To those who are filming, doing the behind the scenes work to get these videos out along with all of us who are watching: What a gem we are able to witness as Leon shares his tremendous knowlege and love of gardening. Leon, you radiate with knowlege, honesty, integrity and exude a breath of fresh air from past generations that have helped build everything that has meaning in our lives. Great job to all of you, especcially you Leon. Keep up the great work!!!!!
Hi Leon. I found your channel while researching how to properly care for tomato plants. I. Have been in Texas since 04/21. My father passed away from coronavirus on 04/19. He was an Army Vet, retired railroad machinist, and PROUD GARDENER... I have been tending to his garden since he passed and have been researching plant care- specifically tomato plant care. The smell of the leaves remind me of dad... it’s important to me to keep them alive because my daddy was so proud of his garden. Your videos have helped me so much. Thank you for sharing all of your tomato plant care and information. Have a blessed day.
Leon. My Uncle Earl always told me you needed to wrap a potato in newspaper before planting. When I asked him why? He said, “ it keeps the dirt from getting in that poor potato’s eyes. “
I remember as a kid (hate to admit that we are talking over 60 years and more) that my grandmother, as spring got closer, would take a baking potato or sweet potato and place it in a clear jar of water to let it sprout roots. She was raised on a farm in North Carolina and could grow almost anything. I on the other hand, need Leons help so everything I touch will FINALLY stop dying on me ....lol.
Found you yesterday Leon, love your channel. I haven't grown tomatoes in 20 years. My grandfather use to grown a spectacular garden, lost him in '98. You remind me of him, thanks for sharing your immense gardening knowledge
There are so many videos for every type of gardening, every type of crop, and all sorts of hacks and shortcuts. But there's nothing like hearing "how to" from the farmers who have been doing it for years... and now with TH-cam, most will likely be available to watch for years. We are truly blessed!
I found new potatoes growing already this year from potatoes I planted last year in my no till garden. They were ones I must have missed. They're mixed in with my garlic I planted last November 2019. My husband planted 72 potatoes this year.
As always saving money by watching your videos. I just had it in my mind I needed tomato clips, now I’m just going to wrap the string around like you showed. Leon always teaching and I’m always listening!
This has been one crazy season but I got around 22 tomatoes on my vines. Cucumbers on the vines, eat my 1st mess of squash,potatoes are good,egg plants blooming,watermelons are good,green beans good blooming,I'm in south Georgia
Great video! Sure do love to hear this man talk and tell us children some of what he knows. He really makes me think of my grandpa. Thank you for that too, Leon.
Thank you, Leon! I've started a garden for the first time with 18 of your self-wicking tubs. They are doing great. One thing I noticed, you put 2 potatoes in one of the holes and none in the middle, just an FYI! Great video! Thanks again.
.... just a suggestion.... if you find your plant needs more water...you can add more wicks up from the bottom... I used cotton mop head threads...there easy to poke up into the bottom ...bunch them together if needed...
Thank you for another great video Leon. I have several tomatoes on my wicking tubs as well. I just made 7 more tubs today to transplant more of my crops.
More pure good horse sense from one who knows. I love that you have worked the bugs out of this system to make it possible for practically anyone, even with arthritis and physical problems like me, to grow stuff. Bless you and your videos! Love from arkansas!
Thank you for the video, you answered a lot of the questions I had about growing potatoes. I am one of the people up North you’re helping I live in SW Washington.
Im glad to know yall are healthy and well! All of the tubs I made last year worked great and are now growing this years potatoes, carrots, chicory, etc. I used the same principle in very large flower pots for some espaliered fruit trees and they are thriving! Mr. Leon thank you so very much for teaching so well@
Thank you Leon! I really look forward to your videos. Started about 10 wicking tubs with vegetables this year because of you. And i have more on the way! Such a great way to grow food! God bless you! How about more strawberry videos? And do you grow those tomatoes from seed? Amazing!
Mr Leon, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us in your videos. I get to think back to my Granddads garden, he owned a feed store in Sand Springs, Ok, and he taught all us grandkids to garden. I'm just thankful Daniel Arms introduced me to your channel. God bless you & yours.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. - Hebrews 5:12 I have been gardening in one form or another for 30 years. Yet every time I watch one of your videos I learn some new way to approach it. Thank you Sir.
Thank you! I love your videos! I just tossed a baking potato from the house in my garden too! While my seed potatoes are about as tall as your tomato plants, the baking potato is slow going. I hope my tomato plants grow up to be like yours!
Thank you Leon for sharing your gardening knowledge, you truly a gift from the Lord to teach his children to grow their own food to sustain themselves and those around them !!!
I’m so glad you did this video. I can’t find seed potatoes anywhere not even online so I was trying to figure out what the difference was between seed and regular potatoes. Thank you so much
This video is right on time. Growing in Northeast PA. Hard to get seed potatoes now. Thank you for sharing all the savy with those of us who are less experienced
Thank you. I am praying that last night was our last frost. Ky is behind this year. I'm not sure if we are going to have a spring this year. It looks like we are going straight into summer. blessings to you
How did the potatoes planted in the container do? How much was the yield? We are trying decide if we need a wicking buckets or just plant them in the bucket and water once a week.
Wow... didn't know that piece about having to polinate in the sun! 🐝 What is that black cover you have over the tubs? It looks thick. 🍅🍅🍅 The last two bags of organic Yukon Gold potatoes I have bought over the last month or so have potatoes with chits 🌱, growing eye sockets, or roots. 😆 Those babies are all being planted because I'm not wasting them. I just wish I could get my hands on some of those tubs. In the meantime, I looked back in your videos and found your tutorials on self wicking grow bags. Yowza!
Thank you Leon for sharing all of your knowledge! I am looking forward to making a trip to a Kingston to pick up supplies for making self watering pots if you still have some pots available???
Thank you so very much! You are the very best and I appreciate it. I live in central Florida and it gets re hot here especially in the summer. Please give us a recipe for the soil you make. Looking all over to find it. Thank you. Jean
Grocery store potatoes are often sprayed with sprout inhibitor and they will not sprout so they have a longer shelf life that’s why it is not advisable to use grocery store potatoes but use actual seat potatoes.
Please make a demo of planting sweet potatoes in the wick buckets. Or just tell me how many slips do you plant in one wick bucket. Thanks. Enjoy the videos. Keep them coming.
Question...... Mr Leon, How do you know when to harvest the potatoes?? I Absolutely love the fact that you are sharing your gardening knowledge. Thank you! God Bless you kind sir!!
All the seed potatoes are sold out everywhere. I'm planting store bought potatoes, that are non organic because that is all I could get, and they are sprouting. I am going to try to prove that the "seed potato" idea is a partly myth. I tried to sprout some red Norlands that were grown in Idaho and they did not sprout, but the russets I bought that were grown in the Texas panhandle have sprouts all over them, so maybe the red Norlands were treated the the russets weren't, I don't know. Thank you for this video Leon. It was very timely for me and greetings from south central Texas.
singncarpenter i have had successful volunteer grocery potatoes every year both yukon gold, unknown red skinned varieties and some blue ones. For the last 5 years I have tossed in sprouted grocery ones with my leftover seed potato offspring and they do fine.
A couple of questions: What percent of shadecloth should you use for the greenhouse? When putting small plants or seeds in a wicking pot, how much watering from the top of the pot should you do and how long to get the plants established in the wicking bed? Thank you! We love your videos and Leon!
I've never had a problem. If you can get the organic, that's what I prefer. But even the ones that aren't, they still start to grow those eyes. Thats usually when someone would they're them away. The only potatoes that I've not seen grow eyes are the purple/black potatoes. Haven't figured those out. It's all an experiment any way. Just try it out!😄
🌻 Good Morning Leon from the Carolinas and Happy Sunday! Thank You for all that you share and do! I’m going to try a bucket of potatoes. I wonder how many potatoes might grow in one bucket, like the way that you planted yours this morning? Thank You Sir ❣️
I was curious to your masterblend formula for the tomatoes. Do u just use the masterblend or do u use the calcium nitrate and Epson salt that comes with it as well and what is your ratio?
Question 1: How often do you need to shake/pollinate a tomato plant? Question 2: What's the difference between a 5-5-5 fertilizer & a 20-20-20 fertilizer? Would I mix it different for a gal of water?
Ok I've looked through some of your videos but don't see anything mentioning this: root rot. I've got a whole lot of tubs from Menards ready for tomatoes and other vegetables. I've already made 2 wicking tubs already with carrots and radishes/onions going and they seem to be doing well so far. Since I've already lost some young tomato plants under lights indoors to root rot, I'm getting nervous about moving them to the tubs here in a couple weeks (southern IN). Should I put less water in them until I get to the warmer months? Maybe even just water them from the top for now and wait until mid June to water down the tube? Also, what plants would not do well in wicking tubs? So far I've figured that I'll put my bell pepper and habanero plants in 5 gallon buckets with regular drain holes on the bottom since they don't require as much water.
I've been enjoying your videos learning a lot this year I just built on my first Greenhouse seems to be working good but I would like to know where and how I can get ahold of those planting pots that you keep talking about thank you and God bless
Try to find a local cattle archer in ur area that feeds food and minerals in tubs to his cows. Go to a feed store and ask them if they know where u can get some if they have a board to post on at store. Post on it what ur looking for with ur contact #.
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To those who are filming, doing the behind the scenes work to get these videos out along with all of us who are watching: What a gem we are able to witness as Leon shares his tremendous knowlege and love of gardening. Leon, you radiate with knowlege, honesty, integrity and exude a breath of fresh air from past generations that have helped build everything that has meaning in our lives. Great job to all of you, especcially you Leon. Keep up the great work!!!!!
He needs a better microphone but yes to all
pro tip: you can watch series at Kaldrostream. Been using it for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.
@Brodie Wyatt Yea, been watching on kaldrostream for months myself :)
@Brodie Wyatt Yea, I have been watching on kaldrostream for since december myself =)
Hi Leon. I found your channel while researching how to properly care for tomato plants. I. Have been in Texas since 04/21. My father passed away from coronavirus on 04/19. He was an Army Vet, retired railroad machinist, and PROUD GARDENER... I have been tending to his garden since he passed and have been researching plant care- specifically tomato plant care. The smell of the leaves remind me of dad... it’s important to me to keep them alive because my daddy was so proud of his garden. Your videos have helped me so much. Thank you for sharing all of your tomato plant care and information. Have a blessed day.
Leon. My Uncle Earl always told me you needed to wrap a potato in newspaper before planting. When I asked him why? He said, “ it keeps the dirt from getting in that poor potato’s eyes. “
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I remember as a kid (hate to admit that we are talking over 60 years and more) that my grandmother, as spring got closer, would take a baking potato or sweet potato and place it in a clear jar of water to let it sprout roots. She was raised on a farm in North Carolina and could grow almost anything. I on the other hand, need Leons help so everything I touch will FINALLY stop dying on me ....lol.
Found you yesterday Leon, love your channel. I haven't grown tomatoes in 20 years. My grandfather use to grown a spectacular garden, lost him in '98. You remind me of him, thanks for sharing your immense gardening knowledge
Hanging on his every word. Growing potatoes for the first time this year.
Thank you Leon.
Just want to say thank you for your knowledge. All the old timers are gone from my life and I'm trying to grow some things like my grandpa did.
There are so many videos for every type of gardening, every type of crop, and all sorts of hacks and shortcuts. But there's nothing like hearing "how to" from the farmers who have been doing it for years... and now with TH-cam, most will likely be available to watch for years. We are truly blessed!
Michael White me too.
I found new potatoes growing already this year from potatoes I planted last year in my no till garden. They were ones I must have missed. They're mixed in with my garlic I planted last November 2019. My husband planted 72 potatoes this year.
Mr. Leon , THANK you for all of your wisdom and knowledge .. May GOD ALL MIGHTY continue to bless you and your family...
Thank you again
web 981 Amen! You are one of the best educations. I’ve learned so much by watching your TH-cam page! 😊👏🏽🌱
I love Leon! Very much appreciate the genuine respect his friend Jack affords Leon in the video’s. Good job Jack.
As always saving money by watching your videos. I just had it in my mind I needed tomato clips, now I’m just going to wrap the string around like you showed. Leon always teaching and I’m always listening!
Leon. Well I have heard nothing but good things about Leon the Gardner. You have a very good reputation on You Tube. So thank you for Sharing...
Leon you are my hero!
This has been one crazy season but I got around 22 tomatoes on my vines. Cucumbers on the vines, eat my 1st mess of squash,potatoes are good,egg plants blooming,watermelons are good,green beans good blooming,I'm in south Georgia
Thanks Leon for all the advice. I must say that you are a blessing for mankind, greetings from Guatemala.
Keep the videos coming Leon, we love them. Thank you
Great video! Sure do love to hear this man talk and tell us children some of what he knows. He really makes me think of my grandpa. Thank you for that too, Leon.
Thank you, Leon! I've started a garden for the first time with 18 of your self-wicking tubs. They are doing great. One thing I noticed, you put 2 potatoes in one of the holes and none in the middle, just an FYI! Great video! Thanks again.
I saw that, too. 😄 Well, we shall see if it makes double the bundle!
.... just a suggestion.... if you find your plant needs more water...you can add more wicks up from the bottom... I used cotton mop head threads...there easy to poke up into the bottom ...bunch them together if needed...
@joanie S. Hahahaha!! I was going to say the same thing!! Love you Leon!
Rollie Reaves III
Thank you for another great video Leon. I have several tomatoes on my wicking tubs as well. I just made 7 more tubs today to transplant more of my crops.
You are awesome all around. I've learned so much from your videos alone. Salt of the earth fella you are.
Love getting advice from someone who has your experience! Thank you
I bought some tomato stringing thingos. Easiest way ever of staking tomatos.
Thanks for the video Leon. I watch them all and I'm always looking for the next one.
I’m glad I found this channel! Up here I don’t put potatoes in until around the first of May!
God bless
Klaus
More pure good horse sense from one who knows. I love that you have worked the bugs out of this system to make it possible for practically anyone, even with arthritis and physical problems like me, to grow stuff. Bless you and your videos! Love from arkansas!
Thank you for the video, you answered a lot of the questions I had about growing potatoes. I am one of the people up North you’re helping I live in SW Washington.
You’re doing the Lord’s work, Leon.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️JUST LOVE ME SOME LEON ON A COLD SNOWY MORNING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE🇺🇸🇺🇸
Im glad to know yall are healthy and well! All of the tubs I made last year worked great and are now growing this years potatoes, carrots, chicory, etc. I used the same principle in very large flower pots for some espaliered fruit trees and they are thriving! Mr. Leon thank you so very much for teaching so well@
Thank you Leon! I really look forward to your videos. Started about 10 wicking tubs with vegetables this year because of you. And i have more on the way! Such a great way to grow food! God bless you! How about more strawberry videos? And do you grow those tomatoes from seed? Amazing!
Thank you, Leon. I'm making your self-wicking tubs for my garden. I hope they come out perfect like yours.
Thankful for the video Leon.
In Indiana it’s always like that in the spring.
Mr Leon, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us in your videos. I get to think back to my Granddads garden, he owned a feed store in Sand Springs, Ok, and he taught all us grandkids to garden. I'm just thankful Daniel Arms introduced me to your channel. God bless you & yours.
Glad you are staying safe.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. - Hebrews 5:12
I have been gardening in one form or another for 30 years. Yet every time I watch one of your videos I learn some new way to approach it. Thank you Sir.
Thank you Leon! So grateful to have found you sir! Lord bless you in every way!
Thanks Leon. Looking forward to your videos this growing season.
I'm glad that I have found your channel. Very enjoyable and good information.
So happy to see you out and about at your business. The tomatoes look outstanding! Say "hello" to Judy.
Thank you! I love your videos! I just tossed a baking potato from the house in my garden too! While my seed potatoes are about as tall as your tomato plants, the baking potato is slow going. I hope my tomato plants grow up to be like yours!
This northerner thanks you so much for your help! Blessings on you sir.
Thank you Leon for sharing your gardening knowledge, you truly a gift from the Lord to teach his children to grow their own food to sustain themselves and those around them !!!
Good morning Leon! Thank you! Happy Sunday to you!👍🏽👀💞🙏💞💞💞
Thanks Leon kelp the videos coming please I'm learning a lot.
Thank you Leon! I learn so much from you.
I’m so glad you did this video. I can’t find seed potatoes anywhere not even online so I was trying to figure out what the difference was between seed and regular potatoes. Thank you so much
Just get a bag from grocery store cut in quarters with eye and plant been doing it for 20 years. I dip the cut ends in wood ash. Always works.
I did that but got some wet weather and late blight set in. Got some spuds tho.
Your awesome
This video is right on time. Growing in Northeast PA. Hard to get seed potatoes now. Thank you for sharing all the savy with those of us who are less experienced
Man you're awesome. I learned so much from your videos.
Your a good man Leon.
Great job Leon, God Bless
Thank you Leon! I’m giving your wicking system a try, and it looks great! I live in California, and water conservation is a must!
always love your videos Leon!
I liked every part Leon. God bless...
Leon is such a gem ❤️
he enjoys sharing his gardening knowledge, thanks
Love Leon
Thank you. I am praying that last night was our last frost. Ky is behind this year. I'm not sure if we are going to have a spring this year. It looks like we are going straight into summer. blessings to you
Great video and thank you for sharing🥔🥔🤗🤗
Love your videos, they help a lot. I appreciate the lessons.
Question 4: Why do you use a wicking pot when you are using a drip irrigation tube?
How did the potatoes planted in the container do? How much was the yield? We are trying decide if we need a wicking buckets or just plant them in the bucket and water once a week.
I was wondering the same. I planted mine a couple of days ago so not too late to replant. Did they reply about how the potatoes turned out?
Wow... didn't know that piece about having to polinate in the sun! 🐝
What is that black cover you have over the tubs? It looks thick. 🍅🍅🍅
The last two bags of organic Yukon Gold potatoes I have bought over the last month or so have potatoes with chits 🌱, growing eye sockets, or roots. 😆 Those babies are all being planted because I'm not wasting them. I just wish I could get my hands on some of those tubs. In the meantime, I looked back in your videos and found your tutorials on self wicking grow bags. Yowza!
Thank you Leon for sharing all of your knowledge! I am looking forward to making a trip to a Kingston to pick up supplies for making self watering pots if you still have some pots available???
Thank you Leon💗👍
Thank you Sir Leon 😉👍🥔
Thank you so very much! You are the very best and I appreciate it. I live in central Florida and it gets re hot here especially in the summer. Please give us a recipe for the soil you make. Looking all over to find it. Thank you. Jean
Love you leon watching from Linden California
Grocery store potatoes are often sprayed with sprout inhibitor and they will not sprout so they have a longer shelf life that’s why it is not advisable to use grocery store potatoes but use actual seat potatoes.
Please make a demo of planting sweet potatoes in the wick buckets. Or just tell me how many slips do you plant in one wick bucket. Thanks. Enjoy the videos. Keep them coming.
Have a wonderful weekend to you
Question...... Mr Leon, How do you know when to harvest the potatoes?? I Absolutely love the fact that you are sharing your gardening knowledge. Thank you! God Bless you kind sir!!
All the seed potatoes are sold out everywhere. I'm planting store bought potatoes, that are non organic because that is all I could get, and they are sprouting. I am going to try to prove that the "seed potato" idea is a partly myth. I tried to sprout some red Norlands that were grown in Idaho and they did not sprout, but the russets I bought that were grown in the Texas panhandle have sprouts all over them, so maybe the red Norlands were treated the the russets weren't, I don't know. Thank you for this video Leon. It was very timely for me and greetings from south central Texas.
singncarpenter i have had successful volunteer grocery potatoes every year both yukon gold, unknown red skinned varieties and some blue ones. For the last 5 years I have tossed in sprouted grocery ones with my leftover seed potato offspring and they do fine.
Where can I purchase those planters?????
[ Thank-You Leon ]
Will you do a video of growing raspberries or blackberries in wicking tubs? Thank you for all the super videos!
A couple of questions:
What percent of shadecloth should you use for the greenhouse?
When putting small plants or seeds in a wicking pot, how much watering from the top of the pot should you do and how long to get the plants established in the wicking bed?
Thank you! We love your videos and Leon!
Thank you. I was recently told not to plant store bought potatoes because they are sprayed with an eye deterrent. I
I've never had a problem. If you can get the organic, that's what I prefer. But even the ones that aren't, they still start to grow those eyes. Thats usually when someone would they're them away. The only potatoes that I've not seen grow eyes are the purple/black potatoes. Haven't figured those out. It's all an experiment any way. Just try it out!😄
Organic from Costco, Whole Foods etc..
Angela Baumbach thank you, I will.
Robin Harris, thank you
Thanks Leon! My taters are curing and ready to go in my tubs. This is just the video I needed!
how to cure?
Raamaa Raamaa ராமா I cut them so there is an”eye” or sprout on each piece and lay them out to dry a bit ( a day or two) before planting.
FYI~ IF YOUR TOMATO BREAKS OFF, TAKE THE TOP, CUT OFF THE BOTTOM 2 LIMBS AND REPLANT, IT WILL GROW AND PRODUCE TOMATOES!! ☺💜
Mr. Leon, do you suggest adding earthworms to a raised beds garden?
🌻 Good Morning Leon from the Carolinas and Happy Sunday! Thank You for all that you share and do! I’m going to try a bucket of potatoes. I wonder how many potatoes might grow in one bucket, like the way that you planted yours this morning? Thank You Sir ❣️
Oh my Goodness. I just planted my first tomatoes in Leons tub. I hope it works. I just realized I forgot the epsom salt. will add it later.
Love your videos. This info is God's love for us. I'm gonna use 5 gallon buckets. Will a one gallon milk jug set in the middle work?
I was curious to your masterblend formula for the tomatoes. Do u just use the masterblend or do u use the calcium nitrate and Epson salt that comes with it as well and what is your ratio?
Question 3: you said toms don't set blooms above 92degrees. What do we do when the summer days are 100 and up?
Thank you
Question 1: How often do you need to shake/pollinate a tomato plant? Question 2: What's the difference between a 5-5-5 fertilizer & a 20-20-20 fertilizer? Would I mix it different for a gal of water?
Are them barrels the wicking tub style on bottom ? Thanks
Leon my tubs are doing great, what fertilizer do I use once tomatoes n cucumbers start to fruit?? 14-70-48 where do I get it? Can't find it
michael honeychuck same here Michael !! I think I'm going to give them a call and see what happens ? I can't find anything close to that In my area !
@@bustersmith5569 if you find out let me know. Going to probably order masterblend
Leon, how often do I water my potatoes after just planting them?
Ok I've looked through some of your videos but don't see anything mentioning this: root rot. I've got a whole lot of tubs from Menards ready for tomatoes and other vegetables. I've already made 2 wicking tubs already with carrots and radishes/onions going and they seem to be doing well so far. Since I've already lost some young tomato plants under lights indoors to root rot, I'm getting nervous about moving them to the tubs here in a couple weeks (southern IN). Should I put less water in them until I get to the warmer months? Maybe even just water them from the top for now and wait until mid June to water down the tube?
Also, what plants would not do well in wicking tubs? So far I've figured that I'll put my bell pepper and habanero plants in 5 gallon buckets with regular drain holes on the bottom since they don't require as much water.
I've been enjoying your videos learning a lot this year I just built on my first Greenhouse seems to be working good but I would like to know where and how I can get ahold of those planting pots that you keep talking about thank you and God bless
Scott Harris I used rope tubs. They work great so far!
Try to find a local cattle archer in ur area that feeds food and minerals in tubs to his cows. Go to a feed store and ask them if they know where u can get some if they have a board to post on at store. Post on it what ur looking for with ur contact #.
Great video. Question for ya. Can you grow potatoes in the 5 gallon wick method?
I am got to you from watching Arms family u tube.
I need to save up and get a wind tunnel. Oklahoma weather is crazy!!!
Do the container have to be round to do your system? Could I use retangular tubs?
Great Video. Can I grow sweet potatoes the same way? And what about watering the potatoes in the wicking tub?