Hi, I'm Ali Reynolds with Ali's Organics, and today I'm going to show you how to grow tomatoes in your garden. Some things that you're going to need to be growing your tomatoes is some Garden Dust, which is a BT, bacillus thoringus, that's for tomato horn worms. You're going to need some K Neem, if you've got problems with curly leaf, and you're going to need a fertilizer with a second number the highest, being your phosphorous. You don't want something that's higher in a nitrogen. And you're going to need some twine or some twist tie to help tie up your tomatoes. This is when it's already a little bit established. And this is a San Marzano tomato. And this guy, I'm going to stake it up. It doesn't take much to stake them because of they're a determinant tomatoes. Now, determinant tomatoes put on most of their tomatoes all at once and then it's life cycle is pretty much done. Any determinant tomato will get very large and they need to be caged or up a trellis. But they will produce through the entire season, unless you live in a hot climate like we do here in the desert. Then they'll have a time where they don't really produce in the hottest part of the season. Now, this guy here, I'm just going to stake him up, tie him up as he's growing. I'll just tie him loosely to this bamboo stick. And as he continues to grow up, I'm going to continue to, to have him tied up. I do plant determinant tomatoes very, very close here in the desert. It helps cool them. I will actually plant them one foot apart. For a determinant tomato, unless I'm staking them, I will plant them three foot apart. But this guy here, once he's up and going, I like to give him some fertilizer, about every three weeks, just a little bit. And I'll just make a little trench around here, and this I'm going to use a Bat Guano, because it's high in phosphorous. And tomatoes really like more phosphorous than they do nitrogen which is your first number. And I'm just going to grab a small handful, and sprinkle this around the base of the plant, and then just cover it, and then water that in. Now, if you're in an area where you have a lot of problems with your curly leaf, which is caused by the beet leafhopper, then it's a really good idea to spray your plant with a Neem. Neem just comes from a tree. It's a natural product, and it's a good idea to spray it about every four to ten days. And you want to hit it fairly thorough. Now, another choice that you have, is you could use a sulfur dust, and use that. And then once the water has hit it, then it's no good anymore. Now, if you had tomatoes that have the tomato horn worm on them, that are devouring your plants and you can't seem to find them, then a BT works really good. And the safe for garden dust is a BT. It's called bacillus thoringus. Okay. This is our BT and we're just going to dust it on your tomatoes. That was an a lot. But, anyways, then that's going to end up taking care of your tomato horn worms. What they do is when they're eating the leafs of the plant, it causes their insides to dry up and then they're pretty much finished off. But, anyways that's, that's kind of a rundown of how to grow tomatoes in a garden.
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