How I Saved My Dying Tomato Starts
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Wouldn’t you know it, there are common seed-starting mistakes that even experienced gardeners make. This year, we started two sets of tomatoes (some for the …
Where do you find seeds? I need full so seeds,do you grow aloe?lemon balm??
I’ve had the exact same problem with my tomatoes this year. Mine are on the mend too thankfully.
Oh , I am so glad that the tomatoes recuperated and doing great.🤗💜🤗
This just goes to show that even if we've been gardening for years, sometimes things just happen that we really can't control. Great video! You're an awesome gardener 🙂
Im sorry for your troubles but I loved this video!!! It makes me feel much better about my earlier tomato disaster and gives me hope that if I keep trying I will succeed. I am positive that I had failed my first try for the same reason. I will never use store bought seed starter again!
Love seeing your family in the day to day! ❤️ Have you tried the 42 day tomato?
Alot of bagged soil is too hot for seedlings it seems. I do better as you do, using what's on the land, compost and soil. If too clumpy or soggy, I add coco coir. And I use fish emulsion after first true leaves appear.
Great video! Thanks!
I would like to see how you made your compost.. 🙂
Thanks for all the fantastic information! Your children are absolutely darling!❤
Thank You for sharing
Wow!! That's amazing.
Rebecca has gotten so big!! 💞
We have the same lobster and heart copper pans on the wall!
Absolutely love this video!! Thanks so much for sharing and teaching!
Beautiful children!
Blessings
Would love to see start to finish composting videos! Love your videos.
I love this video, Caroline. It’s raw, honest, natural real life. Would enjoy more of these types of videos.
I’m learning a lot about soil biology, it’s like a microscopic city in there, lol 😂
More and more commercial composts contain pyralid herbicides, even the high quality ones. Many gardeners have begun testing any purchased compost by starting some beans in it. This stuff persists even in the manure of animals that have been fed contaminated hay or grain. Read up on pyralids.
All of your tomato starts(Josh's as well) look too leggy. They're reaching for light, growing too tall too fast. I would lower those lights to about 2" above the plants. I've never had any issues using "sterile" potting soil. But whenever my starts begin growing moss/mold on the soil it's because I either overwatered or there's not enough air flow…sometimes both. If you don't have a fan or two in there blowing across your seedlings I highly recommend it.
I also have never sterilized any of my starter pots or trays, ever. Old dirt goes into the compost bin, new dirt goes into dirty old pots. My plants(like me) rely on our God-given, natural immune systems.
For some strange reason, this is happening to a number of people this year (including me) and I've started seeds for years and never had this experience until now…weird!!
What grow lights do you use? My tomato plants are not as strong as I’d like them to be and I feel like the light is the issue because they got leggy.
We NEVER start our seeds in potting soil. We don’t have enough compost, so we use seed starting soil, from Hoss Tools. I works like a charm every time. Good luck!
Thank you for sharing this🤗😃. It gives others hope if this happens to any of us.💐😊
Have you done a video on how you make your compost?
Edit- Yes Ma’am Momma😍 Your children are wonderful!
How ironic. I did almost the same thing. Except my starts were fine but I didn’t have any of my diy soil mix and so I bought a premium potting soil when I upsized them. They grew to about 6” and then EVERYTHING died! 😭
I know it’s the soil. Thankfully I have chosen three varieties of tomatoes that grow in 80 days and one 70 day variety. So I’ve got time to start over.
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This was a different style video than I recall ever seeing on your channel (except maybe 1 of a busy kitchen?) I really loved it! I enjoy all of your videos but this style is really fun! Makes the viewer feel very connected to you and your family, not in a creepy way, but in an old friend kinda way 🙂
I like you have been starting and growing my own tomatoes for many many years. This year is the first time I have had issues. I had fungus come in in my soil. I treated with a hydrogen peroxide dilution mist. Things are getting better and the day is saved👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 the only plants that were affected were my tomatoes.
Thank you so much! I've been STRUGGLING with my tomato starts this year. I'm going to run and get some good compost!
The kiddos are adorable!
Hi Carolyn! I always enjoy your videos, and seeing your children help with a sweet attitude is a blessing to my heart 🙂 (Happy Mother's Day!) When I started burying stems when I potted up, I saw a dramatic improvement in the sturdiness of the plant. I start the seeds in an 1206 (6 cells per unit, 12 units per tray), then after the first true leaves appear, I pot up into an 1801 (18 single units per tray) and push the roots down to the bottom so the true leaves are just above the soil level. My tomatoes have been so much stronger since I started doing that. Might be worth a try next year.
I had problems when I used coconut coir.
I switched back to peat and am glad I did. When i opened the second bag of coconut coir, it was moldy and disgusting! So much for sterile! Now, I have used sterile mixes with great success, but they were PEAT!
I have been gardening for 40 years and this year my tomatoes and peppers suffered from “sad compost syndrome” too. Like you I think I’ve rescued them but I am at least 3 weeks behind.
A couple of years ago I up-potted all of my plants vin some bad soil. I lost everything!
I enjoy the new format of your Youtube videos AND I like the more formal "professional" type that you two have produced for years. I hope that you keep up the "chats" and other how-to videos. Thank you for all you do and share with us.
Same thing happened to my cherry tomatoes. I had 3 flat with failure to thrive. Potting them up now and hoping for some growth.
I love this video!!!!! Thank you for showing your learning process. I lived the realness of this video!!!
Gotta get those tomatoes in the ground with some potatoes so you can harvest some carrots! 🤣 I love that so much. Its all part of learning. Is that set up in your kitchen or where?