{"id":57,"date":"2007-07-08T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T16:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/pruning-gold-nugget-tomatoes\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T16:42:30","slug":"pruning-gold-nugget-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/pruning-gold-nugget-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning Gold Nugget Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put a lot of thought into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/pruning-my-grape-vines\/\">pruning my grapes<\/a>, but I normally just let my tomatoes grow any which way they choose. I might try to tuck them into their cages every now and again, but I never thought about pruning. Now that I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/not-just-grapes\/\">growing tomatoes for wine<\/a>, I&#8217;m starting to wonder if some of the principles behind grape pruning would apply to tomatoes. If one leaf shades another on a grape vine, then I would want to pull one of those leaves because a leaf in the shade isn&#8217;t doing much in the way of photosynthesis. Wouldn&#8217;t that be just as true for tomatoes? Also, tomatoes have a way of sending branches off in every direction. Maybe trimming off the ones growing into the dirt would keep the fruit cleaner? Maybe it would reduce insect problems?<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/20070621- pruning gold nugget tomato.jpg\" alt=\"Pointing at a low branch that is sloping downward. This is the sort of pruning cut I'll be making.\" title=\"Pruning a low down sloping branch on 6\/21\/07\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nIn this photo, I&#8217;m about to prune a low branch that is sloping toward the ground. This is the sort of pruning cut I&#8217;ll be making this year. The tomatoes have grown taller and bushier since 6\/21\/07, when I took the above photo, but I&#8217;m going to start slowly with my pruning. If this goes well, I may try pruning tomatoes more like grape vines. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll really go that far, but if I do, I&#8217;ll get there by taking baby steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put a lot of thought into pruning my grapes, but I normally just let my tomatoes grow any which way they choose. I might try to tuck them into their cages every now and again, but I never thought about pruning. Now that I&#8217;m growing tomatoes for wine, I&#8217;m starting to wonder if some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-tomato-wine","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}