Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — TOMATOES ON SINGLE STEM [ARTICLE]

TOMATOES ON SINGLE STEM

Set Plants Eighteen Inches Apart in Rows Three Feet Wide—Pinch Out All Shoots. Where tomatoes are to be trained to a single stem, the plants are set 18 inches apart in rows three feet wide. As soon as the young plant begins to grow after being transplanted it sends out branches or shoots from the axis of the leaves. When these shoots appear pinch them out, which will cause the main stalk to shoot up very rapidly. Put up a stake five feet tall and tie the plant to it. As the plant grows more suckers will form. Continue to pinch these out and train the plant to the stake. The ffuit will be formed on flower clusters about six inches apart on the main stem. The method of training does not produce as many tomatoes per plant, but the fruit is much larger in size and oFTighw This method ailom’S a. great many more plants per acre, therefore the yield per acre is greatly increased.