Show ADVISABLE TO PRUNE AND STAKE TOMATOES question Is asked every year B BI many gardeners advantages are that larger number of plants can be set on olven given area quality of fruit Is usually much better DOM doe it pay to prune arun 0 tol tomato linto ancs vines to ft stem stell und and lie them eliell to stales stakes or to a trellis tills this quest question loo Is y asked every year ear by b thousands of home gardeners it does pay pa accord ing to united states department of 0 agriculture specialists especially 1 if the splice space for gulden garden purposes pui poses la Is limited and it Is 14 desired to make inake tile tho lest best use ilse of it tomato plants if left to Ilicin selves time ft a habit of spreading nil all over tilt garden and of ing their fruit right on oil tile lie gr gioi ind I 1 where liere it becomes covered with alth dirt every cury time fline there hero Is a rain of pruning and tomatoes are arc diat a larger number of plants cnn he be set on oil re a given area than fly tile Ill ethod tile fruit will ripen a little earlier on tile plants that lint aro pruned and staked and the lie fruit Is licud off on the lie ground Is clean and easy ansi to gather while hlll the individual plants do not produce so large it quantity of fruit as aa when lien they tire are allowed to spread upon llon tile the ground nt at least three times time is as lil ciany lilly II plants lInts can call be set on oil it a gen area thereby actually increasing the quantity of tomatoes produced tile tho quality 1 of tile ho fruit Is usually better on tile tho plants planta that are arc pruned ond and tied led to stakes round poles about four feet in ili length sharpened nt at one end ellal anko the most desirable tomato stakes for file home garden tile the bo bast 91 proof that taking staking tomatoes pays pais Is found in ili the lie fact that tile best homo hoino gardeners fol fo 1 low tho the practice |