If you have a vegetable garden, chances are you have tomatoes growing in it. When home-grown, the fruit bursts with flavor and produces a vibrant color that store-bought tomatoes just don't measure up ...

Tomato plants have a natural tendency to produces lots of leaves and relatively fewer fruits. However, it's easy to balance leaf and fruit production by doing a little tomato plant pruning. Not only ...

If you want to boost your tomato harvest, timing your pruning efforts is key. Pruning at the right stage helps plants channel more energy into producing larger, tastier fruit rather than excessive ...

In this video, I show how I prune and train young tomato plants including several tomato growing tips to prevent disease and get the best crop of tomatoes possible! Self Sufficient Me is based on our ...

Whether it’s too late depends on zone—northern gardens stop before frost, southern ones prune later. If frost is near, pinch flowers, remove diseased leaves, or pull and hang plants so tomatoes ripen ...

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I almost conceded this year that pruning tomatoes might be a useful thing at times. But then I got real. I’ve long fought the battle against spending time pruning tomatoes. Commercial growers -- who ...

August isn’t the best time to do much pruning other than removing dead wood, but fall is even worse. So if anything really needs to be cut, consider doing it soon … or wait until next year. Most ...