seajay

Do you plan to give your plants vertical support or let them sprawl? That makes a difference in the spacing requirements. If you plan to give them support, what kind? Cages, stakes, other? That might make a difference, too, mostly for accessibility to the fruits when the plants are mature and huge!

Many of us don't prune our supported tomato plants at all except to remove the lower branches under the first blossoms to allow for air circulation. To me, any more severe pruning seems like too much trouble with very little or no payback if you're just growing tomatoes to eat.

Thanks for the quick answer anney. I am planning on staking the plants, I live in a rural area so long, deadfall branches are in abundance. I figure 6' stakes should be long enough, not sure how big i can grow these.

Thanks for the tip about pruning, might prune one bed and not the other, I would like to try to see the difference is noticeable or not.

The beds aren't close together so the plants will get lots of room on the border of the bed. Thanks for any suggestions.

Happy Easter weekend everyone!