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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

The Most Common Tomato Problems You'll Have

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Tomatoes can be tough...but if you know how to prevent and control the few BIG issues you'll run into when growing these juicy veggies, your success rate will skyrocket. Today Craig outlines the major tomato growing problems and how to avoid them. Learn More:  Craig's Website The Dwarf Tomato Project Buy Craig's Book, Epic Tomatoe email Craig! Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

0:15.6

We are continuing on with the best of weeks here on the podcast.

0:20.2

Hope you enjoy.

0:23.6

What's up everyone?

0:24.6

Welcome back to today's episode.

0:26.6

Today we're talking about tomato problems.

0:28.3

Tomatoes are a plant that there can be a lot of things that goes wrong with them, whether

0:33.2

it comes to disease or the tomato hornworm or any sort of growing problem like blossom

0:38.5

and rot.

0:39.5

So today I asked Craig how to mitigate and prevent some of the most common problems that

0:45.3

will stop you from having successfully grown and delicious tomatoes.

0:49.4

So that's what we're getting into.

0:50.6

I think you really enjoy it if you've ever struggled growing with tomatoes in the past.

0:55.2

So let's let Craig take it away.

0:58.6

All right Craig, so I think we're getting into the meat of our week with you here and

1:05.9

as the tomato man, you probably know more than anyone else how do we mitigate and prevent

1:11.6

some of the things that are stopping most gardeners from growing tomato successfully

1:16.2

because I know there's some stat and it's probably not perfect that 40% of first-time

1:21.0

gardeners do not garden a second season, which is a pretty bad statistic.

1:25.8

4 out of 10 people just never grow anything again.

1:28.2

And I think tomatoes are a perennial classic in the garden.

1:32.0

That's something that everyone gravitates towards.

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