Pull them suckers from the crotch….

If you thought the title had anything to do with anything other than pruning tomatoes then your mind must be in the gutter. Removing “suckers from the crotch” is a pruning technique for tomato plants that can help grow more fruit and less plant.

First off – What is a “sucker“? A sucker is a growth that occurs in the crotch (area between the stem and branch). Why remove the sucker from the crotch? The theory is that the tomato plant pulls nutrients from the ground to grow and you want more tomato’s rather than suckers. You see, suckers bear no fruit so if you pull them off the nutrients that would have been used to grow them will go to the rest of the plant – including fruit.

The first few years of gardening I knew nothing of the “suckers”. One day my neighbor and I were talking about our gardens and he asked me if I have been keeping up with the suckers. I looked at him puzzled and asked what he was talking about. He educated me. Ever since I or my wife will go out and remove the suckers while they are small.

In the years since doing this I have seen tomato plants grow larger and have had better success with the tomatoes in general.

So – do you pull the suckers from the crotch?

Rourke 

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