How to Prune & TrellisTomato Plants for a BIGGER HARVEST

I am from the St. Louis, Missouri area. Have been growing tomatoes for over 50 years and have been listening to you for several years now and have had great harvests every year doing everything you advise. My young grandchildren have a fantastic time in my garden, picking tomatoes and popping them into their mouths. My daughter in law no longer grows tomatoes as the kids just want to come to PaPa's house for their tomatoes.

Your shows are absolutely the best. I have been using your method: trellis, string, pruning for the last three years and my end result has been three fold better than my previous experiences, mostly because I used to get blight every year. Since I’ve started using the trellis and pruning, my blight issues have been almost non existent. I thank you, and, my husband thanks you. I think I’m much easier to live with when my tomatoes do well. Ha, ha.

I'm from Romania 😊 I've been watching your videos for a while now. I recommend that when you pinch the tomatoes, it's better if you cut them and leave a little bit of the sucker's stem. This way it's less likely that they will regrow in the same place again ☺️

I was growing a cherry tomato for three years. It did not stop producing sweet tomatoes all the time. North San Diego County.

Virginia 7a - pruning is mandatory with our hot, humid & wet weather. I’m finding my garden does better with disease resistant hybrids. By August I’m pulling heirlooms out but the hybrids go until October.

I live in Florida, After watching your channel I started growing tomatoes again and I am pruning my tomatoes. and thank you so much.

Excellent advice! Been growing in a hi tunnel for years. 300 plants yielding 10-11,000 lbs a year, part time. Plant them deep at 45° angle onto tomato hooks so they can sweep up from the ground. They average about 16 feet long at seasons end. Some china clay mixed into some water and sprayed on to the entire plant to prevent summer scald. Sunscreen for tomatoes! Cheers

I'm from east-central Alberta, Canada and our zone is 2a to 2b. I prune and trellis. I'm hoping you are still selling your tomato hooks and PLEASE, start shipping to Canada. You have a lot of fans up here. Love watching your videos, learned so much, thank you.

I'm a 1st time gardener in zone 10a California. Thank you for the tips!

Prince Edward Island! Haven't gardened in years and trying to do it right this time. Growing tomatoes in raised beds. Wish me luck!

NE Washington State. I prune mine. I never used to, but after watching your highly popular video about tomatoes, I started pruning, and was rewarded with the best crop I've ever grown. So thanks!

For those of us in really hot climates, a shade cloth is essential.

I woke up this morning and went out to check my tomatoes and peas, and found a ton of mushrooms growing in a couple of my planters. Would it be possible for you to do a show about this and offer advice if they're not good for my tomatoe plants? I have been watching you for a yr or so and you have given me a lot of good advice and I enjoy watching your show, so I trust any input you may have

I am in Vancouver, British Columbia. I have been growing tomatoes for 20 years. I have always pruned. Last year was my best tomato producing year. Was also a very dry hot summer.

Hi im from SA and just started pruning. Love your videos👍

I am from Yakima Washington I live a few hundred miles from Seattle Washington yes I prune my tomatoes 😊

Zone 8a Timpson, Texas. This is my second year using your trellis and hooks. I have San Marzano's in the bed this year.

Thank you for this! I have wanted to do the string thing for a few years, but was confused by what to do with the vine at the bottom as we lower the string. I even bought the clips through your site last year, but didn't use them because I was so unsure of the method. When I watched your video about moving the clip forward each time, I could envision myself goofing it up and ending up with a worse mess than just trying to manage with very tall tomato cages like I always have. I'm nearly 80 and it takes me longer to grasp some things than it used to. NOW I can see how to do it and what to expect. I'm heading out to the back yard right now to set up the trellis and get going.

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I am in Southern Ontario, Canada. I stopped growing determinate tomatoes. They take too much room in my small garden. This year, I have raised seedlings from seeds for indeterminate tomatoes: cocktail-sized tomatoes, grape tomatoes and heirloom Chocolate Cherry (I have been saving the seeds each year, for many years). I used to use a nylon netting as trellis, but the wild rabbits chewed through it in a few places. Any kind of cotton or nylon string gets destroyed by the Robbins. They rip it to strands and use them as a nest building material. Now I have a metal grid trellis, similar to cattle panel. But since cattle panel is unavailable in Canada, I use the stuff that is used for reinforcing concrete. It rusts, but it will probably outlast me. And yes, I prune my tomatoes plants to keep them to 1 - 2 leads. I love my indeterminate tomatoes because they produce tomatoes gradually, as the plant grows, which means I can pick them every 2 days for about 6 weeks and eat them fresh. Just before the first frost, I pick all full-sized green tomatoes and let them ripen in my kitchen at room temperature. We enjoy them until Christmas.