Tag Archive: tomato plants

Pruning Leads To Healthier And More Abundant Tomatoes

Catherine Sherriffs

To prune, or not to prune? That is the question.  Anyone who has grown tomatoes before will tell you a crop can quickly overtake the garden, especially when growing indeterminate varieties.  While some gardeners choose to leave every leaf and stem intact, there are many valid arguments as to why a little pruning should be…

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Plant Grafting: Fruit & Vegetable Tricks

Seeds and cuttings aren’t the only way to acquire new plants for your garden. Plant grafting is more tedious, but allows a gardener to accomplish things with plants not possible in any other way. It is the technique of joining the parts of two or more plants to create one plant. Ornamental plants used in landscaping and flower gardens are more commonly seen grafted…
May 6, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Best Way to Clone Tomato Plants?

It might sound kind of silly wanting to start new tomato plants so far along into the gardening season, but there are reasons why you might want to. For someone who lives in the extended warm weather climate of the South for instance, fall tomato crops are the norm, while in the North bringing one…
July 4, 2015
Callie

Do Tomatoes Need Pruning?

Perhaps it depends on where you’re trying to grow them and why.  Are these tomatoes for home use or are you going to market them all? One reason that commercial tomato growers would prune their plants it to have more uniform fruit. Sort of like if you’re growing apples, you want only certain branches producing…
July 20, 2013
Tammy Clayton