The tomato gourmand is often the subject of debate among gardening enthusiasts. But what are the advantages of cutting it?
It's a subject that is regularly debated by amateur gardeners. There are many who want to rid tomato plants of their suckers, while others let it grow.What is the tomato sucker? A sucker is a shoot that forms in the tomato plant joint where the leaf meets a stem.Anyone who grows tomatoes will be familiar with the cutting procedure. And yet it's not uncommon for gardening enthusiasts to get into heated arguments about who's right.
But this delay in production is not the only drawback to leaving the sucker in place – it will also make the plant leafer.With a lack of light, the plant will also be more prone to diseases such as mildew, which thrives in damp conditions. For this expert, tomato plants do not have a gourmand, which is, by definition, 'a stem that does not produce'.
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