Training tomato plants

This season in the garden, we’re all about growing vertically. I’ve shared how we’re keeping our raspberries upright. Today, I’m talking tomatoes. I love training my tomatoe…

Christan on Instagram: "Get rid of those suckers…but don’t throw them out! Make yourself another plant! These young tomato plants can be big producers, they just need to be trained to grow the fruit and not more leaves. It’s super easy to take one plant and make it into three or four. #tomatoplant #makeanewplant #plantthatsucker #pruneyourplants #knowyourgarden"

String method of growing tomatoes. Train to grow around a string, and remove lower leaves as it grows.

Tomato pruning mistakes are common but anyone can learn how to prune tomato plants to promote healthy growth and large harvests.

My husband has constructed raised beds for our backyard garden and we use rope to train the tomato plants instead of tomato cages. I have used cages in…

Commercial tomato growers use the string method to train their tomatoes. It takes less space is healthier for the tomato and easy for the home grower too.

Sean Pessarra on Instagram: "This double leader technique encourages indeterminate heirloom or hybrid varieties to focus on fruit production. Using these techniques, I have grown 30 to 50 lbs per plant over the course of 3 months. This technique is perfect for southern growers where tomatoes struggle to make it through the heat or northern growers not using heated greenhouses. You will get a lot more tomatoes in a more condensed period. Then you can follow them with later rounds of heat…

After years of cheap tomato trellises or complicated systems and ties I found the EASIEST way ever to trellis and tie your tomatoes. It takes just minutes and no pruning is required!

Monty Don shows you how to train cordon tomatoes, to ensure a bumper crop of delicious fruits.