which will give me a better harvest?

Carriehelene · April 14, 2020

Hi all! Its been several years since I've been on here. I'm in a new house now, which is great. The soil however, is not. At all. I mean really unworkably terrible. I'm talking subsoil bad.
So I've found myself in the brand new to me position of raised bed gardening. I've also gone from basically unlimited space to plant as many as my crazy brain wanted, to very limited space. I've constructed 5 6x6 beds, 1 of which will be tomatoes.
Now before, i just planted and let those babies grow as much as they wanted. So my question now is, to maximize production, do I want to just plant 6 in the bed and let them do what they will, or should I tight plant and prune to just 1 leader?

April 14, 2020	#1
Carriehelene Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 300	which will give me a better harvest? Hi all! Its been several years since I've been on here. I'm in a new house now, which is great. The soil however, is not. At all. I mean really unworkably terrible. I'm talking subsoil bad. So I've found myself in the brand new to me position of raised bed gardening. I've also gone from basically unlimited space to plant as many as my crazy brain wanted, to very limited space. I've constructed 5 6x6 beds, 1 of which will be tomatoes. Now before, i just planted and let those babies grow as much as they wanted. So my question now is, to maximize production, do I want to just plant 6 in the bed and let them do what they will, or should I tight plant and prune to just 1 leader?