As my tomatoes start to recover from their transplanting and look like they're starting to grow new leaves, I have to start thinking about pruning them. Last year I did very little pruning. I trained/tied them up a chainlink fence (which I plan on doing again this year) but I paid no attention to the suckers that everyone says you're supposed to pinch. I suspect this resulted in less than wonderful yields and also made for some big gangly plants.
I decided to do a little more research on the pros and cons of pruning and this is by far the best site I've found describing how and when and where to prune tomatoes: http://www.finegardening.com/how-to/articles/pruning-tomatoes.aspx In particular, I like that they explain to let up to four suckers (the ones right above the first flowers) turn into vines of their own. I plan to try this method this year and report on how it goes.
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