Pinching Tomatoes Is It Worth It

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The age-old debate on tomato pruning is solved once and for all in today's show, or is it? I think you'll find that tomato pruning is more of a personal choice than anything. Connect With Scott Daigre: Scott Daigre is the owner and producer of Tomatomania, the world’s largest tomato seedling sale. Check out Tomatomania Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin Asperger to here.
0:17.1	We are joined again by the one and only Scott Degg, the owner and producer of Tomato Mania,
0:22.2	which is the world's largest tomato seedling sale.
0:25.1	I'm super excited about it.
0:26.2	I'll probably drop a YouTube video on it because it's just a fun moment in the gardening season,
0:31.3	at least here in California.
0:33.6	And if you're not in California, I will export that to you via YouTube.
0:36.5	So stay tuned for that.
0:37.5	But Scott, we talked yesterday.
0:39.5	We got a little wild with the tomato care, supporting all sorts of different interesting
0:44.4	ways and thoughts on that.
0:46.6	But what about some pruning strategies and this whole idea of should I pinch my tomato
0:51.6	or not?
0:53.3	Well, it is, you know, it's the end all be all questions, isn't it?
0:57.1	The one I think that is made the most of in tomato circles and I think people have the,
1:02.0	you know, they have maybe the strongest opinions about, do you pinch her?
1:06.8	Do you know what does that mean, first of all, right?
1:09.7	Let's talk about that.
1:10.6	Because as a tomato grows and we've already said, you know, it grows fast.
1:13.6	You put it in the right place.
1:14.9	Your soils are on point.
1:16.3	You're feeding and watering the way you should be.
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