Growing Tomatoes In A Cold Climate (Zone 3 Gardening)
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- Growing tomatoes in a short season, cold climate garden can be challenging. Over the years I have learned a few things that have helped me have some decent tomato harvests :)
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Love your creativity with the boxes. Great stuff.
Excuse my ignorance , but what for are those boxes ?
Very good idea to use those boxes to walk on and also keep the soil in lt place
Brilliant Kayla! Thank you for sharing your tips. Here in zone 3 we need all the heal we can get. Thanks a bunch. Your garden soil looks superb.
You’re welcome :) yes we do!! Thank you, the soil has really come to life over the last couple of years. Hoping this is the last year we till it, I just have to really keep up with the weeds.
I love seeing your rows!
Appreciated learning about long keeper tomatoes and cold climate tomatoes.
Thanks Kayla:) so many great pointers!
You're welcome :)
I'm still eating my Clare tomatoes from last year. They keep amazingly long!
Wow, that is great to hear!! I am so happy I found out about them. How did you store them? I am already trying to plan where to keep them next winter.
I keep them in a ventilated cardboard box with a lid, like produce box, in the coolest room in my house. I have been growing them for several years. My record for keeping one is 16 months!
@@teresamackenzie9896 Thank you :) Wow that is quite the record!!
I am in zone 3 ( Manitoba )and honestly beside a few veggies i purchase as plants ( specialty tomatoes , my broccoli , Brussel sprouts , cabbage ) my garden which is about a 1/4 acre in size I plant everything from seed .I do have sandy loam soil and i have been planting a week prior to the May long weekend or on the weekend and I get way to much so i give away a lot .And i grow seeds from all over the world that most people haven't even heard of .I have had up to 70 watermelon in one year .Each year is different , some are ideal , some like this year are less then ideal but everything is up for the most part and now just some warm sunny days and it will explode
That is a lot of watermelon!! I am still working on growing melons, not much success here yet. Your garden sounds so lovely :) I do find the things planted from seed seem to be a little more hardy sometimes, and way less work for us to start them too! It is so interesting how much can change each year, there is always something different that struggles and something that thrives. We learn so much in the garden :)
Sounds like a really great garden. What kind of watermelon do you plant?
@@marcyschafers4203 O that is a question ,......I have standard oblong , round ones , some striped some a solid green , then there are the yellow ones that i have tried , and the yellow fleshed ones , orange fleshed , green rind , Moon's and Star's grow well and is what i call a one person melon etc etc .I have to order more seeds for next year .....best Place is Baker Seeds for heirloom varieties and unusual watermelons as well as cantaloupe and rare vegetable seeds and flowers. Some come with great success , and some i try and not to my liking .I am trying to get seeds from Europe , flowers as well as vegetable
@@marcyschafers4203 Sorry i had replied . I purchase a variety of seeds , mostly from Baker Seeds in the USA , I do the traditional oblong green stripped , then there are the soccer sized round ones .I had orange fleshed ones , and this year i have what is called Lemon drop , a small yellow fleshed and skinned variety , and i planted larger ( Ten pounders ) yellow skinned with red flesh .I have tried many varieties over the years , Moon and Stars is a one i plant every year , a small dark melon with yellow spots this the moon and stars .but a perfect one person melon ......
Just found your channel and subscribed ,I am in Zone 4 in Canada!😄
Thank you, happy you found me. We have some challenges up here! I think they upgrade me to a zone 4 but with the cold snaps we get here often the zone 4 perennials die. So I am sticking with the Zone 3 things just to be safe :)
Prairie Plantgirl tried one of my delicious early season tomato the Thourburg Terracotta and she loves it and has it on her repeat list for her coming season . Something you might like also as they only just a few days after Black Krim which is often a early to ripped tomato.
I'm subscribed hopefully I'll learn a little more I'm Ohio 6a thanks for helping.
I don't like my tomatoes less than our 50s degrees and peppers less than 60s they need heat more.
Our longer season I prefer inderderment tomatoes but have both
Thanks
I do have one of those planted :) I grew it last year and loved it too, such beautiful tomato and tasted great! I have the Black Krim as well. (I planted one more row after this video with all my coloured tomatoes). I will have to make note as they ripen this year, always trying for the earliest I can. We have had such cool temperatures this spring I am afraid my peppers and tomatoes are suffering. It's looking like we may finally start getting some heat by the end of this week, just hope things weren't stunted too much!
I like the idea of planting the tomatoes in a trench.
When Trenching I put a bit of cane or a stick pointing up t the end of the rootball so I can see where it ends as the pot can wasily be blown away. As well as planting this help knowing where to put the stakes for doing the florida weave
Thank you, that is a great idea. I definitely had some pots blow away, lol. I also never thought about putting in the stakes for the Florida weave, I will have to be careful with that this year, will be marking them with stakes next year :)
@@FiveCanadianAcres You can always set the stakes this year a little bit back from the tomatoes so you don't catch the roots. After the first weave the plant take to it fine.
I find that the Florida Weave works great with bush tomatoes. I've tried it the last couple of years and it's cheaper that cages, easier to store than cages and easier to put up than using multiple canes and string per plant.
I haven't tried it with cordon tomatoes - I usually grow these in the greenhouse or polytunnel. The few times I grown cordon tomatoes outside I have use a high frame with strings down them.
Thanks for the great advice on tomatoes.
You're welcome :)
Coucou
Formidable vidéo bravo 😊
À bientôt
Put tyres around the tomoto plant, it will get protected with colder wind. The temperature will remain little hot ,it will work like blanket.
You use tyres and then cover it with rubber tyres tubes.
Keep adding tyres as per as need.
Jay bharat.
I enjoyed this, I hope you get a great harvest! I’m doing the Florida weave this year too!
Thank you :) Best of luck with the Florida weave as well. I am hoping it's the solution for simple tomato trellising, they always grow so wild and crazy, lol.
Nice to see a Canadian channel. I am in PEI so I hear ya on the wind! I grew Sunrise tomatoes last year. They are an orange determinate hybrid. Ripen early and go from blush to full colour fast, and were pretty frost resistant in the fall. They also produced a ridiculous amount of tomatoes per plant. Support them well if you grow them, they get heavy.
Those sounds like great tomatoes, I will add them to my list for next year :) It can be hard to find a lot of varieties that are determinate and not red, lol.
Just found your channel; thanks for sharing zone 3 tomato planting tips! 🤗🇨🇦
You're welcome, hope they were helpful :)
I’m in Ottawa, and I also start my tomatoes from seed approximately the first week of April and plant Victoria Day weekend; I never put my plants in before then. Thank you for showing the trench method; I’ve always wanted to try it, but too afraid to I’ll break the stems.
That sounds like a good system. I am thinking I will wait a bit longer to start my tomatoes next year (usually start them mid march). I am surprised at how bendy the stems really are!!
@@FiveCanadianAcresit might be inadequate lighting; tomatoes tend to bend as they grow and reach for the light.
@@RORAtherose Yes I think that is part of my problem. I have good strong lights but I grow too many plants so they are competing for it, lol.
I just found your channel and have watched a bunch of your videos! I was so excited to find someone living in Edmonton area willing to share their gardening knowledge! I live in St. Albert 😊
Awesome, so glad you found me! You are not far at all, we actually used to live in St.Albert before buying our property :)
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I'm new to your channel and look forward to checking out other videos as well. I'm in New Brunswick zone 5 b and haven't been able to get my tomatoes or peppers in the ground yet because our overnights have been to cold.
Awesome, you're so welcome :) Seems to be a late spring everywhere this year. I am hoping we will get a later fall to make up for it. We are getting down to 2 overnight tonight and I just planted my peppers yesterday of course. Let's hope things warm up soon!
Hey there! Great video. I only just learned last year that you shouldn’t can tomatoes after they have had a frost.
We are between Calgary and Lethbridge and have about 100 days without frost. That being said we usually get frost in July.
Take care,
Annette 🌺
I was surprised when I learned that as well. Those late frosts can really set the garden back, especially with just 100 days. I have about 124 days. I find the long summer days we get here helps, the plants get lot's of sunlight hours. Hope that frost stays away this year, now if only we cannot this wind to die down a bit :)
Happy gardening,
Kayla
Honest question: why shouldn't tomatoes be canned after a frost? How is that different than freezing tomatoes in your freezer, then cooking them/canning them?
@@prairielavender It has to do with the acid levels (pH) changing when the plant/vines freeze while the fruit is still on the plant vs being picked ripe and then frozen. This would mean they could possible not have the correct acid level for safe canning. I am by no means an experienced canner, still very much learning. I have had troubles finding any actual studies in regards to this but I am still researching, will be sure to update and share once I find something :)
@@FiveCanadianAcres Thank you for this info. I will do some searching for more info on this too. I usually try to harvest any fruit prior to a freeze but it would be good to know one way or another, "Just in case".
Hello from Arizona! Haha zone 8b. I enjoyed your video! My plants get leggy too but our soil is very warm. I did like the trench method though maybe it would speed up the root growth for me as well! Thanks for sharing and good luck with your tomatoes this year!
8b, so nice :) You're welcome, best of luck with your tomatoes this year as well!!
Really enjoy your posts! This wind in Alberta!!😮 I am worried about putting my plants out 😮
I hear you, it doesn't seem to be slowing down yet. I went ahead and planted mine and they seem to be doing okay. I have seem some people covering with cages and sheets, but would be a lot of work if you plant more than a few.
For some of my smaller/younger plants, I bought some baskets with a loose weave from the dollar store to put over top of them to protect from the gusting winds. They have air flow and let light in but protected really well from the wind. My poor zucchini leaves look like a 10-fingered hand from all that wind!
😃🎉 Excellent
I subscribed to your channel 🙏
Thank you :)
@@FiveCanadianAcres you're very welcome 😁
Hello from cold Nova Scotia.
Hello :) it has been cold here this spring as well, hopefully the warm weather arrives soon!
Amazing looking tomatoe patch! And great plating method...them vine tomatoes worked pretty good for me last season in 5a ever tried them?
Thank you :) I do grow some of the vining tomatoes as well. They still grow pretty well here, and it seems many of the fun coloured and unique varieties are indeterminate.
@@FiveCanadianAcres I went assortment crazy with peppers maybe 20 kinds but tomatoes just the usual few
I use trenching even in my 5b zone, they grown way quicker😊
I'm new to the channel, why do you have cardboard boxes in the garden? Is that just for pathways?
Yes, for the pathways :) They will be filled with wood chips, the idea is the boxes will help a bit with structure between soil and chips until the beds get established.
Love this! Watching from Alaska!
Where did you get all your boxes? I love this idea but I don’t know where to get this many boxes. I am in Alberta as well
I am part of a program called Loop, we team up with grocery stores to pick unused groceries to feed to our animals. It all comes in the boxes so we are able to repurpose them in the garden. We have had luck finding cardboard off of marketplace last year. You could also try a local grocery store or liquor stores or even the bigger warehouse stores.
Or you can buy them from Canadian tire if you want same size boxes ( matchy match)
What are the boxes meant for?
They are the walk ways. We will fill them with wood chips so eventually they should just look like paths. The cardboard should hold the wood chips in place for a bit until the beds get some structure, or at least that’s the plan :)
A Canadian gardener???? Subscribe!
It's so hard to find youtubers in Canada.
Hello :) There are not as many of us in Canada, so glad you found me. It's been great connecting with Canadian gardeners. Even though there is such a wide range of climates across the country we have a lot in common as well!
Are you planting the tomatoes in plastic bags?
No, those are pots I make out of newspaper :) They make it really easy to transplant things, especially ones that don't like their roots disturbed.