On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:41 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:
My parents, who learned their garden ways in the 1930's and 40's,
pinched out all the "suckers" that sprouted between any other two
branches of the stem.
Maybe it was a strongly held bad idea.
Sounds like it. I've been doing it for decades. I have long pruned the bottom eighteen inches, to help protect from disease caused by rain splash from disease-bearing soil up to the leaves. In this year's tomato patch I am not pruning at all and they are lying on the ground. So far no disease in spite of excessive rainfall. That soil has a very high percentage of grass/leaf mulch and that might be why.
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