Top tip from a gardener of 60 years: NEVER place a stick in the ground without putting something over the top, coke can, yoghurt pot, it really doesn’t matter! If you bend down and the stick goes in your eye you won’t rub it better 🥴

very well explained, despite 72 years old still learning from a smart well explained young man

I learned young when I was about 7 years old I was hoeing in the garden I accidentally broke off a tomato plant . I was afraid my dad would yell at . So I stuck the broken part in the ground to make it look like nothing happened . But low and behold it grew so I watered it and fertilized it and it thrived so it told my dad and he was proud of me

Thanks so much ! I am 79 years old; I only have 3 plants. Your info was so welcome. I gave each plant a multi-mineral human vitamin pill, crushed and added to soil. Plants are GREEN, healthy, lots of buds and blooms, now waiting for the Toms to form. You explain complex ideas very well!

What a fantastic young farmer. We could use more energetic, smart and work oriented young people in ag. Keep up the good work. You will go a long way and will deserve your reward.

"Nothing beats a FARM FRESH tomato" except a homegrown tomato!

Dang, you really spilled all the secrets to growing tomatoes…..please don’t ever stop talking, your doing a great job!

Bro this video should break the internet. You just gave a world class course in simplicity wow! Great job

Your Passion for horticulture is admirable. You just earned my subscription. 🕊️🙏💖💯👍👍

An intelligent farmer is a joy

Your talking about how to use phosphorous for bud development 5:27 was very helpful. Then at 6:11 your explanation of the use of potassium for the growth of the fruit made all the sense in the world.

I was taught to soak a banana peal in a quart of water. I let it set for a day and then pour the water around the tomato plant. It's suppose to increase the buds and in my experience, it does seem to make a very good difference. I also put a small handful of crushed egg shells in the hole before I plant the seedling. I sprinkle Epson Salt around on the top of the ground and once in a while I'll spread cow manure around and till it in. Last year was my best crop yet. This is a good video you presented...lots of good tips.

I'm going to try this this year. Love to see young people in Agriculture!

There's a learning curve for everything. If we're not willing to pay attention what's the purpose? Each year your getting better. I'm gonna remember this one.

FABULOUS info! I wish I could have stayed with my grandpa for a bit. He was born in Italy and he grew organic produce all his life. He lived to be almost 100. Everytime we would go out there, he would give us a box of veggies that were HUGE, juicy and delicious. He always had plenty. I would have loved to learn from him. You have a wonderful gift! Thank you so much. I'm going to share this video with a couple friends who have mentioned doing gardens this year. Stay blessed and healthy everybody ✨

I love this guy! The comparisons between raising babies and raising tomatoes is spot on! a good way to teach people! very knowledgeable and very helpful!

This year, I decided to get serious about gardening and spent hours online learning how to fertilize and grow different kinds of plants. You just summed up quite a bit of what it took me weeks to learn in your 18-minute video. I wish I had found you first

All the garden producers tell us how to grow but a farmer that is educated like you is more informative to understand the real world!

" Nothing beats a farm fresh tomato"...you are so right young man. Enjoyed your video immensely and all the best for your future endeavours.

I’m in Alaska with a very short growing season. The information you are putting out is extremely helpful and what I have been looking for. Thank you so much

Very informative Farmer Dre! I believe this is your best video yet! Good luck with your tomatoes this year, they really look like they are growing good.

Thank you for being an excellent farmer! Thank you for feeding us! You're very ambitious......I would definitely buy stock in your farm!

Thank you so much from Finland. You saved me a couple of years 🙏😊👍.

I have been gardening for many years but have learned so much from you today! Thank you!

This is the video I didn’t know I needed!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS EXPLANATION!! I have been sitting here thinking for 2 weeks ‘I wish I could make more buds show up on my tomato vines’ - seriously! Thank you!!! I’ve been feeding them just high nitrogen stuff for the last 2 years (I went 2 years of not knowing to fertilize at all lol!). Thank you!!!!

Love your enthusiasm.

I was allergic to tomatoes when I was younger but outgrown it. Now.....it's tomatoes on everything!!! Thank you for this video because I live in a apartment now and I grow them all year long a little slower in winter . Keep on growing!!

Thanks for the good information from Arkansas and someone who has turned 60 and started gardening. Keep up the good work. You help people to help themselves and that is a very commendable thing.

Very well done! You’re a good teacher. Thank you.

Wow 🤩 great video, I just subscribed. I think people are starved for information and everything you explained was at a perfect pace, perfect level of understanding. Thanks for the horticulture lesson...

Great presentation, you have the Love.

Dude, you are fantastic. Thank you for the awesome information. I am just finishing up the build on my greenhouse (nothing too big) - 8' x 16', and we are big on tomatoes. Can't wait to incorporate your advice!

Thanks for going into this much detail - really helpful!

He is a good farmer in that he realizes how much he doesn't know about tomatoes. So, you see how he puts to use what he is learning to improve his quantity and quality.

Great video full of important information about tomatoes

Thanks so much for sharing your experiences and knowledge!

Most informative video on tomatoes you have done so far... Thanks

Tomatoes are a vital seasoning in many recipes. They are part of the flavoring and chemistry of the dish. Really nice to see farming transition will be continued via our youth.

Fish emulsion and borage plants will give you amazing yields . I was the Director of the NYC Citywide Organic nursery . I’m retired now and my kids did a farm this summer and we had amazing tomatoes. 200 plants.

I'm always impressed with your knowledge and your willingness to share everything you know. Warts and all! I found myself taking notes and backtracking to get the information you were giving exactly right. Thank you for your transparency!!!

Thank you, Farmer Dre. It’s lovely to see your enthusiasm and thanks for the very helpful info about phosphate and potassium. I have a small piece of land and it is almost entirely used to intensively grow food. My favourite tomato is “Campari”. It yields medium to almost large fruits that are fleshy and sweet. I’m not sure if you have them in the USA; I grow these in my greenhouse here in New Zealand. I agree with some of your viewers - decide before you record your message, exactly what your main points are for each video , write them on a cardboard perhaps and stick it to your selfie stick so you can use the points as a prompt and you are still looking into your camera. Definitely keep sharing your thoughts and your knowledge but remember the golden rule, less is best - show, not tell. Show what you want us to see and know and discard the unnecessary words as well as repetitions. I teach communication at post-grad university courses so these are just some little tips for you which I hope you will find helpful. I really enjoyed your video and look forward to more from you.

Glad you studied horticulture....the back-bone of our country!

Thank you for this! I admire your enthusiasm and wish you luck in your studies. 😎

I'm from the United Kingdom have been growing tomatoes for many years but your advice is absolutely wonderful. People say my tomatoes are really really nice I don't know his trial and error. But you made it very very clear nitrogen phosphate potassium. I understand that through the video right now many thanks to help me my friend

1) inspect them daily 2) add nutrients, esp phosphorus (for flowering) then potassium (fruit production)

I see your passion and vision to farm. What an incredible gift. Sending blessings for prosperity and horticultural adventure. I learned so much!

This is good advice for any plants, if you learn your nutrient requirements you'll improve your harvest by magnitudes and the whole process becomes so much more rewarding.

Thankyou for this tutorial. You have explained it so well!

Love your tomato videos bro. Thanks.

Thank you. I have such bad luck growing anything in my yard. I tried following my dads style of gardening, but my neighborhood plot is laden with trees. Apparently I’m not feeding nearly enough. Great job young man. You are very passionate about your studies and your job

Wonderful explanations. I really needed this information. Thank you so much. I just subscribed. I’m so happy I found you. Franci

From Jamaica . i thank you farmer Dre

Hit the mark once again. Tomato Professor! Thanks

We havent done good with tomatoes in the past but your videos will help!

Great job Farmer Dre very informative your passion for agriculture shows keep up the good work awesome info have a good day and stay safe bud

thank you for all your info and learning keep on goin!! thanks again!!

Another great video, Dre!

Dude, love your presentation! Hope your business is doing great!

Best tomato info I have heard yet. Thanks so much. Just subscribed.

Great information man keep on spreading this great knowledge! Will apply to my garden the suggested ideas.

Wonderful information only experience can give, thank you!

Giving this guy a thumbs up - finally somebody truly sharing the secret to lots of 'maters! (Between minute 9-13)

Good stuff young man. Thank you for the all the tips and education.

You are definitely on the FARMER spectrum! Wow! Thank you so much!

Thank you for this very informative video on growing tomatoes.

Also in Mo with high tunnel. Thanks so much for info. Can never learn enough and hearing from someone doing so great at it is helpful

This is still the most educational and useful video on this topic. Please make more of this content! I adjusted my compost process to reduce nitrogen and added more discarded bones to increase P. This allowed me to plant more and yield a higher quality product last year. This has been the most helpful and educational video I’ve seen as an amateur, suburban, hobbiest. Would love to see some content on genetics from a legit farmer.

Like the way you are not afraid to give the science behind your methods. Good video.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge of how to grow tomatoes

Such a humble guy! God Bless! 🙌🏽

Great video Dre! Thank you so much!

I followed this advice and I worked. I currently have 2 Moskvitch tomatoes growing in San Francisco that are producing many more flowers than in the past. I'm mixing 1 part potassium sulfate into 4 parts of Miracle Grow Flower Food. I also use other nutrients from my hydroponic system.

Thanks for the info! Makes a lot of sense to me!

as a home gardener, I mostly just use fish emulsion, works great, I get more tomatoes than I can eat!

Your tomatoes look so healthy!!! Thanks for sharing your information!

I always used to inspect and talk to my tomatoes every day. Always had way more than I could eat.

I REALLY LIKE THE WAY HE TEACHES HE DOES A GREAT JOB HE IS KIND, UNLIKE OTHER RUDE PEOPLE!

New sub here. Trying my hand at urban gardening. Tomatoes are my favorite fruit. Thank you for sharing.

my tomato plants have not been doing great for the last 2 or 3 years. going to give what u said a try. thanks for the help.!!

Thanks for the great info! I appreciate your teaching style.

I grew tomatoes for my whole neighborhood when I had horses. I used a mixture of yard waste (leaves and grass) and horse manure that I dug in in the fall and then planted the tomatoes in the spring. I had only 12 plants and they supplied loads and loads of tomatoes. The only other thing they got was water during growing season. I used cages that were 6 feet tall. The plants would grow out the top and droop to the ground.

Very educational! Thanks so much!

Thank you so much for this valuable information! I can now better able to give my tomato plant the right nutrients at the different development stages of the plant, so that I will get a higher yield of tomatoes per plant.

Farmer D, Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I am going to do things a bit different this season. Live and learn Buddy , Live and Learn!!!!

great info bro and I appreciate your technical knowledge. Don't downplay it.

Thank you for sharing. Learned olot.

I love tomatoes. 2 years I had great tomatoes but last year was awful. So I'm going back like the way that I did 2 years ago. Love your 🍅.

Thank you for sharing your great information!!!

Great information from a person who knows what their talking about

Interesting video. You explained that you came to these conclusions after talking to another farmer when you found yourself disappointed in your first crop. When you switched to this method, did you do a trial to compare the new process with your original method that produced a poor crop? I ask this because many years ago when I first started gardening, I was doing all kinds of things and adding ingredients to produce the best veggies possible. After several years I wondered if my approach was really worth the effort. So I switched to a radically simple approach: compost only. I was surprised to see no significant difference - and with less effort and cost. We know that seasonal variations can dramatically affect plant production. We can speculate as to the reasons behind these variations (too hot, too wet, too dry, early and/or late frosts, etc). In my opinion, the biggest mistake a gardener can make is to try something new, then attribute success or failure to the new thing. Since my switch to compost only, each year after that I conducted at least one "trial" on similar plants to see if a different approach produces significant results. After many years of doing this I haven't found anything beyond adding compost only that improves my results to a noticeable level. That surprises me as so many of these new approaches sound so promising based on a scientific explanation. I am a small, hobby gardener with reasonably healthy soil. I'm guessing that I normally produce (for example) 100 lbs. of tomatoes. Is there a different approach that would give me a rather dramatic 5% increase in product? Even if there was, would I really care if I produced 5 more pounds? Not really. On the other hand, if I had a much larger, commercial operation, that 5% would make sense. Thanks for posting. Cheers.

You are like magic! I have learned from you! TY

Awesome explanation of tomato growing. Learned alot. thx! Gotta go & feed my plants

Please do a video on your drip system and how you fertilize with the doastron, etc

I suspect a well made compost tea might replace the chemicals, especially if the compost had seaweed added. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

Thanks for sharing!! GOD Bless You for all Your hard Work!!!

would not be suprised if eventually you grew tomato trees ! good video.

Thank you young man I am very appreciated you explain it loud and clear

Excellent! Thank you!

Thank you for this great video! Very informative. You seem like a nice guy who really wants to help everyone.

Well done. Perfect video. I’ve learnt a lot man.