Empty Tomato Vines

[Solitaire]

When I have picked all the cherry toms off the vines, do I cut the empty ones off

[NOG]

I do and ones all the flowers have set I also start removing some of the leaves.

[Alice]

Once you have picked alll the tomatoes off a plant Solitaire then yes, you can just get rid of the plant.

[rustylady]

Once you have picked alll the tomatoes off a plant Solitaire then yes, you can just get rid of the plant.

The way I read it I think Solitaire means the individual trusses - may be wrong. But you can certainly cut the empty stem of the truss off, also all the leaves below it. And as Alice says, once the whole plant is finished then dispose of it

[Alice]

Jings, don't we all read things differently. Yes, I see what you are saying Rustylady. So I think the answer is
Yes - if you have picked all the tomatoes off the truss you can just get rid of the stem
Yes - if you have picked all the tomatoes off the plant you can get rid of the plant.
Maybe Solitaire will come back and tell us what the question was - but I think you might be right Rustylady.

[Snadger]

Or ,.......you could just leave em on!

[Solitaire]

Empty trusses

I couldn't think of the name of the part that the toms grow on

[rana]

Can't see the point - there must be plenty of other things to do (eg. weeding)

[Two_Sheds]

I couldn't get my hungover head around the question at all!
My brain was telling me "how do you cut off something that is empty" ie not there. ????

[zazen999]

I take the truss off with the last tomato on it....ie as I go not an additional job.