My giant old Sungold plant gave me neither gift - because I hadn’t given it the gift of something to lean on. Those are two of the main goals of supporting the sprawling vines of the tomato plant: unblemished fruit and easy harvesting. ![]() This kept most of the fruit off the dirt and made picking involve less bending. When I lived in Lesotho, I was charmed to find that many people used branches pruned off their peach trees to stick into the ground and let their tomatoes crawl over. That’s an option for tomato growers, no support. ![]() A couple years ago I planted a Sungold cherry tomato that grew into a jungle: ten feet wide, taller than me, I wanted a machete to hack into the middle to grasp those golden fruits.
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