Yesterday I 'pinched out' the tomato plants. This is the process of removing the tip of each plant so that it can put its energy into forming and ripening the existing fruit, rather than continuing to grow upwards. The advice is to pinch out after 3 trusses of tomatoes have developed, but being greedy I wait until the fourth truss has appeared.
Thursday 23 July 2009
Tomatoes pinched out
Yesterday I 'pinched out' the tomato plants. This is the process of removing the tip of each plant so that it can put its energy into forming and ripening the existing fruit, rather than continuing to grow upwards. The advice is to pinch out after 3 trusses of tomatoes have developed, but being greedy I wait until the fourth truss has appeared.
