Gardener’s hack to grow ‘bigger, better tomatoes’ only takes seconds

Big, juicy tomatoes make the perfect addition to a variety of meals. If you’d like to top your sandwiches off with fresh, abundant tomatoes, there’s a little tip you should keep in your arsenal to ensure yours come out the way you want when it’s time for harvest. The hack will take a bit of patience but will yield great rewards down the road.

Taking to social media, Jennifer, who is a gardener, let her 39K followers in on her secret.

“Grow bigger, better tomatoes,” she wrote in her video.

She said: “One of the best things I’ve learned over the years is that when you have tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers or squash, and they start to flower and they’re still small plants, the best thing you can do is to cut those flowers off.

“They’re not really ready to produce fruit. They need to focus on growing, getting bigger and stronger.

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“So sacrifice that early harvest for the larger yield in the long run.

“This also includes the plants you get in the store,” she clarified. “They’ll be stronger if you pluck off those flowers when you first plant them, cause then they’ll focus on making roots,” she finished off.

People left comments on the helpful video.

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Having been going back and forth in their mind, one person was very grateful for the tip, writing: “THANK YOU!! The dilemma I was growing through over this.”

Happy for the tip, another person wrote: “I will try this. Thank you!”

Someone else said they used the hack with success as well. They wrote: “I do that with my pepper plants too. Most of the plants need to cut off head & first flower. And let them branching & growing.”