Supersize Root Growth on Tomatoes & Tomatillo By Planting the Stems Deep

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john from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how you can plant some members of the Solanaceae Family deeper to encourage more root growth. In this episode, John shares his opinions on planting tomato, pepper, cape gooseberry, aunt molly's ground cherry and Tomatillos can be planted deep up the stem and if it will make a difference in the roots that develop. After watching this episode, you may just want to try planing the stems on some of these crops to see how it will work for you.

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Be sure leaves are not close to the ground.

I've had bad luck with planting tomatoes deep in wet climates.

i fed two plants that refused to grow liquid kelp and buried the stems and guess what John it worked!!!! The new green leaves are coming out when these plants would not do anything. They lost this weird purple color and turned green and are starting to grow grow grow! Thanks Yoda!

Nice video John!

Get a new camera already!

Appreciate this quick-tip videos. Keep them coming at your convenience :)

I bought a male & female tomatillo from Flatland Farms but wasn't sure how far apart to place the plants for best pollination.

Good informational video!

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Fascinating. Your videos are always a treat - thank you!

I especially am grateful for your videos that focus on tips and methods, and less on products. products on location are fine, though location-based videos will be less applicable to your subscribership at large. keep up the good work, j.

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John, with the shorter video format, you'll be at 1,000 videos in no time. Nicely done.

I have heard that any contaminants in the soil are taken up by tomato plants and stored in their leaves (their fruit is OK)...perhaps this is why? there could be another reason.

Hey john can you do the same thing with sweet potatoes? Jay Kordich father of juicing said people have been know to survive off of sweet potatoes alone and have no nutrient deficiency.

What are your thoughts on eating tomato leaves? I have had so many people tell me that I will die because I eat them. Also, I feed them to the chickens and you should see the animal rights people go crazy over that. where did this idea of the tomatos being poisonus come from and if they are why are my chickens and I not dead?

I also just throw food scraps on the garden without composting. So much easier. I also feed a lot to my chickens who turn it into fertilizer easily!

I started 5 large raised beds after watching your vids and now have a bountiful garden: Cherry tomatoes, celebrity tomatoes, blueberries, blackberries, short neck squashes, chili peppers, cow horn peppers, Japanese eggplants, watermelons, persimons, apples, oranges, tangerines, pomegrantes, cantaloupes, aloe veras, sweet basil, chocolate mints, orange mints, Italian oregano, ect..all of my organic food scraps go straight into the garden without composting.

Hoping I can get a hand From John or anyone with experience growing the Cape Goose berry / Inkin berry / Japanese Lantern. I have a few seeds that I collected from one berry. Can not for the life of me get them to germinate. Any hints or tips would be great.