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Re: Pruning Tomatoes?

Dot, did you plant determinate or indeterminate varieties.  The determinate
ones will stop growing at a certain point in their life and that will be it.
Topping them off may not encourage more sidegrowth. On indeterminate
varieties, rthey just growing until the frost gets them. Topping might work
there but the side shoots will get long also.

Are you controlling the spread with a cage or trellis or just letting them
fall? Last year's crop here in AZ (not sqft) grew 20 feet high (like the
greenhouse hydrophonic type) but sprawled. I planted them in September 1995
and let the freeeze just before Christmas 1996 take them out. Use can let
them sprawl if you use hay as a mulch so they aren't directly on the ground
but may lose some to turtles and other creatures.

Rich

At 08:59 AM 4/25/97 -0700, Dot Geib wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>        I have another question concerning tomatoes.  I plan to have a few
>tomatoe plants in my SQFT garden, but I'm afraid that they might grow too
>big. Can the growth be controlled without harming the plant by pruning it.
>I thought that maybe I could cut the top off when it reaches the maximum
>height I want and then start to cut back the sides.  Does anyone else do
>this?  I'd appreciate your comments.  Thanks, Dot
>
>Dot Geib
>Pitt Meadows BC Canada
>USDA Zone 7/8
>
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