If you were to say to yourself, "My, that seems to be a vase of tomato branches!", you would be 100% correct. Whilst pruning our tomato plants a few weeks back we thought it was such a shame to throw away those lovely branches, so we stuck them in a vase of water and let them be. Jump forward two weeks and see the rewards we've reaped...
A lovely set of thriving roots almost ready to be stuck in the ground! From four little plants we'll soon have a total of nine beautiful tomato plants....summer's looking mighty tasty, eh?
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I have been needing to prune my tomato plant - what a great idea! Now I just need to figure out the right way to prune it.
Do you need to prune tomato plants? I always thought you pinched the "sucker branches" off - not entire limbs of the plant. ?
This looks pretty and how nice about the rooting....but I hate the way tomato plants smell, and they give me a rash.
When I was a kid my father grew tons of tomatoes and everyone gobbled them down and raved about how delicious they were. I could barely be in the same room with a raw tomato!
I couldn't stand eating raw tomato until very late in my 30s and even now (much later) it is the one common food that I do not enjoy at all. But at least I no longer have to pick it out of everything. I LOVE cooked tomatoes. I am a nearly omnivorous eater, so I find this aversion to the raw tomato form one of my more peculiar qualities.
Does anyone else have a "tomato problem"?
I don't get a rash, but I LOATHE the smell. I had them in my apartment once and had to give them away before harvest time.
I care for a disabled parent, and she cannot eat many tomato products without itching and breaking into a rash. So much for my homemade tomato sauce . . .
That's funny that people don't like the smell, because I love it! Of course, I also adore eating tomatos.
And I honestly didn't know you could root tomato cutting in water, so that's pretty cool.
I adore the smell too!
But just a warning, tomato leaves are poisonous (they're related to the belladonna plant, which is colloquially known as Deadly Nightshade), so be careful with them if you have pets or small children.