Describing how to prune a tomato plant using the written word is a very difficult thing to do, so instead I have provided you with this video courtesy of YouTube. This particular video has a very good rating and demonstrates what is required to ensure lots of fruit by removing unwanted growth from the tomato plant.
Why do you prune tomato plants
You will discover while watching this video that pruning tomato plants really isn’t that difficult, the main thing is to make sure that you don’t cut off any growth that has a blossom or fruit on it, unless of course you are at the end of the season and want to ripen any fruit you have left that is still green. There is also a pretty good explanation to the question ‘why do you prune tomato plants?’
this is funny…not 2 hours ago, we had salad with what was called”heritage: tomatoes, which are large and the deep almost purple color. They seem healthy, but my conversation at dinner was about that I thought the tomatoes were bland and not too tasty. Gee, then I read about overwatering, and lo and behold, I sure have overwatered thinking more is better. Good to do a little reading up on the matter. thanks, Rita
Glad to be of help, the poor taste is possibly due to over watering but also choosing the tastiest varieties or actually just a preferred variety will also be necessary. There are lots of different types of tomato to choose from so you may need to experiment to find one you really like. Have a look at https://myhomegrowntomatoes.com/tastiest-tomatoes-for-2010/ for some ideas.
I’m not sure that pruning suckers off tomato plants will actually give you more tomatoes. I’d like to see someone do a test with all the variables being the same. One thing that pruning tomatoes will do is improve airflow around the plants, which is a good thing.
I believe that is the objective, to improve air flow and get rid of excess foliage.