Grow Better Tomatoes
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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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