A World Record Gardener's Complete Tomato Growing Tutorial! Packed with tons of useful tips on tomato types, starting, soil amendments, transplanting, trellising, pruning, caging, watering, fertilizing, shading, harvesting and storing tomatoes! Listen to a World Record Tomato grower explain how to grow the best tomatoes organically!

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00:00 - Intro
02:07 - Different Types of Tomatoes
04:44 - Determinate vs. Indeterminate In Pots?
05:36 - When To Start Tomato Seeds Indoors
06:08 - Up-Potting Necessary? How To Avoid
06:40 - Hardening Off Your Tomato Starts
07:55 - Soil Preparation & Amendments
09:00 - Straw Mulch Details
09:44 - Dairy/Woodchip Compost - 1 Foodservice can
10:09 - Fish Bone Meal - 1 cup
11:10 - Oyster Shell Flour - 1 cup - Super Important!
12:32 - Gypsum - 1 cup
13:06 - Diatomaceous Earth - 1 cup
14:04 - Azomite - 1 cup
14:28 - Thorvin Kelp - 1 cup
15:10 - Greensand (micronized) - 1 cup
16:04 - Basalt Rock Dust - 1 cup
16:32 - Working the Amendments Into The Soil
18:52 - Planting the Tomato
19:51 - Mycorrhizae - VAM-Endo
20:55 - Deep Hole Planting Method Works?
22:12 - Trench Planting Method Any Good?
23:03 - Grafting More Roots On?
23:28 - How The World Record Tomatoes Were Planted
23:49 - Trellising Methods & Systems Explained
28:02 - Wind Protection
28:44 - String Trellising Demonstrated with Clips
32:08 - Termination of Vines at Season End
33:29 - Pruning Methods Explained
34:20 - Prune Suckers Off?
35:02 - Problematic Pruning Method
37:24 - Pruning Suckers
39:17 - Reason To Leave Suckers On
39:53 - Sun & Shade Considerations
40:34 - Shade Cloth
41:21 - Mulching & Soil Temperature Considerations
42:56 - Saving Tomato Seeds
43:27 - Trellising for Potted Tomatoes
43:49 - Cages
45:30 - Trellising Determinates
46:38 - Stock Panel Trellis?
48:09 - East/West Orientation of Planting Beds
48:58 - Interplanting To Shade Tomatoes & Prevent Sun Scald
49:37 - Watering

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