Training & Pruning
Should You Prune Your Tomatoes? How to Train Vines and Leave Bushes Alone
Pruning is for vine tomatoes and a waste on bush types. What a lateral is, how many leaders to keep, which leaves to remove and how to stake, tie and top a tomato without hurting it.
Supports for Climbing Beans, Peas, Cucumbers and Tomatoes
Grow up, not out. Which crops climb on their own, which need tying, how tall each support has to be, and how to build tepees, trellises and string lines that survive a summer storm.