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Pruning in general
Just found the group, reading archives, hello to all,
I have a somewhat rudementary question with regards to pinching off leaves/branches on vegetables and such mainly with regards to things like tomatoes and peppers. This year we started our entire vegetable garden (60' x 300') in our small greenhouse. While we have always had fairly large gardens in the past this is by far the biggest and we are hoping for a good percentage of our food needs for the year to be canned and in the root cellar this year. With plants like tomatoes and peppers we have always been accustomed to buying them as starts and they always looked somewhat like a small tree having a bare stalk (no leaves) and a canopy of leaves at the top. With our peppers and tomatoes (all heirloom), especially the peppers, they are VERY leafy. Looking almost shrub like. Very vigorous and extremely healthy plants. We did buy 6 pepper starts for comparison and planted them and while the bought peppers have the "canopy and stalk" look they do not seem anywhere near as healthy as ours. My tendency is to pick off a lot of the leaves on the peppers thinking it will promote putting energy into the fruit? I am going about it on a experimental basis at this point, which I enjoy, but was wondering how others handle it. The peppers a California Wonder Serrano's Jalepeno's Cayanne Giant Italians Pepperocini's (sp) Tomatoes: Roma's Italian Paste Thanks for any general info you may be able to provide,... Mark |
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