Yet another reason why tomatoes are cool - a couple weeks back I accidentally broke this vine, and decided to shove it in the ground and see if it would live. Now it's taking off with new growth!
[Image description: a raised garden bed with a focus on a small tomato plant. The lower branches along the stem are brown and dead, but the upper branches have healthy new growth.]
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The pure determination and unrelenting effort from plants is downright inspirational.
Yup, that was a learning curve for me as a gardener. I used to be so afraid of pruning or transplanting, and would baby my plants, now I'm mean and they still mostly all do fine!
Last year we had 1 merrigold tomato plant that we didn't trim and it went wild. We had way too many tomatoes so we let a bunch fall on the ground and only picked what we needed. This year I have been pulling tomato plants out by the dozen as they are a dominant weed in my garden. They are insanely hardy these days