching your video and I’m new with growing vegetables but the only thing that scared me most when I see worms, how can I get rid of my nightmares about worms please. Thank you so much for the fish head ideas 💡
I would think basil plants need to be well underway before tomatoes are set out. But I suppose you don't have blazing hot summers.
Don' t agree with the "6, 8, 10 hours" of sunlight. Growing in zone 9 we get yellow shoulder from too much sun.
what do you do if your tomatoes bottom become black , please help 😁
I got a tomato and it had tiny little leaves in it by the time i went to use it. I planted it in the ground sliced in half and now i have 30 little seedlings. That inspired me to start a whole garden. I have never grown anything before but my beans have also began to sprout. I have tomatos, pinto beans, green beans, cucumbers, onion, carrot, beets and peppers, peas. I am so excited. I feel like i have a new passion and purpose.
i like what you did with the cattle fencing….good idea
What kind of soil do you add to your boxes?
I once tried a fish head in the bottom of my tomato plant hole, and some animal destroyed my plants by digging up the fish head.
Am in Kenya ,and your tomato growing ideas are well understood. Am gonna try this at my backyard. Thankyou Ben.
Quick tip for growing tomatoes which I learned the hard way, they need calcium and unfortunately not all tomato feeds have calcium and even the ones that do tend to have too little. Adding calcium to your feed will help in growth. Without it you can easily have blossom end rot.