| When you think about pruning tomatoes, you have | | | | You can pinch back some of the new growth, but let |
| to figure there are three different strategies based | | | | some of them grow out. Keep pulling unnecessary |
| on where in the growing season you are. There will | | | | leaves off, but be aware that this is the hot time of |
| be different tomato gardening tips to use with the | | | | the summer and the ground and the tomatoes need |
| ultimate goal being avoiding overgrown tomato plants. | | | | the shade the leaf provides. Your goal is to still |
| Everyone has their own opinion about this, so reading | | | | channel the nutrients to the tomatoes and not the |
| more tomato gardening problems and how to solve | | | | foliage. |
| them will be a good plan. This article talks about the | | | | Eventually, there is nothing you can do, you can |
| issues based on personal experience, not the | | | | officially be classified as having overgrown tomato |
| textbook version. | | | | plants. You officially have tomato gardening problems! |
| At first when the young plants are growing, your | | | | One of the better pruning tomato tips for this |
| pruning tomatoes activities center on the new leaves | | | | situation is to calculate how much time is left in the |
| and new growth shoots that appear between the | | | | growing season. Usually it is well into August when |
| leaves and the main stem. You only want one main | | | | you get to this point, so look ahead. Once the |
| trunk and that can grow to be large and sturdy by | | | | average date for the first frost is about 30 days |
| snipping off the lowest leaves on the vine. By | | | | away, you can start cutting off all the new growth, |
| eliminating the side shoots, all the energy goes to the | | | | and flowers, a lot of the leaves and let the tomatoes |
| new tomatoes and lets them grow larger. Once the | | | | already started mature. |
| tomato plant gets tall enough, about the height of | | | | Do the best you can for as long as you can is some |
| the stake, things start to change. | | | | of the most practical tomatoes gardening tips and |
| Tomato plants at this size become more difficult to | | | | advice there is when dealing with overgrown tomato |
| keep up. What you will do is turn things around and | | | | plants. You could really apply that advice to other |
| let the new shoots form and cut off new growth at | | | | tomato gardening problems like your fungus and pest |
| the top. With this tomato gardening tip you keep the | | | | issues, too. Everyone really needs to think about |
| same principal, but in reverse. You will get a bushier | | | | being sure not to overdo it by putting in more plants |
| plant, but it will not outgrow your stakes or cage. | | | | than you need in the spring! |