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Planting Tomato and Pepper Seedlings

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What happens here

With the garden bed prepared, the presenter kneels to demonstrate planting. He first digs a hole, showing the dark, rich soil. He then carefully scoops a San Marzano Roma tomato seedling from its flat, ensuring the root ball remains intact. He places the seedling into the hole, burying a portion of the stem, which tomatoes can root from, to promote a stronger root system. He then gently packs the soil around the plant and creates a small, raised 'water ring' (or moat) around the base of each plant to help retain water. He plants the tomatoes approximately 18-24 inches apart along a straight line, followed by Thai chili pepper plants in a separate section. He advises planting in the late afternoon or evening to prevent new plants from being exposed to the harsh sun immediately, minimizing transplant shock.

Goal: The presenter demonstrates the proper technique for planting tomato and pepper seedlings in the newly tilled and amended soil, emphasizing careful handling and creating water rings.

Tools and materials

  • Small Shovel or Trowel
  • Compost

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the first few days look at this soil it is time to get dirty man i'm gonna be covered with the compost this is absolutely gorgeous so these are the tomatoes when you plant them in planters like this basically all you have to do is reach in and scoop out a plant we're going to start a row about right here because again i'm going to build more planter boxes for raised beds and probably plant some late tomatoes in those planter boxes later in the year but i'll have them year after year and i'm using white oak so it's really awesome so let's dip our hand into the soil and show you guys how we pull a tomato plant out of a flat like this and how we put it in the ground so go ahead and get your hole prep go ahead and get everything ready to rock and roll so we're going to scoop out look at that oh man we're gonna scoop some of that gold out right there and then we're gonna grab one of our tomato plants so i'm just gonna reach right in and scoop up underneath it just like so okay just like that and i've got my tomato plant hole's a little bit deep that's okay because if you bury a tomato plant up the stalk just a little bit it'll be all right it'll still set out roots and this is what i like to do i like to plant it like this you see some of the grass debris in here i like to put a little ring i call it a water ring on the outside of the tomato plant just like that we're going to do another one right over here and we're going to plant these probably anywhere from 18 to 24 inches apart so i've got kind of a line as a frame of reference right here i'm going to go it doesn't have to be a perfect science man it doesn't have to be oh that's a 19 nutrition doesn't have to be that okay it does not have to be that if you're really ocd i guess it does we could run a string line down here and have a perfectly straight line but i'm not too worried about that so we're going to do a little hump right here and then we're going to go right around that plant we'll pack that dirt down just a little bit then i'm going to take a watering wand and i'm going to go around here and i'll have a little pond a little moat around each one of these tomato plants so we got some work to do let's get busy [Music] do well that's about as straight as it's going to get man it's getting dark on us here this is the perfect time to plant your garden so don't plant your garden in the early morning where it gets beat down with the hot hot sun all day for the first day when you put plants in the ground…

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