Aphids on tomato plants are the bane of many a gardener’s existence. While these tiny bugs may look fairly innocuous, tomato ...

Whether you're planting your first garden or regrouping after last year's harvest, be sure to understand the difference ...

I don’t care how you prune your tomato plants. But if you prune them, the suckers present an interesting opportunity. New plants. One more weird thing about tomato plants is that they can create ...

Entire plants may begin to die — but it is possible to start new tomato plants from cuttings/suckers to produce a fall crop. On tomatoes, suckers are found in the axil of the stems.

Some of these “suckers” are like perfect miniature plants. Seems a pity to toss them on the compost. Can anything be done with them? A. Tomato suckers sturdy enough to handle easily can be ...

Leaving these leaves in place will make your tomato plant vulnerable and may simply look messy. You also want to make sure you are catching and removing those suckers that will continue to sprout ...

The tomato plant should recover on its own if adequately ... rather than just the suckers between the main and lateral stems. If you notice that your plant is wilting in the days after a pruning ...

To prune or not to prune tomatoes, that is a question that backyard tomato growers need to answer for themselves. Growing ...

As the summer progresses, prune your tomatoes. The suckers that develop after the plant is mature are usually weak and they do not produce very large or healthy tomatoes. Remove the suckers to ...

A sucker is a new stem attached to the main stem of the plant, but has the genetic information to create a new tomato plant. Suckers can cause the main stem to provide so much energy to other ...