3 Gardening Tips For Growing Bigger Tomatoes! 1. Prune Your Suckers! That's right, prune your suckers! What does that mean? The image below shows where suckers begin. Suckers are essentially a new plant starting between the main stem and an off shoot.  These suckers take a ton of energy from the plant so pruning them allows the plant to focus all of it's energy on growing the main stem. When the main stem is nice and established then you will have less foliage (green leaves) and more flowers coming in. Since then energy is all being focused to where you want (height and fruit) you will have a healthy plant and fruit setting. It may seem like a bad idea at first but many growers have confirmed more pounds of fruit from pruning suckers.  2. Trim Foliage And Plant Deep Many new gardeners are not aware that tomatoes are one of the few plants that can have their stems plants. Looking at the picture above, you can see that you can trim the lower leaves o...