Taming the tomato jungle

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It's been about a week since I haven't touched the tomato plants in the greenhouse, well except for grabbing some fruit for salads, and they've gone feral.

They've overgrown their support lines and were hitting the ceiling.
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Of course, loads of new suckers as well that had to be removed.
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This is a plant that I treated a bit too roughly a few weeks ago and I snapped it's main growing stem by accident. I've done that after removing all side shoots so I couldn't just use one of them to keep the plant growing. It had loads of fruit on it so I planned to leave until all of them are ripe. Today I saw there were tens of new shoots coming up from where I snapped it.
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I've removed pretty much all of them, kept one and will see if the plant will keep growing. I know I won't get any new fruit formed and ripened this season but I just want to see if the plant will be strong enough to keep going.
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The plants have been lowered and cleaned up and they're looking orderly again now.
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Got a lovely crop of toms today, half were used in the dinner this evening and the other half went into the dehydrator. I will completely dry this batch and grind it up.
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Got my first Jersey Devil tomato today; I like the look of these ones and they're pretty tasty.
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That's it for now.

Thanks for looking at my toms guys!

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