You are one my absolute FAVORITE gardening channel on TH-cam! Been watching you since you were making videos for your Dad’s channel. I do not understand why you don’t have millions of subscribers?! Soon, I hope ❤
I've grown the Florida Everglades tomatoes and you're in for a surprise . They make a huge bush and once you have them, you'll have them for years because they self seed like crazy.
Well then I'm gonna try them...down south here it's hard to get nice tomatoes except for determinants...once I started growing them I finally got some.
lol, scrolled down to say the same! I’m in central Florida and there’s a number of folks who use them as a ground cover between fruit trees. Might winter kill up there in Travis’ area but they never stop here for us!!!
I started two seeds of the purple tomato mid March. They were sowed almost a week later than my other tomatoes because the seeds hadn't arrived in the mail yet. I make my own compost every year to start my seeds in. Each of the purple tomato seeds germinated quickly and caught up to the other seedlings. Up until transplanting into the garden they were robust plants. They've been in the ground for 3 weeks and are thick lush green plants with lots of flowers and little tomatoes growing on them already. Many of my other tomato plants are just now getting flowers.
Why did you decide to get GMO seeds when everyone has been trying to make sure to invest non gmo things for years? I am trying to understand why people are going against what they have been doing for so long.
Travis, I bought some of that coop poop fertilizer. The twenty five pound bag, I opened it up and put some in the garden and forgot to close the container and left it in the garage. The neighbor kid came over to mow my yard and asked me if something had crawled in there and died. So I followed him and opened the door to check, I almost hurled my lunch on the floor. Coop poop is some really great fertilizer. Especially for tomatoes and cucumbers but man, it has a smell as bad as a three-day road kill! Make sure you put it in a closed container! Thanks for your videos! Have you planted your Oakree yet?
@@lindawilbert3202 I think you're desensitized to the smell. The Coop Poop is a concentrated small pellet. It has a unique odor when contained in a closed space. I would raise me some chickens but I live in the city next to Ft. Bragg and they say NO to living chickens here.
@@JohnDeWeese-lq4pf I let the chicken poop cure for month with some of the bedding which is hemp. Then over time I had leaves and paper. Once in a while I turn the pile and it turns into compost that doesn't smell anymore. No chickens allowed near the liberty? Unbelievable 😒
@@lindawilbert3202 Not in the city. I've lived here fifty years. None of the locals call it "Ft. Liberty." The WOKE higher uppers NEVER asked us TAX PAYERS what we thought about spending 3 million dollars to change a traditional name. But, we still have BRAGG BULEVARD. It definitely hasn't changed. We got a two million dollar Amazon packing center right outside the main gate. I'm getting too old to turn compost.
The Everglades tomatoes will grow at least six feet in all directions. Give them plenty of room or it becomes almost impossible to get them picked . Take scissors and cut whole clusters because when you try to pick individually they burst open if they are even somewhat ripe . I lay the clusters still attached out so the more unripe ones can ripen up .
My GMO are doing GREAT, they are HUGE! I have been harvesting them for a couple weeks now. My neighbor and I think that some of them have a hint of blackberry like aftertaste. Or maybe it's because they were so sweet. I'm also growing something called, "Tropic" it is doing okay, still producing in the heat. The Purple ones are exploding though. I think I have about another month before the weather gets them. I'd like to see if I can keep them alive all summer. I collected seeds though, so I won't have to pay those 20 dollars anymore, I plan to grow more in the fall.
I tried the Cherokee Carbon I heard from your videos last year and I’m impressed so far. Let’s see if they taste like the Cherokee Purples. Thanks for the tip.
I’m glad to see your Cherokee carbon tomatoes are doing good. I planted them last year and they all kicked the bucket before they did anything to speak of. I’ve been looking for a substitute for Cherokee purple with did horrible the last few years, but like gardening goes, my Cherokee purple tomatoes are thriving and looking great this year.
I am growing a few red snappers, hossinator, Bella Rosa, and celebrity. Also have a few varieties of indeterminates. Some fruit set on the Bella Rosa, black beauty, and cherry tomatoes only. Not a lot of flowers, but all the plants are looking good for the most part. This Georgia weather is not kind to tomatoes, so I'm going to cherish every single one that makes it off the vine. I ordered some Orleans sweet potatoes from the Steele Plant company. Looking forward to trying a different variety. Thanks for sharing.
We had a ton of rain too, but I got started early this year and my tomatoes in the ground the 3rd week of Feb this year, zone 9A...Red Snapper, bella Rosa, celebrity + and the all star this year has been Lemon Boy +.. going forward, I'll probably only grow Red Snapper and Lemon Boy +. The Lemon Boys are the best tasting by far, and what a disease package with over 20" of rain here in Texas, I still don't see a bit of blight.
In zone 10a, garden about done except sweet potato,peppers, & volunteer Everglades cherry tomato that is 6x12 ft. Heat index 102 and red snapper plants suffering. Tried 40% shade clothe. Getting beds composted for october fall crops. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏝 🏖
I’m in my second year of using Eden Blue Gold products. Love that they are "local" to me, but they are probably even closer to you. Give them a call and James will talk to you for your heart’s content! Currently using the 6 in 1 blend, base, fusion, flower, fxi, and others. The FXI knocked any bugs off my plants last year, after a couple sprays and it is a wetting agent plus a silica and iodine. I haven’t had a single disease or bug start this year and usually at this point, I would be in recovery mode with my tomatoes at this point of year (coastal NC).
Cried my eyes out all last night seeing WI #1,#2. All I can say is it isn't Oxheart 😂 Suggest taking sizzors cut bad leaf's off. No need plants energy going into them. Maybe they will make a come back. Been struggling here too with 6 inches rain every other day here in Wisconsin.
If you haven't read how to grow world record tomatoes it is an interesting book about organic gardening. Coincidently the author lived down the way from me before he died and were his garden was
This year I’m growing Roadster on your recommendation, so far they’re beautiful! And Simplicity which sounds like another disease resistant determinate tomato, so far beautiful. I have a challenge for you…..lets find an heirloom or non-hybrid tomato that will grow here in the deep south! The problem with most heirlooms is they lack disease resistance and their too region specific. But for instance, Marion was developed at the Charleston SC agricultural place. I grew them in Spartanburg at the recommendation of a few old timers and they did ok. Next year I’m going to trial Neptune and Marglobe, both old determinate varieties with some disease resistance. Join me and lets see what we can come up with. Bye the way, I now live south of Charleston so it’s going to be even more challenging.
My purple tomatoes are outpacing my California Rutger (from space) by 3:1. Very healthy looking in zone 6b. I haven't grown tomatoes for many seasons, but some - like the spoon tomato - just seem to hate certain brands of grow lights and they look like shit until they hit the ground.
Gee… my gmo purple tomato is doing great… I only planted one outside to give it a try, but I just went out and measured it and it’s 35 inches (above ground) blooming and several small tomatoes set on. In my greenhouse, the purple gmo’s took off taller than all of my other plants, I planted only 4 seeds and as I said I only put 1 outside. You certainly know, I’m NOT paid by anyone to say my comments. 😁
Mine are doing great too. They are massive. I started with a couple and then took suckers and stuck them in pots. They took off and are now just as large as the originals. They are covered in blooms and tomatoes, and I have been harvesting ripe ones for about 2 weeks. They taste pretty good.
Travis, you seem to grow your indeterminate heirlooms the same way you grow your determinate hybrids: Florida weave (edit: not Florida weave but still dense vegitation), no pruning. I'm up in Oregon 8b so we don't have the disease pressure you do but if I don't prune my heirlooms to a single vine and grow vertically I will get disease and lose my crop. I wonder if you might have more success if you tried a different process with them? Maybe it's not worth the effort in your short tomato season.
If you like the black tomato’s, you should try Indian Stripe. In the same series as Cherokee Purple, Cherokee Carbon. For me at least Indian Stripe is the most productive of the 3 and I can’t tell a difference in taste. Still a great tasting tomato. That and Cherokee Green will always have a place in my garden.
Black Prince was very productive last year and has some great flavor. About like Martha Washington in size, and does not get any of the tomato viruses.
In N Texas up on the Oklahoma border our go-to tomatoes are Red Snapper, Shelby, Mountain Vineyard and Sun Sugar. This year we’re trying Toronjina and Shimmer along with the others. All of them are loaded up nice, the Mountain Vineyard has the first mature fruit of the group already.
ive never used drip tape. just learning about since i found your channel. why couldn't you put like 8-9 inches deep and just leave it there till it just went bad. at least in the plots where you use roughly the same row spacing.
I rarely use the same row spacing from one crop to the next. From what I've heard from drip tape manufacturers, you can bury it 4-6" deep with no issues. I think the ground pressure might be too much if you bury it deeper than that. Also it would take a lot for the water to wick up to the surface.
@@LazyDogFarm thanks, im gonna have in all my beds this fall. that sprinkler gets expensive plus im not crazy about my injected fertilizer getting on the leaves
I don't think they like the heat. My friend in Washington his are doing well and already has tomatoes. The UK is more temperate where the company is based and snapdragons don't like the heat either. I wonder if this has anything to do with their growth.
You are one my absolute FAVORITE gardening channel on TH-cam! Been watching you since you were making videos for your Dad’s channel. I do not understand why you don’t have millions of subscribers?! Soon, I hope ❤
I just now subscribed!
I've grown the Florida Everglades tomatoes and you're in for a surprise . They make a huge bush and once you have them, you'll have them for years because they self seed like crazy.
I came here to say the same thing. You can’t get rid of them.
Well then I'm gonna try them...down south here it's hard to get nice tomatoes except for determinants...once I started growing them I finally got some.
Will Florida everglades tomatoes grow in zone 8
lol, scrolled down to say the same! I’m in central Florida and there’s a number of folks who use them as a ground cover between fruit trees. Might winter kill up there in Travis’ area but they never stop here for us!!!
@@bonniereason8880 oh yes
I started two seeds of the purple tomato mid March. They were sowed almost a week later than my other tomatoes because the seeds hadn't arrived in the mail yet. I make my own compost every year to start my seeds in.
Each of the purple tomato seeds germinated quickly and caught up to the other seedlings. Up until transplanting into the garden they were robust plants.
They've been in the ground for 3 weeks and are thick lush green plants with lots of flowers and little tomatoes growing on them already. Many of my other tomato plants are just now getting flowers.
Why did you decide to get GMO seeds when everyone has been trying to make sure to invest non gmo things for years? I am trying to understand why people are going against what they have been doing for so long.
75k, channel is really growing. Congratulations!
Thank you!
Loved video!!! Thanks
Where Didi you get the tomato square cages?! I gotta have some- would be easier for us to use- harvest from. Keep videos coming😊
Right here: amzn.to/4beZmqK
My tomatoes look the best this year that I’ve ever grown. Been picking around two dozen lemon boys a day and today I picked 8 giant red snappers.
I'm done growing watermelon beefsteak. Most Disease pressure EVERY year out of all my varieties.
Looking forward to seeing those purple tomatoes and hearing your opinion regarding flavor.
I have two Cherokee carbon plants and they are doing great for me as well!
Love the Turkey Creeks!!❤❤❤ they are the best😊 I have 12 plants this year ,I could just plant them for the rest of my garden years.
Travis, I bought some of that coop poop fertilizer. The twenty five pound bag, I opened it up and put some in the garden and forgot to close the container and left it in the garage. The neighbor kid came over to mow my yard and asked me if something had crawled in there and died. So I followed him and opened the door to check, I almost hurled my lunch on the floor. Coop poop is some really great fertilizer. Especially for tomatoes and cucumbers but man, it has a smell as bad as a three-day road kill!
Make sure you put it in a closed container!
Thanks for your videos! Have you planted your Oakree yet?
I have chicken manure from my own chickens and it doesn't smell
@@lindawilbert3202 I think you're desensitized to the smell. The Coop Poop is a concentrated small pellet. It has a unique odor when contained in a closed space. I would raise me some chickens but I live in the city next to Ft. Bragg and they say NO to living chickens here.
@@JohnDeWeese-lq4pf I let the chicken poop cure for month with some of the bedding which is hemp. Then over time I had leaves and paper. Once in a while I turn the pile and it turns into compost that doesn't smell anymore. No chickens allowed near the liberty? Unbelievable 😒
@@lindawilbert3202 Not in the city. I've lived here fifty years. None of the locals call it "Ft. Liberty." The WOKE higher uppers NEVER asked us TAX PAYERS what we thought about spending 3 million dollars to change a traditional name. But, we still have BRAGG BULEVARD. It definitely hasn't changed. We got a two million dollar Amazon packing center right outside the main gate.
I'm getting too old to turn compost.
@@JohnDeWeese-lq4pf I call it Ft Bragg as well. I live in Hope Mills , neighbor ❤
Planted my sweet potato’s today! Great video!
The Everglades tomatoes will grow at least six feet in all directions. Give them plenty of room or it becomes almost impossible to get them picked . Take scissors and cut whole clusters because when you try to pick individually they burst open if they are even somewhat ripe . I lay the clusters still attached out so the more unripe ones can ripen up .
When I forget the scissors they become garden candy. Sometimes I just pick and eat.
My oxhearts look like that alot of the time. They should give you a few
My GMO are doing GREAT, they are HUGE! I have been harvesting them for a couple weeks now. My neighbor and I think that some of them have a hint of blackberry like aftertaste. Or maybe it's because they were so sweet. I'm also growing something called, "Tropic" it is doing okay, still producing in the heat. The Purple ones are exploding though. I think I have about another month before the weather gets them. I'd like to see if I can keep them alive all summer. I collected seeds though, so I won't have to pay those 20 dollars anymore, I plan to grow more in the fall.
I'm not being paid, I have some crappy videos for proof. 😅
I just put 8 Red Snappers in the ground last week! We’ll see if they make it!
Have you ever tried a good ole fashioned Amish Paste? They seem to take the abuse of a NC summer pretty darn well!
While I'm giving suggestions, Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes are tanks, they reseed like crazy though - fair warning :)
I tried the Cherokee Carbon I heard from your videos last year and I’m impressed so far. Let’s see if they taste like the Cherokee Purples. Thanks for the tip.
Looks good! I am especially interested in those gold determinate tomatoes and will be buying seeds for the fall. Please update us on how they do!
THANK YOU!
I’m glad to see your Cherokee carbon tomatoes are doing good. I planted them last year and they all kicked the bucket before they did anything to speak of. I’ve been looking for a substitute for Cherokee purple with did horrible the last few years, but like gardening goes, my Cherokee purple tomatoes are thriving and looking great this year.
I am growing a few red snappers, hossinator, Bella Rosa, and celebrity. Also have a few varieties of indeterminates. Some fruit set on the Bella Rosa, black beauty, and cherry tomatoes only. Not a lot of flowers, but all the plants are looking good for the most part. This Georgia weather is not kind to tomatoes, so I'm going to cherish every single one that makes it off the vine. I ordered some Orleans sweet potatoes from the Steele Plant company. Looking forward to trying a different variety. Thanks for sharing.
have you done any soil amendments or fertilizer?
We had a ton of rain too, but I got started early this year and my tomatoes in the ground the 3rd week of Feb this year, zone 9A...Red Snapper, bella Rosa, celebrity + and the all star this year has been Lemon Boy +.. going forward, I'll probably only grow Red Snapper and Lemon Boy +. The Lemon Boys are the best tasting by far, and what a disease package with over 20" of rain here in Texas, I still don't see a bit of blight.
In zone 10a, garden about done except sweet potato,peppers, & volunteer Everglades cherry tomato that is 6x12 ft. Heat index 102 and red snapper plants suffering. Tried 40% shade clothe. Getting beds composted for october fall crops. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏝 🏖
Oxhearts are always the worst looking in my garden but they still do produce especially late in the season
I’m in my second year of using Eden Blue Gold products. Love that they are "local" to me, but they are probably even closer to you. Give them a call and James will talk to you for your heart’s content! Currently using the 6 in 1 blend, base, fusion, flower, fxi, and others. The FXI knocked any bugs off my plants last year, after a couple sprays and it is a wetting agent plus a silica and iodine. I haven’t had a single disease or bug start this year and usually at this point, I would be in recovery mode with my tomatoes at this point of year (coastal NC).
Cried my eyes out all last night seeing WI #1,#2.
All I can say is it isn't Oxheart 😂
Suggest taking sizzors cut bad leaf's off. No need plants energy going into them.
Maybe they will make a come back. Been struggling here too with 6 inches rain every other day here in Wisconsin.
If you haven't read how to grow world record tomatoes it is an interesting book about organic gardening. Coincidently the author lived down the way from me before he died and were his garden was
This year I’m growing Roadster on your recommendation, so far they’re beautiful! And Simplicity which sounds like another disease resistant determinate tomato, so far beautiful. I have a challenge for you…..lets find an heirloom or non-hybrid tomato that will grow here in the deep south! The problem with most heirlooms is they lack disease resistance and their too region specific. But for instance, Marion was developed at the Charleston SC agricultural place. I grew them in Spartanburg at the recommendation of a few old timers and they did ok. Next year I’m going to trial Neptune and Marglobe, both old determinate varieties with some disease resistance. Join me and lets see what we can come up with. Bye the way, I now live south of Charleston so it’s going to be even more challenging.
My purple tomatoes are outpacing my California Rutger (from space) by 3:1. Very healthy looking in zone 6b.
I haven't grown tomatoes for many seasons, but some - like the spoon tomato - just seem to hate certain brands of grow lights and they look like shit until they hit the ground.
my tomatoes get yellow leaves. It's not from too much water or too little. I fertilized with Calcium Nitrate but I can see yellow leaves anyway
Gee… my gmo purple tomato is doing great… I only planted one outside to give it a try, but I just went out and measured it and it’s 35 inches (above ground) blooming and several small tomatoes set on. In my greenhouse, the purple gmo’s took off taller than all of my other plants, I planted only 4 seeds and as I said I only put 1 outside. You certainly know, I’m NOT paid by anyone to say my comments. 😁
Mine are doing great too. They are massive. I started with a couple and then took suckers and stuck them in pots. They took off and are now just as large as the originals. They are covered in blooms and tomatoes, and I have been harvesting ripe ones for about 2 weeks. They taste pretty good.
Did you try Alyssum flowers for the tomato bugs? I never did but just read about it
Everglades tomatoes spread like crazy. You can’t really get rid of them.
Travis, you seem to grow your indeterminate heirlooms the same way you grow your determinate hybrids: Florida weave (edit: not Florida weave but still dense vegitation), no pruning. I'm up in Oregon 8b so we don't have the disease pressure you do but if I don't prune my heirlooms to a single vine and grow vertically I will get disease and lose my crop. I wonder if you might have more success if you tried a different process with them? Maybe it's not worth the effort in your short tomato season.
Everything is looking good, maybe the rain will slow down.
If you like the black tomato’s, you should try Indian Stripe. In the same series as Cherokee Purple, Cherokee Carbon. For me at least Indian Stripe is the most productive of the 3 and I can’t tell a difference in taste. Still a great tasting tomato. That and Cherokee Green will always have a place in my garden.
Black Prince was very productive last year and has some great flavor. About like Martha Washington in size, and does not get any of the tomato viruses.
In N Texas up on the Oklahoma border our go-to tomatoes are Red Snapper, Shelby, Mountain Vineyard and Sun Sugar. This year we’re trying Toronjina and Shimmer along with the others. All of them are loaded up nice, the Mountain Vineyard has the first mature fruit of the group already.
How do you protect from tomato horn worms?
Spray with Bt. It is worm/caterpillar specific. I spray it every other week
@@virginiadaneke2362 thanks
ive never used drip tape. just learning about since i found your channel. why couldn't you put like 8-9 inches deep and just leave it there till it just went bad. at least in the plots where you use roughly the same row spacing.
I rarely use the same row spacing from one crop to the next. From what I've heard from drip tape manufacturers, you can bury it 4-6" deep with no issues. I think the ground pressure might be too much if you bury it deeper than that. Also it would take a lot for the water to wick up to the surface.
@@LazyDogFarm thanks, im gonna have in all my beds this fall. that sprinkler gets expensive plus im not crazy about my injected fertilizer getting on the leaves
My determinate tomatoes got drift. They look beat up. What should I do call it quits pull them up. Replant
Do you use 13-0-0 on your tomatoes?
I don't think they like the heat. My friend in Washington his are doing well and already has tomatoes. The UK is more temperate where the company is based and snapdragons don't like the heat either. I wonder if this has anything to do with their growth.
A few tablespoons of triple super phosphate would set them on fire,yeller flowers everywhere.
Travis, did you have to sign your life away for those GMO tomatoes?
He said gmo and I am out
My oxhearts look like that alot of the time. They should give you a few