Polytunnel Polyculture

A short video about tomato growth and health and what's growing in The Kitchen Garden Polytunnel.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• kitchengardencompany
• polytunnel
• farming
• gardening
• podchef
• vegetables
• tomatoes
• polyculture

[dimshine0]

Pulling branches off of your tomato plants is more likely to stunt them and make them vunerable to disease and cause the soil beneath the plant to dry out faster. Mother nature knows what she is doing.

[Podchef]

I don't know where you majored in horticulture, but pruning indeterminate tomatoes is pretty common stuff dating back to the Romans. Rather than stunting the plants, they thrive and produce great fruit. If left to run wild they grow lots of greens and small fruits. As for drying out the soil. . .I use ground cover and soaker hoses. In a polytunnel situation you need the area under the plants as dry as possible to avoid blights.

[sjones71]

I've learned to trust the podchef... thank you for the video.

I've grown tomatoes in containers and only this year started a garden that included them. Overcrowding is already an issue for me.. amateur mistakes were made, but I think some pruning might help me out a bit.

[Podchef]

One thing isn't very clear in the video--indeterminate varieties need more and heavier pruning than determinate varieties. In fact--as Montmike21 probably found out--you can get away with not pruning determinate varieties which stay bushy, do not get tall or leggy.

I finally saw how a professional organic farmer prunes his indeterminates and I don't do nearly enough. . .

[TombstoneHeart]

I've never taken any growth off the lower parts of a tomato plant, but I do pinch out the lateral shoots. They appear between the main stem of the plant and main branches, giving the appearance of two branches in the same place. Get rid of them because they never produce fruit and just rob any other fruit and the rest of the plant of moisture and nutrition.

[eoinfffp]

Good video,you talk like an irish man with a American accent.good info,cheers

[07aturton]

Tomarto suprise at 1:49 LoL

[mrsmathewes]

This would be good if you didn't talk so weird.

[MAGTRAIN]

@Podchef HEY MAN NICE VIDEO, i was wondering if you ever tried burrying a couple of the bottom branches, they start to grow root, or so i've heard.

[16sillyducks]

@jihadacadien 

[chinchoweed]

@Podchef later you need to do more puring right remove the leach parts of the plant.

[chinchoweed]

dude You say everything wrong nice.

[hatstalker]

Yaaay!!! an American who says Basil and not Bayzil!!

[GOP4USA]

Are you making an audition tape. Couldn't watch the whole clip, felt like an infomercial.