Tomato pruning isn’t always necessary. However, careful pruning can produce higher yields, provide sun protection and prevent disease.
Before pulling out your pruning shears, it’s important to know the type of tomato: indeterminate or determinate. Indeterminate tomatoes produce vines that continue to grow and produce fruit throughout the growing season. Determinate tomatoes, or bush tomatoes, stop growing when they set fruit.
Most tomato plants are indeterminate, and those are the ones to prune. For information on tomato pruning, see Tomato Pruning.
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