Tomatoes in July: Ending One Season and Starting Another

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I love Texas! ... but July and August can be hard. The garden tomatoes do not like these months. Most of the plants that I planted in the Spring will not make it into August. This is a good time, however, to try to get some baby plants raised up to take advantage of our second season in the Fall. SUBSCRIBE! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=daddykirbs #growreallife is my hashtag to connect people interested in Growing Real Life. This is a bit of a double meaning. Growing Real means following the patterns of nature. Real Life is developed fully in our gardens and our souls when we pattern ourselves in harmony with nature. Grow with me. MY WEBSITE! http://daddykirbs.com/ FACEBOOK! https://www.facebook.com/daddykirbsfarm TWITTER! http://twitter.com/daddykirbs INSTAGRAM! http://instagram.com/daddykirbs PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/daddykirbs?ty=h

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Those are leaf footed bugs, they are related to stink bugs and basically pose the same threat to your plants, sucking the juices, but whereas the stink bugs are black or green as nymphs, these leaf footed bugs are bright red. The adults become active when temps reach 70 F and start laying eggs. I have found no way to deal with them except picking off by hand each day and they sure do love tomatoes!! Thank you for the video, I love watching your progress in your garden.

thanx ive been waiting for this video. Now i know how to start my fall tomatoe crops.

That is lovely Blake being able to grow tomatoes twice a year

Lol! You're done and we are just getting fruit to set. Saw our first toms forming just yesterday. Beets are looking good, peppers have come back nicely from the hail on Memorial Day, tater plants look good and we had our second cutting of Swiss Chard yesterday for dinner. Delicious! Maybe by August we'll harvest some tomatoes. How about you send us some of your heat & we'll send you some of our Polar Vortex to even things out ? BTW, your cuttings look better than some of the plants we could buy at the garden center, nice job!

Awesome update thank you for sharing have a blessed day thanks for sharing have a blessed day

I'm kind of looking at the same thing here in Vegas, but trying something a little different. We only have two tomato plants in containers in the backyard and after they gave us our early summer harvest I started pinching off all flowers. I'll keep doing that until about the end of next month and just make sure they get plenty of water over the next couple of months. One plant, a cherry tomato, is about three feet high and the other, a roma, is about two feet high. I want them to put all their energy into growing tall and green. I'm considering a trip to the nursery to pick up some shade cloth to protect them in out south facing backyard.

Perhaps it's time to build a hoop house and mulch in all the bedding. Pacific Northwest we are having a cooler temperature. Tomatoes been planted don't even have flowers.

The tomato propagation went well and fingers cross for the next fall crop. You just given me ideas to look for areas that my tomatoes would love to grow during them nasty hot months. I could put up a shade cloth but we will see as I do get lazy at times LOL

I'm definitely feeling the burn here in Florida, my tomato plant was gone by mid-June. I did my best, but into the compost pile it went.

With all those fruits though, how would sacrificing one to try and grow plants from seed do? Is that too time consuming, or not worth it considering you've already got 13 good plants already started?

I know the feeling... My once thriving tomatoes are starting to succumb to the heat as well, but still very productive. I think I'll have to propagate some cuttings as well for our 2nd season here in TX.

I beat the stink bugs by bringing tomatoes inside as soon as they start to turn color. Good luck.

Blake, have you looked into Porter tomatoes? They were developed in Central Texas sometime back and are supposed to be more heat tolerant,. I live in S. Texas and perhaps it's just too hot to expect tomatoes down here in July and August. I'm keeping two plants alive and they are still flowering but I haven't seen any tomatoes set in the last couple of weeks. Might be something you would enjoy looking into. I'm going to plant some in large containers next year on the East side of my house that only gets Morning sun. Maybe they will produce through the Summer blast.

Great video as always, thank you.

My tomatoes haven't even gotten tomatoes yet 🙁. It was too cold to plant this year till mid May. I was picking a year ago, this year is weird.

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It's a bit fiddly, but 30 or 50% shade cloth is amazing stuff and a panel of it rigged up to protect from the hottest sun can make a huge difference to tomatoes. Also, an automatic drip line watering system is almost essential for tomatoes - if they wilt even once, they're never the same! Good luck in the heat!

Darn those Stink Bugs, they sure live up to their name!

How well tomatoes do in this container ? Can i grow yellow pear tomato in them?

It is really interesting how the different growing zones require such different techniques in order to make the most of the conditions. Moving plants to the shade in order to preserve them for future planting is so different from what I needed to do when I was in a more northern zone. Yet, when I moved south (still far north of you) I soon discovered that I needed to think more about how the heat effected my garden.

Gosh I had the same problems as you this year. Normally I'm good, but not so much this year. Every bug in TEXAS came by and took up residency in my garden. And those STINK BUGS. OMG here, I never seen so many, hundreds everywhere...sigh...... Our garden is so sad. Hopefully I can replant when it cools down also.
Thanks for your share