On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 08:57:40 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 8/3/2015 6:44 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 10:42:34 PM UTC-4, Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>> My question is this, do you all prune your tomato vines? I just
>>> put square wire cages around them and let them go. I've heard
>>> of people pruning them so they grow more tomatoes on more linear
>>> vines.
>>
>> I've never pruned my tomato vines, although I've thought about it
>> on numerous occasions.
>
>I was wondering if it was some common knowledge thing I missed
>out on, everyone prunes their tomato vines. Seems to me, more
>vine, more flowers, but it does get crowded in the middle.
>
>> Lately I've been growing my upside-down in a 5-gallon bucket hanging
>> from my deck. It's nice not to have to stake or cage them, but
>> it's a little tricky giving them enough water, but not so much that
>> the foliage stays wet.
>
>I was seeing those for a while but not in the last few years. I
>wondered if they worked well. I found some heavy duty square wire
>cages that do the job holding them up. I never got those round
>conical cages you see. They wouldn't hold up one branch of a big
>tomato vine.

I've been switching to the new brightly colored cages, easier to spot
the tomatoes than in those dark green cages. You can spray paint your
cages, spray a few at once, lay them on the ground on newspaper.
http://www.rustoleum.com/product-cat...e-enamel-spray
http://www.finegardening.com/pruning-tomatoes