GARDENING TIPS FOR GROWING TOMATOES! HOW WE STAKE UP AND FERTILIZE OUR YOUNG TOMATO PLANTS

Howdy guys, it's Josh Stony Ridge farmer. I got me a new hat. Got my wife back here putting her to work. Got a lot of stuff going on on the farm today. Most of all, we're going to be stringing up our tomatoes. Well, we're not really stringing them up. We're just putting the stakes up. And I'll tell you how we're going to string them up. How we're going to put the stakes up and what we do on the farm to help support our tomatoes. Also, we got the tractor back here. Boom. Shakaaka right there. It's got the bush hog on it. We've been Well, it's a brush cutter, not a bush hog. Been doing a few laps on the uh fields here trying to cut us some trails so that we can do a little farm running, a little jogging, a little hiking, stuff like that. Anyhow, we're going to show you how we stake up our tomatoes today and what we do for string and everything like that to make it easy. And this is what I've learned over time. So, come along with me. All right. [Music] So, what's this thing? Na. This is a ball of twine. Okay, so we got a ball of twine. This is my main twine twirler right here. She's twirling twine, which we call we need it to put the twin tomatoes up. And uh basically, we just take the uh twine off of a roll. And we roll it into little balls so that we can manipulate it around the steaks, the tomato steaks, when we get ready to do it. I'll show you what kind of uh twine we use, but this is basically a biodegradable twine that's like bailing twine. And I'll show you the big roll. Right there's the big roll. Bailing twine. Woo. So, what this place is about, what this channel is about is showing you how we do what we do when we do and what we do. What what we do twice. Anyway, we do it right cuz we do it twice. Purpose of this vlog today is to show you how we stake up our tomatoes. And you can see we have fence posts. These are Tpost. These are like 5ft Tpost and the ones over here are like 6ft Tpost. These are aroma tomatoes. And aroma tomatoes will only get probably this high, like just below nipple high. So, for a normal person, probably this high, okay? Cuz I'm a giant, and that's all. I can't help it. Whatever. Anyhow, if you look down the row, everything's straight as an arrow. And the reason it's straight is because I've got some string. I'll show you the string, and I'll show you what I do to make a straight row. Also, if you look, some of them are taller than others. My OCD farmer, Niss, is going to look down the row, see which ones are off, and fix that later on. But right now, we're just going to get the stakes in the ground. And this is how we do it. I'm going to walk you around. So, basically, I tie a string on here and I run a string. I put this post in and I go all the way to the end of the row and I put the next post in all the way down at the end. Okay? And this is a long row of tomatoes, but basically I use this string. And I learned this technique from building fences. This string runs a straight line and basically butts up against the edge of each one of these post. And you can be a couple inches off. Not a big deal. These are our Roma tomatoes right here. You might notice a lot of weeds over in this area. That's okay. Weeds are only weeds if you want them to be weeds. These aren't weeds. This is a flower garden. Eventually, it's going to pop. It's going to be flowers everywhere. So, let's walk down a row here a little bit. These are the rows that I cut in with the tractor tires. Basically, I just ran over it and made a raised bed here and then the tractor tire divot here so that the water had somewhere to go. My rooster doesn't like me. I figured out why he won't shut up. Won't stop growing. He just doesn't like me. And that's okay cuz some people don't like me. And if you don't like me, I got enough friends already. So, if you look behind me, we've got our post already laid out for this other side. We're going to go ahead and tamp those in with the post driver and put them in a straight line just like the other ones. Basically, I just went off eyeball to get my first two post in right here. These first two ones, I just kind of went off my eyeball how I wanted them, how wide I wanted it, and then I take every three plants and I put a post in. Okay, so that's the way it goes. And then we'll eventually we'll wrap twine around these post and I'll show you that in a later vlog. But basically we just wrap twine all the way around. Put about four rows of twine. And basically we just want to support our tomato plants. Something else you might be slightly interested in is this is our potato garden. We have clover planted all over the garden. Basically I used it as a overcrop for the winter. Oh roosters. Anyway, I used it as a overcrop for the winter and I just planted my potatoes right through the middle of these clovers. It's doing fine. Clover pulls nitrogen to the soil, so it's good for the soil. I'm going to leave it alone. Let them flower out. Give the honey bees something to munch on. What would a farm vlog be without checking on the duckies? Duckies. Duckies. Look how big the ducks are getting, guys. Ducky duckies. So, we're going to go ahead and pound in a couple post here. Hey guys, this is Josh Sunny Ridge Farmer and this is picking in the kitchen. Woo. [Music] I'm not wearing any unders. [Applause] I'm feeling a little bit chilly sitting in this chair. Think I'm felt breath of frosty air cuz I'm not wearing any unwear. I'm feeling naked. I feel free. Time to let them old boys breathe. I'm just sitting here feeling the breeze. I'm not wearing any underwear. That's right. [Music] Farming is hard work. Don't let anybody tell you different. Get one more row done. We got it done. Let me show you something. Something you might not know. So, when you're driving a post in the ground, this is something you might not know. There's a white mark right here. Okay? And here's the post driver. If you don't own one and you want to do this, go buy one. You can do it. Here's something you might not know. There's a white mark right here. Well, this white mark is to prevent you from smashing your finger between here and the post, which will break your finger pretty quickly. got a good friend that broke his finger like that. So anyway, when you raise it up and you smack it down on the post and you raise back up, as soon as you see that white, it's your signal to stop and go back down. So up, white, stop, go back down. Up just like that. So little something, little Stony Ridge farmer tip there, guys. Woo. So guys, that's it for the farm vlog today. I just wanted to take you and show you how we're staking up our tomatoes and how we're I got a bug on my leg. Oh, and how bug I got sidetracked. So, the last thing we're going to do, guys, is we're going to put some organic tomato and vegetable fertilizer down on our uh tomato plants. And this this is 274. So, it's not really high nitrogen content. And I'm hearing from farmers and folks that grow tomatoes is that you don't want to throw down heavy nitrogen content on your tomatoes because it'll cause them to not produce tomatoes as much. It'll cause a vigorously green growing plant, but it won't let tomato fruit. So, we're going to go around and we're going to spread this uh fertilizer. Brad. So, the way we're going to do this is basically we're just going to reach in the bag and we're going to sprinkle around the plants. No science there. Just a little bit around each plant. Call it good. Anyway, that's it for the farm vlog today. I wanted to show you how we take our tomato plants and we stake them up. I got me a new Stony Ridge farmer hat and it's soaking wet. Super duper hot. It's 85 degrees out here. I'm soaking wet. Getting my beach body on. Getting my farmer tan going. Looking good for the summer, guys. So, thanks a lot for joining me. Give me a thumbs up. Don't forget to leave a comment or something like that. Share the video. Subscribe to the channel if you're not already subscribed. I appreciate you. Come on back and see me. All right. Come on down to the Stony Ridge. Bring your wife. Bring your kids face. There you are. Vegetable and tomato. What's this called? Vegetable tomato fertilizer down on our new fertiliz. Uh Damn it. So, the last thing we're going to do, sometimes you got to get a little fertilizer like this right here to put on the plant. Very good for you. Thank you. And how I got a bug on my leg. Oh.