Pruning and Trellising Tomatoes

[@gregorymoats4007]

This is the Veronica I first discovered when researching tomato growing…you seemed so much more at ease and settled. May you find a simple peace and joy in the days to come…

[@VeronicaFlores]

Was much easier to be at ease when I lived with and around other people I could actually trust and half a dozen 100-150lb livestock guardian dogs with 700-900 PSI bites 😬

[@DENNISPS78]

I’ve grown tomatoes for years and I must say that was the best most informative and most concise presentation of the subject I’ve ever seen. Great job. If I could add something, I place the largest of the pruned suckers in water and the root easily in a few days. The new plants then thrive later in the season to extend my harvest. Again, great job.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Thanks, and great point! If I didn't have a greenhouse full of tomato seedlings still, I'd totally be doing that. :)

[@sovereigntindall5410]

I was just gonna ask if you can root the suckers. I pruned my plant, put the sucker in water and am hoping to see some roots here in a few days. It's my first time growing anything so lots of trial and error.

[@Dbee45]

@@sovereigntindall5410 My first time growing tomatoes was in a greenhouse some years ago. I pop off the suckers and figured that if I bury them in the dirt they would die and act as a fertilizer. The damn thing just kept growing like crazy. So, yes you can root sucker.

[@billbi1239]

you put them in water and they root , that is cool , they must be strong .

[@jakewade5265]

I love her smile and her little laughs in this video, growing plants is fun and educational so why not enjoy it while you do it..Thanks.

[@golfmike304]

great video for us newbies explaining what a sucker is and what to do with them. very helpful.

[@seattledanr5363]

I've been told to prune the suckers before, but neglected to do so on a few Sungold tomato (cherry) plants last year. Surprisingly, 4 or more suckers became major fruit producers. I noticed you clarified in the first couple minutes that "it may be OK to leave them on cherry tomatoes, but not beefsteak or larger varieties." Makes total sense. I will still prune carefully, though, because we did lose a lot of unripened fruit at the end of the season. Better pruning forces existing fruit to mature faster. Your point is well taken. Thanks!

[@johnc5872]

Thank you so much for being so descriptive Veronica! I'm trying it this year for the first time so I'm nervous I'll cut the wrong ones.

[@johnnyhicks3835]

I've been gardening most of my life and retired from a fertilizer company and try to watch some of these shows out there but I can't because they go on and on about nothing or take for ever and show you nothing . I enjoy your videos because you get to the point and do a good job of showing what your video is about so thanks sweetie ! Keep them coming .

[@crazysquirrel9425]

Ever top dress with alfalfa pellets for your tomatoes? I want to try it but am worried I will have all plant (or none) and no tomatoes.

[@angelicamercado7707]

I had no idea about "suckers" or having to prune the lower leaves from tomato plants. Totally explains why my tomato plants in the past had issues. Thanks so much!

[@crazysquirrel9425]

Do not remove suckers from cherry tomatoes! It will reduce your harvest! Just 'top' the plant to make it 'bushy'. when it is about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall. Best to use a tomato cage. You can get cattle panel, 6x6 size and cut it about 4 feet long then wrap it to make your own cage. Note: if you 'top' Okra, it makes a nice bush and no ladder needed to harvest! More on Okra - it DOES attract stink bugs. So does sunflowers.

[@Horse237]

College professors in Quebec said that leaves and tomatoes on the top 5% of the plant have the most energy from the sun and are the most nutritious. Great video. Lots of people need basic how to knowledge.

[@Ideaman1000]

Great videos, Veronica. I have been growing tomatoes and peppers for years, and your videos are refreshing and good reminders on what to do and what NOT to do. Thanks so much for your helpful thoughts and demonstrations. Cheers!

[@grantfuller5011]

First time grower this season from UK. Thanks for your advice 👌

[@rickparshall]

My tomato plants are still quite small... late start here as winter stuck around until well into May... my indeterminate paste San Marzano plants are (well most everything at this point) starting to take off as we went from winter to weeks in the 90s with no rain now we had a nice 3day actual rain (not the torrential downpour) and sun and heat (predicted 105deg...) for the next week.. I have been staying on top of the suckers and low leaves this year thanks to your knowledge and some homesteaders I also follow so the tomatoes are growing up the wire like they should!! Thanks for your tips and hints!!! BTW!! I love your tank top!!! Happy Gardening from NY!!!

[@VeronicaFlores]

Happy gardening!

[@zstangkrewson]

I took your advice when I planted my bed this year. I have no limbs btm 12 inches, and was keeping up with the suckers for about the first 1-2 months. I have missed a few, they grew very strong and started producing fruits. Then I came across a video stating that the suckers grow fruit. My plants right now, are @ 5 feet tall... and I have never had soo much fruit before..., I did just pick off one bad tom with end rot.... other that that one fruit, these toms are growing insane! Thank You.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Oh they will often grow fruit, esp if they're the only branches. What I tend to see is someone who does zero suckering and then there is so much plant that it struggles to support fruit on those limbs. Glad to hear it's working out for you!

[@cvongall66]

I like your channel. Very informative and you have a nice personality.

[@mrd3863]

I know this is an older video, but I re-watch most of your videos every year before I start planting to refresh my memory. I appreciate you taking the time to make these.

[@nicholasb8799]

Between making a trellis, using grass clippings to prevent soil splash and pruning the suckers, the tomatoes I grew this year in NJ were big and delicious!! Great video, I always love to get new tips....

[@ChicoEscuela]

Thanks for making your videos shorter and on topic, and always with joy!

[@SG-Photography]

This is one of the best tomatoes pruning vedios I ever watched. Thanks Veronica..you are 10/10 girl.

[@grahamcole1539]

Good advice, great words on your t shirt...we gardeners are optimistic and love what we do. Growing food is one of the most positive things we can do! Thanks for you Veronica, spreading good information with that beautiful smile!

[@urbugnmetoday3183]

I could watch u all day! Have fun!

[@user-qu1xg5eg7q]

Love your videos, As a first time grower I’ve learned so much about growing and pruning , keep up the good work!!

[@drewhjc]

I prune the bigger branch below the suckers that don't fruit. The suckers on mine always sprout flowers and fruit unlike the bigger branch below only grows leaves.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Interesting! I've seen mine flower and fruit but it never seems to be as good as what grows on the main stem.

[@farmsgrace341]

You can also use the suckers to create clones of the mother plant. Simply dip them in some rooting hormone and plant them in some seedling starter soil and keep it moist. I usually get a success rate around 60%. It beats starting tomato plants from seed and you get are able to keep the varieties you like the most. The climate I live in, the tropics, allows for a year round harvest season, so it makes sense for someone like me. I can replace a plant with the exact same one, once the original plant has run its course or dies due to insects or disease, and keep on growing.

[@VeronicaFlores]

For sure! I plan on doing this in Texas, as we apparently lose crops to wind and hail midsummer here.

[@jimtaylor248]

I like your videos when you say why you do something. Thanks. Keep it up.

[@GreenThumbGardener]

Hey Veronica..I just posted a video today and gave you a shout out for all the inspiration you give to the gardening community...Thanks for all you do..you are one cool dudette. 🌻🍅

[@VeronicaFlores]

Thank you!

[@JH-qh4hr]

This is great. Im doing a bunch of them this year. I just caught my nemesis tonight(a very large groundhog) so I can focus on the garden more.

[@VeronicaFlores]

I'm still catching gophers over here. They're driving me crazy this year!

[@m.b.g.2235]

I am a newbie to gardening this year and I am excited and nervous at the same time. I have a neighbor on one side of me who has gardened for years. He has offered to help but I hope to be able to do this without knocking on his door everyday. I have watched several of your videos and have subscribed to you.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Please let me know what struggles you have in this space too! I often think "oh that's probably common knowledge" without realizing that thought needs the addendum "for gardeners who've been doing it for a long time now." 🙂

[@emoflex4u]

It helped me a lot to get explaint what to have left in the end, instead of getting explained what to cut away. So, in the end you have there only the mainstam, the leaves and the flowers/young fruits. Therefor it may help to lern how complex a leave at a tomatoplant can be. But that it is: A trunk, leaves, flowers.

[@johnmcneal9477]

I live in Alaska and it is almost impossible to grow tomatoes out doors. We have short growing seasons but up to 18 hours of intense sun by mid season. I have really had amazing good luck in the high tunnel when I prune to 4 main leaders in the heirloom varieties. I top the plants around July 15th or 6ft to stop all vegetative growth and I also stop feeding them with any nitrogen about July 1st. I also cut way back on the amounts of water the plants receive. That is one big advantage of growing in high tunnels. The days are starting to get shorter after solstice on June 21st so the plants think the season is coming to an end anyways and they go into a semi survival mode and put most of their effort into fruiting. By the end of July, I stop all watering which stresses the plants out even more to the point that we get an amazing amount of fruit through September. I call this technique water stressing and it makes a huge difference. Plus, when the plants are stressed and think they are about to die, they push all of the sugars from the roots into the fruit giving the fruit super sweet flavor. Check out the pics of tomatoes on my FB page, if I can grow tomatoes in Alaska, you surely can grow them where you live. facebook.com/AKSWFtomatoes/?ref=bookmarks

[@mr3fig]

Love this channel! You must be a Texan! I'm in East Texas. Zone 8B. Your pepper pruning video has made all the difference in my garden! Thanks for sharing.

[@VeronicaFlores]

I am! Texas expat. ;)

[@luislopez3963]

Thanks Veronica , Stay Safe

[@xKrispyx]

You can also plant the suckers you pop off. More often than not they will root extremely well and you'll have a second plant identical to the original!

[@VeronicaFlores]

It's a good call! I just tend not to as I usually have more seedlings than space for them.

[@leveltwonz]

Love your videos! So natural in front of camera and great knowledge :)

[@tactrix1h]

This is a good video about how to top your plants, remember whenever you cut a piece of a plant it's going to tell it to bush out to cover that piece and as a result you'll have more energy going elsewhere. Topping plants properly is the literal difference between getting a kind of crappy harvest with very bad fruits, or a huge amount with super healthy fruits. She's absolutely right about cutting the bottom, the bottoms of plants don't generally take in enough sunlight to be good so once your plant gets a few feet up lollipop it and make sure it's nice and empty at the bottom, than have a lot of clean stems(aka get rid of the suckers). A good way to keep your plants from burning up in the sun and not to over pruning is to try and keep some of the bigger leaves especially the outside ones, they take in the most sun and also provide the most shade. As a rule of thumb though if you see little branches that really aren't going anywhere in the middle cut them off and divert your energy to the fruits.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Yes exactly- suckering is different than topping, as the plant will continue to grow up rather than out. But diverting energy to where a plant needs it is so key to a good harvest, for sure. :)

[@tactrix1h]

Your plants look so happy, they're gonna taste amazing :)

[@Dudleymiddleton]

I'm one of those that absolutely hate the smell and taste of normal fresh toms, but utterly love the tinned plum tomatoes, there is such adifferent taste, but that's life we're all different! :)

[@VeronicaFlores]

I can't eat too many fresh, as they make my mouth itch. But I cook with them a lot, so I love growing them!

[@ToddLarsen]

I hadn't thought about the lower leaves in such a way, you make an excellent point and i completely agree with you and shall do the same in my garden to help with keeping the lower canapy clear. I also prune the suckers on my indeterminent tomatoes but usually label them wrong and prune the wrong ones and wind up with a dozen maters or less lol Thanks for sharing and as always Keep Building👍

[@michaelwilson1960]

As usual, great tips! Thx Veronica!

[@VeronicaFlores]

Thank you!

[@MidiPunk]

Hope you and family are well. House next to mine has been vacant for 12 years, infested with raccoons. They are protected game animals and living outside of city limits so there is no recourse. I still enjoy watching for ideas aside from carrying buckets in every night.

[@sapbuckets]

I've had production tomato growers tell me that once the plant starts to set fruit, you want to prune away all foliage and small stems that start under the fruit, leaving just the main stems. This is to start directing the plant's energy into tomato production instead of leaf and stem production. As the season progresses and more fruit sets higher up and you harvest what's down low, you will progressively prune further up the stem to keep the plant in fruit production mode.

[@VeronicaFlores]

This is pretty much what I'll transition into later in the season as well. Keeps pests down too!

[@bobgunner3086]

That's what Curtis Stone does. He has huge thick stems a few feet tall with nothing on them. Then foliage and a bunch of tomatoes.

[@alexb4251]

What does your T-shirt say?

[@johndegrinney1651]

Very informative. Great job!

[@royhoco5748]

suckers make good rooting candidates. I cut suckers late in the tomato growing season, put them in a container of water until they root, then plant them in soil and move them in the green house for the winter. I currently have 5 ft tall tomato plants with numerous small green tomatoes in the greenhouse. these were g rown from suckers I cut in Oct. 2019. I will plant these in the garden on April 10, 2020.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Awesome! I may do some backups like that this year. 🙂

[@brianscott4444]

Great info! I sucker my tomato plants, and I believe that it's beneficial for me here in NJ. Thanks for the video!

[@thefly7123]

Thank you for your videos, they are very good, I was wondering if you could give me a quick tip for my frozen beef tomato plant, this morning (after a terrible night of 0 Degrees Celsius in Uk, it looks Dark around the center of the plant and a bit low everything, it has its first flower, I was so happy with it until this morning, she was the queen of my garden. thank you very much in advance,

[@GardeningwithBarchuckin]

Do you ever plant the suckers you cut off?

[@harryporter3531]

Hard to focus on the information coming from such a sweetheart of a teacher. 😍

[@rafiki270]

I actually propagate most of my decent suckers and get loads of smaller tomato plants that fruit just amazing ... just leave them in a jar of water for a week in a greenhouse and you good

[@sunsittech152]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge in pruning of tomatoes, from Philippines

[@donaldash3942]

Your videos are so informative. I have watched seven so far today.

[@lethaljam96]

Spankin your salami roll huh?

[@MikeKincaid79]

Hey Veronica, someone just told me that our 2 channels are their favorite so I had to come over an check you out. Love the videos, just subscribed. Keep up the great work!

[@shammyone]

Hey! I will add my vote for two favorite channels!

[@haiderkhan4776]

Seeing your agricultural techniques we started agriculture.

[@carlosmauriciovelasquez8087]

Veronica ., Great information like your video.

[@carlosmauriciovelasquez8087]

Hi Veronica., Soon I will post pictures of my Tomatoes raised garden bed. I'm following your advice.

[@timsheteron7903]

I wished I started training my tomato plants earlier because there are vines everywhere. Next year I promise I will do better training and more pruning. Thanks for all the tips Veronica.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Hahaha you and me both this year 😂 I've been trying to rope them to the fence but they've been uncooperative. Thanks for joining! 🙂

[@rnatodna]

Suckers are a great way to clone a plant, but my true fanaticism takes me to the edge, and I start from seed. Every subsequent generation different then the last.... P.S. You look great!

[@VeronicaFlores]

Yeah I think starting from seed is the best way to go about it as well. I'm looking for as much expression of genetic diversity as I can get with most crops! Clones don't really facilitate that.

[@btesh69]

I've started a garden this year with some big boys and super sweet 100,s and wow the're over 8 feet tall within four weeks. Removing suckers, pruning the lower branches and controlling pests is what worked out for me. Love the vid keep up the good work.

[@fletchadam]

Hey Veronica, we call them “laterals” down this way. Great to trim them out. Thanks for the fab instructional video. Go well and have a great crop :)

[@BlueSkyBonsai]

Thank you! A great tomato video :) Regards from Madrid

[@wipeoutxl21]

pro tip: stick suckers in a glass of water and they will grow roots. Then plant them in a new spot for a clone copy of the plant you took it from. Doubles my plants this year doing this.

[@carlossumtino40]

Hi, I enjoy all your nice videos and I want to setup a backyard vegetable garden. Can 6inch layer of woodchips suppress weeds and prevent them to regrow?

[@VeronicaFlores]

It will for sure help! Check out no dig gardening on here - Charles Dowding is one of my favorites.

[@mangaymambol]

I just found your channel i fell in love with the content thank you from argentina!!

[@VeronicaFlores]

Thanks for joining! 🙂

[@sweetvuvuzela4634]

Thanks aunty love your tomato

[@valis14]

Wow, this is two years. Who would've thought. Way before Big Sur.

[@crudemood]

Best explanation of all the video's I've watched. Thanks!

[@johndoe-il7ju]

Pruning seems harsh, but it can be a useful tool in some cases. Good description for tomatoes. Saw your BIL talk. Some of your points reminded me of parts of John and Yoko's song “Born in a Prison”. Yoko is active Twitter. Your approach to garden shows the real soul of an artist, with humor always exploring, wondering, creating and moving forward. Knowing “well that didn't work” will be part of it. I've been organic farming /gardening for 40 yrs and its a fascinating ever changing giant sculpture of land and plant and light and water and life. Keep the videos coming, people want and need to know these things and you communicate them well.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Thank you!

[@napalmradio]

Audio sounded fine! Great video as always.

[@lampcollector5315]

Plants look good and you toooooooooo

[@hollyamero6339]

Can you do a video on pruning peppers? Do you prune peppers beyond pruning the seedlings? Thx. I love your videos they are easy to understand and obvious your having fun.♡

[@VeronicaFlores]

The seedlings is the most important time for me, but I'll do one later in the season to show what I'm talking about when I say "prune after harvest." :)

[@Nora4972]

Great video as always, Veronica. BTW, I followed your advice on pruning peppers. I've got about 60 hot pepper plants (15 varieties from around the world) and they all look great.

[@stevengordon9365]

Loving your work!!!!

[@SnapShotHotshot]

Do you think the plant naturally grows the suckers to protect it's "produce" from larger creatures and birds that would enjoy eating them?

[@VeronicaFlores]

Possibly! Especially since they'd naturally ramble across the ground... but then again, nothing about the tomatoes we know and love is "natural"- it's all careful selection over the last few centuries. :)

[@erik3260]

thank you for the tips i havent really taken a chance to take care of my tomatoes

[@travdaddy-wh4wp]

Great video! Thanks for the teachings!

[@dennisneuhaus2607]

Sorry to ask a question here in a 3 year old post. Brandywine Pink Tomato plants have a fragile stem for me. They are [indiscriminate] plants so they grow tall. I am wondering what I am missing here. My plants are 18 - 24" with a few leaves. They grow this way in my garden and produce the best plate tomatoes. How can I slow them down as pre-season plants?

[@VeronicaFlores]

You could lop off the top node but that would just push more suckers overall I think - some indeterminate plants don't need as much pruning and guidance as others, so if something works for you? Keep doing it 🙂

[@ChadKovac]

All of the gardening tips are needed. All of them. Thanks! :)

[@VeronicaFlores]

MOAR!!! 😂

[@staygreengrowon2984]

Looking good stay green grow on

[@kevindecoteau3186]

cut those suckers! This is my first year in a long time have a garden, about 30 years, great info here, thank you

[@Genxgoat]

Great info. 😎

[@SAGAWISIW30]

I like your dark tomatoes😍😍

[@usc529]

Hey love the cattle panels. Have you ever put root hormone on the suckers and planted them ? It’s works

[@VeronicaFlores]

Have! Just usually don't have space.

[@usc529]

@@VeronicaFlores yes space forgot about that lol hope you have a great gardening season. Im just now getting back into it

[@lewis8422]

Just want to say your really intelligent ive learnt alot from you but you being as stunning as you are really stops me from listening alot of the time

[@johnc5872]

So what if I don't really know what Tomatoes I'm growing as far as if they are determinate or Indeterminate one? Can I still cut the sucker's?

[@ewellacres]

I love taking my cutting and turning them into clones. That way I continue to get new plants faster and dont have to start from seed.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Yeah I'll occasionally do this to some extent, but I do worry about having too much of the same gene pool at once.

[@simonmarius5044]

You genuinely enjoy gardening, nice

[@Tradekraft]

If you prune a large sucker like that one, can you root it to be a new plant? (I'm new at this)

[@VeronicaFlores]

Totally can give it a shot!

[@stillaliveandwell5291]

I have a Cherokee Purple heirloom which makes normal suckers but also splits the stem exactly in two as it grows. It also produces a stem/sucker (?) about an inch above where a normal sucker would be and greater than 45 degree angle. I got a very late start so I'm not pruning anything that's not a normal sucker (and bottom foliage), but after removing the first set of blossoms because of the late start I now have 30-40 blossoms beginning to set about 6 tomatoes on 4-5 branches. Should I get rid of anything-blossoms, stems? I'm in a 15 gallon container (and it's crowded because the plant is in here too) :) so not sure if I want to cut some of these main stems or whatever they are that are as thick as the stem but they can't all be stems. Signed, confused but not worried. For worry I got pickle worms destroying container squash plants thanks to late start as well. But I'm killing it with 15 okra plants in containers some Clemson spineless donations and some dwarf long pod. Which is all I wanted anyway, but good succotash is hard to find. Sorry this ran long.Everything organic. It's all on the front porch and the whole neighborhood thinks I'm crazy but I know I am. There is a big difference.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Always good to keep people thinking you're crazy. ;) I would let it ride or you might not get tomatoes before the season is over- how many days do you have left until frost? If it's branching well and you don't see any issues with development yet, then just keep an eye on it and try and keep foliage trimmed away from the splash zone if at all possible. I let mine ride after the first few rounds of pruning suckers etc. I think the extra foliage up top helps to shade the fruit from sun scald here. YMMV, but... I'll chop it all back a bit in a few weeks to ripen up what's left as it starts to cool again. It all comes down to how much time you have left to play with.

[@stillaliveandwell5291]

That was (is) some pretty good advice considering you could not see the plant. I ended up trimming down to 5 major branches before I got your reply, but as you suggested I let the rest go. I have until at least mid October, in Atlanta you never know, could be mid Nov. I am loaded up with tomatoes, none are close to ripe but this is an 80-90 day to harvest variety so if I count from when I buried 2/3 of the plant I still have a couple of weeks before that time period. This is not a foliage-centric plant, but it also does not get enough sun to scald about 6-7 hours. It's about 4 feet tall now. I'm not up to speed on making videos but I did post a short one today with the tomato plant and my 14 or so container Okra plants that are doing well considering the late start, (Okra for dinner tonight!). If you have a chance to look I would appreciate the feedback although I know this is a busy time. The squirrel video I posted is hilarious, this guy belongs in Cirque du Soleil, but on this occasion he went home empty handed despite his acrobatic skills and multiple attempts. Jim

[@tombombadil8174]

Great video!

[@petersmith2tv142]

Really nice tips! now i know how to Prune my tomato plants! Thank you very much :D

[@moonasha]

gonna go do this to my tomatoes tomorrow... didn't know about suckers :X

[@kan-zee]

Same here. lol happy gardening

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

moonasha Did my indoor 2 days ago. They loved it!!

[@marcorafael312]

I love to grow peppers i always get a lot every season. This past year i decided to plant Tomatoes. Everything went well until i started to get fruit. What happened? Chipmunks eat all the tomatoes. What do you recommend to prevent this from happening again? I noticed that you don't have any type of protection around those plants. I live in NJ, so Chipmunks and Deer are very common to see

[@VeronicaFlores]

These were fenced, but still get munched by squirrels and chickens. Fencing / netting are your best bets.

[@loganjohnson1046]

Wow. Love your videos.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Thank you! 🙂

[@gardenfever4139]

Great video good job .👍

[@jeronimomod156]

Did I miss something.? Are those purple tomatoes 😍 and where do I get these seeds!!!¡!!!!

[@doobs930069]

My Grandfather taught me about suckers but i had no idea about the blight from low leaves. My Grandfather also taught me to bury about a foot of the plant sideways and water the whole length, Have you tried this? Great video, maybe show off your whole garden next video?

[@VeronicaFlores]

I bury deep rather than sideways, but both methods work well!

[@ReaghNetwork]

Fantastic

[@EddyFeyen]

So maybe stupid question but would it also be possible to prune Black Cherry tomatoes as you dit with the peppers?

[@VeronicaFlores]

I wouldn't, but you could always try if you're looking for a certain shape. (You'll likely get more from suckering than topping in this case though)

[@EddyFeyen]

@@VeronicaFlores Well we will see i did one. :-)

[@mvblitzyo]

That was great information thank you so much

[@acs197]

Another great vid. I started my tomatoes too early this spring. My beefmasters are getting too big for the indoor lighting set up I have, haha.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Haha I literally just planted my seeds last week so they're like an inch tall. It's been too cold! And honestly, they always seem to somehow catch up. 🙂

[@acs197]

@@VeronicaFlores I was a bit too eager to get the seeds started this year. The year before, I gardened for the first time in years (due to me living in apartments with no garden space). I bought seedlings last year from a local Amish greenhouse. Very affordable. I recommend people in Pennsylvania, Ohio & Indiana go to the Amish greenhouses for fantastic and very reasonably priced plants.

[@VeronicaFlores]

Great suggestion! I bet they grow some pretty amazing plants. 🙂

[@MayapanRanch]

so in the case of what that did not get started up the trellis, can you just take some plastic ties and tie them up? does the plastic wearing against the stem hurt the plant?

[@VeronicaFlores]

I use fabric- usually ripped up t-shirt or socks

[@SachinGuptaonline]

I am very novice with farming and pruning..so apologies if I am missing obvious.. but just curious... yesterday I saw your video on pepper pruning which appears we wanted to make the plant grow bushy to get more fruit.. and tomatoes we we are pruning to make it grow taller and reduce the bushy growth.. Is that because the suckers on tomato plant don't give much fruit? Thanks in advance.

[@jeep4ron]

Common sense..... love your channel.. And you garden..Thanks for sharing. Have a great day..where are you located?

[@VeronicaFlores]

Central coast, California

[@jeep4ron]

Oh cool.. I’m in Northern California....

[@brucesaxton3625]

Hi Veronica, My 3 tomato plants provide lots of good fruit. It is now August 2020 and there are no more tomatoes However, the plants are still growing and very robust. Will there be a second fruiting or are they done for the year? Thanks Bruce