Pruning (getting easier ever year).

In my pruning research, I found out that you should only prune indeterminate tomato varieties.  I couldn’t find a decent plant type chart online (and apparently I have nothing better to do at 1am), so I ended up putting one together and thought I’d share. 

View/Download the most up-to-date pdf here!

I pruned my plants.  You should too.

Pruning is good because it directs all the plants energy to growing the healthy and productive parts instead of trying to fix damaged and unproductive parts.  

Every week or so I snip off any damaged leaves, blossoms that didn’t get pollinated, and any leaves that start to grow at the base of the plant (those leaves are inefficient sun gatherers and won’t lead to any fruit).