Outstanding video! This is some incredible information. Quick, and maybe dumb, question: would the discarded branches/suckers be good composting material specifically for the plants from where they came? I have a composite pile, but I’d love the idea of direct composing.
This answer is five years too late, but yes, my understanding is that tomatoes can tolerate their own dead suckers composting underneath them. The only caution I'd give is that, if your toms suffer from a lot of blight or leaf spot, you'd be recycling all those bacteria and spores right into the spots where the tomatoes are growing, which probably isn't good :)
I'm trying for the first time and your video, among a thousand, was very useful to me! A thousand thanks
let the flowers be your guide. the large suckers can be rooted if you want more plants
Thanks great info...love your hat =) cool
Outstanding video! This is some incredible information. Quick, and maybe dumb, question: would the discarded branches/suckers be good composting material specifically for the plants from where they came? I have a composite pile, but I’d love the idea of direct composing.
You could plant the sucker or branch so it becomes a new tomato plant for you.
This answer is five years too late, but yes, my understanding is that tomatoes can tolerate their own dead suckers composting underneath them. The only caution I'd give is that, if your toms suffer from a lot of blight or leaf spot, you'd be recycling all those bacteria and spores right into the spots where the tomatoes are growing, which probably isn't good :)
Why are you not adressing the fact that you're monocropping a large area in lots of plastic? Seems like the bigger issue here.
omg people get yourself scissors from the dollar store
You really need a closer view of the plant. This video is pretty hard to see