How Many Tomatoes Can You Grow in a Raised Bed?
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- Curious about how many tomatoes and peppers you can grow in a raised bed? Join us as we tackle the limits and possibilities of planting in raised beds! Watch as we share tips and tricks for maximizing your gardening space. Don't forget to subscribe for more gardening adventures!
0:00: 🍅 Exploring the planting capacity of raised beds for tomatoes and peppers in South Georgia.
2:32: 🍅 Optimal tomato plant configuration in raised bed for maximum yield potential.
5:10: 🍅 Planning tomato plant placement in raised bed for optimal growth.
8:04: 🍅 Optimizing irrigation system for raised beds by doubling drip tape lines for better water distribution.
10:51: 🌶️ Adjusting planting spacing for pepper plugs in raised bed to optimize growth potential.
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I grow 3 rows of peppers in my 8x4 raised bed and comfortably grow 12-15 pepper plants. I think you could easily put another row of peppers in your raised bed. For tomatoes I will plant 5 indeterminate tomatoes in a single row in an 8x4 raised bed (single stem on string trellis) and 4 determinate tomatoes in a single row. I have found 4 determinate tomatoes will comfortably fill out that row. I could probably put in one more but then disease tends to hit them sooner due to lack of air circulation.
Thank you for sharing. I was wondering how many tomatoes I could get in there with a string trellis.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge. On your 8x4 bed with the 5 indeterminate tomatoes, do you plant anything on the sides of the bed? Or is it just the 5 tomatoes by themselves?
I overdid it in my 12'3'1 bed. It's a freaking jungle right now 😂😂. I also mislabeled a Barry's crazy cherry and he is being the aggressive booger he is in the midst of my over crowding. Tomatoes are everywhere, I'm here for the chaos🎉🎉
Do better folks 😂 ps iam not a newbie just made crazy choices 😜.
I live out in the country in central Alabama. I have a decent size garden with fourteen raised beds of varying sizes, three GreenStalk towers, three pots for spearmint and peppermint, a 10’x20’ inground herb garden, eighteen ten-gallon grow bags, a mound of straw for growing Wine Cap mushrooms, and a small orchard with eight fruit trees.
Three of my raised beds, 2’x8’ are used primarily for tomatoes and bunching onions. I am growing a mix of semi-determinant, indeterminant, and determinate tomatoes. I space them out two feet apart.
I’ve moved most of my peppers to GreenStalk towers. Each five-tier tower has thirty pockets. I am growing peppers in two of them (The Twin Towers of Peppers), so sixty plants in about four square feet of ground space. From my experience, they do as well in the towers as my raised beds, occupy less space so I can grow more in my raised beds, but need a little additional fertilization throughout the season.
The GreenStalks are definitely worth the investment, and can be used to grow a large variety of plants. I have a third tower that is a seven tier tower with forty-two pockets that are being used to grow Seascape Strawberries. Yeah, forty-two strawberry plants in two square feet of ground space.
I wouldn't say I'm a seasoned raised bed gardener lol but I went 8 per bed for both maters and peppers. So far so good
I got a couple different sizes of raised beds, 4x4 and 4x12. I have cattle panels cut in half and placed vertical supported by t-posts just on one side of those beds (on the 12ft side of the big bed). I only plant 2 tomatoes in my 4x4 beds because that’s all it can handle. I even position them close to the edge. I always plant the cherry tomatoes on an outside edge because they are the plants that always grow crazy big. On my 4x12 bed I plant 3 tomatoes and then grow 2 Small Wonder spaghetti squash between them.
So the peppers are a whole other ball game…. Several years ago Gary from The Rusted Garden mentioned you could easily plant two peppers to a hole. So I started doing that. No issues and very prolific. Also plant 1 ft apart. I cut bamboo stakes in about 2ft lengths and put 3 around the plant to help support them. Now I just go ahead and put two seeds per cell when I start my plants and let them both grow together in the same cell until I’m ready to plant out. As long as they are fed enough they will grow just fine. I always throw in a bit of Epsoma vegetable tone in the planting hole and then maybe 3 more times during the summer, usually the 1st and 2nd application is about 1 month apart. Occasionally some fish fertilizer. I emphasize on fertilizing heavy at planting and the first few weeks and back off. I learned that they only needed the heavy fertilizer until they get established and putting in that first round of fruit to prevent any blossom end rot. If the first round is good then I’m good the rest of the season and can start backing off. Not quite scientific, but I figured out that’s works for me. No drip tape here, all hand watering 😊
I was trying to decide if I should go with 1 ft. or 2 ft. spacing with my peppers on drip with the Florida weave. This just made the decision easy. 1 ft. it is! Thanks!
Yep, your tomato math matches mine! I'll be transplanting eight tomato plants into my 4x8 bed just as soon as my climate catches up with yours (so in about a month).
With the intense power of the sun nowadays I crowd my tomatoes more than in years past so they tend to shade each other I do keep the bottom of the plants open for good ventilation and had a very good result last year. With the changes in the intensity of the sun we will have to learn to adapt and accept the fact that things are different now and it’s time to experiment and adapt to harsher conditions that we will continue to experience. I really enjoy your content and I have learned a lot from your work. Thanks
Travis. You are going to think I’m crazy, but I have 30 Jalapeño and Banana plants in a 4x8 raised bed. Feed them lots of Agrothrive. Works fantastic. Been doing it like this for five years. It does make it a little challenging to harvest,but plants produce until frost. North Central Alabama.
I noticed peppers like to be crowded more then any other plants, so I plant them dense too.
Atta boy John.
Agree - and you don't have to weed! Oklahoma
Did the same last season with bell, datil, cherry peppers (sweet and hot), pimento, in a 3x8 raised bed once established they took off. Harvesting was tricky though missed more than I found I thought I had over planted. It worked out well. 24 plants total
In my 10x2.5’ bed I grow 10 indeterminate tomatoes that I grow mostly single stem up a string, with a cattle panel trellis behind it for support of those additional stems that I miss, 8-10 peppers along the squares in front of the tomatoes, Marigolds along the front of the whole bed and in between in plant in some basil, rosemary, thyme and bush beans. And they grow most happily between early May thru the end of October and some into early November. I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia and grow in my backyard and water with a watering can from my rain barrel or with my hose.
i used some cheap walmart chicken manure fertilizer in the bottom of my tomato seeder, worked out great when bottom watering the seeder. plants look great and they’re now transplanted to new cups, waiting for planting day here in zone 4B
I had success with 6 indeterminate tomatoes in a 3 1/2' x 5' raised bed last year. This year I have 16 pepper plants in the same size bed. Take those tomato cages and lay them horizontal and let your peppers grow through the holes of the cages for support.
That is my favorite plant the peppers all kinds, all kinds of peppers, jalapeño habanero, poblano everything…
I overwintered three so they’re already producing because they’re overwintered so I put them out there and we’re getting good sun and rain here in Texas so they are already popping up with bell pepper plants. You know the fruit.
Depends on whether it's for serious harvest or fresh eating! 12" staggered pattern or allow 18" per plant for tomatoes and peppers. Eggplant do well @ 18". Found one plant per 10 gal or greater container, can push 5 gal buckets with daily watering with good results. I like easy work
I do square foot gardening. 1 plant per foot. Always have a wonderful harvest
I planted 16 in a 4 x 12 bed. So 32 in all. They did great.
That's about how closeni do it. Tho this year I bought some of those expensive square cages...they work great on peppers too...ibhave bit the bullet four times...makingnmy tomatoes cost $520.00 or more!!! But I will ne able to pass these on for a few generations...I love them!!! Hopefully I'll get more for birthday christmas and anniversary!!!
What I am doing this year is putting a cage on every other one...hopefully it eill turn out fine...
I tried his Florida weave and it just did not work for me as I put way too many plants in and the walkway vanished almost immediately!!!!
How much room do u leave between rows?..
I just can bring myself to not plant in those rows!!
My best pepper plants last year were the three "leftover" poblanos that I shoved into a 10 gallon grow bag and literally forgot about. They got huge and offered beautiful large peppers. 2 to 3 times bigger than what was in the raised bed with lots of room between. Go figure
For a 4x6 if I were only doing tomatoes I’d only plant 6 determinate in with basil along the bottom. With indeterminate I’d squeeze 12 tomatoes in with basil on the bottom with a trellis system that is at least 10 feet over head and string them straight up on twine pruned down to only one vine or six with the same trellis system and 2 vine pruning on each tomato.
Looks good I kinda stager them maybe about the same number just utilizing the middle to for peppers
I’m doing Florida weave so in 4’ x 8’ beds, two rows, 4 each row of tomatoes. Peppers, two rows of six each row, Florida weave. I’ll probably tuck in some basil too.
I'm amazed by how small your tomato seedling containers are. I've been in the habit of germinating my tomatoes in containers that size, but I always step them up to larger pots. It never occurred to me that I could plant my seedlings outside directly from those smaller containers (assuming they don't get too leggy). Considering that my raised beds are covered (with automated covers) this will be much more convenient and less work for me. Good tip.
I've never paid too much attention to spacing of these plants. I just try to imagine how they look at maturity and space them appropriately. I'd estimate that I space peppers and indeterminate tomatoes about 1 foot apart. Determinate tomatoes, maybe a little further apart.
Perfect time! I just finished putting 15 beds together
I give my peppers about a square foot to a foot and a half. Tomato I get 7 or 8 in a 4x8 bed. Allows for some interplanting. If you prune intense to single stem you can pack in closer but that’s to much work for me so u give space and let em frow
I don’t mess with any peppers besides cayenne here where I live in Oregon I don’t think they like the temp change between day and night I have tried growing Carolina reapers the last couple years and I’ll get a ton of blooms and think everything is going good then they just fall off but the cayennes will produce
I have 8×4 raised beds. I put 32 plants in one bed no cages no trelliseing. I space my peppers 1ft a part on center. My tomatoes I put 10 plants in an 8x4 raised bed. I use 2 cattle panels(Jess from roots and refuge style) and space them 18in on center. I plant carrots down the middle at the same time. They get enough sunlight to grow but enough shade to keep them cool enough to keep them happy during the warmer weather. Also ring the bed with onions and a basil plant or 2.
We plant 6 indeterminate's in one 4x8' bed.
3 down each side starting 1' in and spaced
2' apart. Works perfectly, spacing wise, using
2x2' homemade cages.
With peppers we set 12 plants in a framed 2x8'
raised rows. 6 up one side, started 6" in,1' apart.
Then 6 start from the other end the same way,
6" in and 1' apart. By doing it this way the rows
are staggered side to side.
Sounds crowded but we still harvest about 3,
1gal ziplocks chopped to freeze. The cheapo
wire cages also fit and work perfectly. 1 on each.
plant zip tied together at the tops. Makes the
whole rows extremely ridged an supportive.
I grow them on the single leader on a string with tomato clips and can really fit them close together doing it that way. Less production per plant but I think I make up for it with the amount of plants.
I've planted my tomatoes directly in my garden on both sides of my cattle panel trellis 18" apart. I like to plant dozens of varieties so I need the room to squeeze as many in as possible!
Only been incorporating raised beds for two years so far. Prior were in ground and grow bags. I’m still trying, watching and learning. But from what I’ve observed tomatoes don’t like neighbors in a raised bed. I’m very curious about your observations. Thank you for sharing🙏🏻
I grow two plants vertically between two posts that are 5.5' apart for standard-sized tomatoes, and three for cherry tomatoes.
I have a 4X2 foot bed and I have 8 pepper plants and they are not crowded and doing really good.
This year I’m doing 4 rows of peppers and 4 rows of tomatoes in my 4’ wide beds. I did 3 rows last year and they never got that big so this year I want more space filled in.
Single stem with trellis, I'm doing 6 with 2' x 8' beds.
I follow the square foot method and would put 24 peppers in a 4x6 bed and have had lots of luck with this method. However, I do usually mix up what I have in each bed due to limited space in my backyard. I have multiple raised beds of different sizes, but the ones most similar to yours are 3x6 and last year I grew 3 mini watermelon/cantaloupe on the 3 squares on the north side, up a trellis, then 9 peppers in the next 9 squares, 2 squares of 20-ish carrots (should be 16, but I’m terrible at thinning), 2 squares of 5 celery and 2 squares of 5 lettuce and in between I placed Marigolds and Nasturtiums. On the other 3x6, I grew 6 cucumber up a trellis on the north 3 squares, 11 peppers in the next 11 squares with a straight neck yellow squash in the 12th square and 2 eggplants and 1 zucchini in the last row of 3 squares. I also added Marigolds and Nasturtiums to that bed. The squash and zucchini were staked to grow upwards. All of the peppers and eggplants are staked with a bamboo pole. Eggplants, squash and zucchini are placed on the outside squares so they can have more room to spread outwards and/or over the side.
Another great video, thank you. I've only been gardening for two years. I plant my pepper plants two within a 12" smart pot. Tomatoes one foot apart iusing the weave method. Pepper plants and maters seemed to use one another for support as well as offered shade for one another. I'm still learning, though. 😊
I single vine prune so if nothing was in the bed I would plant at least 12 could even possibly do 15, you can grow 1 per square foot, I go with 16 square inches.
I received my order of organic fertilizer both the dry and the 2 gallons of liquid. I'm a commercial poultry grower so I already know the benefits of organic fertilizer on row crops. The poultry litter is a little to hot when we de-cake so I've chosen your products to try on my early spring vegetables.
Everglades tomatoes are Da Bomb! Small in size, large in flavor and last through the heat! 😅
I'd love to see you and your daddy do some videos like old times. Especially the live stuff❤
For me, pepper plants do better when they are closer, not sure why. Maybe they help shade each other.
Unfortunately, I am learning lessons on too many per containers, but I am figuring it out. The tomato plants are once again getting the best of me. They are gigantic already. What was I thinking.
I place tomatoes every 12-18" and prune to 1 leader along cattle panels. With peppers I grow 10-12" apart and top. No need for trellises as they lean on eachother amd are stout bushes. I gain much more harvest this way than comparison beds spacing out.
I off centre my rows, lets you squish in a couple more than you usually would 👍
all of them
Dang, I planted 2 rows in my Olle beds in the 24"x96" configuration. Guess I'll find out if it's too tight. Will be on Florida weave soon.
Plant celery in the middle of that last raised bed in the middle of the peppers. They are well behaved.
Hey hey hey Trav😊🍅🍅🍅
8 indeterminent tomatoes in 4x8’. Florida weave. No more, no less. Trim from the bottom up as season progresses.
I would like to see you make a video on the best fast release fertilizers to use in raised beds
I don't really use any fast-release fertilizers any more, but I'll consider it.
@@LazyDogFarm what kind of fertilizer do you recommend for raised beds?
Rabbit shit. 1 feed sack per bed. Mix it in and plant. Thats it. No need to.fertilize. the worms come and it make beautiful dirt.
Thankyou for that great video!for the florida weave in your 4x6 raised bed, where are you placing the posts. In the bed or outside. Also what type of posts are you doing? Im in Las Vegas and planting season is just starting. Temps are in the mid 80’s already and will be in the 90’s in a week. My plants wont make it unless i put shade cloth over them. dint have any trees yet.Any suggestions? I was thinking of making a square box with t posts around the bed and attaching shade cloth to that. Im a beginner and would greatly appreciate any advice
Raised beds- 12 inches
I’m ground- 18 inches
Pepper's, Ive never counted for raised bed , i just eye it. I was raised being told peppers like holding hand's, so i plant them about a foot apart. I use compost , worm casting and organic fertilizer and they grow great.
Tomatoes, no idea. Ill plant them in a planter or ground
More carrots would fit in the middle of the peppers😊
Yeah but too late to plant carrots now.
Hey Travis try to keep track of your CO2 levels outdoors to see they depreciate ( from early in the year till June ) in the same way your indeterminate tomatoes do... the hotter and sunnier it gets the more CO2 they'll need.. and if your area doesn't have an appropriate amount could be the reason they tend to die off before they can produce.
pepper plants I would plant more then you did, probably closer to 1 per sqft, the plants wont get as tall but will start to produce a bit faster and that matters in my short growing season.
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New Gardner from Tifton. Love your channel, but I have some new tomato plants I got from a plant farm, very small plugs, but one flowered and has a tiny tomato on it. Plant is MAYBE 10 inches, should I pull that tomato to make sure it doesn't drain the nutrients to the fruit? Thanks for the advice.
I'd leave it, but it's up to you.
@@LazyDogFarm thanks for the reply. I'm gonna leave it! Planted red snapper!
When you’re installing your drip tape on top of the ground, do you put the emitters facing up or down. Do you get more weeds with the drip tape not buried? Enjoy your videos from Vermont!
Always have the emitters up. Weeds are easier to remove with the tape buried because we can lightly skim the surface where it is buried.
Im using extra grow bags and individual pots around this year...but I'm worried about getting water to them. Any suggestions?
You could easily set up a drip system for those pots, assuming they were in a linear row.
how deep doing need to provide my tomato plants to grow
I see a few people using agrothrive fruit and flower right from the beginning instead of the all purpose agrothrive which is more geared toward initial growth. Is there a reason for this? Thanks
They're pretty similar. I have both on hand at all times, but sometimes I just use what's in the back of my buggy.
HEY Trav, Do you have any extra seedless watermelon seedlings you want to part with? I ordered 2 varieties (25) total seeds and had 8 pollinators. Been 3 wks, all 8 pollinators came up, none of the seedless. not sure where i went wrong.
I haven't even planted mine yet, but I probably won't. I think I started just about enough for my entire 30x35' plot this year.
how many do you recommend on 3x6 bed for determinate and indeterminate Trav?
4-6
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks Trav
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