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25/07/2026

Back home… and completely amazed. 💗🍅

Every time I visit home, I’m blown away by the incredible tomatoes my grandma grows. This stunning Pink Magic tomato weighs over 1.2 kg (2.6+ lbs), and it’s every bit as delicious as it looks.

Pink Magic is an amazing heirloom variety, famous for its giant pink fruits, rich old-fashioned flavour, and wonderfully meaty texture. This one is sweet, juicy, and packed with everything you could ask for in a tomato.

Seeing tomatoes like this reminds me that I still have so much to learn from my grandma. Years of experience, patience, and simple gardening wisdom can produce results that are hard to beat. ❤️

And trust me, my hands are big for an almost two-metre-tall man… but this tomato still makes them look small! 😄

Who else has grandparents that can outgrow the rest of us without even trying?

23/07/2026

Current status: raising a family of green giants. 🍅😂

They may still be green, but don’t let that fool you—these tomatoes are putting on size fast! Every morning I walk into the garden, I swear they’ve gained another few grams overnight. At this rate, I might need a gym membership just to carry them. 🤣💪🍅

Now comes the hardest part: pretending to be patient while checking on them every five minutes. 😅

Who else is already dreaming about their first giant ripe tomato?

19/07/2026

🍅 Trim your tomato flowers now!

In a previous video, I showed why I top my tomato plants to stop them from putting energy into new vegetative growth. The same principle applies here. By removing these late flowers, I’m reducing the plant’s investment in new fruit that is unlikely to mature before the end of the season.

From a physiological perspective, tomato plants distribute sugars and nutrients to actively growing tissues, known as “sinks.” Developing flowers and young fruits compete with existing tomatoes for these resources. By removing flowers that have a low chance of producing a harvest, I encourage the plant to direct more of its carbohydrates and nutrients to the tomatoes that are already set, helping them size up, ripen more evenly, and reach their full potential.

It’s a simple practice, but one that helps the plant allocate its resources where they’ll have the greatest impact. 🌱🍅

16/07/2026

🍅 Don’t panic when you see yellow leaves on your tomato plants! 🌿

If the lower leaves are turning uniformly yellow without spots, lesions, or other signs of disease, this is often a completely natural part of the plant’s life cycle.

As tomato plants grow, their oldest leaves undergo natural senescence—a normal aging process. The plant gradually stops investing resources in these older leaves, allowing them to turn yellow, dry out, and eventually die as it prioritizes new growth and fruit production.

✅ Uniform yellowing of older leaves is a normal sign of leaf aging (senescence) and is not necessarily a nutrient deficiency or a disease.

Observe the whole plant rather than a single leaf. If the rest of the plant is healthy and vigorous, there’s usually no reason for concern. 🍅🌱

14/07/2026

When a Tomato Looks Like a Work of Art 🍅🎨

I thought I was just picking up a tomato at the local market… and then I found this beauty. 🍅✨

Meet the Pineapple Tomato—one of the most stunning heirloom varieties I’ve ever seen. With its gorgeous golden-yellow skin blushed with red, it’s almost too pretty to slice.

The flavour? Sweet, juicy, low in acidity, and bursting with sunshine. Perfect for fresh salads, sandwiches, or simply sprinkled with a little sea salt and olive oil.

Sometimes the best finds aren’t planned—they’re waiting for you at your local market. 💛❤️

Have you ever tried a Pineapple Tomato?

13/07/2026

🌞 Let’s talk about tomato sunscald! 🍅

I’ve been seeing so many posts lately in gardening forums and Facebook groups from people asking why their tomatoes are developing white, yellow, or leathery patches. In many cases, the culprit is sunscald.

This is exactly why I keep talking about being careful when removing tomato leaves. I’m not saying never remove leaves—pruning absolutely has its place. But removing too many leaves, especially during hot weather, leaves your tomatoes with no natural shade or protection from the intense sun.

My number one rule is simple: only remove leaves from the very bottom of the plant if they’re no longer needed, or remove leaves that are touching and restricting airflow if your plants are growing too close together. Other than that, let the plant keep as much healthy foliage as possible.

Those leaves aren’t just “extra growth.” They’re the engine of your tomato plant, producing the energy the plant needs while also providing essential shade that protects the fruit from scorching heat.

Before you reach for the pruners, ask yourself:
🍃 Is this leaf actually causing a problem?
☀️ Will removing it expose the fruit to direct afternoon sun?
🌡️ Are temperatures rising?

A little thoughtful pruning is beneficial. Over-pruning can lead to sunscald and damaged fruit.
Protect the leaves, and they’ll protect your tomatoes. 🍅❤️

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11/07/2026

🍅 Look at this giant Romanian tomato! 🇷🇴🌱

This beauty is already the size of a handful — so big that you can barely grab it with one hand! And the amazing thing is… it’s still green.

It probably has another 2–3 weeks of growing and ripening before it reaches its full colour, flavour, and sweetness. I can’t wait to see this giant turn into a perfectly ripe tomato! ❤️🍅

Nature never stops surprising me. 🌿✨

08/07/2026

🍅 Respect Plant Spacing Before You Remove Leaves

After my previous post, I received many messages saying that removing leaves while tomatoes are developing is the “correct” way to grow tomatoes.

But there is an important point that was missed.

In this video, I’m showing exactly how I grow my plants. All of my tomatoes are spaced at 60 × 50 cm. The plants have enough space, they are not overcrowded, and most of them are not even touching each other.

That is exactly why I don’t remove healthy leaves while the fruits are still developing!!!

Healthy leaves are the plant’s solar panels. They produce the sugars that fuel fruit growth through photosynthesis. If the plant has enough light, enough airflow, and enough space, why remove healthy leaves that are actively feeding your tomatoes?

If your plants are so crowded that you need to remove large amounts of healthy foliage just to create space, then the first question should not be, “Which leaves should I cut?” It should be, “Why are my plants growing so close together?!?!”

Respect the spacing first. The pruning decisions come second. 🍅

07/07/2026

🍅 Stop removing tomato leaves too early!

Lately, I’ve been seeing the same advice everywhere: remove all the leaves up to the first fruit truss while the tomatoes are still growing.

Please don’t. This advice is simply not supported by how tomato plants grow.

Tomato leaves are the plant’s energy factories. Through photosynthesis, they produce the sugars that fuel fruit growth, size, and flavor. Removing healthy leaves too early means reducing the plant’s ability to feed its developing fruit.

The leaves also protect tomatoes from excessive sunlight, helping prevent sunscald, reducing heat stress, and creating a better microclimate around the fruit.

At this stage, only the bottom 20–30 cm (8–12 inches) of leaves should be removed to improve airflow and help prevent soil-borne diseases. The rest of the healthy foliage should stay on the plant until the fruits have finished developing.

🌱 Don’t follow every pruning trend you see online blindly.

04/07/2026

🍅 Ready to Top Your Tomatoes? Here’s Why

Many gardeners confuse topping with removing suckers, but they are different jobs.

Suckers are side shoots. Topping is removing the main growing tip so the plant stops making new flower trusses.

I do this for my outdoor tomatoes, because the season is limited and I want the plant to focus on ripening fruit, not producing late flowers that won’t have time to mature.

I stop my plants after the fourth flower truss, remove anything above it, and cut the top.

Then I adjust depending on the plant:
🍃 weaker plants – leave more than 4 leaves above the last truss
💪 strong beefsteaks – leave 2–3 leaves

Those leaves still feed the last fruits and protect them.

If you grow in a greenhouse or indoors, you usually have a longer season, so you can be more flexible with timing.

For outdoor growing, this simple step helps get bigger, riper tomatoes before the season ends. 🍅

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