I agree with your 'sucker' philosophy. We're in Tucson with a crazy amount of UV and I don't even prune anymore because they don't bush out too much due to the spectacular UV. I do keep the bottom 12" clean to prevent soil-borne disease, but those suckers stay on and flower and OMG, with good organic feeding, lots of crop! I also grow mine close together and never grow them vertically but on more of a slant as it gives them a sunny side and a shady side. Throw some 30% shade cloth on the sunny (top) side and they'll keep setting fruit through 100F+ (because the plants have access to many cool zones and will adapt accordingly). They really are very fun and forgiving plants if treated with just a modicum of respect. Great video 👍🍅
Avid organic gardener of 35 years. I just got your book Friday and started reading right away. I am so excited to implement your suggestions in my 2023 garden.
My trellis came from the arch shaped safety frame of an old trampoline . I simply drove some wooden stakes in the ground from old broom handles and such them slid the hollow tubes over it . Free.
Just ordered my trellis kits from Wayfair!!! I do dream of custom ones one day lol...but I'll start with these simple ones. Thank you for the fantastic KGA intro zoom today...looking forward to building a proper kitchen garden after years of growing my tomatoes in big plastic pots lol 🍅💖🧤
It breaks my heart to prune anything with flowers too! I just can't do it, so I also have a second stemmed plant this year lol I've also started using yarn instead of twine to tie, it's much softer and never cuts into my stem
Hi I'm new to your Channel I want to start growing ny own Vegetables as never done it before om 63 yrs old and woukd like to know how to start. I want to do high raised beds and would love to know what tyoe of soil compos i have to use. I live in Canada PEI the soil here is read good for potatos but i want to grow other things i woukd appreciatesome advice please Kind regards Owen .
Could you grow zucchini, or other vine plants on an arch? We are doing a potager style vegetable and cut flower garden, and I want to add 4 arches. I’m wondering what other types of vegetables I can add to them.
Has anyone tried growing another type of vining plant with their tomato on a trellis - like scarlet runner beans or climbing nasturtium or morning glories??? Just wondering if it would work.
@@workinprogress3609 haha it's okay! My husband had a job opportunity here that he couldn't turn down. The good side of it is that I've gotten to garden in a lot of different climates. Thanks for being here!
Wait, what?? Chicago is great. I’ve lived in California, Idaho, Colorado, Arkansas, Illinois, and have enjoyed all of them and how different each place is. Don’t ever limit yourself!
Definitely not hard to grow tomatoes in the ground you just follow the same steps but cut out the raised bed or pot step and dig your hole 2ft×2ft, and throw them in, water and fertilize outside of drip zone literally one of the easiest vegetables I grow
She's overcomplicating it a bit. All of the nutrients tomatoes need are in the ground. That's why farmers don't build raised beds. You don't need to build her raised beds or buy her trellis kit. And she wasn't working with cattle panels. It sounds like she bought fencing. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I build, take down, move around, and rebuild 8 cattle panel trellis a year just because I like to change up the garden and it's so easy to do. Plus, if you want, you can use cattle panels as arched trellises, fence trellises, a-frame trellises or anything you can imagine.
I think you can control your soil content better when plant in raised bed. The previous owner of my current house use herbicide and pesticide heavily due to mosquitoes and poison ivy. So there is no way we can plant crops in ground.. so raised bed is good news to us with soil pollution
I agree with your 'sucker' philosophy. We're in Tucson with a crazy amount of UV and I don't even prune anymore because they don't bush out too much due to the spectacular UV. I do keep the bottom 12" clean to prevent soil-borne disease, but those suckers stay on and flower and OMG, with good organic feeding, lots of crop! I also grow mine close together and never grow them vertically but on more of a slant as it gives them a sunny side and a shady side. Throw some 30% shade cloth on the sunny (top) side and they'll keep setting fruit through 100F+ (because the plants have access to many cool zones and will adapt accordingly).
They really are very fun and forgiving plants if treated with just a modicum of respect.
Great video 👍🍅
Avid organic gardener of 35 years. I just got your book Friday and started reading right away. I am so excited to implement your suggestions in my 2023 garden.
This video is worth the price of the membership. So informational!
My trellis came from the arch shaped safety frame of an old trampoline . I simply drove some wooden stakes in the ground from old broom handles and such them slid the hollow tubes over it . Free.
I’ve never understood pruning fruiting branches from tomatoes. Thanks for confirming my suspicions on pruning the sun branches instead 😊👏🏾👏🏾
Great video! I’ve also found that the suckers produce a lot more flowers... will be taking your advice and leaving the suckers from now on. 👍
Just ordered my trellis kits from Wayfair!!! I do dream of custom ones one day lol...but I'll start with these simple ones. Thank you for the fantastic KGA intro zoom today...looking forward to building a proper kitchen garden after years of growing my tomatoes in big plastic pots lol 🍅💖🧤
How much from wayfair
It breaks my heart to prune anything with flowers too! I just can't do it, so I also have a second stemmed plant this year lol I've also started using yarn instead of twine to tie, it's much softer and never cuts into my stem
Send the gifts back 😭
Hi I'm new to your Channel I want to start growing ny own Vegetables as never done it before om 63 yrs old and woukd like to know how to start. I want to do high raised beds and would love to know what tyoe of soil compos i have to use. I live in Canada PEI the soil here is read good for potatos but i want to grow other things i woukd appreciatesome advice please
Kind regards Owen .
Where are your scissors from? Hard to find good quality metal heavy duty ones I've found
Could you grow zucchini, or other vine plants on an arch? We are doing a potager style vegetable and cut flower garden, and I want to add 4 arches. I’m wondering what other types of vegetables I can add to them.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peas, butternut squash, zucchini.
Beans, squash, pumpkin, gourds, any kind of pea. (Sweet peas smell great and are not edible.)
Can you do the same with cucumbers
Has anyone tried growing another type of vining plant with their tomato on a trellis - like scarlet runner beans or climbing nasturtium or morning glories??? Just wondering if it would work.
Where do you get the trellis????
This is the Nicole Arch trellis available in the Gardenary Shop! www.shop.gardenary.com
How to have sweet tomatoes than the acid ones?
How to prune tomatoes
Fell down the trolley to the right on the hill which made the 7 long 😭 sorry guys they tricked me again
It's all long now 😭
Why did I think you were in Houston?
I started my gardening company Rooted Garden in Houston but moved to Chicago in 2018
@@Gardenary yuck! Sorry to hear that happened to you.
@@workinprogress3609 haha it's okay! My husband had a job opportunity here that he couldn't turn down. The good side of it is that I've gotten to garden in a lot of different climates. Thanks for being here!
@@Gardenary That's okay. You don't have to hide your pain. We are all friends here.😋😂😋
Wait, what?? Chicago is great. I’ve lived in California, Idaho, Colorado, Arkansas, Illinois, and have enjoyed all of them and how different each place is. Don’t ever limit yourself!
How do you protect your garden from squirrels!
Your ight s down for kitchen tutorials
Definitely not hard to grow tomatoes in the ground you just follow the same steps but cut out the raised bed or pot step and dig your hole 2ft×2ft, and throw them in, water and fertilize outside of drip zone literally one of the easiest vegetables I grow
She's overcomplicating it a bit. All of the nutrients tomatoes need are in the ground. That's why farmers don't build raised beds. You don't need to build her raised beds or buy her trellis kit. And she wasn't working with cattle panels. It sounds like she bought fencing. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I build, take down, move around, and rebuild 8 cattle panel trellis a year just because I like to change up the garden and it's so easy to do. Plus, if you want, you can use cattle panels as arched trellises, fence trellises, a-frame trellises or anything you can imagine.
Yes, you can do it exactly the way you just said. But some people just like to make it pretty.😊
For city people where soil is heavily polluted with herbicide and pesticide, I think raised bed is safe bet for growing health crop
@@The2clock I never thought about that, as I live out in the country. But excellent observation.
Sell that book! Tomatoes grow so much better in the ground.
I think you can control your soil content better when plant in raised bed. The previous owner of my current house use herbicide and pesticide heavily due to mosquitoes and poison ivy. So there is no way we can plant crops in ground.. so raised bed is good news to us with soil pollution