Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1913 — ESSENTIAL PART IN TOMATO CARE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ESSENTIAL PART IN TOMATO CARE

been set in the six-inch cold frame. The plants should be about eight inches high, and only the top pinched off. Next, in a day or two. pinch the tops off of the second to the bottom suckers, and so on until the whole plant is gone over, waiting a day or two between each pruning of the suckers. About every two weeks the tops of the stalks should be pinched out, thus causing the stalk to become greater in diameter, which aids in the supporting of the heavy load of tomatoes. It is good to prune once after setting in the field*’