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Y'all gave me the urge to garden again. After over 30 years of not growing a thing I've got raised gardens and containers and I'm trying grow bags as well. Everything is doing really good. Thank you for giving me that nudge. We always had a garden every year and I'm glad I was taught how to grow vegetables. ♥️ God bless! Oh and I planted some of the smallest tomatoes plants too!
Grow bags i love the most for container gardening. Those self watering containers don't get. Water ends up sitting in them.when the pot drains or rains. Ive been doing conatiners for almost 15 yrs. Live in a apt.
I love this method of stringing tomatoes vertically! I used your method last year and it really works. It’s so easy and quick to just make a slip knot on the supported stalk, and I tie mine to an “s” hook on the overhead pole. To all those intrigued, try this method, it’s simple and efficient.
It’s also a great method for sweet bell peppers. The weight of their fruit can really bend the stalks, and a little support goes a long way with those plants..
Check out Houweling's Tomatoes. I was amazed when Casey invited me to tour the operation a few years ago. They tie the plants just like you are doing and then "walk" each plant down the line as it grows. Their plants produce for about 2 years and will wind up being 30 feet long when replaced. Each plant grows in a container just a little larger than what you sell at the market. They also do cucumbers in the same method and have beehives inside their greenhouses. Very cool.
Here in Cyprus, we had not just torrential rain, but hail stones, yesterday! The temperature dropped down to 7 degrees C at 11am, when for weeks it has already been creeping into the low 30s! This is unheard of, at this time of year!
Always a pleasure to join you and Kevin on your farm , I am still in the start stage for my tomatoes and every thing else we are growing , it is much to cold to start seeds but my asparagus is starting and my parsley and chives are looking good. I am on my way...I live in Montreal , Quebec. Happy gardening..
Your channel is one of my absolute favorites. And I want to thank you for giving Glory to God. Oh! Because if Kevin, I bought 100 Jet Star tomato seeds. Haha
Sarah and Kevin, I want to thank so much for sharing your lives with us through TH-cam. The Christian example that you provide is an inspiration to my wife and me. Thanks so much, Melton and Marsha Sloan
My favorite Italian dressing dry mix recipe in bulk. 3 tbsp oregano, 2 tbsp each parsley, onion powder, salt and sugar, 1 tbsp. each Basil and garlic, 1/2 tbsp each thyme, pepper, paprika and (optional) celery salt. Store in mason jar. To make the dressing (serving size one person): Mix 1 tsp dry mix (shake mason jar well before use) 2 tbsp vinegar, 2 tbsp water and 1 tbsp oil. Let sit for 10 min for the herbs to rehydrate.
Also string up my tomatoes in my greenhouse but start my string in the soil under the plant when I'm planting. Roots grow over and hold the plant in place. Wind stem as it grows. Has worked awesome for the last 3 years that we've been using this method!
The weather is absolutely crazy. I feel for all you in central and eastern US. Its, hot, its cold, its hot, it’s raining, its snowing. It just wont make up its mind what it wants to do. Lol. And of course us in AZ is just hot! 😔. All of my seedlings are outside now and doing well. 🤞. Its been in the 90’s during the day and 60’s at night. Well, summer is here 😔 Iam not ready for the heat. Lol I am so glad all the plants are safe from the cold. Gotta take good care of our beautiful tomato 🍅 plants. Lol. A couple of my tomatoes last yr grew up to about 8 ft high. It was crazy. But lots of yummy beautiful maters 🍅. Love watching things grow with you guys. 💜
Instead of tying the string directly to the plant stem, try digging down a bit more into the dirt and just drop in about a foot of string into the bottom of the hole. Place some dirt on top of it & then plant your tomatoes. The weight of the dirt & the plant will hold the string securely in the dirt eliminating the need to tie it directly to the stalk. Just a thought 🤔. Have a great day 😊.
About 3 years ago, I learned to trellis my tomato plants up a single string to a hook using tomato clips on a single vine from a market gardener's YT channel in Canada. I will never go back to any other way! Sometimes I will leave a second runner if I caught it too late. It's easy to drop a second string attached to a clip to support it. I use a tent stake in the ground to keep the string from pulling the plant base. We get high winds frequently where I live, too, so I protect my indeterminate tomatoes under a portable cattle panel hoop tunnel, since I rotate my beds. I just hook them on the covered panel. Works great! The key for me in using row covers to protect plants is to cover them at the warmest time of the afternoon to capture the rising heat for the night.
Tying the string around the plant and burying it in the hole with the plant also works. Then I just wrap the twine around the plant all of the way up while it grows, no clips required.
I can't believe I found someone who loves tomatoes as much as I do. When I was around 7-8 years old I used to ride my bike through a trail that my grandfather made from our house to his for my daily fill of tomatoes. Grandpa always had a small wooden stool, a salt shaker, and a bucket of water waiting for me in the middle of the garden. I would sit there until my little tummy was full of tomatoes. Now that I am older my husband makes sure our garden has anywhere from 35 to 40 tomato plants every year so I have enough to eat and to can salsa, diced tomatoes, and sauce.
What a beautiful story. I love it! My 95 year old mother whose gradually losing her memory keeps asking me if my tomato plants have tomatoes yet. It's been freezing every night here so mine are in my house yet. We're both eagerly awaiting tomato season.
Just finished reading Amanda Landon’s paper on the 10,000 year mesoamerican domestication of maize, beans and squash. Somewhere during a tangent read that the original tomatoes types were very small. Research road trip idea, lol.
Oh what a blessing all your plants survived the freezing temperatures. Your hard work and preparation paid off! Thanks for taking us along during your day.
I'm not a gardener. I am a saleswoman from way back. This is by far your best presentation to date. Clear, lots of 'hands on' information. Dialog between you, great!!! You are both amazing. Keep up the 'growing'...
Another "layer of ptotection" I use under the frost cloth is milk junks full of water I keep in the direct sunlight during the day. Doing this has saved many plants in my high tunnel. I also "teepee" my individual tomato & pepper plants in my garden with sticks & 1 or 2 warmed jugs with frostcloth covering it all. It works every year!
Good morning! It's Friday. I almost always stop what I am doing, and sit and watch your videos. I look forward to them. This week, I had to be "a gardening adult", and I didn't have it in me to sit, and look at your beautiful plants! Nothing against you two! You are my top 3 on YT! It's just been a very frustrating, hard week... This is only a garden. IT's only plants. There are real people suffering REAL hurt and damage from the weather. There is no comparison. We had a storm blow through, that pretty much wiped out most of my garden ( 3+ inches of hail). It's almost May, in Florida. Start over? Walk away? Is it to late to try? I just spent nearly 3 months on these plants, and they were just starting to produce. If I start over, and these fail due to weather, heat? 🤔Then I am right back to where I am now. My insides are screaming, you have to get back up, and that is the truth. No matter what happens, we have to get back up, and continue. I have to take a deep breathe and realize that If I quit, I know I will be right back where I am now. If I try, and fail, here I am..If I try, and it works....In whatever I do decide to do...time still moves forward..I might as well be doing something constructive!
You mentioned the waterproof salt shaker. A tip I learned to keep your salt from getting lumpy in the salt shaker is to put some dry white rice in your salt shaker.
Can't believe it got so cold where you are. I'm in the north east and we've had a lot of rain. I garden in pots, not as big as yours. Today I had to rig a shelter system for all of plants as we are expecting more rain in the coming days. My cucumbers, basil and even the eggplants don't like it so wet. It hasn't been warm enough to dry anything out. Hope stuff survives.
I suspect you don't need those loops in the mason string. You could just tie the string to a nail or stick and drive it into the soil beside the plant. Seeing as the plants are attached to the string with clips already. The benefit obviously being that the stake and string can stay in the greenhouse for future years.
Hi I think it would be quicker and safer for the tomato plants if you cut one length, then cut the next 30 or so lengths. Kevin drapes them over his shoulder and once up high dangles them from the rafter poles, allowing him to slide them along to the next position, ie not tangle around his legs going up and down the ladder. Once up he then ties off 2-3 strings (and moves ladder along) whilst the ztrings are being tied off below, the climbing clips added and suckers pruned.
Good morning to you,I am in Barbados, so our weather doesn't change like yours but we are experiencing drought, but that God,the rain came at last.I am happy your plants survive and are doing well. God blessing to you all and take care.
I saw you All tie up & Grow Beautiful Tomatoes last year this way Kevin & Sarah!! So glad The Cold weird weather we got did not hurt any of your plants..Prayers for All to Go & Grow Well this Season too. Can't wait to see the Smallest & Largest Tomatoes & How they Produce GOD BLESS & TAKE CARE!!
Thanks for sharing with us Kevin and Sarah, glad things are growing great for you all. Stay safe and keep up the great videos and fun around there. Fred.
Kevin, Kevin, Kevin……waterproof salt shaker!!!!! I’m headed to Amazon and if hubz says anything I’ll tell him “Kevin made me do it” 😂😂😂 I love all things tomato and all things yellow crookneck squash
I already put plants in the garden I covered them with blankets and sheets the best I could they all made it including my young grape Vines. Will be doing it again Saturday evening.
You guys watch The Veggie Boys up in Pennsylvania? I like the way they grow their tomatoes in their Market Garden too. I love the diversity of farming techniques!
Thank you thank you! Bought a smart pot, approximately 39" x 20?". Haven't used it yet. Have a cat and several wild cats who visit. So have it covered. Been trying to figure out what to go over the top to keep the cats out. Those fruit tree covers will work and only need a minimum of two wire hoops. Neat! Thank you! Like what you're doing with your tomatoes.
I have a friend and former co-worker who is a manager of a number high tunnel grow houses for a mid-sized plant/nursery retail company. She and her assistants are experimenting this growing year with using bubble wrap vs row cover vs woven weed block as frost/freeze protection in the tunnels. This experiment is only in it's first year, rather informal and they haven't made any decisions yet. This is just for themselves to see if they can do a bit better than the row cover they traditional use and also because they had trouble re-stocking their row cover inventory for the last couple years. And for a bit of fun. But the bubble wrap appears to keep the undercover temps a few degrees warmer than the row cover and the weed block; however, she told me that the bubble wrap needs to come off or lifted up in the morning once the temps start to climb back into a safe range as they are worried about the limited airflow with the plastic. And the weed block needs to be lifted in the AM as well so the sun can come in. So far she says they all seem to work and she says the bubble wrap looks really pretty when it reflects the night-lights they have in each house. Just thought I'd mention this as some of you all may get caught off guard with these up and down temperatures we all seem to be getting this spring and may need to look at a quick alternative to row cover. Your garden looks great this spring and I hope you have a wonderful growing season. I'm looking forward to watch more preserving videos and the season moves along. Happy growing!
The greenhouse is amazing I can almost taste those tomatoes too kevin. Enjoy watching how you both work together. Thank you for sharing. God's blessings
I use a stick that I plant with the tomato plant and attach a string to the stick which is attached to a wire up above. I think it is sturdier that way.
We got grey and cold weather again after having a couple of beautiful sunny days. Two days ago we had 24 hours of heavy snowfall and the day after it rained the whole day, typically April weather. It is such a mess outside now and our gravel road is not fun to drive on. But we snow and rain cleans away the old snow so I try not to complain! I have always used strings for my tomatoes, it is easy to wind the plants around them while they grow taller. Now I does not have a big greenhouse like yours so I have to cut them at 6,5 feet and let 1-3 sucker branches grow from beneath. This summer, with a bigger and higher greenhouse (and more tomato plants) I will probably get those clips.
I know the Rhodes’ have been doing that for a few years in their greenhouse but they are not in Missouri, I hope they don’t fry and you have it on good authority 😊
I wonder if you could hear up big rocks to place under the row covers? Heat them up to a really warm temp and the rocks will hold the heat for a long time. Placing them every few feet might work.
Some thermal heat from rocks might help keep it warm. Also, water in 2 liter pop bottles to hold heat may help some. Even light bulbs might give some warmth?
Thank goodness that all of your plants and seedlings did great during that hard frost!! The vinegarette dressing looks really good!! This gardening season is going to be very exciting!!
my sister & I were goofing off in Corpus Christi Tx. one day & ran by big lots & checked out the clearances ,, found 3lb. bags of pink hymi. salt for 6.00,, & grabbed? both bags..
what a beautiful video. When I saw all those beautiful tomato plants I really got a craving for tomatoes. then I went to our cellar and opened a glass of tomato juice from last year's garden. It's just delicious. thank you for all your inspiration and all the lovely time together through your nice videos. you both are such heart loving quiet people and I really like watching you.
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Y'all gave me the urge to garden again. After over 30 years of not growing a thing I've got raised gardens and containers and I'm trying grow bags as well. Everything is doing really good. Thank you for giving me that nudge. We always had a garden every year and I'm glad I was taught how to grow vegetables. ♥️ God bless! Oh and I planted some of the smallest tomatoes plants too!
Grow bags i love the most for container gardening. Those self watering containers don't get. Water ends up sitting in them.when the pot drains or rains. Ive been doing conatiners for almost 15 yrs. Live in a apt.
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Thanks again for everything.
I love this method of stringing tomatoes vertically! I used your method last year and it really works. It’s so easy and quick to just make a slip knot on the supported stalk, and I tie mine to an “s” hook on the overhead pole. To all those intrigued, try this method, it’s simple and efficient.
It’s also a great method for sweet bell peppers. The weight of their fruit can really bend the stalks, and a little support goes a long way with those plants..
Check out Houweling's Tomatoes. I was amazed when Casey invited me to tour the operation a few years ago. They tie the plants just like you are doing and then "walk" each plant down the line as it grows. Their plants produce for about 2 years and will wind up being 30 feet long when replaced. Each plant grows in a container just a little larger than what you sell at the market.
They also do cucumbers in the same method and have beehives inside their greenhouses.
Very cool.
Great to see you two again.😊😊
Good morning
Just a thought: maybe put a wood stake with a whole next to the tomato plant and attach the string to it before attaching to top pole. 💖💖🙏🙏💖💖
Here in Cyprus, we had not just torrential rain, but hail stones, yesterday! The temperature dropped down to 7 degrees C at 11am, when for weeks it has already been creeping into the low 30s! This is unheard of, at this time of year!
Sarah your voice sounded funny, hope you are feeling well! Love watching you garden!
Always a pleasure to join you and Kevin on your farm , I am still in the start stage for my tomatoes and every thing else we are growing , it is much to cold to start seeds but my asparagus is starting and my parsley and chives are looking good. I am on my way...I live in Montreal , Quebec. Happy gardening..
Your channel is one of my absolute favorites. And I want to thank you for giving Glory to God. Oh! Because if Kevin, I bought 100 Jet Star tomato seeds. Haha
Sarah and Kevin, I want to thank so much for sharing your lives with us through TH-cam. The Christian example that you provide is an inspiration to my wife and me. Thanks so much, Melton and Marsha Sloan
Floating row cover is good for straining the smallest pulp out of fruit juice as well!
My favorite Italian dressing dry mix recipe in bulk.
3 tbsp oregano, 2 tbsp each parsley, onion powder, salt and sugar, 1 tbsp. each Basil and garlic, 1/2 tbsp each thyme, pepper, paprika and (optional) celery salt. Store in mason jar.
To make the dressing (serving size one person):
Mix 1 tsp dry mix (shake mason jar well before use) 2 tbsp vinegar, 2 tbsp water and 1 tbsp oil. Let sit for 10 min for the herbs to rehydrate.
Your plants are so lucky to have you two taking care of them! Everything is clean and organized and you protect them!
Gotta protect those tomatoes good job
Going to look fabulous looking forward to seeing it finished 😊
I put bucket over some of my more tender plants and agree that covering them makes a big difference!
Also string up my tomatoes in my greenhouse but start my string in the soil under the plant when I'm planting. Roots grow over and hold the plant in place. Wind stem as it grows. Has worked awesome for the last 3 years that we've been using this method!
Right on....rolling those covers up is definitely a confident move...lol.
The weather is absolutely crazy. I feel for all you in central and eastern US. Its, hot, its cold, its hot, it’s raining, its snowing. It just wont make up its mind what it wants to do. Lol. And of course us in AZ is just hot! 😔. All of my seedlings are outside now and doing well. 🤞. Its been in the 90’s during the day and 60’s at night. Well, summer is here 😔 Iam not ready for the heat. Lol I am so glad all the plants are safe from the cold. Gotta take good care of our beautiful tomato 🍅 plants. Lol. A couple of my tomatoes last yr grew up to about 8 ft high. It was crazy. But lots of yummy beautiful maters 🍅. Love watching things grow with you guys. 💜
Instead of tying the string directly to the plant stem, try digging down a bit more into the dirt and just drop in about a foot of string into the bottom of the hole. Place some dirt on top of it & then plant your tomatoes. The weight of the dirt & the plant will hold the string securely in the dirt eliminating the need to tie it directly to the stalk. Just a thought 🤔. Have a great day 😊.
You both makes it all look so easy , I know it's not sending prayers of blessings
I'm trying this method for the first time this year. I just have to say that you both are looking so good. God bless.
About 3 years ago, I learned to trellis my tomato plants up a single string to a hook using tomato clips on a single vine from a market gardener's YT channel in Canada. I will never go back to any other way! Sometimes I will leave a second runner if I caught it too late. It's easy to drop a second string attached to a clip to support it. I use a tent stake in the ground to keep the string from pulling the plant base.
We get high winds frequently where I live, too, so I protect my indeterminate tomatoes under a portable cattle panel hoop tunnel, since I rotate my beds. I just hook them on the covered panel. Works great!
The key for me in using row covers to protect plants is to cover them at the warmest time of the afternoon to capture the rising heat for the night.
Tying the string around the plant and burying it in the hole with the plant also works. Then I just wrap the twine around the plant all of the way up while it grows, no clips required.
Crazy weather 😳
I alway learn something when I watch your videos. Thank you.
I cannot wait for that first tomato! It’s usually a cherry tomato but hey, homegrown is homegrown! 🍅
❤looking good guys ! Quite a lot of work, but very satisfying !
Plants are looking good!
I'd LOVE a high tunnel or green house
You guys are looking great. And the gardens/ plants are beautiful looking.
I would use a stake in the pot with a hole drilled in it to anchor the sting to. You could put the stake in the pot when planting the tomato.
I can't believe I found someone who loves tomatoes as much as I do. When I was around 7-8 years old I used to ride my bike through a trail that my grandfather made from our house to his for my daily fill of tomatoes. Grandpa always had a small wooden stool, a salt shaker, and a bucket of water waiting for me in the middle of the garden. I would sit there until my little tummy was full of tomatoes. Now that I am older my husband makes sure our garden has anywhere from 35 to 40 tomato plants every year so I have enough to eat and to can salsa, diced tomatoes, and sauce.
I hope I can be as great of a grandpa some day as yours was. Passing on the joy of tomatoes to the next generation! God Bless! Kevin
What a beautiful story. I love it!
My 95 year old mother whose gradually losing her memory keeps asking me if my tomato plants have tomatoes yet. It's been freezing every night here so mine are in my house yet. We're both eagerly awaiting tomato season.
There are many greenhouse suppliers other than GS. By supporting your local businesses, you’ll be supporting your friends and neighbors.
Just finished reading Amanda Landon’s paper on the 10,000 year mesoamerican domestication of maize, beans and squash. Somewhere during a tangent read that the original tomatoes types were very small. Research road trip idea, lol.
your system on the way you grow your tomato's looks awesome I hope It works out for both of you well take care and happy gardening
Oh what a blessing all your plants survived the freezing temperatures. Your hard work and preparation paid off! Thanks for taking us along during your day.
I'm not a gardener. I am a saleswoman from way back. This is by far your best presentation to date. Clear, lots of 'hands on' information. Dialog between you, great!!! You are both amazing. Keep up the 'growing'...
Thank you for the kind words!
Both of you have worked hard for and earned all of our 'kind words' and support. Keep up the growing...
You two are wonderful teachers!
Another "layer of ptotection" I use under the frost cloth is milk junks full of water I keep in the direct sunlight during the day. Doing this has saved many plants in my high tunnel. I also "teepee" my individual tomato & pepper plants in my garden with sticks & 1 or 2 warmed jugs with frostcloth covering it all. It works every year!
TommyBerries! Can't wait to see that! I love tomatoes too!
Tomberries are great for salads. But they pickle really well too. So you'll have them all winters
Green house is going to be a must for areas that normally don't need. Its obvious from the last few year's if you garden. Ne Oklahoma
My Uncle loves fresh tomatoes off of the vine.
Good morning! It's Friday. I almost always stop what I am doing, and sit and watch your videos. I look forward to them. This week, I had to be "a gardening adult", and I didn't have it in me to sit, and look at your beautiful plants! Nothing against you two! You are my top 3 on YT! It's just been a very frustrating, hard week... This is only a garden. IT's only plants. There are real people suffering REAL hurt and damage from the weather. There is no comparison. We had a storm blow through, that pretty much wiped out most of my garden ( 3+ inches of hail). It's almost May, in Florida. Start over? Walk away? Is it to late to try? I just spent nearly 3 months on these plants, and they were just starting to produce. If I start over, and these fail due to weather, heat? 🤔Then I am right back to where I am now. My insides are screaming, you have to get back up, and that is the truth. No matter what happens, we have to get back up, and continue. I have to take a deep breathe and realize that If I quit, I know I will be right back where I am now. If I try, and fail, here I am..If I try, and it works....In whatever I do decide to do...time still moves forward..I might as well be doing something constructive!
why do you not have a heater in the greenhouse for frost protection
Great progress & teaching! Thanks for sharing!
You mentioned the waterproof salt shaker. A tip I learned to keep your salt from getting lumpy in the salt shaker is to put some dry white rice in your salt shaker.
Can't believe it got so cold where you are. I'm in the north east and we've had a lot of rain. I garden in pots, not as big as yours. Today I had to rig a shelter system for all of plants as we are expecting more rain in the coming days. My cucumbers, basil and even the eggplants don't like it so wet. It hasn't been warm enough to dry anything out. Hope stuff survives.
I suspect you don't need those loops in the mason string. You could just tie the string to a nail or stick and drive it into the soil beside the plant. Seeing as the plants are attached to the string with clips already. The benefit obviously being that the stake and string can stay in the greenhouse for future years.
Hi I think it would be quicker and safer for the tomato plants if you cut one length, then cut the next 30 or so lengths. Kevin drapes them over his shoulder and once up high dangles them from the rafter poles, allowing him to slide them along to the next position, ie not tangle around his legs going up and down the ladder. Once up he then ties off 2-3 strings (and moves ladder along) whilst the ztrings are being tied off below, the climbing clips added and suckers pruned.
Good morning to you,I am in Barbados, so our weather doesn't change like yours but we are experiencing drought, but that God,the rain came at last.I am happy your plants survive and are doing well. God blessing to you all and take care.
Can't wait to plant outside. Temps in the 20s still here in MN.
Thank you for sharing, have a beautiful day.
I saw you All tie up & Grow Beautiful Tomatoes last year this way Kevin & Sarah!! So glad The Cold weird weather we got did not hurt any of your plants..Prayers for All to Go & Grow Well this Season too. Can't wait to see the Smallest & Largest Tomatoes & How they Produce GOD BLESS & TAKE CARE!!
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.u rock ,,,! My very favorite, watch everyday...😅
Thanks for sharing with us Kevin and Sarah, glad things are growing great for you all. Stay safe and keep up the great videos and fun around there. Fred.
Kevin, Kevin, Kevin……waterproof salt shaker!!!!!
I’m headed to Amazon and if hubz says anything I’ll tell him “Kevin made me do it” 😂😂😂
I love all things tomato and all things yellow crookneck squash
God bless you guys too 🩵
Central Iowa is still having freezing Temps and frost warnings all this week. I'm holding off planting anything in my garden and raised beds
I already put plants in the garden I covered them with blankets and sheets the best I could they all made it including my young grape Vines. Will be doing it again Saturday evening.
Hey Kevin, water proof salt shaker, great idea, my high tunnel is too far from my house to have to go back for the salt! Lol, I love it!
You two are looking great physically, by the way! Your new diet is really showing great results... congratulations! You guys rock!
Love your sharing.
You guys watch The Veggie Boys up in Pennsylvania?
I like the way they grow their tomatoes in their Market Garden too.
I love the diversity of farming techniques!
The plants look great in the greenhouse.
Thank you thank you! Bought a smart pot, approximately 39" x 20?". Haven't used it yet. Have a cat and several wild cats who visit. So have it covered. Been trying to figure out what to go over the top to keep the cats out. Those fruit tree covers will work and only need a minimum of two wire hoops. Neat! Thank you! Like what you're doing with your tomatoes.
I have a friend and former co-worker who is a manager of a number high tunnel grow houses for a mid-sized plant/nursery retail company. She and her assistants are experimenting this growing year with using bubble wrap vs row cover vs woven weed block as frost/freeze protection in the tunnels. This experiment is only in it's first year, rather informal and they haven't made any decisions yet. This is just for themselves to see if they can do a bit better than the row cover they traditional use and also because they had trouble re-stocking their row cover inventory for the last couple years. And for a bit of fun. But the bubble wrap appears to keep the undercover temps a few degrees warmer than the row cover and the weed block; however, she told me that the bubble wrap needs to come off or lifted up in the morning once the temps start to climb back into a safe range as they are worried about the limited airflow with the plastic. And the weed block needs to be lifted in the AM as well so the sun can come in. So far she says they all seem to work and she says the bubble wrap looks really pretty when it reflects the night-lights they have in each house. Just thought I'd mention this as some of you all may get caught off guard with these up and down temperatures we all seem to be getting this spring and may need to look at a quick alternative to row cover. Your garden looks great this spring and I hope you have a wonderful growing season. I'm looking forward to watch more preserving videos and the season moves along. Happy growing!
Great video, y'all big hugs!
Good Morning to you both. How very exciting.
Thanks for sharing the recipe for salad dressing. Im excited to try it with some fresh salad from the garden
Thanks for sharing 🙏
The greenhouse is amazing I can almost taste those tomatoes too kevin. Enjoy watching how you both work together. Thank you for sharing. God's blessings
Thank you for all the great tips. 👍
Yes very nice and the plants look great. I luv tomatoes so much, eat them any way possible. 🍅🍅🍅
Awesome video 👍👍
Thank you!!❤
Great video sure wish the cold weather would stop so i could plant something
Good morning! You need to put those clips in your Amazon store. Guess what? We're looking at a home on 10 ac in Salem. 🙏🤞
I use a stick that I plant with the tomato plant and attach a string to the stick which is attached to a wire up above. I think it is sturdier that way.
We got grey and cold weather again after having a couple of beautiful sunny days. Two days ago we had 24 hours of heavy snowfall and the day after it rained the whole day, typically April weather. It is such a mess outside now and our gravel road is not fun to drive on. But we snow and rain cleans away the old snow so I try not to complain!
I have always used strings for my tomatoes, it is easy to wind the plants around them while they grow taller. Now I does not have a big greenhouse like yours so I have to cut them at 6,5 feet and let 1-3 sucker branches grow from beneath. This summer, with a bigger and higher greenhouse (and more tomato plants) I will probably get those clips.
I know the Rhodes’ have been doing that for a few years in their greenhouse but they are not in Missouri, I hope they don’t fry and you have it on good authority 😊
Great video. TFS.
I wonder if you could hear up big rocks to place under the row covers? Heat them up to a really warm temp and the rocks will hold the heat for a long time. Placing them every few feet might work.
We’ve had quite a cold snap for past 7-10 days. Everything is looking great. Be blest! Thanks for sharing.
So hard being on the West coast and knowing what our weather is going to give you guys. Love watching you guys. May God be with you. ❤️
I like that you use a greenhouse without extra heat.
⚘Thx you for teaching us well
Some thermal heat from rocks might help keep it warm. Also, water in 2 liter pop bottles to hold heat may help some. Even light bulbs might give some warmth?
I use tomato hooks and a cable lean and lower vines usually get 32 ft long high tunnel here in Arkansas
Mid-Summer Hot, a shady sprawling Oak Tree with a light breeze and a Fist Sized Tomato Fresh out of the garden, and yes, Complete with Salt Shaker.
You are amazing Lucia. Just how does a girl come from the bank with no enginering background and do what you do? You are truly gifted.
Thank goodness that all of your plants and seedlings did great during that hard frost!! The vinegarette dressing looks really good!! This gardening season is going to be very exciting!!
my sister & I were goofing off in Corpus Christi Tx. one day & ran by big lots & checked out the clearances ,, found 3lb. bags of pink hymi. salt for 6.00,, & grabbed? both bags..
I like how you do so many projects together.
Thank you
what a beautiful video. When I saw all those beautiful tomato plants I really got a craving for tomatoes. then I went to our cellar and opened a glass of tomato juice from last year's garden. It's just delicious. thank you for all your inspiration and all the lovely time together through your nice videos. you both are such heart loving quiet people and I really like watching you.