5 SECRETS For Success GROWING TOMATOES In Fall

In this video, I share 5 secrets for success growing tomatoes in fall. Growing fall tomatoes can be challenging, because the fall gardening season can become too cool too quickly. For this reason, timing and environmental conditions are everything when planting tomatoes in fall. This video will help maximize your tomato harvest.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Tomato Growing Challenges
0:44 Tomato Secret #1: Tomato Varieties
2:57 Tomato Secret #2: Timing Transplants
5:05 Tomato Secret #3: Soil
6:19 Tomato Secret #4: Disease Management
7:35 Tomato Secret #5: Heat Management
11:36 Adventures With Dale

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[TheMillennialGardener]

If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share to help extend its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Tomato Growing Challenges
0:44 Tomato Secret #1: Tomato Varieties
2:57 Tomato Secret #2: Timing Transplants
5:05 Tomato Secret #3: Soil
6:19 Tomato Secret #4: Disease Management
7:35 Tomato Secret #5: Heat Management
11:36 Adventures With Dale

[bprov]

I hope you have better luck than I have because I have lost 6 transplants since July under 40% shade cloth. Only one sweet100 and 2 Celebritys have survived.😟

[patkrueger]

My tomatoes are still doing well that I planted in the spring. Still have plenty of tomatoes on them and still blooming. Keeping my fingers crossed.

[harvestforthemany]

Shout out to the volunteer tomatoes that popped up in July that are starting to produce now just as my intentionally June- planted ones get sick. 🙌

[anniebancroft]

DALE IS THE BEST!! Your gardening advice is pretty darned good, too

[diananazaroff]

How timely. I pulled all of my tomato plants the other day - except for snips of a few suckers that I'm rooting. They already have flowers on them - I figure they probably won't set fruit, but what the heck - and they're indeterminate. Supersteak and Brandy Boy. I have a sheltered spot where a rogue cherry tomato comes back each year and I thought I would put each of the snips into a 3 gal pot and see what happens. If I get a tomato or two out of it, it'll be more than I got if I threw the whole thing out, lol.
Thanks, as always, for the info.

[AmzBackyardOrchardandVineyard]

Fall! It's prime tomato growing season in Arizona! Thanks for all the tips and tricks. Greetings from hot 9B

[sandrajohnston]

My tomatoes are just now starting to ripen. From now until first frost date (8b, 10/15ish) I will be enjoying a wonderful tomato season. This has been acceptional summer of dry, warm (but not hot) weather and I've never had such a wonderful crop of tomatoes. Peppers are doing very well also, all thanks to Jack's Bloom Booster.

[AnyKeyLady]

We have had a lot of unusually wet, warm and humid weather in July and August, so i have topped some of the larger indeterminate tomatoes and are re rooting them in pots. This allows the current tomatoes on the vine a chance to ripen, in case we get blight and also, when they are done, if the weather picks up i can plants the "new" ones out, topping off again, later in the season to over winter in pots in doors.

Mid Sept and October is usually our "wet" hurricane season and then it tends to dry out. Our first frost date is the beginning of Jan here in zone 9a London, UK but the tomatoes often get taken out by blight or too much rain come October. It gives a chance though to reset the bed for winter, in preparation for planting garlic.

[robertawestbrooks]

I planted mine back in June, it's doing very well.
They are taller than me, and they are cherrys.🎉

[danielroach]

I live in Durham, North Carolina and with many thanks due to you, I had my best summer garden ever! I am planting what I think will be my best fall garden ever. You are doing a great job!

[urbanbackyardcontainergardenin]

I went back and watched your video on using straw bales to grow. Next year I will try this

[smas]

Dale saw how much fun you were having with his mermaid. The end.
Thanks for the tips. I'm in zone 6b. We shall see what the weather man brings our way.

[tammyohlsson]

Straw bale gardening has saved my garden. Fresh medium every time. Broke down straw is awesome in raised beds or containers.
Game changer!

[barco]

Up here in Boston we had a cool spring so the tomatoes are a few weeks behind. We are growing Celebrity tomatoes for the first time this year and using the Florida Weave method for support based on your other video. We had a lot of hard overnight rain so it has been a tough year for disease, but the plants outgrew it for a while and some are getting tired now. However, like you said the Celebrities have been more disease resistant and are lower maintenance. Production has been fantastic! For taste the Sweet 100s are my favorite. The Sweet 100s plants look super healthy so hopefully they keep producing through Halloween.

[beverlyboyce]

I'm in Texas and under water restrictions. My fall stuff is on hold mostly. I have 3 dwarf tomato plants hanging in there under shade cloth. No rain in over 2 months and 2 months of over 100°

[ResearchQueen]

Great update and love adventures of Dale, lol!

[tayjahrivera]

You were reading my mind because I was just about to type growing tomatoes lol into my search bar. I live in Havelock, NC and have been keeping up with your videos! :)

[hazeysgarden]

I have a bed with 9 determinate Roma tomato plants in it, and I’m kind of surprised by how slow they’ve been growing. They’re definitely growing, but just much slower than my indeterminate SS100 cherry tomato plants. I got all my tomatoes in the ground in early July for my fall garden. The drought and heat wave is the worst in recorded history here in Lafayette Louisiana, but thankfully my new raised beds with shade cloth are keeping the plants looking healthy.

[FarmToMarketRoad]

I started tomato seeds around July 1st in 72 cell 10x20 trays. Most died soon after potting up to 4" pots. It's been over 100 every day since July 1. Next year I'm going to start them in 4" pots half way with soil mix.Then fill containers up about a month later. They couldn't handle the root disturbance. Pepper seedling did fine after potting up.