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Pinching out your plants will bag you more harvests and flowers than ever before – and it's a really simple technique

Marigolds and tomato plants with ripening tomatoes in planter at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.

You’ve probably heard of the term ‘pinching out’ before – it’s a popular gardening technique used on the likes of tomatoes, sweet peas and plenty of other plants. But what does ‘pinching out’ mean?

Well, it’s exactly as it sounds: this task involves pinching out the growing tip of a plant. But before you learn how to pinch sweet peas and other garden plants, you’ll need to know when to do it and why it’s such an important technique.

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