Are you looking for a way on how to plant your tomatoes in a container in
this video I'm gonna show you how easy it is to plant tomatoes in a container
hi this is Jeremy Stark here from green thumb gardener here to give you some
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gonna go over a very simple way on how to plant tomatoes in a container as you
know it's it's ready to plant maybe springtime for you maybe a little
bit maybe a little bit early summer time or you just you try to figure things out
well plant tomatoes in the container is a really easy and simple project to do
that everybody should be doing it whether you go down to the store and you
get some plants from from your you know your local nursery where you grown from
seed planting you make containers is really something very easy to do before
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started so one of the things that you have to consider the first thing you
want to consider is the the actual size of the pot that you're planting the kids
the tomato in you want to make sure that you have a pot that's going to be big
enough to to you know to hold enough water and to also hold enough nutrients
in there because when it gets in the summertime you don't want to have a you
don't want to have a pot that's really small because I'm gonna have to water it
is you know way too many times than you really want to do it especially when it
gets really hot out so I suggest at least a five gallon pot I would have I
would go a little bit larger if you can you know obviously the the larger the
pot the better but you can get away with you know five gallon this one I think is
10 gallon little tip to is this I actually picked up for free at a local
nursery I you know just buy some flowers in there sometimes and every time I go
in there I was asked them for just you know any pots and but these are I mean
they're obviously not they're not really you know really decorative but they they
do the job but they'll last a couple of seasons maybe even more but I just
basically it's my way of kind of reused things recycling it so the other set the
second thing that you're gonna need is the actual soil for this you want to
make sure you have a good mix of soil you can buy a good potting soil mix and
you know any in your garden center and if you like me though and you want to
make your own I suggest you to use some kind of mixture of peat moss or a coco
coir or whatever it's called and also just just any kind of composted
cow manure already kind of composted you know there's some chicken chicken manure
as well anything that's going to be organic if you have if you do have a
compost pile you can use that so I generally do probably about half and a
half of each so if I'm gonna do a five-gallon I'll do two and a half
gallons of each so I'll put my actual soil mix and in the notes below just so
you have that but if you just wanted to go and get the regular soil at your
store make sure it's the potting mix I also try to get the one without the
chemicals in it and because I like to control my own nutrients in there but if
you certainly that's all you really can use then that's fine but if you don't do
that then one of the things you want to make sure you do is if you find just the
regular make your own you have to make sure when you're doing the peat moss
that you also put in some lime in here because it is a little bit uh a little
bit on the acidic side I believe but that will help balance it out I know in
there so now that you have everything all mixed up in here one of the other
things I like to put in here is as I use a just a very this is a non soluble kind
of mix of just fertilizer you can find at the store I go for the organic stuff
I just find that it's it's just it still does what I need to do and it's it's a
little bit more sustainable but whatever you can find in there you want to have a
balanced mix what tomatoes you want it you don't want to have too too much
nitrogen maybe a little bit more nitrogen when they're first growing but
you want to have a a war on the the PK side so you want to
have something that's got a little bit more than more nitrogen than that
so this balance I just happen to just mix this up I have a bunch of different
mixes that I got so I just kind of do some kind of mix like this for this big
pot I'm probably not gonna do this whole thing I'm probably gonna do about half
of this so I'm gonna use this in other areas so I just journalist generously
spread this off now this stuff is non soluble so what this means what that
basically means is that it's gonna take some time to break down which is perfect
because you wanna you don't want this to be you know you want to have some
available to the plant as its growing so I like to make sure I get in there and
just make sure it's all mixed around so that it's good to go
one of the one of the advantages of having a pot is you can move this around
if you need to they are very you know mobile you can
place this on your porch you can place this you know in your garden I as you
can see I have you know regular garden I have a raised sort of raised bed sort of
half raised bed but I also have a lot of containers that I enjoy just using the
containers are very easy to work with and they're very you know mobile and I
can you know if I don't have the space in my raised bed I just throw up another
container and there we go rough the races so for this one I actually I had
so many tomatoes planted and I gave away a lot of them but I had a few left that
that I just figured if nobody wants them I'm just gonna end up playing wait why
not right who doesn't like tomatoes this time of year so this one is a Cherokee
purple it's one of my favorite ones I really enjoy this plant this one's
actually two plants in one so I'm probably gonna just plant one of these
because I don't want to have to in here but if you do go to the store I did I
gave you actually a video one above that shows you what you want to look for when
you go into the store to purchase you know particular plants and I gave you
some tips in there on how to do that so I'm gonna separate these guys out here
this one looks like it's a little bit more I know they're both the same size
so I'm not gonna go to too deep so so what
you do is when you when you get it at the store or if you grow them yourself
which I always recommend but if you know it's this time of year I mean you can't
start from seed if you're just planting stuff in June but I I suggest that you
that you do go you know if you go to the store get get a container make sure that
you that you don't want a container that's got a lot it's the roots of
rootbound where you start seeing the roots kind of twirl around here that
means that it's been there for a while this one was kind of on the the upper
echelon of where I would go even though this is from my own supply so you can
see I just basically just pulled it out I have the roots kind of nice nice and
neat like you know kind of pulled out a little bit tomato plants they they are
very versatile they they do really well and they they don't really seem to
suffer too much when you're transplanting some plants they do have a
transplant so in this what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna dig a hole so I'm
gonna actually go right up to the first like branch part so I'm actually going
to bury the plant all the way down here so it you know this is one of those
plants that you could do that to some plants you know you don't necessarily
have to do this but tomato plants you really can do that so so as you can see
I kind of buried it as much as I can I don't know I'll probably end up feeling
a little bit more dirt here all right
so that one of the things that you want to make sure when you're when you're
planting tomatoes is you don't want to do this when it's really cold outside
you want to make sure that the time of year that you're gonna be planning this
when you're gonna be transplanting it you want to make sure that there's a lot
going to be any chance of a freeze during the you know the middle of the
night you know the daytime temperatures might be fine but you might get you know
freeze so you want to make sure that you set these out at the appropriate time of
the year you don't want to do this too early in the year I know it's you know
you'll want to do it but but I'm telling you ready you don't want to do it too
early because if you get caught in the freeze then your plants gonna die and
then you're gonna have to start over again
so generally I'd say just you know make sure you watch you know find out your
your earliest planting date and then just go with that and then make sure you
watch from the weather to make sure it doesn't have a freeze because those are
the average dates that there could be a free so you know even though there isn't
one you know there hasn't been one there could be one so just just be mindful of
that I like to do for all my new plants when I'm planting man I use the more
bloom and I put just I take a tablespoon and a gallon of water what this does is
this helps when the plant is just getting established at rooting this is
really good for it it's also very good for just tomato plants in general but I
use this all the time when I'm feeding my plants it doesn't burn the roots it's
it is natural like I think it is oh it's made from fish it doesn't really smell
too bad so but I use this for all my plants I use whatever you know
proportions that they require so the tomato plant I would do a 5 10 10 so if
I was doing a this is a soluble so this is available it's right away to the
plant so the roots will soak this up right away so this is good kind of in
between the feedings that you might do that this will be available for the
plant as soon as it does suck up the things so this is something that you
want to also add in the other thing I would also add in is if you do have some
compost like I said you're mixing it in there but I also have some worm compost
I love to put that in I didn't this video but I will add some men as
well and that always helps with its very good nutrients for the plant so the
other thing that you want to consider when you're doing them when you doing
the tomato plants is obviously the size of the plant so there's two different
well there's three different types of plants tomato plants there's a
determinate plant there's a determinate plant and there's a dwarf plant dwarf
tomato plant so the indeterminate plant is basically
it just keeps growing I mean they will grow pretty but pretty high pretty high
I mean some of them seven feet tall and they will basically grow and they will
keep producing tomatoes until there's a frost or something else kills them off
so with the indeterminate ones you have to make sure they have the space for
them you want to make sure that you have you know some way to hold them up
whether it be a caged tomato cage or a big stake for for that so considering
when you're doing the containers I'm not saying I wouldn't do indeterminate but
if it's your first time doing Tomatoes I probably would try determinate or a
dwarf size plant to just make sure that you get comfortable with growing them
but if you're willing to do it I mean indeterminate they they're great they
taste great but you have to make sure as you can see these are these are not too
old and these are gonna get really tall eventually you know as the summer goes
on so you want to make sure you have a cage for it or some type of steak if
you're on you're doing this on your porch you know you might be able to just
put it up against your porch and maybe have some kind of trellis up there or
some kind of steak that you could have support on there cuz when it does get
when do we get those thunderstorms that come in and the summer you know that you
don't want them to get blown over or the bridge is torn off so you want to make
sure you have a way to to support your plan now the the indeterminate plants
there they do get a little bit bushy so you still might need a cage but they're
not gonna get as tall they might get as tall as maybe five feet four to five
feet somewhere around there so a cage is usually suffice for them or even some
kind of stake where you just have a pole in here and you're tying them up so I I
like to typically I deploy just like us I do a very basic stake on here on my
plants and that I do what they call a Florida
weave which is basically weaving in between the plants with it so that's
kind of what I use for my for some of my plants some of them I have them in my
raised bed and I would use a cage or some type of staking in there I don't
get too elaborate I mean there's some other you know some other stakes
you know big cages you can build but for this seems to work for me it's my
grandfather used to do so he was very basic when it came to his stake it
tomatoes and then the last point to Maine a plant that I think it's perfect
for containers is a dwarf plant they are they they basically get pretty much kind
of the same sizes determinate they can get you know somewhat around that that
size a little bit smaller but they're producing tomato plants that are similar
to the taste and quality of and determinate not to say that determinate
plants are not good but they're just it's not an array of the flavors that I
seem to like I like the determined ones because they you get early Tomatoes you
know fairly quickly so that's one benefit of the determinant ones but the
dwarf ones you get kind of it does take a little bit longer for them to develop
but the the varieties of those good and and I know there's a project out there
that I'll post a link down in the show notes about the dwarf tomato project
that that's been going on through Craig Lew hula-hula I always say
probably don't say his name right but he him and somebody else had started a you
know a project where they're basically kind of revamping the dwarf Tomatoes and
stabilizing them to grow that so there's more varieties of them so hopefully this
has helped you with you know getting started with your tomato plants but I'll
link up in the show notes too as well as I'll have an article if you want to take
a look at the steps and kind of more information on what I've gone over
you'll be able to look at that it's you know used as a reference but hopefully
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