GROW BIG GARDEN TOMATOES with these pruning tips // Talking Tomatoes with Lucas

3 Reasons to Prune your Tomato Plant - Shape, Disease Prevention, & Fruit Quality // What is a single leader on a tomato // What are tomato Suckers? // How to Identify Tomato Parts and What to Prune? Lucas is here this week to talk tomatoes and break down the basics on tomato vocabulary like the differences between sun leaves, suckers and fruit clusters and how to identify the main leader. He shows you what to look for in pruning, the three reasons to prune your backyard tomatoes and different methods. Good practices for growing tomatoes starts with pruning appropriately. Pruning your tomatoes will increase yield, prevent a lot of different fungal diseases and increase your tomato fruit quality by forcing your plant to put its energy into it's fruit. RELATED GARDEN VIDEOS: How to Transplant Tomatoes //    • TIPS TO TRANSPLANT TOMATOES SUCCESSFU...   DIY Garden Trellis //   • DIY CATTLE PANEL GARDEN TRELLIS // Ea...  ​ DIY Raised Garden Beds //    • GALVANIZED STEEL RAISED GARDEN BEDS /...  ​ Seed Starting Indoors //    • SEED STARTING INDOORS // A Conversati...   SAY HELLO! Blog | https://www.ourlibertyhouse.com/​​ Instagram |   / ourlibertyhouse   Pinterest |   / ourlibertyhouse   And make sure you subscribe to our channel! DISCLAIMER - Links included in our description may be affiliate links. By clicking these links and making a purchase we get a small commission at no additional cost to you! This helps support our channel and allows us to continue to bring you new content. Thank you for the support! Our Liberty House is a gardening lifestyle channel. Lucas & Beth live in Zone 9b, Sacramento, CA, (with their dog, Liberty!) and garden in 6 raised beds in our backyard garden. Together, we garden year-round and share what we are growing and what we are learning along the way. Our gardening strategy is to create a garden full of diversity. We intermix vegetables, flowers, and herbs to create an ecosystem where beneficial insects thrive. We avoid all pesticides and instead plant things that will take care of pests for us. We compost and try to live a sustainable life where we can 'eat what we grow' from our backyard garden. Thanks for joining us on our journey!