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I am new here :) Am I crazy or you planted those tomatoes directly into native soil? Without compost or anything? Only leaf mulch which over the years make your soil fertile enough for tomatoes?

Not a thistle. A type of wild lettuce.

I've harveted about 30 Big Beef made Green Chile ( Mexican dish 😋) still have more to harvest and more flowers. This is only 1 crop of Tomatoes i sowed in March zone 9 Phx, AZ. I don't do much just water and fertilizered 3x from sowing to when it died. Always loaded of Tomatoes. No earth warm nor mulch. My Grapes Tomatoes super loaded. I think consistently in watering is the key plus fertilizered. And i never watered on its leaves ONLY bottom watered.

Thanks for this. I really liked your start where you say your zone and location,, I have recently moved and learned about starting soil temps. This year in Central Nova Scotia we have had a very cool spring. The last two weeks have been down to 10 degrees or 50 F at night and only highs of 20 C or 70 F. I only have 8 Tomatoes in the garden where two days before planting I dug 2 foot holes and warmed the soil with warm water and to let the sun in I only use water from barrels as I think hose can be too cool for my situation. Too much shade is my main problem but my small garden allows this time investment. Hope your eye is better Tim

It was great witnessing the worm getting out of the chunk of ground, and then after we could see the hole they leave behind. Those holes are so important for so many reasons. Hurrah for worms!

Thank you.

What is your source for the leaves that sre delivered? Is it feom a tree trimming company?

Im looking to plant a cover crop in the fall this year. I have heavy clay soil that really lacks nitrogen. Will a cover crop fix nitrogen deficiency or do I need to add nitrogen before planting the cover crop?

I can't believe how amazing mine are doing. We just broke ground on a new garden in April and we just seeded the whole thing with sunflowers. They are an amazing plant

thanks!

A lot of people don't realize that degradation of compost consumes nitrogen. So you have to add nitrogen to compensate.

When you aerate your bucket. The chlorine evaps in hours instead of days. I aerate for 12 hours. Chlorine is gone in a couple hours

If there was anything to this method, there would be several meta studies about it in the scientific literature and all commercial growers would be doing it.

Interesting that your soil took so much water but your plants were not yet looking stressed.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Kudos for pushing through the head injury

I live in Jackson township. I will watch your videos because you are in my area and grow for a living. You know what works.

My property is the depository of our towns leaf cleanup in the fall. So each year I have it dumped in a new location and then plant after about 6 months changing the structure and fertility of our entire property.

Thank´s Rocky !

I've got one garden with no mulch and everything is dying after a couple dry hot weeks. My other garden is mulched 3 inches deep, plants are vibrant green and growing fast. That mulch really makes a difference especially in Summer. Use it if you got it

I'm in jersey too!!:) south:) I ran out of leaves, what else do you recommend for mulch around the plants

Sound advice on watering. Get it in the ground & soil covered soon. MASSIVE heat dome predicted to cover large portion of US. >>>The preeminent ECMWF weather model is forecasting a record-breaking ridge of high pressure in the Northeast U.S. later next week 💪 🟡 Called a "600 decameter ridge", these monstrous highs are a relatively rare summertime visitor to the central and western U.S. but have not been recorded over the Northeast U.S. - yet. Because air expands and rises as it warms, this ridge pumps higher up into the atmosphere. The height of the ridge is related to the temperature of the atmosphere. In this case, the height of the 500 hPa pressure level is forecast to reach 6 kilometers or 3.7 miles. ⏫ Described another way, the ridge is forecast to be about as tall as 16 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of one another! It remains to be seen just how hot it gets under this noteworthy ridge and if it indeed reaches 600 decameters, but 100+ degree temperatures appear possible for parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic later next week...<<<

Great advice, thank you.

Someone that finally understands soil and soiless mixes... hallelujah

Spot on Mark... Carbon and Water... Good gas exchange in the soil and elevated CO2 from oxidizing carbon (mulch) to cycle the carbon is key for healthy plants and healthy soil.

Water doesn’t cause root rot, its water mixed with organic decomposing matter that creates sewer gases depleting the oxygen available to roots.

It’s called water retention and permeability.

Last year one of my tomatoes fell in love with my watermelon vine. They had a very nice symbiotic relationship it seems. Those tomatoes put on more than I've ever seen out of any of my past tomato plants. I think it's because the watermelon was shading it somewhat. The watermelon vine produced way more melons than ever before. There were around 30 watermelons on that one vine. Those two plants reseeded themselves so I'm gonna let em grow together again and see what happens. More and more I've been gravitating towards landrace gardening

I believe adding lots of water like you just did is good to do occasionally to make the roots go deep but not every time. When mother nature waters the plants on earth, they dry out in between rainy days so let's imitate mother nature like you did dropping leaves around the plants.... no one fertilizes the trees in the forest yet see how big they grow just from leaves that fall. Worms like to eat decaying leaves then they poop and that fertilizes the forest.

Mark I'm enjoying results of using a large sunflower as a cover crop and follow it with a tomato starter works great and the easiest way for anyone any age and even sensors and many handicapped can do also less tools and needs less watering. Mark please make a special video catching attion to encourage this system so to get kids and most anyone involved in having tomatoes and peppers. Peppers too... I'm testing the system on several pepper plants and looking promising. Thanks for the advice SIR

I'm in NJ too. What county are you in? I'm a massive proponent of leaves and leaf mould. I'd take a tandem load of leaves over a tandem load of mushroom compost every time. Let it sit for a year or two and you've got the true "black gold".

Thanks Mark…look forward to your next video!

I grown cherry tomatoes in an AeroGarden (hydroponics) with no root rot. Was unsuccessful to get fruit but the plant grow big and flowered. There's a RUclipsr that successfully grows Tiny Tom tomatoes in an AeroGarden.

Thanks for the video. Sorry about the black eye. Be careful next time.

Excessive watering on tomatoes can cause fruit to split though.

'Stupid should hurt'. Guess where I got that from.

Perhaps my first day of disagreement with you Mark. Usually 100 percent with you and I'll still give thumbs up.. Here in Mid Ohio and perhaps the best gardener I've witnessed only water at planting time. He said let the plants learn to go deep and I've never seen him water in 3 seasons and had most common veggies I see growth in 3 days on most of my tomatoes and 6 plus inches on many tomatoes and I also want 60 plus degrees soil temperature before putting out

I actually let the native grass from my walkways creep in under the tomato plants and grow in the shade under my market tomatoes. It doesn't seem to negatively affect them in growth or fruiting and leaves a soft landing for any wind blown ripe fruit. When I plant the tomatoes, I rake or pull the grass clumps easily back. And I let it grow and cover the ground the rest of the year when nothing else is growing. It is not a super aggressive grass like Bermuda ect..

It all about the biology in the soil. Stop tilling! Tilling is the worst thing you can do to soil becuase tilling turns your soil into dirt. Dirt has no life

NJ Love

Good information. Thanks

Excellent information 😊 thank you

Just spent all morning planting my 🍅 plants 3' high already. Took out my winter.spring cherry tomatoes

Soil temperature should not be higher than 85 degrees. Below 60 degrees in the soil they don't grow.

What is that variety of tomato? You said "New Grow" but when I search for it I find nothing by that name or a similar name like "Nu Grow" or "Newgrow" etc.

Great content, thank you.

Amazing info & easy to understand. Just watched your old electroculture video & became a subscriber. Gotta catch up on your other videos for tips 👍

Is that anticlockwise?

have you been doing some plant breeding?