Tomato pruning question?

[kath]

Originally Posted by Tworivers1

Thanks for the link Kathi. I'm trying to figure out how many plants I can grow in a 4' x 24' raised bed and and I think I'll cordon it off in three parts and try growing one are with 1 stem, another with 2-3 and just let them grow in the last area.

If you are growing the same varieties in each of the sections, that will allow you to compare how they do as to yield, tomato size, disease resistance, etc. based on the different pruning. I'm assuming you will have the plants further apart the less pruned they are, right?

If you are planting different tomatoes in each section, as in one plant of each variety, you might want to research and see which plants do better pruned vs. unpruned before you decide which section to plant them in.

[Tworivers1]

Correct. I will space them according to how much I prune them and try to spread out the varities. I'm going to try to grow them up through horizonal trellises. I just have so many different varities I want to grow that in the past I have bunched them too close together.