What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. We're going to talk about a topic that many of you may already know about. So if you do, then maybe you need a refresher course or maybe just check out another episode but

for those of you who are growing tomatoes it's your first one two three seasons and

you're wondering what's going on with this recommendation to plant tomatoes really deep,

then this is the podcast for you.

So here we go.

When you get a tomato, a lot of the times maybe you've seen it on

Instagram or YouTube or in a book, it says plant it deep. Well, what does that

actually mean? If you buy a 10 inch tall plant, typically all but the top three to four inches are buried and the most

basic reason for that is because the plant's going to have a better and stronger

more robust root system,

and of course, roots being the anchor for the plant,

their connection to the soil,

and to most, if not all, the nutrition that they're going to get,

that means better tomatoes, right? So here's the basic rule.

What you want to do is you want to dig a hole that's about two-thirds the height of

your plant, including the root ball. Now what you will see people do next is

pinch or snip off the branches on the portions that are going to be buried

underground. You don't have to do this but I personally find that it makes bearing the plant just a little bit easier

And I don't know I like snipping it so that's what I do nothing too crazy about that particular tip.

Next what you want to do of course is remove it from its container,

even if it's in a biodegradable pot typically what I'll do is I will still remove it from the container

because I find it doesn't biodegrade as

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