Growing Better Boy Tomatoes

Series Summary

Growing vegetables in your own vegetable garden is a rewarding hobby for many reasons - not the least of which is the harvest. Knowing what type of vegetable to plant, where to plant it, and how to cultivate and harvest it can be difficult. However, growing a vegetable garden can be very easy with vegetable growing tips and advice from someone who knows how. In this free online video series, learn how to grow various types of vegetables from Stan DeFreitas, also known as "Mr. Green Thumb." DeFreitas will tell you what you need to know to grow vegetables such as Better Boy Tomatoes, Golden Jubilee Tomatoes, Patio Tomatoes, and zucchini. Additionally, DeFreitas will teach you about growing okra, Yellow Wax peppers, eggplant, Red Sails lettuce, sweet potato vines, and Medusa peppers.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Stan DeFreitas, "Mr. Green Thumb". Everybody loves tomatoes. One of the better varieties is that of, Better Boy. Better Boy is an indeterminate variety; tends to probably get 3 or 4 feet tall. Better Boy like most tomatoes needs full sun for best production. Also of course takes about 70 days from the time you plant it to the time that you're harvesting fruit. It's one that you do want to make sure with all tomatoes, that you're doing the growing after the last chance of frost, it doesn't take cold weather very well. But full sun, make sure you add a good peat perlite combination. It does well in container gardening. I mean large containers, because it gets to be a large plant, so you wouldn't have it in a hanging basket, you want this plant in a large open container, maybe a earth box or something of that nature. It is VF&N, which means it's verticillium and nematode resistant, but that also means that you need to still plant it in a pretty good improved soil. So add your extra peat, extra cow manure, and extra fertilizer. For on Gardening, I'm Stan DeFreitas, "Mr. Green Thumb"."