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crmauch · June 19, 2015

My perspective: At planting I try to always bury as much stem as is reasonable without removing too many leaves. (unless the plant is way leggy and then I'll trench [did a lot of that this year]).

But it looks like to me that your continually laying the plant down. Are you training the suckers up? (thereby forming multiple upright tomato plants). If you're laying all the plant down including the new suckers, you're effectively doing a 'sprawl' method which some people use (but tends to run to foliar diseases and rotten fruit for many). Let's hear more about your method.

June 19, 2015	#11
crmauch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Honey Brook, PA Zone 6b Posts: 399	My perspective: At planting I try to always bury as much stem as is reasonable without removing too many leaves. (unless the plant is way leggy and then I'll trench [did a lot of that this year]). But it looks like to me that your continually laying the plant down. Are you training the suckers up? (thereby forming multiple upright tomato plants). If you're laying all the plant down including the new suckers, you're effectively doing a 'sprawl' method which some people use (but tends to run to foliar diseases and rotten fruit for many). Let's hear more about your method.