Years ago there was a TV program about gardening

that was hosted by a man that was a minister,

Babtist, I believe. Anyway, I used to watch it

sometimes when I happened to catch it on. He

was somewhere in the south as he had a southern

accent. Georgia, I think, but I'm not sure.

Some of you may have seen it. Anyway, he always

claimed that you should take cuttings from

your tomato plants and root them and as soon

as they were big enough, take a cutting from

them and keep on doing it as often as you could

and that each clone became more productive the

more often it was done. I have 5 plants in my

sunroom that are cuttings from a plant in my

garden that was from a cutting that was kept

alive all last winter that was from a cutting

from the previous summer. The original plant was

a Big Beef started from seed. Anyway, the plant

that I got the cuttings from that are in the

sunroom now had about 70 tomatoes on it when

the weather turned cold this fall. It was very

productive. The cuttings in the sunroom all have

blooms on them, about to open. It gets cold in the

sunroom, about 35-40, so they take a long time

to get ripe, but they do eventually. The amazing

thing is that when you root a cutting from one

of them, it is only a short while before it

blooms itself. I think there is something to

this and wondered if anyone else had tried it.

If my plants live through the winter (and I will

try to root more cuttings during the winter) I

would share some rooted cuttings with anyone that

is interested.