Tomatoes are the most confusing plants to grow so follow these 8 hacks!🍅#garden #plants #tomato

Tomatoes are the most confusing plant to grow in the garden. Here's my 8 hacks that make it easy. Hack number 1 is pick the right tomato. Determinate tomatoes if you want to can and preserve, indeterminate tomatoes if you want some tomatoes every single week of the season. Number 2, swap your tomato cages for a trellis because these things get huge. Number 3, tomatoes love sandy loam soil. I'll give you my full recipe in the caption. Plant more tomatoes in less space. 2 on a panel, 3 on an obelisk trellis, or on an arch. Number 5: Prune your tomatoes to a single stem at the base and water deeply every week. Number 6: Don't prune the suckers. Let me show you why. This is the main stem. This is the sucker, and look at this sucker—it's producing flowers and eventually fruit. I like more fruit, don't you? Number 7: Harvest your tomatoes at the first sign of blushing so you get it before the wildlife, and never let ripe tomatoes stay on the vine. Number 8: When you're 1.5 months from your first frost, go to the top of every single stem and top it off. This will put all the energy into finishing off the fruit that's already formed.