Tomatoes: Determinate vs. Indeterminate - What's The Difference And Which Is Best For Me?

The Knowledge in this video will help you choose a tomato variety that is most ideally suited for your specific needs.

[Bpt]

That is masively useful information. Also, concise. Your channel is my favorite for gardening, by far.

[sarahogden]

Yes please! I am mustering up the courage to start canning. I have all the equipment but would like some reassurance that it’s doable for me!

[SoilToSoul]

Got Cherokee Purples growing now, they are my absolute favorite also! I have beefsteaks, Aunt Ruby German Green, and Abe Lincoln.

Blueberry cherries are my favorite of that type, got those, and we are growing tiny Tim's, and tumbling toms for determinate cherries. Can't wait! Thanks for the video!

[AaricHale]

Lots of really great information ! To be honest I haven't grown a whole lot of determinate tomatoes over the years . I'm growing 3 micro dwarfs I think will be neat . Thanks for sharing and have a great evening !

[katerich]

Tomato powder is genius. I’ll be trying that when my maters come in.

[busyrand]

Always wondered about this... Thanks for the show and tell too.

[outdoorsgreg]

Nice work with all of your videos! Really well done!!

[raydowdy]

Ive been raising Cherokee Purple for 30 years and they are one of my favorites. I also used to raise Beefy Boys but for some reason the seed books don't have them anymore.

[andyjlogue]

Dude you are so amazing. I have learnt a heck of a lot from you. Keep it up!

[colebesaw]

Wow that sounds like a lot of tomatoes! Last year was our first year doing a garden and our favorite thing we made was pasta sauce so we’re excited to can a lot more this year. We had a pretty bad hail storm last June which hit our tomato plants hard so we had to buy a lot of the tomatoes from the farmers market. I have no idea what to expect from our tomatoes this year. We’ve got a lot of plants started inside right now so we could end up with a ton of Romas if ours do as well as yours did with only 6 plants.

[American_Heathen]

Thank you for this video. I am going backwards because I see your video about the trellis for your indeterminate tomatoes. I wanted to know more. I never trimmed off the suckers. I was afraid of clipping off the wrong one even though I have been growing tomatoes for 20 yrs (I know I am slow lol).

When I was a bus driver the customers labeled me the Gardener Cook driver. The passengers and myself would talk gardening, cooking and baking. A lady I would say in the 80’s came walking up to the front of the bus. She says in her thick Sicilian accent (I thought I was going to get whacked(sorry bad mafia joke)). If you really want to make your red sauce pop. Add a couple of cherry tomatoes and a cup of merlot before you start the cook down process. After a few hours do the slotted spoon test. If none of the sauce goes through the slots. It’s ready to jar or serve. I have had done that and my red sauce is awesome.

Thank you for the slicer and cherry tomatoes varieties. I’ll give them a try from the brandy wine and I forgot the cherry tomatoes I started. The romas I go with the Amish paste and the super saucer from burpee.

[cookiemama]

I'm planting Rutger tomatoes. This is my first garden. It's in containers.. I'm in California where we have a longer growing season. 🍅

[runemasterhariwulfaz]

I’m a big San Marzano guy, which are actually indeterminants (surprisingly enough). Got some big 7+ foot tall vines, tons of awesome yields. I am absolutely in love with this variety, been growing them for years and have yet to find something that can replace them, they are such good performers for me.

[joannmcculley]

Thanks for showing how to have shelf stable products from our garden! Tomato paste without the messy can! Whooo hoo

[carlaellison]

I would like to see any and all gardening, knowledge videos, and/or canning and sauce making videos.

[GingerWaters]

I think you want to hear this story: I started garden out of nothing 2 years ago by starting composting everything I could get. I’ve been carrying fruits and veggies from supermarket trashbin to my compost. This spring compost was ready, and I repotted all the plants or added new top coating with fresh rich compost. Now whole garden is full off different types of tomatoes. Tomato seeds survived the compost and I have to now figure out what to do with abunda nce of tomatoes. This video was allready helpfull, but if you feel inspired, whole video of tomato conserving techniques would be awesome. Thanks of really great information channel.

[rodnawilliams]

so which type of tomato would i use to make sun-dried tomatoes? please and thank you for your very informative video ... omg if i would wait until end of video i might get my answer lol .. i believe you were saying that the Roma tomato is usually the one most use for the sun-dried tomato correct?

[jacobspranger]

How do you go about fertilizing your tomato plants with the natural fertilizers? Do you target npk during specific stages of growth throughout the life of the tomato plant? I'm trying to shy away from the bone meal, blood meal espoma and langbeinite fertilizers. Iv been using alfalfa meal a little as well, especially for my garlic patch along with fish emulation. Becomes costly fertilizing everything we grow. I am starting to get a build-up of compost which will help. maybe I'm over thinking this...I also wonder about plants that require lower pH like blueberries.

[cookiemama]

Can I dehydrate regular tomato slices or pieces? And do I remove the tomato seeds. I buy non gmo seeds for veggies..
Thank you very much for this video on tomatoes! Just in time! 🍅

[sherrymurphy-kleine]

You can't beat a cherokee purple for amazing flavor!!