STOP REMOVING TOMATO SUCKERS!!! It’s Killing Your Tomato Plants

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On this video, I share the biggest pruning mistake gardeners make when pruning tomato plants: removing suckers. Removing tomato suckers has become trendy, but tomato sucker removal reduces productivity, stresses plants, encourages plant diseases and can damage your crop. Please, stop removing tomato suckers, it’s killing your tomato plants!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 The Tomato Pruning Epidemic
1:04 NEVER Prune Determinate Tomatoes!
2:51 NEVER Prune Semi-Determinate Tomatoes!
3:48 NEVER Prune Dwarf Tomatoes!
4:15 Incredible Tomato Production
5:16 Pruning Indeterminate Tomato Plants
7:00 Why Sucker Removal Ruins Harvests
10:14 How Pruning Tomatoes Promotes Disease
11:25 Pinching Tomato Suckers
12:13 Stop Single Stemming Tomatoes
16:13 Why Backyard Gardeners Should Prune Less
17:10 4 Reasons to Prune Tomatoes
20:29 Tomato Growing Tips
22:12 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about pruning tomatoes, how to grow tomatoes, growing a vegetable garden at home, how to grow fruit trees or the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please leave a comment!

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