I never liked tomatoes until recently when a friend offered me one out of her garden, which I tasted just to be polite. OMG! Now I like garden-fresh organic tomatoes 🙂

@MiladaKaiser

24 күн бұрын

When I first came to USA I was thinking that American store tomatoes taste like dirty dishes water. And in 1984 in London I was told not to buy CA strawberries because they taste like the worse unriped apples.

@mommakimmins5554

22 күн бұрын

I've been hearing this about tomatoes, so when my husband prompted me to get a Big Boy tomato when we were at our local greenhouse I gave in. I just shook its first flower, so here's hoping my mind can be changed

@Anne--Marie

21 күн бұрын

​@@mommakimmins5554Fred's tie dye and purple boy tomatoes are also fabulous.

@jimroland7542

18 күн бұрын

Do not put two salted tomato slices between two pieces of bread with mayo. Don't do it. You have been warned.

@hitthacienda

18 күн бұрын

That’s how it is with all food now. Homegrown and homemade is 100x better than anything from the store.

Last fall as an experiment in my frost-free zone 10a I cut back my spent Gigante pole beans to the ground leaving the roots undisturbed. They sprouted again in mid-April and the leaves are twice the size of the freshly planted beans. I'm doing this every year from now on! 💚

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24 күн бұрын

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@janetnorris2255

10 күн бұрын

I live in zone 8. When did you plant your seeds? I had read they prefer cooler temps..yours did well?

@jeannamcgregor9967

9 күн бұрын

@janetnorris2255 Maybe early April? I think all beans like warmth but you can plant them now and they'll come up when they're ready.

Haha. Texas acknowledges being called out. "Texas full sun" is about 4 hours, preferably early in the day. Afternoons are brutal for sure.

@KismetWLS

13 күн бұрын

I've tried explaining that to people, they often decide I haven't got a clue, and throw their money away trying to do things they way they did them in Colorado, North Carolina, or Connecticut.

@maryboyd4918

11 күн бұрын

That’s for sure, I’m battling now in North Texas. Just bought a solar drip irrigation system just to not have to water 2-3 times a day.

Squash and melons Cucumbers Sweet potatoes Beans Tomatoes Peppers and chilies Corn Okra Daisy type flowers I think I missed one

@dko3623

24 күн бұрын

Basil

@bimpeadeoye8568

22 күн бұрын

Thank you 😊

@Anne--Marie

17 күн бұрын

Where it's already hot try Malabar spinach, Egyptian spinach and New Zealand spinach.

@fayekeller7411

17 күн бұрын

Beets

@Anne--Marie

16 күн бұрын

@@fayekeller7411 It's too warm for beets here in Central Florida.

Great video! I'm celebrating today. I live in KY and we've gotten 80 deg. temps early this year. I had a very happy discovery when I left the house this morning. My very bright yellow peony bush BLOOMED for the first time!! Took almost 5 years from planting. I'd just about given up hope thinking all I'd ever get was a nice looking green plant. 💃😁

@nikkireigns

23 күн бұрын

I’m jealous! I planted a yellow peony last year, I’ll probably have to wait a few for mine 💛

@JessicaJLandi

20 күн бұрын

Yes! My 3 year old peony plant is the biggest its ever been with 3 separate clusters of blooms. We're in NY, zone 7, a bit behind KY in the growing season, so here's hoping those peonies bloom soon!

@Lynn-kh5rs

19 күн бұрын

@@JessicaJLandi Fingers crossed for you. I had officially given up hope last year & just expected a nice green bush as usual.

@Lynn-kh5rs

19 күн бұрын

@@nikkireigns Once it does bloom the yellow will cheer you right up.

@dustyflats3832

13 күн бұрын

I know exactly how excited you are! There was red leafed peonies here from previous owner they never bloomed over 12 years I tried lifting them and moving them and waited several years and nothing. I bought new ones and I’m sooo excited to see buds on one!! So at least I know they will grow in this soil now.

congratuations on a MILLION subscribers. that's a HUGE deal. 👍

Excellent video! My tomatoes are almost ready to plant in the raised beds. I have never had luck…yup the darn hornworm! But this time, basil, cosmos, asylum and a black light flashlight! I dare them to find my tomatoes! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@qwenqwen1476

14 күн бұрын

Wish you success! I had bad luck with them too!

@wasntme3651

13 күн бұрын

I use seven dust on mine and no problem. It’s a powder and I take a cup with a lid, like from a fast food place. I put a good amount in the dry cup and put the lid on. Then punch a bunch of small holes in the lid like a pepper shaker. Then apply the seven dust like using pepper from a pepper shaker. Some people don’t like to use the product but I never have any issues and most of all I never have problems with any bugs on any of my plants.

please remember to check your seed packets for the seed germination temperature and plant when the soil is that temperature....not just because it's "Mother's Day" or simply because it's "May" our last frost date was the beginning of April, but we had 3 nights of freezing last week....check the soil temp!

So much information is packed in to 20 minutes. I'm going to have to watch this a few times. Thank you for the time and effort you put in making these videos.

@HealthyHabitsGrow

18 күн бұрын

I started taking notes. Lol. So much to remember. 1 guy i watch always suggest a journal. Keep up with what works and what didnt for future reference. I often times have to go look to cross check info in my head..

Thank you so much for your milk tip for powdery mildew on my cucumbers. It worked and my plants are so beautiful!!!!

I'm always in awe at how much information you provide in each video! Love it!❤

Of those items, you can only successfully plant sweet potatoes, basil, okra, Armenian cucumbers, and cantaloupes during May here in the Phoenix area low desert. Or you can plant anything but it will probably fry before it has a chance to produce. Everything else had to be in the ground much sooner. I'm learning that gardening in the low Sonoran Desert is very different from most places. However my peppers produced in January and are producing again now. They were planted late last summer during what we call Monsoon planting around here.

@Katydidit

19 күн бұрын

Alot like Texas

I am in central Texas, most things in garden were planted in mid-late February. This is my 2nd year gardening and I am really enjoying it. We are very sandy soil here so most things are in raised beds. Pole & Bush green beans harvesting daily, Already harvested several large Carrots, Bell Peppers, Cucumbers, Yellow Squash, and Jalapenos. Some Zucchini are almost ready also. Okra, Roma tomatoes, Cherry tomatoes are all flowering and starting to produce. Cantaloupe and Watermelon are vining and starting to flower.

@Kat-Knows

13 күн бұрын

has ur garden been affected by all the rain storms & flooding in texas?

Hands down the best garden channel on the internet!!

i hear a Rumer that borage planter near by can help repel squash bugs. did some digging and found 3 university studies that showed promising results. supposed to also help with with horn worms and cabbage moths. im planting borage everywhere this year and crossing my fingers! thank you for all the great info!

@ukchanak

24 күн бұрын

Be careful as borage can self seed and overcome your garden

@definitelyp8652

24 күн бұрын

I have to check the underside of leaves and dispose of leaves with eggs and keep an eye out for an adult.

@DebRoo11

24 күн бұрын

Borage is like mint. You will regret planting it everywhere lol

@emkn1479

24 күн бұрын

I’ve heard that daikon radishes can help…not sure if it’s backed up at all. I’m trying it, nothing to lose!

@DebRoo11

24 күн бұрын

@@emkn1479 I'll try that too! Can't hurt 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thai basil has amazing flavor and Holy basil is very medicinal

@marthakratz7877

24 күн бұрын

I love Thai basil, tuscan basil also.

@user-mc3tp5sd2z

24 күн бұрын

If you can find wild magic basil get some a plant it where you can drink in the amazing smell. Bees go wild for it.

Hahaha! Great shout out for Texas tomato gardeners, where even the hot weather plants need shade! 🇨🇱😅 And as a former Cali gardener, who never knew the devil bug Squash Vine Boarer until I moved here, they are no joke. I must add that the aluminum foil doesn’t work. They will lay their eggs anywhere on the vine, most times I find them far from the base of the stalk. My first year trying to grow my squash vertically quickly turned into a rescue mission as I had to cut all the ties off and bury the stems above the boarer in the ground. This allowed the stems to root again and saved about 75% of my plants. A lot of folks don’t even bother growing it here but I’m stubborn and I’m in my garden hours a day so I don’t mind fussing over the plants, the fresh squash is worth it and feels like the greatest victory one can imagine. As always, great video. Peace, Love and Garden Defiantly!

I live in Oklahoma, and I have my garden on the south side of my house. In the garden gets at least 6 hours of sun.

Congrats on a million subscribers, you deserve success. Your videos are excellent. Thanks for the basil tip. Tomato horn worms got us last year - basil seeded next to tomatoes this year.

Glad you mentioned using shade cloth in the heart regions like Texas. I live in the western part of Texas. Hundred plus during the summer months. Shade cloth extends the garden life out. As well as using trees to help shade the garden from the late afternoon sun. Learn what plants work best in your region.

I've just begun growing my own vegetables. Sweet corn is one of the things I'm most excited for.

@bobalman

22 күн бұрын

Look into hand pollinating corn. It's easy and results in almost every kernel growing. If you don't, the ears will likely not have many kernels.

@mommakimmins5554

19 күн бұрын

@bobalman thanks for the tip. I already have to hand pollinate my husband's tomato plant, so hopefully it's similarly easy

@bobalman

19 күн бұрын

@@mommakimmins5554 It's easy. When a tassel is ripe with pollen, break it off and using it like a feather duster, dust the silks of the cobs. the trick is to get all or as many as possible of the silks pollinated since each silk is connected to an individual kernel. If you miss one, that kernel will not develop.

@TheSantos173

16 күн бұрын

Are you planting in a container by chance?

My favorite time of the year ! Putting my seedlings in the ground.

I used Electra culture last year and had an abundance of squash and melons, and cucumbers, plus more no fertilizer, and no bad bugs, just pollinators! ❤ I even grew things I never had good luck with like sweet potatoes, celery and melons!

@Mrgreenjeans578

10 күн бұрын

Electra? Never heard that before

Here in southern New Mexico our sun is too strong. So we plant where they have the first half of the day's sun and the second half of the day shade and they do outstanding. The only ones I plant in full sun are winter squash, and I have to water them over and over during the day

By far one of your best videos- thank you ;-)😊

I have started to harvest tomatoes this week….plants are producing heavy both Roma’s and slicers… I live in zone 9B and had my plants outside by Feb 15…..things are looking good this year so far….. also have been harvesting strawberries for sometime now and average 7 oz per day harvest…I do love my strawberries 😁😁😁

@judyware4460

24 күн бұрын

Where is 9 b

@clyde685

23 күн бұрын

@@judyware4460 I live in the Valley of the Sun…Phoenix area…

@kleineroteHex

19 күн бұрын

I just planted mine😊

@kleineroteHex

19 күн бұрын

​@@judyware4460growing zones are a bit deceiving in different areas, spreading east to west, concerning rainfall etc.

Hi Brian. I didn't have vitamin C tablets and so I squeezed half a lemon into a jar of water. I put a purple sweet potato in for the 15 min. and then in dirt like you showed. Put in a warm sunny window and kept it moist. 2 weeks and it sprouted just like you said. Waiting for last frost date so i can plant everything. I got my beans, peas, carrots, beets, and turnip seeds planted. The lettuce that went to seed last fall fell in other pots near it and this May 1st I noticed them growing. I lucked out on that one. I'm glad I found your you tube videos.😊😊😊

You are so thorough with your directions in growing our garden plants, I don't even click on any other gardeners. I got your book Companion Planting and love it. Thanks so much for that. Thanks again

I used to grow pumpkins out here in SD it was always so much fun and the kids used to like when we’d harvest them

Yes, Houston area here and starting my first garden so don't forget about us with too much water and heat 😂❤

Tomatoes cucumber onions chives parsley yum yum.😊

This year i'm growing Hellsing Junction, Bayou, Osu, Indigo Rose, Julirot and noname cocktail tomatos^^ Along with some Marketmore cucumbers and a few Cayenne peppers. Also thinking of starting some berries (raspberry, blackberry, black currant). (Love to y'all from Hungary)

@Katydidit

19 күн бұрын

I love the Indigo Rose tomato

Finally it's May! We have to wait until mid month yet. Very anxious to plant.

It’s the middle of May here now and it’s been raining non stop for a month and in the 50’s at night, yesterday our heat kicked on! So we got 5” of rain in 2 days just less than a week ago, and it’s usually sunny and warm here. So everything is going to have to be replanted. And this is southern Illinois

I'm so excited summer gardening is finally here! My tomato and pepper seedlings are in. I planted seeds for squash, melons and beans yesterday. Good "things to grow" suggestions. My youngest daughter HATES tomatoes - "except mom's tomatoes" - lol. I tried corn once with very poor results even though it was in a block, not a row. Do you think a daily shaking of the plant would help the tassels drop the pollen onto the silk? Might try corn again next year. One warning about okra you didn't mention is that it must be checked daily for harvest, sometimes twice a day - they are faster than zucchini!

WOW!!! BEST AND ONLY VIDEOS THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!THANK YOU SO MUCH YOUR AWESOME!!!SENDING LOVE AND LIGHT!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks for the information. I have reviewed this video 3 times already. Took notes.

Excellent information. Thank you ever so much. ❤️

So grateful for your good information that obviously comes from much experience and knowledge , and explained in easy to understand descriptions . Also appreciate the inclusion of the benefits and challenges of different growing environments. Living in the prairies in Canada is a short growing season and very harsh winters but I still learn so much from these videos. Thank you

Great information!! Growing food for the first year and have found your info so helpful!!

Been a subscriber for 4 or 5 years, good info. Here in Sacramento, Ca 9b in Natomas we are subject to a lot of north winds and as a result I have found it best to wait until early-may to plant most summer crops. Now at end of May I have all my 12 tomato plants at about 5 feet tall, my bell peppers are four feet tall and my basil is around 18 inches tall and all thriving.I have zucchini's that are 8 inches long now too. I think a grower needs to know the area they grow in because it is NOT one size fits all in the yard.

Thank You ❤we planted before our last rain. Central California. ❤

Thanks for the great information!

Best gardening channel, great useful info.

I remember picking tomatoes off the vine of my mom's garden in the summer, under the sun. Just a knife, salt shaker, and a tomato that's still warm from the sun. I can't remember any food that's better than that. Very few life events are better than that, lol! ;)

@BB-mo1ms

20 сағат бұрын

Same for me, only it was turnips.

Thank you so much. I am just building my beds and a week of rain, so putting seeds out next week!!!

Such an inspiration!!! We got heavy rain yesterday and the garden is exploding. I am trying a new cherry type tomato, called a Purple Bumble Bee tomato, I am going to grow them in containers, so I am going to watch your video on container cherry tomatoes. Yay Spring!!

Great video.. lots of tips.. I forget from year to year🎉

I use Bonide dust on the base of my cucurbits . That appears to sort the borer problem.

Lemon basil is great 4 getting onion smell off ur hands w just a leaf or 2. Washed hands n still smell so now i pick lemon basil 2 rub afterwards.

@daranall4949

18 күн бұрын

Great tip

Love yr videos...I learn why the things my father taught me are so important!

Great information! I will have to try that Kellogs tomato next year, sounds delicious. Thanks Brian!

Thank you for the time you spent preparing for this video. Like others stated, the smount of information you offer pet video is awesome.

Thank you for all your great advice! I just want to say that the growing tomatoes in the double plastic glass and marbles is more trouble them you one plastic glass growing …that work just great and less complicated! Good Day and I really appreciate all of your advice!

Awesome, thorough, and to the point video! Thank you!

Excellent video, thanks for sharing 👍🏾

I am in zone 5 so it will be a few weeks before I can get out there and get the squash in. I am doing tri color bush beans in a bed this year and adding a different variety of pole green beans. Thanks for the video. It is just so helpful!

I used last year the string system for Tom plants but strung the string s horizontally using 2 x 4 s between them, they grew 9 foot tall! Put a couple strings on each side of the plant ( close ) used some cheap zip tie s to hold them up , had so many tomatoes we froze them , still using them! Lol

Thank you, Brian. 😊

Excellent video loaded with first time gardener information! Thank you.

please let people know that sweet potatoes can be invasive. i grew some 2 years ago and i still have random plants popping up.

@alishafarmer7674

10 күн бұрын

I'm not seeing any problems here.

I always plant my tomatoes extra deep as well. I remove most all of the leaves and plant up to almost that point. I know this will produce many more roots and help the plant long term. I also use blood meal and bone meal.

I would agree with the pea picking except for purple hulled peas. We want those bad boys thick with peas when we shell them lol pink eyed purple hulls are my favorite along with zipper peas. Question about the tomatoes..... You aren't supposed to put them in the fridge once you want the ripening to stop?

@Mrgreenjeans578

10 күн бұрын

Any tomato you harvest or even store bought should not be stored in fridge. After I slice them for a meal I’ll store them maybe one day after that and that’s all bc they will be mushy and tasteless

Awesome sweet potato crop.

Thanks for sharing!💜🙏🏼

Thank you Brian! I wish you could come plant for me too! Blessings!

Great video. I have a bunch of random tomatoes started. I’m going to have to figure out how to handle them as I go. I have one particularly strong plant that’s coming up near some cilantro. I think that may have a similar effect to the basil. I also put a ton of pepper seeds down so I’m hoping to see them thrive in the warm weather

Thank you Brian for the great information.

This was so encouraging and straightforward. Thank you!!

wow, your tomatoes are beautiful!

My Roma is on its 2nd year. It was a fight with mealy bugs tho at en d of last year.

Plant alyssum near tomatoes too and surrounding beds. Alyssum attracts tiny braconid wasps which destroy tomato hornworms. The only hornworms ive found the last couple years were corpses!

Hat a wealth of information. Thank you very much! Love your videos. We're still a little bit chilly here in Pa at nights

Great video. I love brandywine and sun gold cherry tomatoes. I have a bad problem with slugs so this year I’m covering my raised beds with landscape fabric to see what happens.it’s always an experiment

This was a very informative video Thank you!

Central Texas 8b/9a. Anyone use or know if using organic pine bark mulch is good/okay for an edible raised bed? Straw isn’t available to me unfortunately. I am worried about the pine bark mulch mixing with the raised bed mix. Although I do know plants come potted in it 😅.

Wow great information truly appreciated lots to digest never knew peppers were perennials will come back to this until I get it right! Stay blessed

REALLY EXCELLENT descriptions!!

I really enjoyed this informative format. Hooray for a million subs.

Just found you and although I love in UK a lot of your advice is useful to me. I hope to have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year so can make pesto your advice on the planting of Basil was great, I have not grown it before but have a lot on the go from seeds, wandering where to plant it out, now I know to put it with the toms that's spot on, thanks. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

Thank you so much for all your videos! You cover so many questions I have in my mind. Have you written a book? Cuz you have the info to help new gardeners! Thanks again! 😊

Thank you. The information is helpful .

Very interested to see how your Gigantomo tomatoes turn out, Brian! I tried it once, years back when I was growing in a community garden in Singapore. Unfortunately, the plant go blighted before it produced, as it had spread from somebody else’s tomatoes in a neighbour if plot. I’m sure yours will fare much better!

This one was fun!! Thanks!

Fantastic information, thank you!

Thanks Jim. 💐💚🙃

As always, great info 👍👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

Your flowers are beautiful

@tambrasmith9707

24 күн бұрын

I hate vine borers & squash bugs, I wrap the stems with vet wrap

How to grow beans in bottles and which fertilizer do you use for better harvest

Very precise, Thank you

Very helpful! Thank you!

GREAT video. Informative. Thanks.❤

Great info! Awesome video! 💚

I've tried for 2 years to keep my pepper plants overwinter, I'm doing something wrong....somewhere. Last year I had one out of 8 survive, and that one didn't grow right. It was short and refused to get any bigger. Finally I yanked it and composted it after a month or so of it just being a short bush. lol I may try again, I may not. I'll watch the video again and see if anything clicks. I just put in beans, I've got a couple more boxes to build but I'm lagging way behind this year.

I half planted 4 sweet potatoes in each of two small totes and put them in front of the window. One of the totes, however, I put under a red light for 10+ minutes every morning. The slips on the red light bathed potatoes are twice the number and size. Nice experiment. Wonder what else I can use red light therapy on, besides me.

Question: I have seedlings and wondered when, how and what is best to fertilize them with while they are in house. Thank you!

Foil on the squash stems never worked for me to prevent vine borers. They simply laid their eggs higher up so that the larva entered the stem there and killed the vines beyond the point where they were. (It might work better for bushing squashes like zucchini.). I even tried scraping off all the eggs when I found them and then, eventually, injecting with pyrethrum. I've pretty much given up on squash because it's not practical for me to mesh over a large, sprawling squash plant. They are very persistent where I live, I guess. ☹

I wish I had enough room to plant even half of what you mentioned in this video

Thank you !

Great video....thank u