What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. Today I wanted to have a little bit of fun and bust a couple common gardening myths.

So this will be a rapid fire. We can of course dive into the details in future

podcast episodes. But let's go ahead and get into it. So the first myth is adding sugar

to the planting hole of a tomato to make the tomato sweeter.

Well, given what we know about plants, tomatoes are not going to absorb sugar in the

soil.

They produce it through photosynthesis, So the sugar content of a variety

is determined not by how much sugar you put in the hole,

but by the genetics and care of the plant itself.

Here's another one.

Pinch off all of the blooms of annuals before you plant them.

In many cases, this is not required because most commonly available betting plants these days are bred to be more compact

and have continuous blooms.

So you do not need to pinch to manage the growth or promote another flush of blooms, it is not 100% necessary.

Here's another one about tomatoes.

It's planting tomatoes in a trench or up to the first true leaves

provost a sturdierier plant like burying them deeper.

We say this all the time, right?

Well, this is still true if you have propagated from seed

the heirlooms and hybrids, right?

So planting them deeply does help elongate

the rooting area since any point on the stem

...