Easy tip for better tomato plants and more tomatoes.

Tips, Tricks

1. We have a "big boy" tomato plant and a 'better boy" tomato plant, as they are called. they have a five foot soft loose patch, each around them at the end of the garden. that end of the garden is nothing but tomatoes. I agree with you on not snipping them that early, its not necessary. we also planted beans there, and sunflowers, these sunflowers got to be 14 feet high and the leaves were like 14 inches across. the beans and trellises wrapped everything together.  (this was on the north side of the garden to not block sun) it was spectacular. there were so many green beans and tomatoes we give them away. the sunflowers did what a lot of botanists like you say, they attracted the coolest looking insects, and in turn, kept our garden completely free of parasites.
2. wider base makes sense altho' others discourage it.
3. if you let the tomato plant crawl on the ground , will the tomato turn rotten if its on the ground?
4. this video is NUTS
5. Tried the sprawl technique a few years ago and everything was wiped out by blight :/ . Probably didn't help that my neighbor had his entire garden blighted out and made no effort to clean it up, quite sure the spores must have blown my way. Either way, that Bush Goliath looks great, I'd deff go for it if it was in-determinant.
6. The problem with this, is soilborne pathogens, and diseases. Like the wilt diseases, or tobacco mosaic virus, for example. If you don't have problems like this, you're luckier than I am. Any time the bottom leaves of my tomato plants got the soil splashed on them from the rain, they got some kind of disease or another. I buy disease resistant tomatoes, but I still haven't found one that works well for me, without taking many precautionary measures.
7. I have that shirt
8. How warm does it have to be for tomatoes to grow? I live near Seattle, it's mid May, the temps are in the 60s most days and 40s at night. I have half a dozen potted plants from the nursery and they're doing nothing but getting sickly. Two of them have been planted outdoors in rich soil in a sunny location since early April and absolutely no growth in 6 weeks - they're barely alive. Even in mid summer I've never had luck with tomatoes no matter what I feed them. I'd be happy to let them grow up, down, sideways but they don't grow at all. What am I doing wrong?
9. a now we know why you have a big tomatoes between (your) crotch:-)  , you are good, thanks
10. I have used electric fertilizer for the past two years as it increases the enzime activity in the soil and it helps grow great plants. Use a 120 volt to 12volts AC transformer from a discarded toy, split the DC side wire and attach each to a length of stainless wire that fits the length of your garden five apart and six inches deep. Keep it powered up the whole growing season.
11. I did this last year and my plant was huge and the base stem was like the width of a quarter. It worked out really well and was about 4ft x 4ft.
12. Ray, what about leaf mold? Our climate is really humid; I've always been told to get rid of branches toward the ground.
13. Thank you so much for all the information. I am trying to grow a garden in Colorado Springs. Short and cooler season like where you live.
14. I've been mixing my coffee grounds with raw vegetable and fruit matter, putting them into my food processor to grind into small particulate matter and then spread it over my garden and rake it into the soil. This is done all year up to planting time.
15. I'm so glad I ran into this video although I will need to watch it again to really figure out exactly what I need to pinch off. I have grown tomato in pots for two years in a row and this year I will plant them in my new garden beds.  I always pinched the suckers and never got that many tomatoes...I will try your method this year.  I thought of planting them two feet away from each other not 4 feet...do you think that might cause problem with production and/or disease?  Also, how tall should I let the plant to grow before I start pinching off the top so the plant starts to focus on the lower later growth?   Thanks for helping me out.
16. I did this, & they did very well, however, some of the tomatoes had very soft bottoms.  Any suggestions?  Thanks, Michelle 
17. So can I pinch them whale they are still seedlings? 
18. Thank you. I am trying to do the compost tea. Hope I would have more flowers this time.
19. You seem like a friendly person that is my wife say so because she see you always smiling in your videos info thank for the videos god bless
20. I'm gonna try it!!!!