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need tips on how to look after your
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tomato plants so that you get fantastic
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crops from them lots of tomatoes and
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delicious tasting ones well this is a
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video for you so stick around and let's
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have a look at our tomato
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plants each week we like to tidy them up
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we spend about 15 to 20 minutes on them
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tidying them up giving them a feed and
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tying them all up so that they're
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supported while they are growing so
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let's have a look at how our tomato
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plants have grown over the last few
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weeks you'll have seen the progression
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of them and how well they're getting on
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so let's have a look and see what we
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need to do today with
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them so as you can see they're growing
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really really fast now these have
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possibly only been in
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about four weeks they've not been in a
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long time and they've shot up inside the
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poly tunnel we're keeping them well
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watered and each week we give them a
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feed and we give them a tidy up so let
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me show you how we tidy up our tomato
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plants so as you can see on this tomato
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plant we've got a chute popping out in
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between the leaf and the plant now this
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takes a lot of the energy away from the
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tomato plant as it's putting energy into
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growing this offshoot what you can do is
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pinch it off and chuck it away or you
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can stick it in some water and it will
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root and you will get another tomato
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plant so if you wanting more tomato
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plants that is what you need to do we've
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got enough tomato plants so all we're
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going to do is just snap that off and
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chuck it away so there we are as easy as
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that so we're looking between all of the
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shoots and we get out the extra little
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plants what are growing in between and
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that puts the strength into growing the
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flowers and growing the fruit and
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getting delicious crops so we'll do all
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that first so I've taken off all the
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extra little plants what are growing in
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between all of the leaves so that's one
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job done and also I've just noticed we
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have got a tomato growing look at that
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our first tomato growing on here so oh
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and another one so yeah we're getting
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tomatoes growing which is a good sign so
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next up I'm going to take off all the
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bottom leaves off the plants as it
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doesn't need the bottom leaves on them
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again it takes away the energy so we're
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going to take some of those bottom
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leaves off so that it can concentrate on
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growing the fruit and the vegetables so
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we'll do that next take off all the
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leaves so I've taken off all the bottom
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leaves and they're looking tons better
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so the final job which we've got to do
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is tie them all to the canes because we
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don't want them all leaning all over the
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place especially when the tomatoes are
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growing they'll top heavy so we need to
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tie them all to the canes and make sure
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they're well supported in
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growing so that's all them tied up we
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just use that garden wire to tie his
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tomatoes up but yeah that one's just
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digging into the plant so we'll unfassen
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that one you've just got to watch for
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when they're swelling up they can
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sometimes dig in which we don't want but
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we've put one further up now so that
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so we filled some of our tubs up with
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some fresh composters obviously compost
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sinks down as it gets wet and watered so
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we're going to give them some food next
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which we do once a week and we're going
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to give them some fish blood and bone to
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make them nice and healthy and we're
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doing this once a week at the moment we
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will start feeding them tomato feed soon
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as all the tomatoes start to set but
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we've only got a couple of tomatoes on
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it at the moment so we'll hold off from
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doing that but yeah let's give them some
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bone so that's all them fed just need to
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do the final thing which is the most
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important thing of all is water them
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water them water them water them
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unfortunately the rain doesn't get in
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here so let's give them a good water so
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I hope you've enjoyed that video on how
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to grow your tomatoes and get great
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crops on them and great fruit growing
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all summer long so if you've enjoyed
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