De-suckering is a gardening practice that increases the health of your plants. Suckers shoot up from the plants roots and suck up the plant's nutrients, which could cause the plant to whither and die. Pruning away the suckers, or de-suckering, prevents this.

According to the folks at Greenland Garden Centres it is just a natural occurrence in this popular tree. I have noticed that some of the recently drought stricken local trees seem to be suckering more than they were in previous wet years. I am not sure if drought is the cause of this.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern S--K-RI--. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter S and 4th letter K and 6th letter R and 7th letter I. In alphabetical order, they are:

spikeries

suckering

First you have to find all of the little branches that come up in between the big branches of the plant and the stem and pinch them off at the stem. (They will come off easily). But then you have to look for the ground suckers. (branches that grow upward from the roots of the plant.) Tear off the ground suckers at the bottom and that's it! You may have to keep repeating this for awhile until you get your tomatoes to ripen. Suckering tomato plants will increace the size of your tomatos and decrease the amount of small, little tomatoes. Have fun!!

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