Growing tomatoes in Central Florida zone 10a with Root Knot Nematodes.

In this episode, Dani takes you through our experience with growing tomato plants in our central Florida food forest. She discusses everything from the different varieties that we grow, to the disease and struggles that we have had.
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Tomato plants we are currently growing:

Husky cherry tomato
Everglades cherry tomato
Sweet 100 cherry tomato
Sweet 1 million cherry
Celebrity tomato

Florida Seed and Garden
https://flseeds.com/index.php/product...

Nematode resistant plant varieties:
https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/ro....

Beneficial nematode resource - https://www.naturesgoodguys.com/colle...

Plants susceptible to RKN in our experience:
Anything in the Solanaceae family
Anything in the Cucurbitaceae family
Beets
Carrots
Amaranth
English peas
Lettuces
Potatoes
Some plants in Brassicaceae family
Young fruit trees, example guava

Episode chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:41 What we grow
00:31 Florida seed and plant start resource
02:00 Hybrid vs. Heirloom
02:30 When we can grow tomatoes
03:37 Light requirements
04:11 Soil needs
04:22 What we feed our tomato plants
04:32 Watering needs
05:32 Determinate or Indeterminate varieties
06:15 How we trellis our tomato plants
09:58 Pruning tomato suckers
12:33 Disease and Root Knot Nematodes
13:18 What are Root Knot Nematodes
14:59 Disease in our tomato plants
15:51 What we are doing about RKN
20:05 Outro

Video by Dr.Vivasayam YouTube Channel: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up...
Stephen James McWilliam, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://extension.umn.edu/disease-man...
Dwight Sipler from Stow, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
https://extension.arizona.edu/sites/e...
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/neemg...