Growing Cherry Tomatoes in Containers: Container, Soil, Fertilizers, Planting - A KIS Series (1/2)

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1. Sounds like your neighbours are giving you a hard time!! LOL!!
2. I understand that ""Miracle Grow" soil contains synthetic fertilizer.  That type of fertilizer does not disintegrate and contaminates streams and other soils.  That is what I was told.  For that reason I have been keeping away from usen it in my pots.
3. nice job
4. I think it is really sweet that you made it, KIS instead of KISS ;) Great video! Glad I subscribed.
5. Thanks for this!
6. Gary, you are a God sent!! Your simple approach to gardening is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you so much for sharing your gardening knowledge.
7. I usually make my soil from a bale of peat and my compost. I haven't used much fertilizer in the past but yield was somewhat low last year (plants were very nice) so I picked up some tomato fert. and lime this year.  * My question: Why did you add 2 types of dry slow released? You said 5-5-5 is the best, but  you used 5-4-6 and a 4.5-6-6 ( 9-12-12)= 4.75 - 5 - 6.......are you doing this for some reason or just using up fertilizer? Then the Jobes at 5-2-3? ...I would use a higher PK. I know you have great yields. Why not just use a 5-5-5-  or 1/2 strength 10-10-10?
8. Gary, I have a question, I live in NC where the temperature is over 90 degrees everyday. My tomato plants are full, but they aren't turning red at all. Is it the heat, I have pulled some off green and put them in a paper bag with a banana, but still nothing. HELP!! 🍅😎
9. Gary, you've helped me so much over the years. Thank you!
10. I see you put a slow release fertilizer in the soil and then recommend feeding every couple of weeks on top of that. Isn't that too much?
11. Where did u got the cedar mulch? I couldn't find it anywhere. What happen if I use regular mulch
12. Can you use the same container and soil next year?
13. Is there any need to add MgSO4 and Calcium
14. great episode !! I like container gardening !!!
15. First time seeing your channel - this video is excellent. Well explained, good examples and all practical. Exactly what I was looking for as a beginner. I will most definitely be lurking around your channel from now on - bring on part 2 :)
16. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series Gary. I think I've seen from this video were we have been going wrong with trying to grow tomatoes in containers in Perth, Western Oz.
    We have been trying to grow them in what are essentially 5 gallon buckets and while we get the plants to a good height - 5-6 ft - and small green fruit from the pollinated flowers, production stalls and the plants get hit by disease. Probably blight (leaves turn yellowish, then brown, the branches then darken and dry up and 'shrink').
    We have been trying to grow them organically with nothing more than a liquid seaweed fertiliser every 2 weeks once the fruit starts setting but I'm thinking now there's not enough organic material in that size of bucket (have to have space for mulch also) to keep the plant strong and disease resistant.
    Theoretically we shouldn't get much blight here as it's generally a dry heat in the summers, admittedly in what is the equivalent of high 90's - high 100's.
    This year we will try to grow only 'Roma' toms in a larger counter with a lot of extra organic material - well rotted manure etc and hope for the best.
17. will this combination of soil work for various vegetables like cucumbers, beets, herbs and carrots?
18. Good vid. Nice container
19. I grow everything in containers and I have holes in the bottom. I'm afraid that the water will just stay in the pot and cause root rottenness... Shall I not be and just make a hole on a side? What happens when it poring rain? The plants might get flooded... Or will they not?
20. Great vids, very helpful. Is hemlock ok to use around vegetables?