5 Tomato Growing Tips For JUNE

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In this video, I share what you can do for your tomato plants in the month of June. These are the top 5 tasks that we are taking care of in the garden to grow the best quality tomatoes. Whether you're in a hot and dry climate, or in New England (like we are), these tomato growing tips will help your plants stay healthy and productive.

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[Rabellaka.]

I don’t even get mine in the ground until June. Even looking at the forecast, Monday (June 10) is looking dicey for frost. So far I’ve only planted the ones that go next to a south-facing brick wall that stays warm.

[JohnJude-dped]

I have plants up to my belt and I'm 6ft tall. Lots of 1 inch tomatoes and up to 3 inch diameter.I start my plants 10 weeks before May 15.thats our 6a Mid Ohio freeze date.Im expected to have salad tomatoes by June 20 and Black Krim late June. My best looking seedlings in my 4th season with seedings.
Thanks you 2 has been helpful

[userbosco]

All good ideas! However, if you are trying to remain pesticide free in your garden and you're considering mulching with grass cuttings, make sure your grass is pesticide free. A lot of homeowners use various treatments in their yards which would leach into their garden soil potentially. I personally avoid using grass clippings even though we don't treat our property any longer - mostly because our neighbors do, and that stuff spreads. Plus, introduction of weeds is a headache. Cheers!

[poke-talia]

My sweet 100 and my yellow pear tomato plants got hit hard by the frost one night this spring before i was even able to get them in the ground. The leaves were all dead, but the stems looked salvageable, so i kept them in a spot that gets morning sun and afternoon shade. All of the points where the suckers were going to grow survived, so i kept them watered and let them do their thing. Now, they're the biggest tomato plants in my garden. Bigger than the pre established ones that i bought shortly after and are planted directly in the ground. My survivor tomatoes are in pots with drainage holes. (As long as they have those drainage holes, they should be fine. My tomatoes last year grew their roots out of the drainage holes and a good foot or two into the ground.

[Inpreesme]

Fine I’ve already had five days in the month of June over 102°. I’ll be lucky if they survive the summer. I have now covered by garden with white shade cloth from Bootstrap.

[arubaguy]

I'm forced to plant in 5-gallon fabric bags that offer excellent drainage qualities. I fill them with equal-parts good quality potting mix, composted cow and fish manure, and coconut fiber to keep soil texture light. In the planting hole goes a handful of dry organic tomato fertilizer. I mix a heaping tablespoon of powdered calcium into the soil, set the 8-10" starts deep and firm the soil, then mulch with 1-2" of clean pine shavings.
This combination, along with fairly conservative pruning results in fruits that never suffer from blossom-end rot (from lack of calcium uptake) or cracking as the daily watering drains well, no matter if I over-do it. There is no fungus in the sterile mix and the leaves never touch dirt. I sometimes get some leaf curling due to intense sun, but it doesn't seem to affect production. I've been doing it this way for years, and even re-use the same soil every year, with just some added compost to re-fortify it.

[MichiganDaisy-]

Hiello from North Eastern Michigan.... 8:48 hover flies are one of my favorite bugs! I love watching those guys! I did not know that the alyssum attracted them. I'm so blessed to have a bunch of alyssum all throughout my hanging baskets. I will definitely be on the lookout for those little guys now. Great video btw! Thank you for all the awesome tips! I know my tomatoes would do great this year ❤

[libertycowboy]

Down here in Texas, my tomatoe plants are almost 4ft tall! Sorry to my friends way up north.

[amarsingh]

awesome recommendations! i live in south texas and have been having a lot of issues with my tomatoes that i planted late... the shade cloth is gonna help

[andreahorsch]

Mine are looking great in Ohio as well! Started them all from seed this year and having good progress so far.

[GrandmaSandy]

Thank you so much for sharing some great tips and information about growing tomatoes

[dennispatrick]

Did you say you lived in New England? Because I do as well and this year is my first year of growing tomatoes since my retirement. If you do live in New England I will be watching you videos and hopefully going back to watching ones you have already produced.

I live in southern New Hampshire.

[MN_Grow_Bro]

Blossom end rot is usually from lack of calcium in the soil which can be amended with either Gypsum or Fish bone meal.

[erin]

Here in Iowa it’s been 90 but fully cloudy; is it the air temperature alone a stressor, or is it temp plus sunny skies?

[fedupwithem]

My tomatoes look great, I'm in midcoast Maine so they're not as tall as yours yet. I'm not giving them any nitrogen this year and I'm only pruning in the morning of a sunny, dry day to help avoid disease.

[ch]

June is the beginning of Winter in Australia and I have 2 gorgeous tomatoes plants outdoors however 1 is not giving flowers and the other one has 3 gorgeous yellow flowers 🎉❤ I am thinking to put them inside the house to avoid seeing them frosted

[OGZaddy]

In South Texas… some of my tomatoes are well over 10ft tall already (planted in late March) have already “leaned and lowered” twice on some of these the growth is unreal on some of these

[rpascarelli]

Cherry tomatoes are actually indeterminant tomatoes and like to be pruned. The large tomatoes are determinant and don’t really need to be pruned. I’m in southeast mass by the way. Where are you located?

[khushbakhtrehman]

Me in Canada who randomly decided to grow tamatos not knowing what I was getting into😂 it just gave its first flowers and its June while my peppers are crying🎉

[paellalover]

My tomatoes here in Southern Minnesota were doing beautifully and I just saw that two of the plants have these little black spots all over them. I want to correct this before it spreads to the other five tomatoes or companion plants. Help!