Growing red currant tomato plants?

I have 5 red currant tomato plants in the ground. They are only about three inches tall now that I burried them a little. I am wondering how to stake or protect them from falling on the ground. I'm having a hard time finding a full size picture of them on the internet. Are they going to climb up something like a vine or do they just need something to hold them up. Do they get tall, stay short, get bushy or leggy. Does anyone have any tips or any information on them. Also when you pick the tomato's should you just cut the limb they are hanging on or pick each tomato off. Thanks to all who respond.

Growing red currant tomato plants?
Pick each tomato off the branch.





Don't forget to keep watering.
Reply:The best support for a tomato plant is a tomato cage. It's a slightly cone-shaped (smaller at the bottom) wire cage with about 6-inch openings. It then has 4 pieces of stiff wire sticking down out of the bottom for setting it in the soil around the tomato plant. These can be purchased at any nursery or you can make them out of concrete reinforcing mesh.





The plant grows up the middle of the cage and its branches are supported by the horizontal tiers of wire around the cage. The holes are also big enough for you to reach in and get the tomatoes. As the plant grows taller, successive layers of branches are then supported by the upper tiers of the cage.





Regarding harvesting, cut clumps of the tomatoes off at the base of the branch they're growing on. Leave them on the cut vine until you actually use them. That way they continue to ripen even with just a few inches of vine attached.





Also, never prune a tomato plant. They will eventually outgrow the cage and get kind of viney. But, that's when they're in their last throes and about to be pulled out, anyway.

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