Stop NAKED TOMATO Plant PRUNING.
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FINALLY science and common sense! I never understood the idea of pruning tomatoes; it's just a silly waste of time. Thanks, Mark.
Every summer I have someone ask me about pruning because they’ve been told they “should” or “have to” prune their tomatoes. I always tell them it isn’t necessary. I prune mine most years because I plant tomatoes close and inter plant with other things so I want the air circulation and room to reach from one row to the next. I also prefer picking tomatoes from a pruned plant. I have grown very productive tomatoes with zero pruning though. It is a preference thing.
Hey Mark, im new to no till and Im lost on whether or not to cut the plant at the base leaving roots in soil for microbes or remove the entire plant. Do you have any tips
Thanks and great vid!
What are your favourite tomatoes to grow like this ?
Yes, I let tomatoes do their own thing, just tying them up a little to get fruits off the ground! I avoid all unnecessary work until/unless it proves essential. This year in one bed I did plant all my (different variety) tomatoes 12 inches down so that they can access deep water from the start – they look so happy now, even while other plants in the same bed are wilting for lack of water. So, a watering task reduced.
Straw mulch is key to reducing blight. We did that on our truck farm with tomatoes and we stayed disease free. Also, not pruning can reduce the incidence of disease spread, we found. Just different ways of doing it, but the whole point is to appreciate and share. Blessings Abound
Thanks, I really needed this. No more naked tomatoes for me!
Thanks so much for the knowledge. I’m a new gardener this years, and I’m learning on the fly. Can you share the best method to stake tomato’s in a small raised bed. Thanks in advance.
Just subscribed and watching your videos. I used to sucker my tomatoe plants but I believe what your saying is correct. If I plant a winter rye cereal rye grain in the garden for a cover crop this fall, come spring may when it's time to plant tomatoes, should I cut the rye down, till it and plant the tomatoe plants or plant then using a no till method? What would be the best way? Thank you and appreciate your videos and information.
How bout when the leaves turn yellow? Pull them off then?
I listened to people tell me I needed to prune and I haven't had tomatoes two years in a row. Never again
Solar collectors! What a fantastic analogy! I think the only reason to trim a sucker off an indeterminant is to plant the sucker and make extra plants! I do trim up the lowest one or two branches so they aren't touching the soil however.
Any recommendations on a cover crop for tomatoes? Do you use just winter rye or more of a diverse mix?
I've grown a couple tomato varieties that suffered badly from molds and mildews if I didn't prune them for airflow… so I simply stopped growing them and kept growing more resistant varieties.
It will be great if you make video about anaerobic compost and is it ok and save to use
I'm a new gardener, I plan on starting my first garden this spring. I use to have my lawn/grass sprayed for weeds, etc a couple times a year, I stopped a few months ago. Will it be safe for me to grow some vegetables next spring? Thank you, John
Thank you.
As a habitual tomato jungle grower, I like your style sir. I do prune some simply because my tomatoes go ridiculous without some maintenance. Never hurts to clean up the base a bit just to keep leaves out of the dirt. It only makes sense to me, to keep the solar collectors and keep some shade for the fruit. I know my tomatoes appreciate some mulch. I'm a big believer that healthy plants are resilient plants. And healthy plants start with healthy soil. Thank you for the good info. Take care.
I didn’t know any better and once my tomatoes were going very well, I threw cucumbers directly to either side and enclosed the 4×2 raised bed with chicken wire to keep out the deer. I had a JUNGLE and a big crop of tomatoes and cukes. I did add some fertilizer (organic) and water. I had started the tomatoes with taking off suckers once in a while. When I gave up and it went crazy, that’s when I got the largest amount of tomatoes going past the trellis, etc.
I am pro pruning but I will experiment with one plant this season.
When you think about it, our earth is like a parent… Respect…. And it goes along way. If we all cared ( what was wrong with the hippies lol) about her more than money… Imagine…. Love your vids, every word you speak makes so much common sense. Thank you.
I'm adding state bedding to cover the soil near the plant and will try no trimmer the lower limbs. I am almost organic also
I did prune near the last of season and then the tomatoes seem to finish the season better.
Love your comments on organic gardening, Mark! Very thoughtful. But, re tomato pruning, I think a lot of us home gardeners prune tomatoes, because we have small backyards and often grow in raised beds. In my experience (Zone 10), I don't have enough space to allow indeterminate tomatoes to extend out beyond their 3-4 foot high cages/fences (or 8' high rope lines), falling into adjoining garden beds or walkways and potentially snapping off from their own weight. Hence, we train the plants to grow vertically, which, admittedly, presents it own trellising challenges. Also, I've found that when I don't prune the dense foliage allows more opportunity for disease to develop even without such problematic practices as overhead watering. Finally, large, gangly tomato plants make it harder to add physical barriers to keep out ever-present squirrels and birds both of which can destroy a very limited crop of backyard tomatoes. All that said, though, feel free to set me straight if you think there's a way to adopt your approach!
Hey Mark.. I’m in NJ Zone 7a.. I had my best production from raised beds that Received a fall cover crop, the season before.. I just crimp killed my cover crop and planted directly into the ground.. I plan to use your idea about New Zealand white clover in my food forest as a ground cover.. I do get Japanese Stiltweed as a summer crop and I hope the white clover smothers the stiltweed out..
Have you had a soil test revealing all the trace minerals you have?