Smart Trailing Tomatoes Plants
For determinate tomato plants these can be planted anywhere between 2 to 25 feet 60-75cm apart spacing rows of plants apart by around 4 feet 120cm.
Trailing tomatoes plants. Yellow Pear is a golden tomato hanging form and Burpee Basket King is a trailing variety with small red fruits. Tomato Tumbling Tom Red produces an abundant early crop of sweet and juicy cherry tomatoes throughout summer. In other words its branches grow long enough to hang down over the sides of a container producing a cascading or fountain like effect.
While this narrows your options slightly there are still plenty to choose from. Bush or determinate tomatoes these and trailing types for hanging baskets dont usually need support. These compact bush varieties have a naturally trailing habit that will cascade over the sides of baskets containers and window boxes.
When plants reach the top of the support or have set seven fruit trusses indoors or four trusses outdoors remove the growing point of the main stem at two leaves above the top truss. Red Robin has that ability and is one of the best tomatoes to grow indoors. It will trail quite a ways down the outside of a pot up to 12-14 inches and if you have enough plants in the pot it will create quite a dense curtain.
Plant in a sunny spot where the soil is rich in organic material. University of Maine Cooperative Extension demonstrates different techniques for trellising tomatoes and provides care tips for your plants. Make a generous hole to accommodate each tomatos.
Many regular tomato varieties arent suitable for growing in hanging baskets. Plants recommended for companion planting with tomatoes include amaranth asparagus basil bean borage calendula pot marigold carrots celery chive cleome cosmos cucumber garlic lemon balm lettuce marigold mint nasturtium onion. You wont need to remove sideshoots.
Trailing lobelia is another tough and long-lasting flowering trailing plant with a more delicate texture. Tumbling Tom are trailing varieties of tomato plant that produces large cherry sized fruit that simply tastes beautiful. Tie the stems of your tomato plants to the support structure every 6 or 8 inches as they grow.