Tomato pruning

We did some serious tomato pruning while we tied the new growth up. They look really good. It was hard at first to cut off perfectly healthy but it doesn't seem to beharming them at all. And the pruning has kept the plants from becoming an impenterable jungle which is should provide some blight resistance.

The plants are generally loading up on tomatoes (still not ripe). I can't say that there's any obvious difference between the number of tomatoes in the plants that have only one square foot opposed to two. There is a significant difference in the depth of the compost from west to east which complicates the comparison of the effect of space- the tighter spaced tomatoes are in the deeper soil. So is the apparent similarity in productivity due to unequal soil depth? Beats me. I do think that we'll change the layout next year so we don't have 2 rows of tomatoes adjacent to each other. It may not impact the productivity but it does make it difficult to see what each plant is doing, which is a big chunk of the fun.