How to Grow Super Healthy Tomatoes in Containers: Using Organic Techniques
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EVERYTHING you need to know and how to grow healthy tomatoes in containers. Container size, soil, fertilizers, pest control, pollination, watering, sun requirements, vertical growing, and much more! Follow Nurse Amy as she walks you through her steps to success. http://www.doomandbloom.net/
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Good video. A lot of information. I wished I learned sooner about the rain and disease. Last year I grew tomatoes in soil and in buckets. The onces in the soil all turn black and died after a lot of rain. So did the tomatoes in the buckets. But a few bucket tomatoes which were place under a party tent did great. Next year I will place cloth over all my tomato plants.
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But don't the plants need pollenators? They look great. . . but what is the difference - - with pollenators? and without pollenators? Thank you. .
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great video, but Im wondering if the containers that big are food safe...? or could they leach chemicals into the soil...? I was always told to get food grade 5 gallon buckets... Have you ever heard this before???
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WOW now thats a grow room
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I loved watching it... thankyou!
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I learned to use a paint brush to pollinate, by simply gently taking the brush into each flowering bulb. Also, I have a question, when you plant next season will you use the same soil in the same container? If so, I thought that there was a rule of transfer locations every year. So how does this work with container gardening??
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Speaking of drilling holes, I did container cucumbers last year and though the cucumbers came up healthy and large, after a few months they would die! This year I decided, since Texas have horrible soil and very hot and dry weather, container gardening would be best. Well, I found out this year why those cucumbers did not thrive, I forgot to drill holes in my outside containers! I just about lost my crop this year! Moving to a new environment, with new climates are a good learning experience, but what a challenge for me! Total container this year!
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that auto focus though....
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Talk about a concentrated wealth of information in a single video! And I thought there was nothing new to learn about tomato growing. Interesting idea not to pinch the suckers. It makes sense.
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I live in Weston so I know what you mean about heavy rains. I have a page on Facebook called vegetable gardening in south Florida
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What a nice green room!
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Hi new subscriber here, I love this video, I have started my own organic garden a week ago and I am very excited with the project. Please visit my channel (and subscribe, if you like) Thanks
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I have been growing Tomatoes for about 7 years. This year I saw a video on facebook where a guy buried a 5 gallon bucket that had hokes drilled at the bottom and at 10 inches up from the bottom. The top holes are at ground level. I did this and used a post hole digger to dig 4 holes around the bucket, lined up with the holes I drilled. I put cow manure and miracle gro mulch in the holes, then planted my Tomatoes plants on top. I put a wire cage around the holes. I watered into the buckets every 3 days. It's by far the best crop I have grow. If you grow Roma Tomatoes, Heniz super Romas are the only way to go.
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how any holes do i need in my buckets because i live in chicago and when i water my dirt gets really muddy and my girlfriend sister told me to put only 2 holes in the bucket because tomato plants needs lots of water
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Interesting video, I'm going to get some comfrey etc.
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Another substance in tomatoes that has known health benefits is Lycopene, a vital anti-oxidant. Lycopene flushes out free radicals, substances involved in cell damage. Our body doesn’t produce lycopene on its own, so we need sources like tomatoes to reap its benefits. The tomato isn’t the only plant that contains Lycopene, but nothing else has so much of it. You’ve probably heard that cooking often removes some of the vitamins from food, and that’s mostly true, but tomatoes actually retain their lycopene content if cooked.
Tomatoes have beneficial effects on a number of organ systems:
1. Hair and skin: Lycopene and Beta-carotene in tomatoes protect skin against damage from the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Vitamin A helps keep your hair thick and shiny.
2. Eyes: Vitamin A helps protect against night blindness and might even reduce the risk of macular degeneration, an irreversible deterioration of the center of your visual field.
3. Bones: Lycopene in tomatoes may improve bone mass, which protects against osteoporosis, a brittling of the bones which occurs with age, especially in women. Tomatoes also contain vitamin K and calcium, which helps strengthen bone tissue.
4. Heart: Potassium and Vitamin B in tomatoes help to lower blood pressure and possibly cholesterol, leading to less risk of heart attacks and strokes.
5. Lungs: Although eating tomatoes doesn’t make you want to stop smoking, chlorogenic and coumaric acid may mitigate some of the damage caused by the carcinogens in cigarettes.
6. Pancreas: Chromium in tomatoes may help diabetics keep blood glucose levels under control.
In addition, tomatoes may lessen the chance of prostate cancer, stomach, colorectal, and other cancers (again, due to Lycopene) and may have a role in inhibiting cancerous cell growth.
Tomatoes are a terrific way to help with weight loss, as well. Due to their high water content and fiber, they fill you up faster without adding a lot of calories or fat. -
plants look great
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Does Home Depot sell Coconut Coir? Also, you plant into each pot organic soil on top of wet coconut coir and then plant your tomato seed? Did I understand correctly? Wish you could show us how you prepare the pot.
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After 10 years my raised planring beds have gone sterile. Not enough nutrients to grow healthy tomatoes. Every fall I add fertalizer, pete moss and other recomended nutrition sources as well as I rotate crops between the 2 4 foot x 8 foot planters. Watching your video gave me an idea. Garden smoothies from compost lile your bananas, leaves snd other kitchen waste. Blend it up and poor it in the soil around the plant base and cover with dirt. Keeps the smeel at a minimum and jump starts the decomposition. What are your thoughts about this idea and how can I jump start these planting beds for this summers crop? Thanks
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Good video. Do you container grow your lettuce?
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