Timebending Tomatoes - How to Grow with Kesser and Steen, Nature and Innovation class

How to Grow Timebending Tomatoes with Kesser and Steen. The Late Harvest Tomato Guide. Today we tell the story of Gunnar, an aspiring gardener who worries he has started his tomato cultivation too late in the season. His mentors, Kesser and Steen, suggest practical solutions for a mid-summer start, such as purchasing established plants or selecting fast-maturing cherry tomato varieties. To ensure a successful harvest despite the approaching autumn, the experts recommend using portable containers like buckets that can be moved indoors to protect plants from the cold. Additionally, the text explains a propagation technique where "suckers" or side shoots are rooted in water to quickly create new, genetically identical plants. This method leverages the tomato's natural ability to grow adventitious roots, providing a cost-effective way to expand a garden late in the year. Ultimately, the guide emphasizes that with the right variety selection and mobility, a late-season harvest remains entirely possible in the Danish climate. Too late for tomatoes? Gunnar stops the two boys Kesser and Steen from the Nature and Innovation class to ask them if it's too late to plant tomato .. "Too late Gunnar.. and how far along are your plants??" Steen asks helpfully "Like no plants at all, I just want to try growing our own tomatoes at home in the backyard.." Gunnar then answers Kesser does a little math on his fingers 🌱🌱 from germination to plant 🪴and planting to harvest 🍅 Most people will probably start the process in March-April, and get the plants used in May and then you have "the whole summer" with growth and harvest, maybe some "green tomatoes" (unripe) when the frost comes, but.. Did Gunnar say anything about greenhouses? Or do we just assume that tomatoes are only grown in greenhouses - even though you don't need a greenhouse in Denmark (not even for tomatoes) - did Gunnar talk about special varieties, or does he think that here, where the first half of the year has passed, you can still find a large selection of a lot of good, half-sized plants 🤔 🌿✂️ then Kesser thinks about whether they should try to encourage Gunnar a little and give him a helping hand (but without him thinking it's as easy as fishing a mackerel out of a can from the grocery store) You probably saw the video with The Great Potato Harvest, where Kesser and Steen put a potato plant back in the bucket so it could recover .. and Kesser came up with this because he knows that tomato plants are relatively easy to make cuttings from or "down-bends" - and voilá you have more plants from what you trimmed off .. #growyourownfood #tomatoes #naturoginnovation Copyright 2026 - Flamme Rouge 🚩 Nature