Interested in urban gardening and organic gardening? Elise Pickett of The Urban Harvest shows you how to properly plant tomato starts in your Florida garden. Growing organic tomatoes using sustainable gardening practices is easier than you may think! This video shows you exactly what to do when it comes time to plant and grow tomatoes in your backyard vegetable garden. This Florida gardening 101 lesson will get even the beginner gardener to feel ready to grow vegetables in Florida.
0:00 Intro
0:36 Know When to Plant Tomatoes in Florida
1:11 How to Plant Tomatoes
3:02 How to Transplant Tomatoes
5:24 How to Interplant Tomatoes in the Garden
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40 Comments
Oxheart tomato you should try it if you haven't already
Beginner here… I planted black beauty tomatoes, they start off green then turn black. Used seaweed fertilizer every two weeks as feeding and plenty of irrigation, also supported them with bamboo sticks, pruned the suckers and low lying leaves and apparently this gave the plant a chance to re direct it's energy towards production, tremendous production. I also sprayed the plants regularly with a combo of baking soda, water and cooking oil, the oil makes the soda stick to the stem and leaves, I read this helps prevent disease.
Lemon Boy Tomatoes and Yellow Pear Tomatoes, for Florida 9b.
where in Florida do you buy good compost?
Black Krim is my favorite for flavor! Does well up in St Augustine.
FL here, everglade tomato does really well for me as well as the better boy, cherokee purp best tasting, however fuscarium wilt and blight hit hard for that one and my tasmanian choclates,,,look forward to incorporating some techniques this year to stop it as best as I can,,,,nice video 🙂
I'm going to try growing black cherry and lollipop cherry tomatoes. I will let you know.
Cherry tomatoes in pots do very well here in Florida for people who only have a small space to grow in.
What type of fertilizer is best? I'm in north florida.
Varieties that worked for me in Tampa…everglade, sun sugar…actually, most cherry sized. Even if the vines get diseases or covered with whitefly leaf boarers, all the cherries I've tried have been productive!
Tomatoes are calcium hogs. Egg shells crushed up or even crushed up calcium supplements. If you want to push them to bloom, cut up banana peels.also certain plants planted close enough affect the taste. Different times I used Egyptian walking onion and globe basil and both changed the taste of the tomato a bit.
Wonderful advice great video!
I did use your tip about planting deep this year on my Cherokee purple and homestead. They are doing well without support so far. I planted too late probably and they are having trouble setting fruit in the heat although I might get a few. I’m growing a large cherry tomato type that have a makeshift Florida weave as I didn’t plant as deep those and they are quite tall. Definitely getting fruit from those ones. I might try Amish paste in the future but almost giving up on regular sized tomatoes for spring summer. Thanks for the tips!
Love Uu dear
What about rats?
(In middle Florida?) I don't want to use methods to kill, Also im not sure if they will come.
I had been babying San Marzano tomatoes and got so disgusted that I took the contents of the starter pots and threw them in a corner of the garden. The only water they got was from the sprinklers. Was I surprised when they began to grow on their own without the care I had given them! When they became subject to the insects and the worms, I sprayed them with SEVIN. I would love to send you a photo of the plant–don't know how to do it.
Another's great video 👍 learnt lot's of tips of how to grow tomatoes. Thanks for sharing 😍😍
I have some tomatoes that have gone bad how do I get them to sprout? Do I need to dry them out and extract seeds.
thank you! great videos contents
It is the almost the end of August I live in Tallahassee FL, what kind of tomatoes do you suggest will do best for the, well it feels hot until the end of October LOL! . We are in zone 8b. Thank you!
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Are those spinach in the bed you plated the tomatoes in?
Visiting here ! I’m preparing garden beds for my friend when is best time /month to plant tomatoes in Lauderdale? ❤️✌🏻
I can’t find the planting calendar. The link took me to the website with everything but that on it
Arkansas Travller and Tachi seem to do well for me here in Tampa
Thanks for the video. I’m new in Florida…please advise where should I go to get the right soil to fulfill the beds?
Thanks for the video! I am just finding your channel after gardening in the Tampa area for years. You quickly became my favorite youtube garden channel. One thing I wonder about tomatoes in Florida… I never see anyone giving advice on overwintering and the tips taught to me as a kid. Like… this year I was able to overwinter some sweet 100's and tommy boys. When spring starts you trim branches and leaves from ground up until you get to fruit bearing branches and bury the lower parts. They all produce roots. I bury as much as 2 feet sometimes. Then you remove flowers and fruit so that the plant focuses on roots for a month or so. Makes for an absolute killer plant the next year. I know our northern gardener friends dont get this chance, but from time to time we do! (for indeterminate of course)
Thank you
Need some help. I have googled this to no avail… Whenever my tomato plants have fruited, and the tomatoes begin to ripen, my plants begin to look like they're dying..is this normal or am I doing something wrong? They fruit all at once, leaving my plants looking just about dead.
Beefsteak, Cherokee purple all varieties of indeterminant work for me My last plants were 13 feet tall and produced a zillion.
I just planted 10 plants and did at the root line fom where they grew from seed. Hmmmm Im gonna go replant 5 of them deep. I have always had pretty good luck doing it the root line so Im curious the difference this will work? Maybe I will get more then usual. Thanks for the tips and I like Celebrity tomatoes because I can grow them organic with just fertilizer and no pesticides. You probably already know this? Thanks for the tips and time you took to make this video. Oh I also like when I buy a tomato from the fruit stand and if its really flavorful I will plant the seeds from it. There is a fruit stand that gets these Tennessee tomatoes around Oct or so and they are excellent. Almost a beefsteak but a little smaller. They have always grew nice for me.
PEACH TOMATOES. I PLANTED THEM IN JULY AND THEY GROW LIKE CRAZY. THEY WILL NEED BUG SPRAY.
How deep if planting seeds in a pot? I'm new at planting
got this from old man friend second generation Floridian "Homestead tomatoes" very heavy leaf production to shade and protect fruit from S. Fla. sun like Homestead Fl. it's name sake. That said I grew tomatoes all day every day (in the right season in Miami no problem. Moved to Panama City Fl. tried 3 times all three plats grew nicely started to fruit and died, to include the most generically modified most resistant to disease I could find. I was told by some locals to grow them in containers.???? any thoughts? P.S. I did get some seeds for homestead T from burpees and grew them in Miami over all nice fruit.
Hi first time growing tomatos. Can you help me with what soil I need. Potting soil mostly then how much compost and fertilizer. Or is there potting soil that has all of that in it already? Thanks
Hi Elise… I'm over in West Palm Beach and my tomatoes are looking very, very sad and skeletal with increasing heat, humidity and rain. I know this is expected, but I have a few varieties that I really like and would like to get a head start on planting them in the fall. I've Googled "How to overwinter tomato plants," and there are a few websites with instructions. Do you think this would work for oversummering tomato plants in South Florida? Thanks, Jeanne
Which variety thrives easiest in south Florida?
Hello Elise thanks for the Information. I live in Citra, Florida and have an 8k sq ft organic garden with a mix of raised beds and no till beds. Most of my tomatoes are direct seed method. I never have an issue with them growing in fact they will hit the 8 foot tall mark really quick. My soil is Compost made from leaf mold, biochar, decomposed wood chips along with compost tea. My growing challenge is stink bugs they can destroy tomatoe harvests in no time.
I am not a chemical user at all any ideas on controlling this pest in the garden? my best defense so far has been growing Basil in between my tomatoes, however they still cause damage.
What type of greens are you growing with those tomatoes? The greens with the yellow flowers, are they mustard greens?
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