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

[@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

[@timothyjfuller]

​@@CulinaryGarden1where did you get your green handled pruners? I want!

[@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.

[@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! 🍅🙊

[@janicelee5806]

For me too .

[@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.

[@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!

[@CPerry-bu1ni]

Best tomato video I’ve seen 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[@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.

[@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!! 🙏🏻🍅

[@miriamaetuale9225]

Thanks you, I'm just growing my own tomatoes plants and its a pleasure to see them grow. Yes, I have pruned my tomatoes too and its amazing that your video confirms the idea why I did it too. Thanks

[@MaggieBrown-w5d]

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

[@philisiwenojoko9714]

Same here! Been looking for something that works with SA gardens and timing ❤

[@paper601]

🍅 I didn’t know I could control the height with one snip! Just learned something new, thank you!

[@imightbejenna]

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

[@1Humanoid]

Thank you, I appreciate you showing close up detail of what you are talking about. Us newbies need to see and not just hear an explanation. This video gives me more confidence in growing tomatoes because of the close up details you shown. 3 Thumbs up and a subscribe....

[@peterminzenmay5005]

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

[@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. 🍅

[@NaomiKocijan]

AGREED!!! I finally understand!

[@brianwilcox2543]

Looking forward to a lot of veggies in the garden at my new house! 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[@StuWNZ]

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

[@june-uni]

3:39 I’ve watched quite a few tomato pruning videos but this is the first one that I’ve finally understood. Omg so easy. Thanks CG 😊 Edit: 🍅 😂

[@gunnernic2531]

🍅 love your work bud, Southern hemisphere for the win, yeah!

[@GavinandKim]

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

[@MUNTA-e5e]

It's called a lateral. And if the top breaks off you can use the first lateral down as the new top. And if don't take the lateral right off it will grow back

[@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.

[@Brisee76]

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!

[@jenharris4470]

Me too lol 😂 and micros also

[@hellegilbert3000]

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

[@helenlesley5456]

Yes he is very good… also he speaks clearly😊

[@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

[@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.

[@philiplowry5771]

Great advice, I now know about suckers for propogation and cut anything that touches the ground to prevent disease 🎉❤🍊

[@nikkibryan1]

I’d love to say that my husband and I have been watching you for quite a while now and we have learnt sooo much from you! Loving what you are doing! Thank you heaps from another fellow Aussie

[@rebeccaburns2520]

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

[@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 🍅🍅🍅

[@Government-EconomicsTeacher]

I subscribed because I have watched "a fair few" of your videos and enjoy them :)

[@my-back-hurts]

1st time seeing 1 of your videos. Subscribed. Nice to get tips from a fellow Aussie

[@lorireeve2322]

🍅 😂 I agree with other comments - this is definitely the best tomato pruning video on KZbin. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. From a Phillip Island gardener. 😊

[@marilynroberts8296]

Thanks

[@dirtybirdau]

This made more sense than a number of other videos I've watched, I feel pretty confident in poruning my own. thanks 🍅

[@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.

[@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!

[@tam8282]

🍅🍅 🙌🏼🙌🏼. Thank you for the tips. Really helped you visually showing the difference between sucker and sun stems. I have about 11 tomato plants and I topped two of them, so there's now two main stems. Not sure how they will go compared to untopped . I started 8 weeks ago from seed. First time vegetable gardener. Thanks for all your help so far.

[@stuffandthat7]

Such a great vid. Can you please do one about pruning and trellising cucumber?

[@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 🍅

[@jenharris4470]

Thank you for your thorough explanation. Will be tidying my micro and dwarf tomatoes today

[@suechandler8162]

Thanls for all that, I always wanted to know which bits to break off or cut off😊

[@kevinrogan9871]

Always knew what you called a sucker as a lateral. It was my job after school to go through the glasshouse and remove the laterals, never used scissors though

[@carolyna7818]

Excited to go and prune my tomatoes for the first time! 🍅

[@carolyna7818]

And they are doing so well! Thank you!

[@Taubear]

🍅🍅🍅 looking forward to a bumper crop. Thanks for the info 🙂

[@annac-lm8ci]

Great vid. Made me happy knowing that I’ve been doing the right thing. Love my summer tomatoes 🍅

[@Ravenmad2000]

Thank you…you’ve explained it so well.

[@graemeblackburn7511]

I tend to remove the majority of suckers,( I call them laterals), but leave enough to give the bush about 6 main flowering stems. Maybe you could show your viewers how to pinch out the main stem of an indeterminate to reduce the height as if you take off every sucker, it’s going to look like Jack & the bean stalk. Cheers Graeme

[@michelleterkelsen9454]

Great instruction very clear . Thank you.

[@rn3194]

Best explanation I've seen. Super helpful, thanks maate!!

[@leoniedavies]

🍅 Thank you for the really helpful advice.😊

[@tanyabrown9839]

Thank you. I'm now going to go out and try to start making new plants from the suckers.

[@blairdenholm4167]

Just discovered you. Keep at it. You've got a fabulous presentation style. Mark Valencia look out! 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[@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. 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[@amberhanrahan]

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

[@NathanaelJeanneret]

Great video thanks off to prune now! 🍅

[@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!

[@leoniem6920]

🍅❤🍅Love these amazing tips! Good luck for bountiful, healthy tomato harvest!

[@rickhamilton2093]

Love your work. From Adelaide.🍅🍅🍅🤠

[@fransvanderwalt596]

Great tips! Thanks mate! 🍅🤞

[@GrahamSwan-yi5gw]

Fantastic tutorial

[@Trth1707]

Great 🍅 tips.

[@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

[@jtoland89]

I found this helpful, thank you. Very relatable

[@aaronvalverde8212]

So... I've been cutting sun leaves and not the suckers... 😂 learnt something today...

[@sheryllorenz830]

🍅haha well it’s worth a try 🙊. I have always pinched off the “armpit” shoots but have to try the other tips. I find it hard as plants get taller to work out which is the main stem.

[@barryrogers5815]

Good work! Thanks. 🍅🍅🍅

[@joelross6126]

Love this channel

[@thatswhatisaid8908]

🍅 Wow. So much I did not know. Many thanks! Although, in hotter drier areas, might it be beneficial to leave some extra leaves to shade and cool the earth?

[@bjcdownunder]

Very informative thank you 🍅

[@hamatg]

Excellent advice as always! Cheers 🍅

[@servantofgod5642]

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

[@omsingh3926]

Thanks nice and simple explanation

[@peternixon3820]

How do we combat the Queensland fruit fly here in Sydney that decimate our tomato plants

[@servantofgod5642]

Napalm son, nothing else in the world kills QLD fruit fly better. Smells like,……victory.

[@RitchieCollins]

Regarding sunflower leafs are we supposed to cut them off or not ?

[@katesmiles4208]

Well explained 👍

[@annaroland5269]

🍒🍅 is the plan this year

[@dfergz8755]

🍅 great commentary

[@lorikeetsarefun]

Great explanation. Thank you. 🍅

[@leeannemacarthur46]

Love growing tomatoes 🍅

[@jimkaye2077]

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

[@FootballFanCulture]

Great video mate.

[@pyrodraven77]

I seem to be doing a lot of things sort of opposite but i do get the concept of what your saying and do aggree i thought i would get disease as you stated but that has not happened yet so was wondering does this happen more to younger plants ? Or plants with not enough nutrients? Im not sure which method ive used to make the plant well most of them giant stem wise n leaf wondering what your thoughts would be on this as im experimenting still any tips on removing root eaters as well would be grately appreciated

[@JamesKeuPita]

Bro thank you for this tip

[@MelanieMiller-ne5ri]

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

[@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

[@amhchiu]

@shibibi1 okay, thanks! All my other ones are single stems, so I'm looking forward to a comparison when they start producing fruit later

[@susanc-c7817]

Great information thank u

[@lucyvan2010]

Excellent Thank you

[@jedigriffo]

Great Video 😀🍅

[@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

[@warrenburrows]

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

[@306champion]

1:08 I see here string? around the plant. Can I just run string around the plant to tether it to a higher point? Thanks mate, I'll try to remember all this. I'm growing Beefsteaks.

[@JaneBrooks-t8p]

Thanks very helpful

[@grradojicic7602]

🍅 thank you!

[@Bubblesnz5]

super helpful thank you 🍅🍅

[@petawilkinson8968]

🍅 thank you for the tips

[@barbarap5574]

Great info thanks 🍅

[@jamesderry4931]

Just started my banana legs 🍅 Thanks for the tips!

[@jaqmackie]

🍅 need all the help I can get