I'm building 8 new raised beds today with my kids and wife.

@NextLevelGardening

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Fun!

@VashtheStampede007

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In September? Here in Michigan we might get snow next month lol

@user-mc3tp5sd2z

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Sounds like an excellent reason to plant pollinators in among your tomato plants along with the basil that helps knock back tomato worms. Why yes Brian, I am in the middle of reading your book! Here in California we are in the middle of a heatwave. September is always the hottest month.

@jayhavoc8810

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@@VashtheStampede007 I'm in Southern California zone 10

@jayhavoc8810

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@@user-mc3tp5sd2z I'm in Southern California too. This next week all over 105° next Saturday it should cool off 20 degrees. I'll start filling my beds with new dirt and we are planting in our 4 old raised beds a bunch of Cole crops for winter

I live in north Texas, we went from a month behind on our normal weather to three months ahead on our normal weather, my garden missed the entire spring time weather where the plants get hearty and develop big root systems to fend off some of the later hi temps. I went from getting a few smaller tomatoes to instantly getting nothing but gray wall garbage tomatoes. Now the temps are coming down under the 90's and they are coming back around but they are still in shock. My romaine lettuce went from 2ft wide beautiful plants to instantly bolting to waist high, my squash never did a thing and the cucumbers died from the heat my pepper plants are waist high since I didnt get to top them. Learned a lot to try and fix some of this for next year

@incorrigibletexan152

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Same here in central Texas. 12 tomato plants and currently I have had 8 tomatoes in total. Squash did great until June and they were destroyed by bugs. Same for cucumbers.

@BillyBlaze7

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@@incorrigibletexan152 yeah I learned you cant let even one cucumber get yellow or the plant will die off thinking its done its job, my cuc's were going from nothing to full grown in 24hrs so I had to walk the garden and hunt the plants good to not miss any lol my squash just never did anything, not sure what i missed but it just didnt seem to want to produce anything but im thinking it was the heat mainly. The romaine was gorgeous til the heat caused it to bolt within a day and there was nothing i could do at that point. My peppers are doing well, its my fault i didnt snip the tops out of them but they will be monster plants next season if we still have a country. good luck next season 🙂

@incorrigibletexan152

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@@BillyBlaze7 exactly right about still having a country. The bugs killed the squash here and the aphids the cucumbers I think. I’ll remember about the yellow cucumber for next year!

@newlifecalling2233

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I learned a few tips from your comment, and the replies, so thanks!

@BillyBlaze7

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@@newlifecalling2233 you bet 🙂

Set out plants late due too excessive rain, went into drought with temps of over a 100degrees for two months, now 3inch rainfall at a time .. my tomato plants are beautiful but weather has effected a bountiful harvest here in SW Missouri Thank you for your information

I suspected the 105 plus temps we are having in the Jamestown/sonora area are definitely affecting my tomatoes. I do have them under some sun shade but that protects them from the intense afternoon sun. I told my husband to be patient and wait for this heat wave to be over.

All my plants are over 6 ft but stopped producing since we’ve been above 90 for months now. Had some of the hottest temps these last couple of weeks. Plants still look good so I hope they can stay alive until it gets cooler. I’m trying to be patient.

Got to love the rooster crowing at the beginning of the video 😊🤣

Yes I’ve had some of those problems in zone 8 in north Texas all summer!

You totally described my tomato plants; tomaotes on the bottom, bare in the middle, flowers & baby tomatoes on the top. I've done the electric toothbrush idea you mentioned, very easy to do. Thank you for a well timed video.

Cincinnati here. We’ve had so much rain and consistent heat (95°+) since late April. I’ve harvested 6 cherry tomatoes, 6 tomatillos and nothing else (no big tomatoes at all from 8 plants). Last year at this point I probably had harvested at least 75 tomatoes that were 8+ ounces (from half as many plants). So sad 😢

Thank you for the great advice! Last summer I noticed my sweet millions cherry tomatoes were not producing. In November I enclosed my garden which already had 4 walls and a door with a 6mm garden plastic roof. By the end of November through March I was harvesting record tomatoes daily! This year I added an evaporative cooler but even with a constant 85 degrees my tomatoes are not producing in the green house. So, bingo on the heat thing! Come November my new clones will be kicking butt!

It's the perfect time here in SWFL to plant a summer garden. It's over 90 during the day and 75 or warmer at night from mid May until mid October. The rest of the year is magic. My tomatoes are going in after this hurricane goes through. Raised beds only as the native soil is terrible. Too many bad nematodes and lots of pepper tree roots which are invasive.

My first time watching your videos and wow how informative! You’ve earned yourself a new video hoarder!

@NextLevelGardening

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Welcome!

Another Excellent video full of information. Thank you!

@NextLevelGardening

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You're welcome!

Perfect timing! Tomatoes have been in full bloom for weeks but humidity and rain has been crazy! Never thought about being the "BEE" for non production due to humidity. Thanks for all that you do! Buzzing out!

This happened with my tomatoes and bell peppers and I live in a desert here in Texas so now it's been cooler and now it's just fine, yeah! Thanks for sharing this information it helps me understand I was correct about the 100 temperatures and now it's 80's and low 90's. Keep up the great work and take care!

Thanks for the video.

This was really helpful! I’ve had shade cloth up because it’s been very hot here in Mississippi but it’s also VERY humid. I never realized I might need to use a paintbrush to break up the pollen. I’m going to try tomorrow!!

Hi Brian, I started lots of tomato plants this year in Aurora Colorado, some being Early Treat, super sauce, Kellogs Breakfast, and Big Boy. I've had super good luck, but I water faithfully and give a little organic fertilizer weekly. I love the kellogs breakfast one; some weighed in at 1.11 lbs and made delicious sandwiches! Thank you for your tips!

This happened to me! I'm in San Fernando Valley (Sunset zone 18, ie hot) and I got my seedlings planted in Mid March. We had a heat wave in June, triple digits for a few days and I think that really set me back now hearing Brian. I'll be looking for heat tolerant tomatoes for next year. Cherry tomato Bronze Torch, Tomatomania's Tomato of the Year, was a solid producer through it all and amazingly sweet and delicious.

This video answered a lot of my questions why my tomato plants have done so poorly this year it's so hot right now so I'm just going to give him a little more time and keep watering them and bathing them and I hope they come through it loved your video

Good explanations about on why not producing the potatoes

My tiny back yard, which faces east and an appartment complex, never really seemed suitable to try and grow anything substantial at all so I never tried. But this year I decided to just try and planted 4 tomato plants. Long story short: I now have a tomato jungle that still produces; I have so many I don't know what to do with 'm so now canning the lot.

It's going to be between 106 and 108 this week. Ugh. The heat and the tomato worms have been horrific this year. The worms have especially loved my sungold tomato plant. I get off around 8 to 12 everyday. What an awful season this year. Can't wait for fall gardening.

Thank you for this video! I've been approached by a number of folks saying their peppers and tomatoes are not producing. I've told them why, but it will be nice to have a video to point them to now.

@NextLevelGardening

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You're welcome Paulla

Good timing as my tomato production was lagging during our record heat wave👍🏻🥰

Central Texas, my tomatoes always go dormant in the summer, especially this year with months of 100+ and no rain. The ones that tough it out will often produce again in the fall, though, although replanting is more reliable if you can baby them through the heat for a bit. Sometimes there's a cooler snap (i.e. low 90s) and I'll get a wave of summer pollination, but not this year.

I have the complete opposite problem... I'm in northern Scandinavia and spring was VERY late. Had to start a second batch of seedlings both for tomatoes, cucumbers, squash etc... I still kept some of the very leggy tomato seedlings and did plant them, about half the stem down in the ground... 😳😂 They actually came in nicely and are taller and more sturdy than the second batch of seedlings. Here's my problem. Summer has also been quite chilly with cold nights. Now, night temps are already down in the mid to low 40ies. I have 30+ determinant tomato plants and I have a ton of tomatoes... That is, green tomatoes. Good size ones too. Even my cherry tomato plants are loaded but, they're all still green marbles too... None of them are showing any signs of turning red whatsoever. I'm beginning to accept the fact that I'll be caning a lot of green tomatoes. 😢 Pickled, relish, green pasta sauce, whatever I can think of. I'll be putting the larger green tomatoes in a cardboard box and see if I can at least get a few to ripen but, not counting on it... I have topped off my plants so that they won't try to keep growing, removed a lot of greenery so that there is good airflow, picking suckers and new flowers as soon as I see them and also made sure I've given them their plant food. They're beautiful but... Oh well...

@joanies6778

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Glad to hear you have plans for those those green tomatoes... but did you say "fried green tomatoes", too? 😋 You must try them! Have you tried topping off the plants and clipping off any new buds/stems? This all signals the plant to start ripening it's fruit sooner. I have a short season and learned that trick... works well for me. I also pick them the moment I see blush, too, and the rest begins to ripen sooner. Once it gets below 50 at night, I start covering my tomatoes. Since most are strung vertically in a cattle panel hoop tunnel I made, I just cover the whole thing. If it gets really cold, I wrap row covers around the plants, too. Last year I still had 25 pounds of San Marzano tomatoes I did not want to lose when the weather was turning to freeze. So, I cut them at the base, trimmed all the leaves off, hosed them down, then took them into my sun room to finish ripening. I put the cut bottoms in buckets of water, and since I had left the original hook and stringer attached, I just hung them all from a tall ladder. It worked perfectly!

@sherryweaver4337

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In years past I took the green tomatoes and put them into a paper bag and put them in the back of a closet where no light could get in. They ripened great there. Just check on them weekly to see how they are doing. Good luck!

@solanisomeni

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@@joanies6778 Yes, I've trimmed the tops off, removed most of the branches, just left enough so that they can get some sun. I'm constantly removing suckers as well as new blossoms and even removed all the tiny green marbles that definitely won't have time to either grow or ripen. So far, no freezing temps but, I'm keeping a close eye on it. Will take your advise if things get colder and clip them and put them in buckets on my enclosed veranda. Can't hurt to try at least. As soon as they start to turn, I'll place them in cardboard boxes up on my freezer in the back room. Who knows, I might be able to get at least one tomato. If I do, I'll make myself a BLT and growl at anyone that tries to come near it... LOL I was avoiding the green fried tomatoes at all cost... 🤢🤢😳🤣

It’s really a weather issue where I live, in Oregon, due to a late late start, staying in their pots too long before planting in the ground. It will be better next year

Yeah. I've 3 plants surviving through the heat. Now heat has moderated, mid to high 80s. Plenty of flowers, and wind to get pollen blowing. All cherry or grape indeterminate types. Had hopes of tomatoes until Halloween. On Texas coast. Great info 👍

Wow - learned a lot. Thank you.

@NextLevelGardening

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You're welcome 😊

Thank you for your timely video! My tomatoes survived the blight and the record setting high temps this summer to have virtually no flowers. (My cherry toms, however, have 100s of flowers and no fruit. 🤷‍♀️) kind of ironic when my husband has millions of honeybees not 50 feet away! Thank you for the tips!

This is the first year I started my tomatoes by the book.. by your book. I grew them to at least a foot and a half tall then brought out.. planted deep... Unfortunately, this was my worst year for tomato plants. I would love to say it was just the weather , but my sisterinlaw didn't do anything special and had a great harvest. And I set up a drip irrigation system... Followed the cococore/peat mix... in cups... fertilized, green house, heat pad, grew well in there... but only got about 7 to 9 tomatoes total for two plants. Just starting to ripen now. Tapped the flowering parts... built a support system ... gated the raised bed from animals, rock phosphate in the hole, the most work I have ever put into this.... the cherry tomatoes are not too bad... (cherry falls) ... The main toms are indeterminate but only grew 4 feet and stopped there... I will try again next year but going to mix a bag of peat moss into it to loosen it up a bit more... the only thing I did differently this year is added a cube of soil from the same place I got last year, Premium Garden Soil, but it was a little more compact this year... might be the problem. You still give me a lot of guidance with the tom plants. Wish me luck for next year... I would send you a photo of my work, but don't think the option exists on youtube! (In Ottawa), Cheers!

Thank you - EXACTLY what is happening in Sonoma right now!

This has been my worst tomato year. Our horrible heat has been the culprit. I have some growing now since I’m in zone 9, so hopefully we will get a few more. Gonna try at least. Thanks Brian.

This summer in South Texas I have had very little tomato production due to the heat. Hopefully next year will be better!

Shade cloth helped my tomato flowers from not falling off. I was hitting temps up to 105F in E Tennessee in June and July. The shade cloth made it so that the temp under it was a manageable 95F lol. Tomatoes and Thai basil did great! The peppers did not produce but they didn't die. Now that it's cooler here - finally in the 85-90F high range, everything is growing like wild. Most everything I had just survived the brutal summer and are thriving now that it is a bit cooler. I still use the shade cloth for hot days on my fall crops. It'll rain all week.

Thanks for your information . epsom salt I used like you recomended when I plant my tomatos and my tomatos grow very well.Thanks for your time.🍅

Thats when my flowers died back this year when it consistently hit 90 for 3 weeks. Excited about this winter as I am now starting my first years crop to do indoor gardening with lights! I guess I will have to "be the bee" !

This was really helpful for me. I'm a new gardener with a porch garden. My sunlight is limited and I thought that was my problem for not getting a single tomato and it may be a factor but I live in south Florida and our days and nights are very hot! My plants look good but no fruit. This goes for my peppers as well. Thanks for this video, I'm a little more hopeful now.

@FloridaGirl-

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I’m in SW FL too. Really, I have best results w/fall and winter garden. I have watermelon vines going crazy. And one dern melon! Okra and egg plant do good. But the peppers are stressed. I just trimmed them back, because they do way better later . Like October on. I have seedlings going to plant mid to end Sept. looking forward to mid To end of Oct. When the heat BREAKS ! But hey, it beats snow!!

@cgabby98

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Now I'm starting to wonder if that's what went wrong with my cucumber plant

There are also some real good varieties that can take the heat. For example, baker creeks New pink Fang tomato has produced a few tomatoes for me even through our northern California heat. The early cascade has also produced. Look for heat tolerant varieties and read reviews on those varieties to see how they compare.

@joanies6778

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Nice tip. Thanks for sharing!

In Connecticut here. My tomato plants look good. Some green Plum Tomato and blossoms are still on the plant. I'm gonna try extra water and some crushed eggshells ( Food Processor ) fine with water and more nutrients . And tomorrow I'll hand pollinate for the 1st time in my 62 yrs of life. and 47 + yrs of gardening. I probably have another month until frost. I grow in 5 gal buckets. It's like a bain in my gardening life right now. They did great during the hotter weather. SUGGESTIONS ??

Thanks Brian. I was very disappointed with my tomato crop this year. I wanted to make some salsa and my tomato plants have given me next to nothing. I think it’s too late in the season to get any ripe tomatoes before the killing frost comes. While I do live in zone 6 I don’t think there’s enough time to get any tomatoes to a decent size before old man winter comes knocking on our door. Yes I’m exaggerating about old man winter but not about being able to size up any tomatoes in time. Things to do differently next season, plenty. Thanks again for your tips and tricks. 🌺💚🙃

@brattyone8612

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Ditto, I’m also zone6 n my tomatoes 3 container cause I just moved to Ohio have been a product of to much rain. IMHO, my home state was the same if summer had a lot of rain with little sun because of cloud coverage. So many things to look at tho in lieu of quitting.. right? Lol hope my garden does better next season just tilled 1/2 my backyard preparing it for spring n maybe some fall stuff if it stops raining long enough to plant.

@judymckerrow6720

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@@brattyone8612 we never get rain send some my way. Good luck with your new garden. 🌺💚🙃

Thank you thank you thank you! Central Jersey 6B and couldn't figure it out where my flowers went! That is exactly what my plants look like. Especially my Ukrainian Purple plant. All of my tomato plants are healthy but saw very few tomatoes. The Romas came first, then some Barry's Cherries. I hope to be back to business soon now that we aren't 90+ degrees now that we are into September.

My tomatoes are basically done for the season. Heat is up and staying that way. That's okay with me. It's time for me to swap out soil in my containers anyhow. Last year I used a pocket electric fan to pollinate the tomatoes. A very strong breeze seemed to work even in the humidity. (Or I got lucky.)

Be the Bee. I like that . 24 days over 90 in upstate NY this year so tomato production slowed. Average is 10. And woodchuck and chipmunk issues. Always next year. Plants still healthy and temps in 70s and 80s above normal for late August and early September so still hope

One thing I can add to this... another cause of tomatoes not producing is a potash (potassium) deficiency in the soil. My tomatoes experienced this 3 seasons ago. When I planted them, they were already blossoming and setting fruit. Within a couple of weeks, they ALL just shut down. They weren't dropping their blossoms, they just sat there and wouldn't set fruit - similar to what you would see in a situation involving lack of pollination. Also, the plants stopped producing new blossoms, and the tomatoes that were already on the plant stopped growing. After about 6 weeks of waiting to see if they would recover, a soil test indicated a potash deficiency, which you probably know is required for tomatoes to blossom and set fruit. Well, that would explain it, huh? So I treated the plants with a fertilizer that was high in potash. For another couple of weeks, nothing much happened. Then all heck broke loose! Huge numbers of tomatoes started popping out all over the place! Ended up with a huge harvest of tomatoes that year. Since that time, I have made sure I add materials to my compost bins that are rich in potash - mostly banana peels and charcoal ash from the charcoal grill. (I make sure the charcoal I use doesn't have any additives in it.)

NJ zone 7a. Long very hot and dry summer. I’m not making judgements on the tomato varieties because of it. Years ago we had a warm and very wet summer. I had a bumper crop even though many split. I just rinsed off the fruit flies, cut off the mushy parts and feasted every day.

I live in West Central Florida, zone 9b we have high heat and humidity summers, the only tomatoes that do well in 90 degrees or higher is Florida Everglades tomato it is a very small tomato smaller than a cherry tomato but oh boy the flavor is amazing and produces like crazy!!!

I’m pretty sure I made a hybrid of branywine and Cherokee purple last year and found out this year not upset about it their great

Hi Brian! I'm looking forward to seeing You, and meeting the others, in the School Of Traditional Skills summit! 🌟 QUESTION please: 1) What color tulle fabric should I buy? I'm in the Midlands of South Carolina, very hot and humid...buying it for bug deterrent but would be a plus if it shaded a little? My 2'x4' patio elevated beds get full sun from sunup to sundown. Thanks so much!

I had two tomato plants in buckets and I had the best harvest ever this year. It’s amazing what pruning, watering, bees (SO MANY bees this year) and not having extreme heat all summer can do.

@conniegomez9502

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Wow! Where in the world are you, away from our

@conniegomez9502

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(Oops) away from our extreme heat???

Awesome thanks

@NextLevelGardening

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You're welcome 😊

I believe you Brian, I really do. With the other comments it's obviously a problem. I lost many plants early on (that's a whole other story) but one cherry tomato plant survived. We have had several weeks of heat waves and I hadn't noticed anything with my tomatoes so I paused this video and checked. Plenty of tomatoes in various stages and flowers galore. I have not done anything special so maybe I'm just lucky since I only have the one plant. It's doing better than any past plant I have had and grew over my cage and bending back towards the ground. I will count myself lucky 🍀

@elisabetk2595

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I've found cherries to be in general more resilient to temperature swings.

@skittlesrainbowprincess

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@@elisabetk2595 thanks.. I did not know this. It was just the only plant that survived

In Reno, NV, 1 tomato last year and only 2 this year, out of 6 plants! 😅 Thank you

Instead of trying to attack each flower with a vibrating brush you can simply vibrate the bracket of the flower cluster, a much sturdier part of the plant. All flowers that are ready to release pollen will do so. Repeat every three days during good weather.

The heat is brutal on fruiting. I live in NorCal zone 9b. I have a long grow season so right now I am waiting out the heat (112 today). Same every year. Next week I will use bloom food as the heat drops. Hopefully we'll start blooming and fruiting again in late September.

I'm in Florida, and the romas I had given up on for the season are trying to flower!

We had 100°+ temp for 30+ days and I think I got 2 small tomatoes out of 8 plants now it’s 95° days and mid 60 at night and I been picking 8-10 every day and I have tons of green ones.

In zone 5b. My tomatoes were not producing until much later this year. We noticed many early blossoms lasting a while but then they just closed up with no fruit. We also noticed that we weren't seeing pollinators until much later this year. In mid-July, we started seeing pollinators and then blossoms resulting in fruit. We have harvested some tomatoes (especially cherry tomatoes) but there are many more 'baby tomatoes' that I doubt will have enough time to come to full maturity. ...not sure why the pollinators were so late in visiting my garden but will watch this carefully next year and perhaps do some pollinating myself if I start noticing this again.

I live at a latitude of 48 degrees. I cloned my producers from suckers about five weeks ago. They are already starting to produce along with their sources. Always great tips from your site. BTW - we have lots of honey bees working for us here.

Guessing before I listen. Your temps are extremely hot

@jacksonpeterson7501

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Hi 👋 you've a cute picture on your profile ☺️ just decided to stop by and say hi. I hope you appreciate my compliment..

First year starting all our own seeds. North Texas had a horrible heat wave and all our plants stopped producing. We kept watering and peppers have started back, just waiting on the tomatoes.

Brian i dont know if you have ever seen them. but this video reminded me of those grow warehouses of tomatoes. they drive along on a scissor lift with a vibrating tool. hitting each line for about 2 ish seconds. i thought of this when you said to just jiggle the line they are one.

@NextLevelGardening

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No.. I haven't seen that! 👍🏼😃

@kelrune

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@@NextLevelGardening Here is a youtub link to one that i loved watching. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z3qlmLKKnJrMops.html the link is set to where they start polinating in the canapy. the whole video is really cool talking about what is needed to how they do it.

Hi Brian. I have a question not about tomatoes, but I wanted to put it somewhere that you would see it. I live in east county as well and am preparing for the approaching storm. I have about 20 butternut squash that are nearly ripe and I am worried that with the torrential rains that we are supposed to be getting starting tomorrow that they will start splitting. Should I go ahead and pick them? This is the third garden that I have had in 40 years and I discovered your youtube channel soon after I put it in and your videos have been a tremendous help to me. Thank you.

Helpful Info! Thank you. I’m in a suburb of Sacramento, CA and we have had several heatwaves and have had delayed fruit during the heatwaves. When it cools down low 90s and 80s blossoms and fruit start happening again. I will start earlier next year and start some plants later as you suggested. Keep cool!!

Well I had kind of a laugh at your opening scene. I got my store bought starts WAY LATE...one week before the 100's hit..it was already in the 90's. Now currently the temps are now in the low 80's..I'm finally seeing Green fruit

Hi Brian, I started watching your videos last winter before launching my Project Tomatoes - first time in my life growing tomatoes (Zone 5b) in the Spring, 2022. By end of August (last week), I had harvested more than 1,000 cherry tomatoes from just 6 plants (6 pots). Currently (September) all 6 plants have slowed down in production. The snow will be back in 4-6 weeks here. Should I bring the 6 pots of tomatoes in to my garage just before the snow greets me, or should I just leave them out to die in the snow, and then plant new ones in the Spring, 2023? Thank you so much!

@NextLevelGardening

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Hi! Just start over. Even in a mild climate it's not worth it

In this video and the last one, it kills me when you make the wait for the rooster face.

Thank you, I checked out the Shade Cloth you mentioned. I also learned that there is 30% and 40%. Does the percentage matter when it comes to tomatoes?

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

30 is best

Strange isn’t it? Here in the U.K. we have had a bumper crop. I grew three types: Crimson Crush, a larger round tomato, Roma, a smaller plum type and the small yellow cherry tomato. I started them off in the same way as I always have. We have had very little flower drop. All have produced lots of tomatoes and believe me, this is unusual for me. We have had a very hot, long summer, again unusual for the U.K., and fortunately, we had plenty of water in our water butts to keep them happy. So far I think we’ve had over 15kg and there are many more to come, if the sunshine stays with us. Fingers crossed as I am hoping to make a lot more tomato pasta sauce. What I have done differently this year is a mystery, though I suspect it has more to do with weather and an abundance of bees! 🐝

Great video Brian Lots on new gardeners learning how to grow!

Ironically was just thinking this when I was in my garden the other day....based on last year I'm guessing they may come in later cause that's what happened & then BAM tons of tomatoes

I had a huge problem with my heirloom tomatoes this year. I think I only got 3 from two plants . There are several reasons for that I’m sure but it is quite frustrating!

Hello! I was wondering if you’ve ever done a video or have had any experience with using olla clay pots for irrigating raised garden beds? In Los Angeles County we’ve been asked to suspend all outdoor watering for 15 days starting tomorrow because the L.A. MWD will be performing pipe repairs. Thanks

Question: had lots of heat plus periods of 5+ inches of rain. Had abundance of die offs of branches like never seem before. Lots of green in upper half of plants and now seem to be producing as they are 6-7 feet tall but the bottom 3 feet of the main stem is bare. What in the world is happening????? Never seen this in 40+ years

@bethbishoptidwell6314

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Mine are like this too and I have had the same weather conditions.

Have you considered producing and selling a t-shirt? Here’s an idea: use your new book cover image. I’m sure it would be great advertising.

A couple years ago I made the classic mistake of overfertilizing my tomatoes with nitrogen. Grew a lush set of leaves, but no flowers. Last year I laid off the nitrogen fertilizer and grew my tomatoes with a thick layer of woodchip mulch and little else. They produced like I'd never seen before. I didn't even have to water them as much, because the mulch protected them during the heatwaves.

Mine flower, then nothing, and the few I'm getting are small. And mine do have those stripped looking stems. I was hoping they would kick in sometime in September were at 105 today

My tomatoes didn't produce one tomato all year ! Plenty of flowers very large and bushy . I did trim a few .

Be the Bee!

I live in Arkansas. What type of shade cloth should I use to make sure the get the sun rays but keep some of the heat off the plants?

i have a tomato plant that has never fruited. is not the soil because the other plants are fruiting just fine. this plant is beautiful and healthy and it has lots of flowers and there are always bees working hard on it but still no fruit. i also do hand pollination but that hasnt made any difference. at this point is about 7' tall and no tomatoes! why? i have looked it up and none of the reasons i find fit to it. is it defective? like not producing any pollen? i have no idea what to do. please help? thank you for all your videos. so educational and helpful!

@renouchkin

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Sometimes u got 2 stress her à little bit. Like hydric stress or PK, nutrition stress. Thérapie back 2 normal.

@Zackattack94

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Flowers need to be pollinated

@keenah1111

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@pasja thank you for your suggestion, but im not sure what you mean. i only use organic fertilizer in my garden. i have other tomato plants that are doing great but this one isnt doing anything. is pretty amd it attracts bees like crazy, so why isnt it fruiting?

@AjArpopP52

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Try fertilizing with organic tomato tone. It has less nitrogen

@renouchkin

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@@keenah1111 all what we growing come from cultivars. But sometimes u have à genome coming up from far past. I have à plant from Colombia. She still flowering 6 months. The average is 8 week. Mother nature could it be or just, to much N in the substrat?

Amazing video, thank you for the information! My cherry tomatoes kept dropping their flowers after producing great amounts of fruit and I thought it was a disease but it was definitely the heat. We had temperatures of 37-40 degrees Celsius for weeks! Thanks for the tip about starting plants again in longer growing seasons - I am just in the process of doing that and keeping my fingers crossed that it will work!

@VashtheStampede007

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My only cherry tomato plant in an 18” pot kept falling over (with the pot fell on its side) in strong wind last week 🤦‍♂️. I lost at least 100 green cherry tomatoes of all sizes

@joannamakri5354

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@@VashtheStampede007 Oh my goodness, I am so so sorry to hear that! Devastating, all that hard work gone.

Great info! I'm struggling with my last 🍅 tomato bush, earlier on it gave me tomatoes. It's a determinate variety. The plant is very hardy. Lots of flowers..but alas the fall off before the actual tomato can start to grow ! Living in hot lakeland fl. The summer has been brutal here. I did try your, pollination trick..time will tell. Thanks for your insight. Happy gardening ❤☺

Brian, I live in HOT Southern California --and one my tomato plants has blossoms but they are doing NOTHING but being pretty. We are only somewhat humid (albeit humid enough) would you say they need the electric toothbrush trick? Another of my plants split on the main stalk...not sure why but it is on it's last breath.

I have this chance . Living next from old coal mine . Or soil is full of carb's. Im on 50° north. Still produce till early october but under removable greenhouse.

Actually, I found SIX TOMATO HORN WORMS did to my plants looking exactly like what you held up. If it's the heat, the leaves are still there. The horn worms strip the leaves and all. NEVER had to deal with them before. Three of them were enormous! I had an amazing bounty last year. This year I am getting no where near as much production, I get flowers, bees, wind, plus I water regularly. Not seeing blossom drop. Also, I do use shade cloth. Many of the tomatoes are not getting to full size. I did find some blossom end rot, but it's not from too much watering, so I started doing deeper watering. Everything is acting strange in the garden this year!

@AmeeraG242

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Isn't it ! I agree

@biggredone5809

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Had a great beginning, then in the last month noticed leaf loss, bought a black light, and went night time hornworm hunting. 7 first night, 5 second night, and then it's been 2 or 3 for the entire week. Plus my chickens love the hornworms in the morning that I save for them.

Found your channel a few weeks ago. I had cherry tomato seeds just sprouting at the time. Sadly, I think I found your videos too late. I may have destroyed all of them because not thinking about it, I used decorative mulch to cover them once they were moved to their 5g buckets. After watering them I noticed a while later that the coloring of the mulch was draining out from the buckets. So, I just removed 99.9% of that mulch and got a bag of natural cypress mulch to cover them. Either way, I'm going to allow them to fruit because this is the 1st time I've ever planted anything. They were planted in late August. Do you think the dye will have any affect on them? I don't want to poison anyone!!

OK, so my plants I have in 10 gallon grow bags are all growing, but very slowly and only now producing very small compared to my neighbors same exact plants (we bought them from same place together) he grew straight into the ground. Is there something about the amount of soil?

My tomatoes this year were small, not sure why. I wondered if it was because I grew them in pots on the deck. my other question was that many of my Roma tomatoes started to rot from the bottom, could you tell me what I did wrong? I did water them daily. Thank you

Like the electric toothbrush idea

What is the effect of cool temps on tomato’s. 50 at night 75 during the day. Minnesota here.

The heat, fertilization, or water issues devastated my tomatoes in the Tarrant County area of Texas.. What plants can the aspirin spray method be done on?

@countryblends

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I also live in Tarrant County and my whole garden was a bust this year. Beautiful tomato plants; no fruits. My zucchini, peppers and others grew to around 3” high and just stopped! Very discouraging. Planted my fall garden last week…hoping for the best!

@04DynaGlyde

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@@countryblends , not that I'm happy that happened to you. Though at I know a fellow Texas neighbor went through the same thing.

Living in NW minnesota there are 2 things that have impacted my tomato harvest. One is the temperatures. One day the high for tbe day is 66°. 3 days later it's in the 80's. It has been swing like that most of the summer. Then there is the wind. We have 20-30mph of wind mostly from the west/north. The whole side of the garden faces west so my tomato plants were beat up pretty badly. I finally put up a 40% shade cloth to stop the wind, though not the air circulation. There are/ were other factors. Yet I have learned a little from this year's garden!

@sherryweaver4337

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Oh and I am in zone 3a!

i live in northern Nevada....120F is the highest we get for 3 days and then it's 110F or 95F the rest of the summer....i've done shade cloths, i've kept my tomatoes in the shade 80% of the day, morning sunlight only........got any other tips? because we up here can't plant outside until second week of June. our first frost this year was first week of August. we can go from 4a to 7b in a day, no i am not joking about how wild the weather can swing here. Other that tsunamis and active volcanos we have every type of natural thing that happens here.

It has been a long hot summer but we finally got fed up with waiting for tomatoes to appear and pulled the plants up. They had knot root disease, so now we know we have nematodes in our soil, urghhh!

??? When my tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets reach the 8ft roof green in my green house. Can I clip the top and it will still produce on lower branches. Last year I let them continue to grow and lowered the strings. And don't want to do that now.

Fresno 115 on Tuesday my plants can't take to much more.

Would watering the tomatoes with ice cold water at dusk assist the plants to get through the high heat periods?

If using toothbrush, etc on the tomato flowers to help pollination & if doing this on 1 tomato plant, that shouldn't cause cross pollination, correct?