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How to Pot Up Tomato Plants | Boost Growth for Healthier Harvests
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May 5, 2025
🌱 How to Pot Up Tomato Plants for Bigger, Stronger Growth! Stronger roots = stronger plants = more delicious tomatoes! 🍅💪 In this episode, I walk you through how and when to pot up your tomato seedlings to give them the best start. You’ll learn about the benefits of deeper planting, choosing the right container, and the secret to encouraging sturdy stems and early fruiting. Perfect for allotment gardeners and container growers alike! Have you potted up your tomatoes yet this season? #TomatoGrowing #PottingUpTomatoes #GardeningWithBen #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentTips #TomatoPlants #UKGardener #HealthyHarvests #TomatoCare
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hey everyone and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben in today's video we're going to
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be potting up our tomato plants as they
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are ready for bigger pots we purchased
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the tomato plants because my seeds
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didn't too do too brilliant and we're
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going to grow these in the poly tunnel
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this year we've grown them outside in
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the past but I want to try them again in
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the poly tunnel this year and hopefully
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get a bigger crop from them we've got
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some sweet million ones which are the
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nice small tiny ones and we've also got
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some super steak ones so they're the
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beef ones so hopefully we can use them
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in cooking and in sandwiches as well so
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we're going to get them potted up we've
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been got some compost from and we're
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going to plant these in flower buckets
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these are the ones that you can like get
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from Morrison's they used to sell them
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uh but I think they send them back to
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the shops now i managed to get some M
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the other week as well uh sometimes it's
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cheeky just to ask and sometimes they'll
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give you some so it's worthwhile if
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you're needing some just make sure you
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drill some holes in the bottom so that
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they can drain because you don't want
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them getting too water logged so let's
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get our compost let's get our tomato
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plants and let's get these sewn
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up so these are the super steak ones
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which I've got hopefully these will be
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nice big tomatoes on these ones
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obviously we're going to plant these
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individually in separate pots and
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hopefully keep them watered throughout
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the summer period and get nice big
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tomatoes on them they'll be fruiting all
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the way up to October but steak ones
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take longer to ripen on them so they
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need a lot of warmth to get them to
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ripen that's why I'm going to grow them
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in the poly tunnel this year
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so I've got all the pots filled up with
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compost all 10 of them they don't have
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to be up to the top but you can always
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top them up later on once they're
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growing the compost will sink as you
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know when you water it it'll all sink
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down so just top them back up later on
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in the season with fresh stuff so that
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it's feeding them continuously
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throughout the summer period so now we
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need to get ready for putting his
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tomatoes in so first before we put his
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tomatoes in what we're going to do is
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make a hole where we're going to put
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this tomato like so with your
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hand and then we're going to add a bit
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of feed in there as well just to give
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them that extra kick to get started so
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I'm going to be using the fish blood and
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bone just to add a bit of food into that
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as compost doesn't have much food in it
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these days so we'll add some of that in
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to give them that kick start to get
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going so I've just popped So I've just
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popped some in the soil where we're
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going to pop in
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the
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tomato so I've just popped some in the
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hole where we're going to put the tomato
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plant and then we'll just easily sit it
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in so that's nicely easily in like I
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said they're a bit floppy at the moment
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but they'll soon start to come back up
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so yeah just cover that plant up with
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some compost like that
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and then what we're going to do is we're
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going to put some more food just around
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the top as well so that it feeds them so
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there we have it we put some feed on it
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if you get any on the plant just shake
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it off because you don't want it to be
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on the plant because it can burn the
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plant and damage it so just shake it off
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so yeah last job will be to water them
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so we've got his label there so we know
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which variety it is that we're growing
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as well and there we have it we've
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potted them all up all 10 of them all
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labeled up so that we know what they are
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as well so yeah we just got to tidy this
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poly tunnel up now to find somewhere to
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put them because we've got that much
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stuff in here at the moment absolutely
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loads but yeah let's get a tidy area so
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there we have it we've got all the
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tomatoes putotted up and labeled and in
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a nice line so when they get a bit
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bigger we'll stick a cane in to support
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them to get them growing up the cane um
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hopefully they're taking this compost
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but yeah we've got to get it all sorted
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and fingers crossed they'll start
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growing they look a bit bad at the
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moment but they'll soon perk up now
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they've been given some water so I hope
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you've enjoyed that video make sure you
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stay tuned to see how well we get on
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with the tomatoes and see if we get a
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good crop this year by giving us a
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follow until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
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gardening from the pedaw
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