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Prune Tomatoes?
"mmarteen" wrote in message
... I have been watching a lot of garden shows this season (Martha, Rebecca, Victory Garden, HGTV etc.) and I recently heard two things about pruning tomatoes. One was that you should cut all side branches from tomato plants. Not laterals but if there are laterals that branch out further. Supposedly these just suck energy away from tomato production. Secondly, somewhere it was said that you should lop off the first blooms on a tomato plant because it will ensure bigger better tomatoes down the road. It seems to me that if this is true, it might only work for indeterminate tomatoes not determinate ones. Can anyway shed light on either of these two pieces of wisdom? All I can say is that the size of the tomatoes doesn't matter if they're cracked from the sun, and from uneven soil moisture. The canopy of leaves is there for a good reason. Why screw around with it? With almost any modern tomato variety, I find that 2 big plants gives me more than enough tomatoes for a family of 3, plus assorted neighbors. I grow them in a simple, home made cylindrical cage, 3' in diameter and 5' high. |
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