How To Prune Your Tomatoes Like A Pro For HUGE Harvests - Australian Veggie Gardening

[@BrianMorrison-r9h]

I'm glad to here about tomatoes from Culinary Garden Oz because I've watched others from overseas and they don't help much thank you.

[@Holly-rb2jc]

I’ve watched what feels like a million videos on pruning tomatoes and this is by far the best explanation! Thank you! 😊

[@aanassazool]

I agree

[@CulinaryGarden1]

Thank you, I'm actually pretty proud of this video.

[@servantofgod5642]

Spot on Holly.

[@jackrussell7057]

This is great... also Migardener in the USA has brilliant tomato pruning videos

[@joyfulparadise]

I really learned something that i didnt learn from other youtubers that explained pruning suckers. You not only identfied the 45° angle pruning, but also helped me to see what a sucker actually looks like - a tree (a plant), rather than a fan leaf. I think that was what I wasn’t clear of and afraid of pruning the wrong one. Now I’m clear thank you.

[@just_norma7]

Thank you!! This is the best explanation I’ve seen and I’ve been gardening for a few years now but haven’t had much success with tomatoes. Turns out I’ve been pruning the sun leafs thinking they were suckers. Love your videos!! 🙏🏻🍅

[@ausfoodgarden]

I like to grow basil and marigolds under my tomatoes. Marigolds help confuse pests, so they say, and they look good anyway. And yes, tomato plants will give you tomatoes even if you give them no love. (But a bit of water at least) Cheers!

[@SowGrowHarvest]

I don’t normally comment on many videos these days. But I wanted to let you know this video was very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you for taking the time to make it! 🍅🙊

[@MaggieBrown-w5d]

I love your content and your gardening style totally works for my hot Johannesburg, South African garden.

[@parvathitiruviluamala9870]

Thank you. My fruit trees, flowers etc do well, but i have NO success growing tomatoes ! I shall follow your steps next summer. Its already Fall/ Winter in Southern California.

[@rebeccaburns2520]

🍅 really looking forward to growing some different tomatoes varieties this summer.

[@hellegilbert3000]

Thank you for this video. I need to prune my determinate tomatoes.

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

My plan was to grow Roma tomatoes for sun drying, but now I'm growing seven varieties because so many looked interesting..... :) I'm growing my watermelons and tomatoes in big wicking buckets, so that they're watered from underneath. That way the leaves aren't splashed with moisture and contamination from top watering, and they get consistent watering to prevent fruit cracking.

[@kathrynhegarty9576]

Thankyou for making this so much easier to understand. I love my garden and try to educate myself when I can. I've started taking garden notes now so I can look back when I prune again. 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[@StuWNZ]

Helpful video thanks. It would be good if you did a follow up later in the season when your plants are bigger😊

[@peterminzenmay5005]

Clear concise and no BS I'm loving it. I'm attacking the toms tomorrow.🍅🍅

[@gchev4]

🍅 subbed. Melbourne australia here. 8 cherry tomatoes and a few burnley in the garden. Couple baskets of tumbling Tom's in the back patio as well

[@leeannemacarthur46]

Love growing tomatoes 🍅

[@VelvetandToads]

🍅This is by far the best tomato pruning video I’ve seen and I’ve seen many. Love the reasoning behind what you do, given in such a clear manner. Limpid. Really learning a lot from your channel. 🍅

[@amberhanrahan]

Thank you thank you 🍅 🍅 I didn’t know about cutting the tops off to stop the growth. Amazing! Appreciate your work! 🙏

[@imightbejenna]

Thank you for going into detail about the "why" of things.. great info! :) 🍅

[@GavinandKim]

Great advice. Thanks for helping me prune like a pro! Now out to the tomato patch.

[@nutrition-hacks]

Thank you for the great video on Tomatoes, it reminded me to get outside and take care of my own which have been neglected for a few weeks 🍅

[@moonorchid9242]

🍅🍅🍅 I don’t care that it’s an interaction grab lol I found one of my tomatoes today with 40cm of the top completely broken off. I think from the wind the day before. Thankfully, there’s a tiny sucker right below the break line… so i will still get something from that plant

[@shibibi1]

If you watch 6 tomato prunning videos, you'll hear 6 different methods 😂 I initially encouraged insane growth, including leaves, and then after seeing the first flowers, started cutting off any leaves that didn't have flowers nearby. Just did a huge prune today and now my vines are naked.

[@servantofgod5642]

What an excellent explanation. Bet you teach for a living.

[@jtoland89]

I found this helpful, thank you. Very relatable

[@kilnj69]

I love your videos Ryan, you do a great job. But one thing I think you missed was about the 4 different types of tomato's. Cherry, indertiminate, detriment and beef steak tomato. Cherry tomatoes, I have found that you should not remove suckers even though it is an indeterminate tomato. Exception to the rule, but still remove all leaves touching the soil.

[@CulinaryGarden1]

Yeah there's so many caveats with tomato pruning. I decided to just try to over simplify. Like I didn't even get into choosing between single and double leaders

[@anserbauer309]

Why not remove the suckers from your cherry tomatoes? Has it caused you problems in the past? I remove the suckers on my cherry tomatoes under the first flowers, but then grow them horizontally along the veggie patch fence with leaders in both directions, rather than up a tall support. Makes them so much easier to go and grab when I'm doing a salad or whatever, if I don't even have to go in the patch to pick them. I grow my basil, oregano, coriander and thyme in hanging baskets from some old kids' monkeybars outside the patch for the same reason.

[@lorikeetsarefun]

Great explanation. Thank you. 🍅

[@davinasquirrel7672]

This will be my first ever season with one determinate tomato. Very helpful, because I would have treated it like the indeterminates. This year, I may well try the Florida Weave (if I get my act together). Previous staking and management, let's just say, less than optimal. Oh so okay, Amateur Hour! The easiest seems to be string and frame from above, but I don't have that set up, the Florida Weave seems the easiest to replicate without building massive support. I think I will do it with the star pickets each end, and a ball of string!

[@callmehank88]

🍅🍅🍅 trying a 5m arch and growing tomatoes up and over from either side, basil, spring onions and roquette underneath - extra 3 for extra produce 🍅🍅🍅

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Love your videos 🍅

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Love this channel

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🍅🌿Comment to feed the algorithm but love your content.

[@jedigriffo]

Great Video 😀🍅

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🍅 thank you for the tips

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Great info thanks 🍅

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🍅 great commentary

[@jimkaye2077]

top video ......very helpful thank you

[@hamatg]

Excellent advice as always! Cheers 🍅

[@marilynroberts8296]

Thanks

[@Bnpearce76]

Great information 😊 Thoughts on dwarf tomatoes ? I personally love all the Dwarf Tomato Project varieties. I’m obsessed to be honest! Great selection of tomatoes on compact, strong plants. Pruning is a breeze ! 🍅 🍅

[@CulinaryGarden1]

I've never actually grown dwarf tomatoes but I've always really liked the look of them!

[@IsabelLawrence-h1o]

That’s was a great explanation thanks. I’m growing 3 varieties of indeterminates and on one the top 25cm or so looks shrivelled but is still green. What should I do? The plants are only about 50cm tall so far. Hope you can help aargh!

[@tazdo0d]

This happened to mine this past weekend when it was super hot (Melbourne) I just gave them a deep watering and a dose of liquid manure and they went back to normal within 24 hours. Good luck!

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🍅🍅 Thank you

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🍅 thanks!

[@jaqmackie]

🍅 need all the help I can get

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super helpful thank you 🍅🍅

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Thankyou🍎🍎🍎

[@petro3441]

Thanx

[@sparks8600]

🍅 I need all the help I can get 😂

[@warrenburrows]

Love your videos but am wanting grow by month ones that you started and haven't seen an update yet.

[@clintdaniel7511]

🍅 tomato 🍅

[@snapey8566]

Another good companion is marigolds

[@dew21news35]

Me watching this video right after pruning my tomato’s wtf

[@shibibi1]

I have done the exact same thing. Did a very aggressive prune today on my indeterminates 😂

[@Chris-op7yt]

as per your video snippets in this video, the best way to grow indeterminate tomatoes is up a string, maintaining a single leader. all other ways of taming indeterminate tomatoes becomes expensive and has limited success. so the upfront investment in constructing a sturdy frame and buying clips, works out better over long run. you can trellis semi-determinates. you can also find low bushing varieties that require no support and grow within a 1 metre diameter wide, close to ground. example is Rebel F1 main thing about growing tomatoes is to grow them, and if disease strikes them dead before you get a harvest--despite taking precautions--move onto more disease resistant varieties. tomatoes are very disease prone, but every home grown tomato takes good, not just some specific old types, which are actually usually more disease prone. been noticing some indeterminate varieties are not that indeterminate, after reaching a metre culminating in two apex flower clusters and no more leader. some paste type tomatoes i started growing last few years--which are better for preserving than round tomatoes--get really funky branching where it's a lot harder to pick what is the "true leader" i look forward to any good advice you have about soil wetters, since that is upon us in melbourne. i found most commercial ones and own made soil wetters thys far ineffective, even on first application. despite what the labels promise. incidentally this may be pertinent to do with perceived shallow watering myth--in your recent video--which just might be people trying to water their garden unsuccessfully despite trying, rather than a conscious choice of type of watering deep vs shallow.

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[@amhchiu]

🍅🍅🍅 the tip about how to stop the height is gold. I have one tomato plant that has two heads because i let a sucker grow out. Is it too late to propagate that?

[@shibibi1]

Probably not. Though in my limited experience, letting the sucker stay isn't the end of the world so long as you have good support for the stems

[@BradGryphonn]

Off to prune my tomato farm... My farm has one tomato plant...

[@DaveTimperley]

Just had a quick look and not sure if you've covered this topic but.... Do you have any tips for lettuce in warm climates. Is there a way to slow down their 'bolt to seed' ? Are the more 'hearty' varieties like Coz more resistant?

[@CulinaryGarden1]

Yeah you've got to give them more shade. You can use shade cloth or do things like grow climbing plants around them to give them natural shade

[@janinebell4336]

Whoops I chopped randomly and cut off sun leaves as well and all are now in my tumbling composter 🍅

[@shibibi1]

So long as there's nutrients in the soil, it'll be okay! I frequently take of sun leaves intentionally to stress the plant once it's started fruiting. Don't know if it's true, but heard stressed tomatoes will ripen fruit faster

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[@AddyGoose]

Don’t trim suckers on cherry tomatoes though. Let em run!

[@johncurrey2387]

Can I ask why?

[@jayytee8062]

Yes, why?

[@shibibi1]

​@jayytee8062 in my limited experience, cherry tomatoes are very hardy and can handle having a bunch of sucker's. Sucker's will often produce fruits, and since cherry tomatoes are small, and the plant hardy, lots of us tend to treat them similar to determinant varieties.

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[@1MoreL1E]

Comment to boost. And also to say this was such an awesome simple video that i figure i might as well try my hand at some tomatoes this year too. Thanks for all your hard work!

[@onoracole770]

🍅🍅🍅 thank you!

[@amhchiu]

🍅🍅🍅 the tip about how to stop the height is gold. I have one tomato plant that has two heads because i let a sucker grow out. Is it too late to propagate that?

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