You HAVE to prune the suckers if you want MORE tomatoes this summer🍅#garden #plants #tomato

Put in my hand here so you can see this tiny little shoot that's beginning right in between. It's right in the corner of this tomato main stem and this leaf will tell you to prune back the suckers. Pinch that sucker off. Well, not me. So I keep almost all of the suckers on my tomato plants. Instead, I prune the leaf right below the sucker. Here's why these suckers are all going to be fruit producing vines. They create a brand new vine that produces more fruit. Most people want to prune off the suckers so that the fruit on their main stem is bigger. I don't want bigger fruit, I just want more fruit. If I keep the suckers on my plants, then each of these new suckers is going to produce new vines with more fruit. Grow up and over my arch trellis and fill it up with loads and loads of tomatoes, which is exactly what I want. Some people, they like bigger fruit. Me, I like more fruit. More is more bigger my fruit gets, the more likely it is to spoil, to have a pest problem, or to get eaten by a squirrel. So a week I'm going to come to this plant, I'm going to check out the suckers, and then I'm actually going to prune back the leaf right below that sucker and let the sucker take off, create a new leading stem, let it fruit and create more and more tomatoes. Up and over the arch trellis. So that's the way that I grow tomatoes on an arch trellis. Let me know if you have any questions.