What to do wiht suckers

Yes, I knew about that, and do it in my garden too. What a great way to get more plants! I also get a lot of volunteers from the previous years cherry tomatoes, so I never use their suckers for new plants because so many of them already pop up on their own. (I just move them to a better, more organized, plot so they're not everywhere lol) I also do the same thing with my roses when I prune them back in the spring...everything I prune off gets a little Rootone hormone on the cut end and it gets stuck in the dirt in this one area of my garden. I now have scads of climbing roses going up my one fence lol. Isn't it fun learning new tricks like that with the suckers and all?! Talk about frugal gardening, that's a good tip you gave for all that don't know!

i know that.as a Chinese saying "you plant flowers they may not to bloom,but when you get a osier on the earth it will grow up a tree".

good rule of thumb, plant 80% of the plant undergroung that will give you an outstanding root system and many more of the tasty red treats. another good idea is to take a 3 pound used coffee can burry it between 4 tom's and fill it with cow manure i.50 at home depot and water those plant thru the can containing the manure. also if there's a fisherman in the house burry the gut's and such around the tom's for better nitrated soil. i live in sw florida which is mostly alllll sand and i have been getting tom's off my plants since january thats 3 months worth of tom's and the plants are still producing. 80% under the ground dont let any leave touch the soil because the white flies just love them, at least here and jersey.

I never removed them, but then I used to live in Saskatoon and the season was so short we were lucky to get tomatoes that ripen. But I do remember that here in Winnipeg, for some reason we started to grow tomato plants in our compost. Of course they never reached tomato stage, but they were from the seeds that were thrown away after cutting them up. I tried to grow tomatoes here but we were more worried about the cutworms rather then whether the tomatoes suckers were draining off the life from them.

We just ordered some tomato plants and got them a couple days ago. We just planted the seeds and I guess it takes a while. Hopefully they start to grow soon. I'm not sure what suckers are but if I notice anything on our plant I'll let you know.

Whether to prune your tomato plants suckers or not depends on you and which variety of tomato you are growing. Determinant tomatoes grow up produce fruit and ripen that fruit all at once and pruning the suckers will reduce your yield. Indeterminate tomatoes will keep on growing until frost stops them so pruning the suckers off them would not necessarily reduce yield because it would encourage more growth. However at some time you need to stop that growth and have a lot of small, green tomatoes except keep the soil evenly moist. Well I had the same query some time back and this is the knowledge I got at that time ...... just passing on to you. Hope it helps.

I never knew another plant would grow like that from the sucker, Thats some sucker you got there. I have pinched off the suckers before. My tomato plants have always done really good whether I got the suckers off or didn't. Its still too early to plant where I live, hopefully in a coupld of weeks. We usually have to wait until around Mother's day before its safe to plant outside. Good luck with the Tomato plants, home grown tomatoes are the best.