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This Is a Gardening Show - Season 1 Episode 2 - Tomatoes
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00:08I think we have to get back to basics with our food and where it's going to come from in
00:15the future.
00:16Honestly, I think some people think there's cheeseburger trees.
00:23Oh my God, that would be so good.
00:27Oh yes, can I get a tree with no cheese?
00:34I think the future has to be agrarian.
00:36People have the potential in them to really find beauty and happiness in all this, because I certainly have.
00:45I wish I could fake her eye.
00:50Call out the instigators
00:55Because there's something in the air
01:00We've got to get together sooner or later
01:05Because the revolution's here
01:11And you know it's why
01:19We have got to get it together now
01:30The tomato
01:32Or pre-ketchup as I call it
01:35Kind of a gateway drug to the garden
01:39Enticing, beautiful
01:41Easy to grow
01:42But
01:43Are they?
01:45It's a very complex
01:46Wonderful
01:48Fruit
01:50Or vegetable
01:50Walk this way
01:52I don't know what the f*** I'm doing
01:56Hi, what's your name?
01:57Araya
01:58Araya
01:58I really like your name
01:59My name is Zach
02:01Which means
02:03Doug
02:04In Greek
02:06Uh, how old are you, Dallas?
02:07Six
02:08You're six?
02:10Guess how old I am
02:11Nine
02:14You think I look nine?
02:16Oh man, I like you, Dallas
02:17Do you like tomatoes?
02:20This will be a good interview
02:21Do you like tomatoes?
02:23How often do you eat tomatoes?
02:25About every single day
02:27Do you say tomato or tomato?
02:30Tomato
02:30Ooh, fancy
02:32Yes
02:33Let's talk about the things you can make with tomatoes
02:36Fake blood
02:38Ketchup
02:38Pizza sauce
02:40Make your teeth red
02:42You can make your teeth red with tomatoes
02:44You certainly can
02:45Scrum people's eyes
02:47What?
02:49Yeah, that's another thing you can do with tomatoes
02:51I'm missing lunch
02:53What is that supposed to mean?
02:54You'd rather be at lunch right now
02:56Instead of talking to me?
02:57I want to eat my lunch
02:59Do you think I can have a little bit of it?
03:07Your face changes, right?
03:10It's kind of hard to talk about tomatoes, isn't it?
03:12You know who Justin Bieber is?
03:15You know who Harry Styles is?
03:16Are they creepy people?
03:22I thought this was an interview
03:23But I think it is just a staring contest
03:34I'm worried
03:35What else do you want to talk about?
03:39Bugs
03:42Bugs?
03:43Okay
03:48Got it
03:49Oh, hi
03:52Hi
03:52What's your name?
03:53Sebastian
03:54Hey Sebastian, I'm Zach
03:55Nice to meet you
03:56Yeah, have a seat
03:57Oh my god, it's cold
03:59Yes
03:59Let's talk real quick, okay?
04:01Do you like tomatoes?
04:02No
04:02Okay, good
04:03Segmit's over
04:04You don't like tomatoes either?
04:08What vegetables do you like?
04:10I'm using oranges
04:11Okay, those are fruits
04:12Okay, we gotta go
04:14Okay
04:14How many pounds of tomatoes
04:16Do the average American eat a year?
04:18Day 22 to 24
04:1923
04:2023
04:21Yeah, 22
04:22Red or vegetable tomato?
04:23No
04:24That's right
04:24Are they green or red tomatoes?
04:27Red
04:27Trick question
04:28They can be green
04:29God, this umbrella's breaking
04:31What else, Sebastian?
04:32I don't know
04:33Are you cold?
04:34Yes
04:34Wow, Sebastian, great
04:40I'm sorry
04:41Crazy
04:42Crazy
04:43Crazy
04:43Crazy
04:43Crazy
04:43Crazy
04:44Crazy
04:46Crazy
04:46Crazy
05:04I don't want to blooperize this
05:05No bloops
05:07Why not?
05:08Because my whole career
05:10Is a blooper reel
05:10Okay, today
05:12We are going to go visit
05:15Royann and Sylvain
05:17And
05:19Sometimes
05:21They're a little too
05:23Know-it-all
05:24And try to tell the host
05:25What he fudged up
05:28They're tomato growers
05:29At Stellar Raven
05:31Ecological Farm
05:34Hi
05:35Good afternoon
05:37Is it okay if I trespass?
05:39Totally
05:39How are you?
05:40I'm Zach
05:41Good afternoon, Zach
05:42Welcome to Stellar Raven Farm
05:44Thanks for having us
05:46What a beautiful garden
05:48Oh
05:53Well, this is a lot of work, though
05:54It is
05:55But with a garden this size
05:57If you don't like dirt
05:58Under your fingernails
05:59You're in the wrong business
06:00Okay
06:01Without sounding stupid
06:02What is a tomato?
06:04I was just having this argument
06:05With a small child
06:06Where they were trying to tell me
06:07That it was a vegetable
06:08It's a fruit
06:10Anything that has its seeds
06:11Is a fruit
06:12So a cabbage
06:13If you're just eating the leaves
06:14That's a vegetable
06:16Tomato has seeds in it
06:17Most of them
06:18That is a fruit
06:19Okay, good
06:20Well, it's always nice
06:21To win an argument
06:22With a five-year-old
06:23Okay
06:23So what do we got here?
06:25What is the baseline
06:26For a good tomato plant soil?
06:28If you want a good production
06:29Of tomato
06:30You need to have a porous soil
06:32Because this pot
06:33Will have to fill up with roots
06:34And the more roots you have
06:36The more tomatoes you're going to have
06:38With this really clumpy
06:39Clay-like
06:40It can't penetrate
06:42And it won't go anywhere
06:43So these are our seeds
06:45This is a two-inch pot
06:47Put good soil in it
06:48Fill it up
06:49Make sure it's wet
06:50And then when you know
06:51That it's wet
06:52You take four seeds
06:53And you just slightly
06:54Put them in there
06:55And just put it
06:56So it's slightly under
06:57The surface
06:58That's it
06:59So why do you think
07:01I plant so many
07:02In one pot
07:03When my objective
07:04Is only to get
07:05One tomato per pot
07:07You're careless
07:11Okay, don't
07:11Listen
07:12A good answer
07:13There's a huge amount
07:14Of competition going on here
07:16And it's choosing
07:16The best one
07:17That will give you
07:18The most tomatoes
07:19So let's say
07:20This guy wins
07:21You'll just get rid of these
07:23You take a scissors
07:23And cut it
07:24Just cut it
07:25So it can't
07:25And you leave the roots
07:26In there
07:26Because the tomato
07:28They have found out
07:29Does better
07:29When the roots
07:31Are left in there
07:31Wow
07:34So when the tomato
07:35Gets about this big
07:37On its second true leaf
07:39Then it's ready to go
07:41Into a gallon pot
07:42When your tomato
07:44In your gallon pot
07:45You know, it's pretty big
07:46And you can see
07:47Roots are coming out
07:48The bottom
07:48Then you would put
07:49That tomato
07:50At the very bottom
07:51Of this pot
07:53Bury that plant
07:54Just leave a little bit
07:55Because coming out
07:56Of the plant everywhere
07:57Will be roots
07:59Wait, wait, wait
08:00Wait
08:01Wait
08:01Wait a second
08:02Get a gallon pot
08:04When they get about
08:04This size
08:05Put it all the way down
08:06Yeah?
08:07Don't put soil in it
08:08No, no, no
08:09Put it all the way down
08:09And then you'll get
08:10Massive root production
08:12Is that common?
08:13I mean, should I know
08:14That as a gardener?
08:15I'm sorry
08:16I'm a dumbass
08:17So this is it
08:17And we'll just use
08:18This as an example
08:19When the tomato is larger
08:20You can imagine
08:21This is the tomato
08:22You're transplanting
08:23So when you put it
08:24In the ground
08:24You bury it
08:25As deep as you can
08:26And now all of this
08:27Material will produce
08:28More roots
08:29I feel like a moron
08:30So your tomato pot
08:32Will be just solid roots
08:33How did that not
08:34Even if you have
08:35Leaves on the stem
08:36Take the leaves off
08:37And bury it
08:37As deep as you can
08:38This seems like a prank
08:40It's a game changer
08:41I can't believe that
08:43Sorry
08:44It's time for my nap
08:48So if people could
08:49Understand roots more
08:50They would understand
08:52Their garden a lot more
08:53Wouldn't they?
08:53Oh yes
08:54That's kind of the
08:55That's the whole game
08:56That's the game of it
08:58That's right
08:59How often do you
09:00Water these troughs here?
09:01Just out of curiosity
09:02Well, when it's hot
09:03Every day, right?
09:04And the troughs are
09:05A great way to monitor
09:06Water usage
09:07Oh yeah
09:08You know, I can see
09:09That there's water in there
09:10So the minute I see it dry
09:12You can just add some more
09:13Any potted plant
09:15This is a better
09:16Yes
09:17Here, now your job
09:18You don't have to
09:19Just look pretty
09:20You gotta put some in there
09:22Okay
09:24And never water from the top
09:25Is that across the line
09:27For new plants
09:28Would you say
09:29Or are you saying
09:29Just for tomatoes
09:30You don't do the top
09:31I would say for all
09:32For all plants
09:33Yeah, especially young plants
09:34That's all I've done
09:35My whole life
09:35Is water from the top
09:36Every time you water
09:37From the top
09:38What are you doing
09:38To the soil?
09:39Yeah, yeah
09:40It's the physics of it
09:41You're actually pushing it down
09:42And compressing it
09:43Oh gosh
09:44That's okay
09:45I feel very shamed
09:47I've learned more
09:48In this last five minutes
09:49About tomato growing
09:50This is
09:52This is blowing my mind
09:55Look at this thing
09:56Before we go over
09:56This is the
09:58It's a bit ugly
09:59I had a growth
10:00In my ankle
10:00Like this once
10:04I tell you
10:05I like tomatoes
10:06I'll eat them
10:07Sometimes I don't
10:08Like them raw
10:09These are delicious
10:11He makes you want to cry
10:13Gosh
10:13So this one
10:14Is a low acid
10:16Yellow tomato
10:17Look at that
10:17That is a beautiful specimen
10:20Oh that's sweet
10:21So it's low acid
10:23And it's low acid
10:24Boy that's good
10:25Anyone else want to try out there
10:27Oh my god
10:27Guys please
10:28Here we go
10:29That's one of the sweetest
10:30Big tomato
10:31Other than a cherry
10:32I've ever had
10:33So you have a choice
10:35Of two types
10:35Of tomatoes
10:36One is a bush type
10:38The bush type
10:39Is also called
10:40Determinate
10:44In which most of
10:46All the tomatoes
10:46Will be
10:47Form at the same time
10:49And these tomatoes
10:50Will probably be finished
10:52Within a next
10:53Week or two
10:54And the plant will die
10:55And the other type
10:57Of tomato
10:57Is the vine type
10:58These are
10:59Indeterminate
11:00Or vine tomatoes
11:06And it's called
11:07Indeterminate
11:08Because the production
11:09Starts from the bottom
11:10To the top
11:11You can see
11:12It's very easy here
11:13You know
11:13This is ripening
11:14Yellow
11:15Yellow
11:15And then you get
11:16Into green
11:17And green
11:18And this is still
11:19Flowers forming
11:20This is the viney-winey
11:21The viney-winey
11:23Is the future of tomatoes
11:24So explain to us
11:25The future of tomatoes
11:26Why is this
11:27Things are heating up
11:29And the viney-winey
11:30Doesn't mind
11:31140 degrees
11:32In the greenhouse
11:33And in fact
11:34It tastes
11:35Improves
11:36The hotter it gets
11:39The viney-winey
11:40Is something you developed
11:41Exactly
11:42Over how many years
11:43I think it's on
11:44Its seventh year now
11:46Let me just bite into it
11:47Stand back people
11:48Stand back
11:51Boy that's juicy
11:55That's better than
11:56The other ones
11:56Oh yeah
11:57It's a wicked tomato
11:58It tastes like an apple
11:59This is unbelievable
12:03That was
12:04Those tomatoes
12:05Improved each time
12:06The first one
12:08You gave me
12:08Excellent
12:09The second one
12:09Groundbreaking
12:10That
12:12I may come here tonight
12:14And steal a bunch of them
12:15No
12:15The dog sleeps in here
12:17So just
12:17That's why we have
12:18I told you that
12:19I'll bring my children
12:19They'll get them
12:20They do most of my thieving
12:22They do a lot of my shoplifting
12:26What are you going to do
12:27With all these freaking tomatoes
12:30Salsa
12:31Amazing
12:32Can I just say
12:33Off the record
12:34Seeing you guys
12:35Hold hands for the garden
12:36That's
12:38That's what does it
12:39To humans right
12:39Like
12:40The garden's good for us
12:42Yeah
12:42It can be a lifesaver
12:43Do you sell to grocery stores
12:45Do you do all that
12:46We do the farmer's market
12:47You do the farmer's market
12:48Yeah
12:48When it comes to tomatoes
12:49The average customer
12:50Wants to buy red round
12:51They want to buy
12:52Baseballs
12:52That are red
12:53Most of the stuff
12:54That they sell
12:54In the supermarket
12:55The primary consideration
12:57For growing the tomato
12:58Is how well it travels
13:00That's the American way man
13:03It ain't what's on the inside
13:05It's what's on the outside
13:06Yeah exactly
13:07It's a hard job
13:08Convincing somebody
13:09Into buying a yellow tomato
13:10Or a heirloom tomato
13:12That's all deformed
13:13But once you got them hooked
13:14They'll buy them every time
13:15Because they realize
13:16The flavors are so phenomenally
13:18Different and better
13:19Than what you get
13:20At the supermarket
13:21I'm very inspired by you
13:22I want to thank you guys
13:24For letting us come out
13:26And those are the best tomatoes
13:28I've ever had
13:29And I'm not saying that
13:30Because I'm on camera
13:31These are simply the best
13:33I've ever had
13:34I know
13:35You don't have to be so cocky
13:36About this
13:37Royanne
13:38God are they good
13:57In the 18th century
13:58Rich Europeans feared tomatoes
14:00Aristocrats were dying
14:02After eating them
14:03Dubbing tomatoes
14:05Poison apples
14:07But as it turned out
14:09The real danger
14:10Was the acidic tomatoes
14:11Were absorbing lead
14:12From their fancy pewter plates
14:14So they were eating
14:16Lead tomatoes
14:17If you think this is going to
14:19Stop me from eating pewter
14:20You can forget it
14:28How old are you?
14:29God
14:30You're the idiot
14:31Yeah but I just do it
14:33To see if anyone laughs
14:35I'm not doing it
14:36Because I think it's funny
14:41Remember
14:41The future's agrarian
14:48Hey I thought you were leaving
14:55I left
14:57Bye you guys
15:21Okay good
15:22Whoa
15:25Fancy
15:27Bye you guys
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