Perfect Tomato Soil Mixes

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If you're growing a tomato in a container, what's the right soil mix? What about in ground? Scott opens up and shares his soil secrets. Connect With Scott Daigre: Scott Daigre is the owner and producer of Tomatomania, the world’s largest tomato seedling sale. Check out Tomatomania Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% 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	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:17.0	It is tomato week this year.
0:18.7	We have Scott Dagg on the podcast owner and producer of Tomato Mania, which is the world's
0:23.7	largest tomato seedling sale.
0:26.0	Yesterday we really went deep on all the different sort of frameworks you could look at your tomato
0:32.0	planting through flavor, variety, containers, your space, all these sorts of things.
0:37.5	We're going to move into actually the next step.
0:41.1	Making some soil for your tomatoes, making seedlings and how to actually get them in a healthy
0:45.9	way.
0:46.9	Scott, I think the first thing to think about and the first question I have is what in
0:50.9	your estimation, what would be the perfect tomato soil mix?
0:55.8	You have to start with the qualification of where you grow it.
1:01.9	That is inevitably going to be really important based on how you're going to coax these tomatoes
1:08.8	through the season.
1:09.8	I think Kevin there, basically we hear three ways that people grow tomatoes.
1:15.2	They grow in containers, pots as it were.
1:17.8	They grow and raise this, obviously, which you're very familiar with, and all of us have
1:21.2	grown it's made on the ground at some point and made it work or experienced that whole thing
1:26.3	which is perhaps the easiest of all of the above.
1:29.6	What's the perfect soil mix?
1:31.2	It's going to be different from each from one to one, from one to the other.
1:35.1	If we start with containers, and I got to tell you, containers, it's funny because at
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