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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Grow Better Tomatoes

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Tomatoes need a lot of love. Learn some of Gary's best tips for growing truly epic, juicy toms. Connect With Gary Pilarchik: Gary Pilarchik is the man behind The Rusted Garden, a wildly popular YouTube channel. He also has a blog of the same name, as well as a store where he sells seeds and gardening supplies. His book, The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-Sufficiency in Any Size Backyard. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone?

0:02.0

What's going on everyone?

0:04.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show, the Epic Garden Podcast, Kevin here and Gary

0:18.6

Palarchick is joining me. He is the man behind The Rusted Garden which is his YouTube channel and

0:24.7

blog and store he also has a book coming out it's called the Modern Homestead

0:28.5

Garden growing self-sufficiency in any size backyard.

0:33.1

And Gary, yesterday we talked about a cool tip

0:35.8

with hydrogen peroxide and tomatoes

0:38.1

to prevent early blight and things like that.

0:40.9

But you've grown, I don't even know how many tomatoes I feel like every time I

0:44.8

see your channel they're in the background somewhere so I would love to know first

0:48.5

of all what are some of your favorite methodologies for growing?

0:52.8

So I love tomatoes.

0:56.4

I probably grow 40 plants, 50 plants, 60 plants.

0:59.5

This year I cut it back a little bit.

1:01.2

The best, where I'm just trying to think, Gasser, so much, really the best

1:07.6

approach I would say for a tomato, let's just start with one plant is in a plant going into an earthbed is they grow surface

1:15.6

roots and they grow roots down to death, you know, down quite far into the soil.

1:21.0

And one of the things that people fail a lot with tomatoes is they don't water them enough.

1:26.5

They just kind of soak where the tomato stem goes into the ground, which is great,

1:32.4

but they send out so many surface roots that you want to

1:35.2

soak and water well that whole area regularly and you want to put mulch down because

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