2008 Garden Vlog 5, Setting out Tomatoes and Peppers

Yikes, it's another long one. I edited this down from over 1 hour of footage and it'll be the last really long garden vlog this year. From now on it'll mostly be me pointing at plants and saying OOOOHHHH, look at how much it's grown, LOL.

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Howto & Style

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• Garden
• tomato
• tomatoes
• pepper
• peppers
• gardening
• nature
• farming
• horticulture
• soil

[MamboDogFaceOne]

You ever save seeds of the veggies you like? I've done it for years. I'm planting third generation habaneros this year (Hot? HALF of one teeny 1/2 inch pepper will make a huge pot of beans FIERY!) You have to sow more seeds because some won't "take", and I think they have to be "heirloom" to begin with. On the other hand, I've grown potatoes from classy organic starts to Safeway russets and gotten good returns. Tomatoes, lettuce, arugula, pumpkin, all from saved seeds.

[Blinkazoid]

No I never save seeds to plant. I did try it once with this one huge okra plant but the seeds never sprouted. I do know with tomatoes the seeds have to be from heirloom plants and not hybrid plants. All the tomatoes I plant are from hybrid plants because they have better disease resistance and I have problem enough with tomato diseases. The plants are very cheap at at nearby greenhouse too so planting seeds just seems like a lot of extra effort.

[bedoboy]

Hi mate great to watch a long vlog from you, I enjoyed this and now I know how to plant tomato and pepper plants.

James

Robert your still the best.

[Blinkazoid]

Thanks James! It really did seem to make a positive difference this year repotting the tomatoes and giving them a chance to grow a little bigger before setting them out in the cold ground.

[stymye]

I'm enjoying watching the garden progerss , I'll post an update to my tomatoes in a day or so also . did you know you can plant the tomatoe up to the top few leaves and the stem will grow roots? it will really make a difference

[Blinkazoid]

Thanks for watching stymye. Yep, I knew that about the tomato planting depth. I originally got these tomatoes at a greenhouse and repotted them with that method of pinching off the lower limbs and planting them deeply within the pots. When I took them out of the pots here and set them into the garden I didn't do that again because it seemed like they already had a plenty good enough root system and they were stocky enough plants to where the wind wasn't going to blow them around too much.

[MamboDogFaceOne]

"A gardener should never forget

to sow dry and set wet."

45 deg in May?? OMG.

Carly! Martha Stewart! Oh, lol ....

[stymye]

ahh ok , that would explain the wide sprawing on the roots when you unpottted them. thanks for the reply and good luck with the garden this year !

[3CoolKats]

So you mean you canned or froze them? I'll hopefully be doing another update in a few days when my okra comes up.

[anne2matthew]

I enjoyed this video very much..I planted lots of tomatoes and pepper last spring and now I got to eat them everyday..unfortunately..hahah­a