judymart

I love to watch things grow. We recently moved from a condo in the city to a house in a rural community. I planted one tomato plant. It's close to 4' tall! Also falling over. I've propped it up with a lawn chair! The chair has fine mesh and lets light and air through. I must have 25 tomatoes on that bush. My neighbors will get most of them. I can only eat so many. I love tomato and avocado sandwiches. No condiments, just tomato and avocado and bread. The healthy kind of course!

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CarrieAnne

I cage a few, I only have a few cages, so the rest go natural.

amandasgramma

Let them sprawl for a while, once the first tomatoes come on, start pinching back. It'll produce just as many tomatoes and they'll be bigger! All the energy and food goes to the fruit rather than to making new leaves,

amma

Off the ground, cages, teepees and stakes...depending on the variety and type of plant :D:D:D

OkieTwister54

I just keep tieing to a 6' stake. Have not had problem yet.
This is 8th year of growing and caning them

wvdek

Plant them almost lying down _____^ in a trench and remove all but the top three leaves. The line represents the root and the ^ represents the plant top. Roots grow along the stem and therefore they get a better stronger root system. I stake, tie, pinch off the suckers, pull off all lower leaves so none are on the ground, and when toms start to turn, I have to manufacture a way to keep the chickens from eating them before I do. I will either use the cattle gurads with T-posts in the corners or a wooden trellis fence.

In fact. later his morning I will have to tend my plants. Need to tie the tops up, pinch, check the straw carpet, add straw where needed. I place newspaper then straw to keep weeds down, cats from digging, and so far, have seen few bugs.

I have one plant I accidently broke the stem on. I did not have teh heart to pull it out and it is doing beautifully. It is sprawling. Oh, and we went back to Square foot container gardening. No need for such a big garden.

amandasgramma

How are your tomatoes doing? I bought a plant and put it in the window in the kitchen. We can't plant outside (temps drop to less than 30 at night). I pinched the leaves back when the blooms came on and now I have 17 tomatoes on it!!! A couple should be ripe in another week or so!!!!