Same, mine overtook a quarter of my garden and I’m cool with it lol. I topped most of them so they can finish in time for me to pull them and plant some spinach in the fall.
I’m done pruning them though, it’s just a dense canopy at this point and it takes me like a minute to trim one branch to make sure I’m not snipping off a fruiting branch lol
CitrusBelt
Yup, I’m the same way.
As soon as it starts getting up to about 100 deg (usually late June for me), all I’m doing is picking/watering/fertilizing from that point on. Hornworms can thin them out a bit up top for me, and foliar disease can do the same for lower leaves. Any stems that get my way are either hacked off, or ziptied to the trellis (or another stem)….but past that, the plants can do what they wanna do 🙂
karakickass
Same. Glad to know I’m not alone.
hoattzin
Mood, I just water them, harvest and walk away
salymander_1
Mine are the same. I have only 5 tomato plants this year because my health has been poor and I’ve planted less in general, but holy crap it looks like I have at least twice as many plants!
The extra foliage is helping to prevent sun scald, and the tomato plants are shading the soil so much that they are basically their own mulch, so they are saving me effort. Now all I really have to worry about is excavating in the plants for all the bazillions of ripe tomatoes.
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Same, mine overtook a quarter of my garden and I’m cool with it lol. I topped most of them so they can finish in time for me to pull them and plant some spinach in the fall.
I’m done pruning them though, it’s just a dense canopy at this point and it takes me like a minute to trim one branch to make sure I’m not snipping off a fruiting branch lol
Yup, I’m the same way.
As soon as it starts getting up to about 100 deg (usually late June for me), all I’m doing is picking/watering/fertilizing from that point on. Hornworms can thin them out a bit up top for me, and foliar disease can do the same for lower leaves. Any stems that get my way are either hacked off, or ziptied to the trellis (or another stem)….but past that, the plants can do what they wanna do 🙂
Same. Glad to know I’m not alone.
Mood, I just water them, harvest and walk away
Mine are the same. I have only 5 tomato plants this year because my health has been poor and I’ve planted less in general, but holy crap it looks like I have at least twice as many plants!
The extra foliage is helping to prevent sun scald, and the tomato plants are shading the soil so much that they are basically their own mulch, so they are saving me effort. Now all I really have to worry about is excavating in the plants for all the bazillions of ripe tomatoes.