5 Tomato Tips for Early Season Success!

Here are 5 simple tips to set your tomatoes up for a long healthy season of delicious harvests! I go over sunlight, pruning, planting, watering, and companion planting for the best and healthiest tomatoes!

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00:00 - Intro
00:08 - Sunlight
02:12 - Early Pruning
03:29 - Tomato Suckers
05:58 - Watering
07:40 - Planting Methods
09:31 - Companion Planting

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[forrestberg]

No long intro, no long outro. Just content, great presentation! Thank you

[ericfavre]

i love this channel not only for the fact that Jacques has a french first name :) he's so chill and relaxed, it makes gardening sound easy ;)

[KarolynebInTraining]

I can't thank you enough for this post. This is my second attempt in my life at growing Tomatoes. I'm going to be successful. I'll let you know.

[OGFlipperbaby]

Jacque, the doc with the sick garden spot.

[stormraven]

For root knot nematodes, plant the marigolds in the off season as a chop & drop cover crop, then till them in before planting.

[andralandi]

As someone who is decidedly not a morning person, I’m gonna need an “It’s early morning - almost noon” t-shirt 😂

[RoyalKingOliver]

Last year I only planted one tomato and focused so much on peppers.

Now, I have a full batch of all kinds of tomatoes. Gonna be having fun with sizes and colors!!

[ponwajeechrans]

Normally don't have any problems with growing tomatoes, but this year I enjoy eat more of them. Only have 3 different types of tomatoes, 2 cherries, 1 roma and they are huge bushes. Thanks for all the info how to care for them properly and next year will grow more.

[achang]

Thank you, Jaques! Right after I watched your video, I went outside to rearrange all my tomato planters so they will receive the proper amount of sunlight. Very helpful!

[CrimeClockStories]

Jacques is like the Bob Ross of gardening!😂 Adore his channel!🙌🏻

[veronicadoggone]

Always love tomato tips! I started planting my tomatoes at an angle, not as flat as yours, but at an angle with all the roots in the center of the bed and the tops closer to the edge. Then I lay the drip tape down the middle over the roots down below. Amazing difference. ❤

[NomadHomad]

Overhead watering is pretty great for your tomatoes if you're in dry hot regions like most of CA; and done early in the morning. It helps keep the spider mites at bay as they hate wet plants

[adventurecreations]

Very helpful, much needed, very straight forward information. Thank you.

[davidjudd]

The horizontal planting works quite well.
The entire root system gets warmer faster, which is needed. Just be prepared to add soil over the root system as the dog days of summer begin. If not, then the roots will bake too hot in 95-100 degree weather like we get here in western. Missouri

[TheFFOz]

We should have an international tomato-off, I currently have a sweet 100 cherry tomato with a set of 18 tomatoes, but I think it's gonna go full badass and break the 20 soon. Challenge extended. Australia represent

[PatL]

Thank you for including cold weather areas. I've been deep top watering for years and rarely have issues. Keep up the great work/videos!

[rocky.usa]

I also buried a leggy tomatoe flat on its side last year. It was great. I left one of it's suckers grow and it was like 2 plants from one. Great flowers 💐 in the garden Jacques.

[HappyHppyHappy]

its my forst year growing tomato. I have a patio so I bought two patio hybrid tomatos. a slicer and a roma. The roma said it is a small bush plant and doesn't need trellising/support. Well, I believed it. I never pruned it and it produced A LOT of fruit. It fell over lmao. The army worms got some of the fruit but most were covered in organza bags so they survived. the fruit tastes amazing, so there is that. The second tomato, I put a cage around, it was the slizer. Never pruned it and started growing wiggly branges everywhere covering up all my other plants around it. was forced to prune. soon as I saw tomatos coming in I covered them in organza bags. The tomatoes grew so big the organza bags are being worn like a bodycon dress. I learned a lot this year....

[erntaku]

Jacques, a detail you missed is how you would calculate a "deep watering". I know it was always a question I had when I was first starting to grow maters.

[juliepoolie]

I started my seeds early March and my Siberian Earlys already have a few flowers! Full sun in the front of the garden. I am so excited!