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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Tomato Pruning Explained Once and For All

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

To prune tomato suckers or not to prune...that is the question. Today Craig demystifies the confusing world of pruning tomatoes. Learn More:  Craig's Website The Dwarf Tomato Project Buy Craig's Book, Epic Tomatoe email Craig! Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

0:15.6

We are continuing on with the best of weeks here on the podcast.

0:20.2

Hope you enjoy.

0:21.5

Hello again everyone, welcome back to the podcast.

0:26.3

Today we are talking tomato pruning strategies with Craig LaHoolier of Epic Tomatoes, his

0:32.6

book, his big book and also known as the NC Tomato Man.

0:36.4

Now pruning strategies for tomatoes, we always talk about the suckers, should you take them

0:40.2

off, should you take some off, should you not take any off, what would be the difference

0:43.9

between all of those strategies as well as pruning for indeterminate tomatoes and pruning

0:48.7

for determined tomatoes.

0:50.1

And so there's a lot to chew on there and I think that if there's anyone that's going

0:55.0

to answer that question for us and answer it thoroughly in a way that we can take that

0:58.7

knowledge and apply it in the future, it's going to be Craig.

1:01.5

So let's go ahead and get into the episode.

1:05.7

Okay, we are now talking about tomato pruning strategies which I think is probably going

1:12.3

to be one of the most popular topics because there's so much I think not necessarily misinformation

1:17.4

but confusion about do you take the suckers off, do you leave them on, how many would you

1:22.2

leave on, how many stems on a tomato plant do you want to have, what are you growing?

1:26.4

So do you justify this for us, teach us a little bit about what you would do to get

1:31.2

some epic tomatoes.

1:32.2

Great.

1:33.2

And one of the things I'll mention is I've actually done a few quicky little videos where I've

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