So do it right

Recognize stingy instincts and purposefully remove them - that's how it works

The aim of every tomato plant is to branch expansively and consist of a multitude of blossoms to develop a multitude of fruits with seeds. The plant invests all of its energy in this propagation strategy. It takes tenacious and consistent intervention to achieve that growth to steer a plant in the direction of opulent fruits. This countermeasure succeeds by breaking out superfluous side shoots, the stingy shoots. How to do it:

• Find small side shoots in the leaf axils
• From a height of 3-5 centimeters, pinch with two fingers
• Hold larger specimens between thumb and forefinger and move them back and forth until they break out
• never pull on it without kinking it and causing large wound areas
• the exhausted Leave plant parts on the ground as Mulch

Since every wound, no matter how small, on tomato plants carries the risk of infection

Late blight conceals, she is immediately with Rock flour(€ 12.33 at Amazon *) or wood ash dusted. If an urge to be stingy grows too high, it will not be broken out completely. In this case, only remove the tip of the shoot in order to prevent further energy depletion at this point.

Do not allow competitive instincts

It is not just the sterile stinging shoots that rob a tomato plant of its strength. Constantly competing instincts to the main instinct want to shoot up out of the ground. It is therefore advisable to look out for them every time you skim. All shoots below the lowest umbel are also broken out. A tomato plant with one or two main shoots yields earlier ones To harvest, larger fruits and is much more vital.

Tips & Tricks

So that the stately tomatoes taste even better, they are sprinkled with garlic broth every 2 weeks poured. To do this, puree two cloves of garlic and let them steep in 10 liters of water for 24 hours.