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First timer, I didn't know I was supposed to use a trellis for my 2 cherry tomato plants, but they look healthy and I have been harvesting about a lb every day. Just leave it as is?
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First timer, I didn’t know I was supposed to use a trellis for my 2 cherry tomato plants, but they look healthy and I have been harvesting about a lb every day. Just leave it as is?


I started pruning the leaves in the past 10 days. They are sun gold and sweet 100. Super sweet and flavorful. At first it was one lb every 3 days starting first week of June. Now it's almost one lb per day. No signs of bugs or fungus, very healthy green leaves, even the ones sprawling on the ground. Beginner's luck?

by groceryshopping2025

12 Comments

  1. FluidAir1184

    It might look like a hot mess but to me it’s BEAUTIFUL!! Look at all those tomatoes 🍅 😍

  3. AndringRasew

    Just because she’s not pretty, doesn’t mean she’s not got a great personality. I’m equal parts jealous and sore just imagining myself crouching down low to pick your delicious tomatoes.

    My set-up only was transplanted on May 10th, so it’s nowhere near as bountiful.

  4. PDXisadumpsterfire

    Looks fine to me – enjoy the results!

  6. orrade

    I’ve got one like this on year two, and it’s a sprawling monster. I haven’t watered it in a year, and it was ravaged by aphids early this spring and yet it keeps on producing excellent cherry tomatoes. Sometimes the plants that should be dead are the strongest…

  7. Over-Alternative2427

    Oh, okay. Here I am, stressing and cutting lower leaf nodes daily, with 4 total fruit growing out of a dozen flowering tomato plants, and there you are, letting your plants sprawl all over the ground to get infected, yet harvesting a pound of delicious and perfect tomatoes daily. I’m not jealous. 😭

  9. AlhambraIV

    So, trellising is mostly vital for people who live in climates where you get rain in the summer. If they don’t prune and trellis their tomatoes, they’ll rot from the humidity brought on by lack of airflow.

    You’re growing in what looks like a dry-summer climate, where your biggest concern is probably sunburn, which that thick, bushy growth will help mitigate.

    Yes, some trellising or caging will keep it looking neater and maybe provide easier access to the fruit, but I’d say you’d be fine leaving it this way if you can’t be bothered.

  12. GrotePrutser

    Yes. I did have some volunteer tonatoes at random places in my garden from compost in previos years. They are usually great and surprising.

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