Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Are your tomato plants STILL producing flowers late in the season? 🍅🌼
At some point, those new flowers may have almost no chance of producing usable tomatoes before your first frost.
In this video, I explain when you should consider removing late-season tomato flowers, how to work backwards from your average first frost date, and when topping indeterminate tomato plants can help you focus on the fruit already developing.
We’ll cover:
🍅 When tomato flowers are worth keeping
🌼 When to start removing new flowers
✂️ When to top indeterminate tomato plants
❄️ How your first frost date changes the timing
🍅 Cherry tomatoes vs. large slicing tomatoes
🌿 Why you should NOT strip off healthy leaves
🟢 Why green tomatoes can still be worth keeping
Late-season tomato care isn’t necessarily about producing MORE fruit — it’s about giving the fruit you already have the best chance of developing before cold weather arrives.
If you’re growing tomatoes in a short-season or cold climate, this is one garden task you’ll want to time correctly.
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At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are YouTube, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s YouTube channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her YouTube channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
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Are your tomato plants STILL producing flowers late in the season? 🍅🌼
At some point, those new flowers may have almost no chance of producing usable tomatoes before your first frost.
In this video, I explain when you should consider removing late-season tomato flowers, how to work backwards from your average first frost date, and when topping indeterminate tomato plants can help you focus on the fruit already developing.
We’ll cover:
🍅 When tomato flowers are worth keeping
🌼 When to start removing new flowers
✂️ When to top indeterminate tomato plants
❄️ How your first frost date changes the timing
🍅 Cherry tomatoes vs. large slicing tomatoes
🌿 Why you should NOT strip off healthy leaves
🟢 Why green tomatoes can still be worth keeping
Late-season tomato care isn’t necessarily about producing MORE fruit — it’s about giving the fruit you already have the best chance of developing before cold weather arrives.
If you’re growing tomatoes in a short-season or cold climate, this is one garden task you’ll want to time correctly.
#Tomatoes #TomatoGrowing #GardeningTips #VegetableGardening #TomatoPlants #GardenScience #ColdClimateGardening
Helped Design A Plant Sensor! Grab one of these here is the link: earthone.io/?ref=GARDENINGINCANADA
For a Discount code: GARDENINGCANADA
👩‍🔬 G R A B A P L A N N E R
Paperback 2024 Garden Planner:
geni.us/1Q7xaE
đź“ť S T A Y I N T O U C H
Website/Blog & FREE printables: gardeningincanada.net
Instagram: instagram.com/gardeningincanada
➡️ A F F I L I A T E S
Westcoast Seeds Affiliate Link: bit.ly/33mGGaI
Seeds Now: seedsnow.com/?rfsn=6354409.1f000b
🎉 S O C I A L S
👩‍🔬PATREON: patreon.com/gardeningincanada
INSTAGRAM instagram.com/gardeningincanada
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/GardenInCanada
👩🏻‍🦰 A B O U T M E:
Ashley has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are YouTube, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s YouTube channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her YouTube channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
Disclaimer
This description or comments section may contain links to affiliate websites. I receive a commission for any purchases made by you on the affiliate website using such a link. This includes the gardening in Canada website. You should assume all links both on the gardening in Canada YouTube, Blog, and all other social media are affiliates and I will receive compensation.
