4 Tips To Growing FALL TOMATOES: Grow A Fall Tomato Garden Like A PRO

In this video, I share 4 tips to growing fall tomatoes in your garden. Growing tomatoes in fall can be challenging, because fall tomato planting must be timed properly for the best tomato harvest possible. With these tomato growing tips, you'll know how to grow a fall tomato garden like a pro!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Complete Guide To Growing Fall Tomatoes
0:35 Tip #1
3:30 Tip #2
4:30 Tip #3
6:57 Tip #4
9:16 Adventures With Dale

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[TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Complete Guide To Growing Fall Tomatoes
0:35 Tip #1
3:30 Tip #2
4:30 Tip #3
6:57 Tip #4
9:16 Adventures With Dale

[ruthannecoro]

Mine are finally ripening.. I picked over 10 lbs yesterday.. just ate a handful of vine ripe and sun warmed cherry tomatoes ♥️

[bublhed]

This year I prepared my fall tomatoes! I have Roma, Sungold cherry and Federle. It’s my first time growing Federle and the package says it’s a semi-determinate. I’m not sure what to expect from those…
By the way there are lots of things to do with green tomatoes. I hate frying but make an exception for fried green tomatoes. You can also pickle them and I highly recommend them 😋

[barco]

Great advice on going with smaller tomatoes later in the season. We will try that next year and also some determinate tomatoes-always up for some plants that are less work!

We are in MA in the 7A zone with the first frost typically late October/first week in November. We are growing all indeterminates this year and having them still produce in the fall comes down to how they were/are cared for AND individual plant genetics. We have an Early Girl that still looks super fresh and is producing like crazy-it should have been tired by now. On the other hand, we have other tomatoes that are pretty much done for the season-they were treated exactly the same way. By this time we have stopped using granular organics and are focusing on synthetic liquids and liquid fish fertilizers. Some people also over water in the fall so we have cut that down as well. Pruning also plays a key role. These are just general tips though but plants that have disease or pest issues in late spring/early summer will never make it to the fall.

[mirandam]

YES! I just planted some more tomatoes yesterday! Perfect timing!!! I planted the “glacier” variety and also the “New Yorker” variety. Both are ‘early’ varieties and determinate

[TheRuckFarm]

Great tips! I’m going to miss garden fresh tomatoes this winter 🍅 We have a shorter growing season here in Wisconsin.

[originalwoolydragon]

My favorite autumn tomato scenario is happening right now in my garden...or more specifically, my compost bin. I just harvested 2# 6oz. of grape tomatoes from a volunteer tomato plant. I love those self-planting plants...sometimes! 😁🍅

[brt]

For late season, I like truss cluster varieties in five gallon buckets, which I can manage the number of trusses by pruning the top growing tip off when I have the number of trusses I want. When frost is eminent I severely prune the foliage and stop watering except to just keep the soil damp. Then I use a combo of row cover and I invested in some inexpensive soil heating cables to make it through the first light frosts and the heat helps to continue stimulating ripening. With the first heavy frost or long period of freezing/near-freezing I move the buckets indoors. They are no longer producing new fruit so just maintaining the ripening trusses of fruit on the near bare plants is the only concern. I toss some inexpensive apples or peels into the buckets so the ethylene gas they produce can help stimulate ripening. I've had tomatoes off the vine into December.

Another trick I use to keep a supply of "fresh" tomatoes through the Winter is to freeze them whole. This of course makes them inappropriate for slicing but they are perfect for a salsa so i get that raw uncooked tomato flavor I crave in mid through late Winter and early Spring. One more trick is to quarter them, dry them just half way in a dehydrator or oven, then packing them in oil and storing in the fridge. They will be firmer and less juicy than a fresh tomato but still soft and succulent with a fresher flavor than fully dried, and the flavor is concentrated so it packs a punch. They are great in salad or tossed into pasta. Sorry for digressing from gardening into preserving but I thought it might be relevant here.

[GayaHouseplant]

I love tomatoes .. thank you for sharing simple way on how to grow tomatoes. I will do it by tomorrow morning 🥰

[sylvia]

I learn so much from you about gardening! Thank you👍 Dale is adorable! 😊

[donnaraynes]

I am your Cape Hatteras fan and I always learn so much from you. This video answers the many questions I had concerning my raised bed tomatoes. Thank you so much. Love your videos! Ps...glad the hurricanes 🌀 are being kind to us so far!

[thatonegirl]

Thank you for the tips and thank you for the cute ending ❤️

[dapperdingo]

Our first frost here at 8000+ feet in the Colorado Rockies will likely be this coming week, (usually the second to third week of September). I have 6 tomato plants loaded with red (up to about two inches in diameter for the biggest ones) and green tomatoes growing in 5 gallon paint buckets down in the garden area. They will be moved up into the sun room in the house to live out the rest of their lives for winter and the last red tomato is usually eaten around the new year. They don't live much beyond that January point in time because of the explosion of aphids and white flies inside the sun room during winter, and the sticky, sickly plants end up getting set out into the snow to die, along with the infestations. I'll be saving seeds from them for next year's tomato supply so they did their main objective in life and I did my part to keep it going.

[growagarden]

Great tips! I didn't get many slicers this year, due to the heat wave in CA. So I decided to simply stick 3 cherry tomato suckers in the grown, and they are doing great, even in this heat! Good idea to experiment sometimes :)

[Dossk]

Spot on this year, looks like we may get an early frost here in Raleigh this week then things look good going forward. All my tomatoes are in containers so cleared space in the garage for them to spend a few nights and hope I can get a few more out of them since they have so many big green fruits currently.

[archstanton]

I planted Sungold and several Sakata determinate varieties in pots. I also planted Big Beef and Floridade. Some of the plants have small tomatoes, and hopefully they’ll mature and ripen. Now that it’s cooling off, I’m going to move the plants to take advantage of the reduced sunlight hours After watching your video, I should have planted earlier, small-fruited varieties. I have the PVC to make a hoop house to protect them from the first frost. I’m spraying BT once a week to keep the worms from boring into the fruit. Are you going to do a tomato taste test this year? Thanks for the tips!

[davidclark]

So that's why my tomatoes wouldn't set fruit even with hand pollination. Too hot. Well I got some fresh seedlings so hopefully round 2 will be more productive.

[oliverlang]

Sir! This was so helpful. Definitely following, thanks for the info.

[virginiaallisonpeck]

You are quickly becoming my favorite garden information video. ❤️

[lelandhank]

I propagated a bunch of runners from my summer garden and planted them a few weeks ago hoping it will work.