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How to Tidy Up Tomato Plants | Pruning & Support Techniques for a Bigger Harvest
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May 18, 2025
✂️ Tidy Up Your Tomato Plants for a Bigger, Better Harvest! Prune, stake, and shine—give your tomato crops the care they deserve! 🍅✨ In this quick guide, I show you how to trim away suckers, secure your stems, and remove lower foliage to improve airflow and focus the plant’s energy on fruit production. Follow these simple pruning and support tips, and you’ll be enjoying healthier plants and juicier tomatoes all season long! What’s your top tomato care hack? #TomatoCare #PruningTips #GardeningWithBen #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #TomatoHarvest
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and welcome to Gardening with Ben in
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today's video we're going to be sorting
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out our tomato plants as you remember we
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planted all our tomatoes the other week
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and got them all into pots these are the
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ones that I purchased from the shop as I
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wanted some that were well established
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and getting growing so what we need to
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do is we need to start getting them
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ready for growing properly they've taken
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root and they're starting to get bigger
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so we need to support them we need to
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tidy them up and we need to get them
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growing into big tomato plants so that
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they produce lots of fruit this
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summertime hopefully lots of fruit but
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yeah we need to get them all ready and
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we need to give them a good feed and get
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them getting going and we're going to
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show you how we get our tomatoes and how
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we look after them and yeah I hope you
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enjoy today's episode so let's have a
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look at our tomato plants so these are
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our tomato plants we have got sweet
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million and we have also got super steak
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varieties we've got five of each so we
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should get a good crop from these but as
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you can see they're getting bigger now
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so we need to tidy them up get them tied
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up and tidy the leaves up what are
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growing off them all so let's get our
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canes
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in so we've got all our canes in against
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our tomatoes so the next thing to do is
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we put a plant pot on top of them to
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stop us falling over and poking his eye
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out safety comes first we're gardening
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everybody there we are we just put a
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little plant pot on top obviously if
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you've got cane stoppers then they're
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good as well so yeah let's get them all
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tied up now so when you're tying them up
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you don't want to tie them too tight or
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it'll dig into their stem you want them
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to have room to expand and to grow and
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to get growing so yeah so what we do
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next is then I take off these bottom
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leaves because we don't need them we
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don't need the bottom leaf
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growth i'm going to take off that one as
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well but if you can see there in the
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middle between that leaf there is
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another shoot and that is what takes
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away all it makes it more bushier and we
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don't want it bushy we want it to grow
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tall so we need to take that off but
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what you can do is you can actually
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plant them and get another tomato plant
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so if you're wanting some extra tomato
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plants feel free to take them off and
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get some extra tomato plants growing so
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we've taken them bottom leaves off like
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that so we just need to check for any
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that are growing in between like that
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one take that
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off and there's no other ones on this
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one but look we got some flowers growing
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the tomatoes are starting to grow so
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yeah we need to give them some food as
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well so they're all now tied up and
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we've stripped all the leaves and the
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growth off the bottom what we're going
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to do next week is we're going to fill
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up these with more compost as as I said
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in one of my previous videos it sinks
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down once you get it watered and wet and
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obviously if we fill them up with
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compost the roots will start to grow
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from underneath where we fill it up to
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so it'll make them more bigger and
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produce hopefully more tomatoes because
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there'll be more roots coming from it
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and it can drink the water better to
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produce better fruits so that is what
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we're doing next week so now we're going
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to give them a bit of food to kickstart
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them for the week so all we use is our
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fid fish blood and bone and we just
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sprinkle some around the base of the
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plants don't get it on the plants
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because it will burn them so let's just
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sprinkle some around the plants so there
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we are we fed them all so the next key
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ingredient is obviously give them a good
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watering now tomatoes all need watering
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literally every one to two days so
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you've got to keep up with the watering
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with tomato plants so let's give them a
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good drink and there we have it some
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happy tomato plants hopefully we'll get
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lots and lots of fruit off them this
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year but make sure you stay tuned for
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our videos and you can stay up to date
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with how well they're getting on so
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well we're getting on down at the a
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lotment this year in the garden so until
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next time everyone remember keep smiling
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keep shining and keep gardening with Ben
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