Tomato Garden Tour – May 2020 Garden Tour Video

Tomato garden tour time!  I have a tomato garden tour video for you, which I filmed at the end of May, 2020.  I decided that it was time that I start doing videos of the tomato garden, to you can see what growing tomatoes in Tennessee is like for me.

A few things, though.  I started all my tomato plants from seed, and I grow all of them in containers of various sizes — all the way from 1 gallon to 10 gallons.  I almost broke down and bought a SunGold tomato start from Home Depot, but didn’t since I already had a few too many seedlings at home, waiting for a container.  😉

Growing Tomatoes in Containers

There are two main reasons I have for growing tomatoes in containers.  First, the soil in my yard is rocky and hard clay, and I literally have to use a pick axe to dig a hole.  (I have planted a few things in the ground, but they have all been flowers or herbs, and a good portion of them perennials.)

My second reason for growing tomatoes in containers is that I have a shade problem.  There isn’t any spot in my yard that gets 6 hours of direct sun a day, except for maybe a small slice in the front.  Six hours of direct sun is the minimum needed for fruit-bearing veggies, but growing tomatoes in containers allows me to move plants around to maximize the sun I do get.

(I’ll do a video and post on semi-shade gardening in the future and will link to that when I have it up.)

In any case, I have three different garden areas in my yard — front, side and back — to let me grow as many tomato plants as I can, based on the amount of sun I get in the spaces.

Tomato Garden Tour Video

As I mentioned before, this tomato garden tour video is the first of my tomato-growing season in Tennessee zone 7A.  This is my first year for growing tomatoes in Tennessee as opposed to Florida it’s waaaaay different!  It’s not only the soil (sandy in Florida), but the heat and humidity (less of both).  Plus, since I had to start my garden in February in S. Florida I was pretty much finished by June.  Here in Tennessee…June is just barely the start of the growing season!

I filmed the tomato garden tour on May 30th, 2020.  Here’s the video, and I hope you like it!  I’ll likely have even more tomatoes in the next tour, as I still have seedlings that need to be planted out — so stay tuned!