u/SnooTomatoes2716

I upgraded from an older Trek Domane road bike a Specialized Diverge carbon gravel bike with 45mm tires, that I love. It is perfect for city or shorter rides because the roads can be rough and ideally I would take it on more trails, just not a lot in the Baltimore area.

Is it worth getting a second set of wheels and road tires for longer rides with decent elevation gain on country roads? Only doing this once a week really for 25-40 miles but when riding with people they keep telling me that I should be on a road bike for those.

Wondering if it would actually make me noticeable faster or easier to keep up with the crew? And if so which ones would you recommend for that type of use?

Include a pic of the beautiful bike in its element.

First time trying any gardening and I have 5 tomato plants that I did not know about needing to prune until recently. I trimmed all of the bottoms and suckers but they are still much bigger than the videos or pics on see online for tomato plants.

Are they too big? Is there anything I should do now to improve them? Planted them 5 weeks ago when they were about 8 inches tall.

Included some pics of the bottom to see how many large stems ended up coming from the original main stem.