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You can also Plant the tomato vertically just deeper in the soil. Planting Deeper may have a benefit of making the tomato a little more drought resistant because it will be able to soak up some of that water deeper under the surface of the soil.

Steps

• Laterally, move the lower branches of your tomato left and right to snap them off.
• Then bury most of the stem a few inches below the surface of the soil, laying the plant down horizontally.
• Leave only a few sets of leafy branches above the surface of the soil.
• Water thoroughly!

  Be CAREFUL to not walk on top of your shallow planted tomato, you can easily damage its tender roots!

Large healthy root systems can soak up more water and support more fruiting and generally larger productive tomato plants. This is the idea behind the trench planting technique for tomatoes. For additional reading, see these wonderful resources!

• https://cmg.extension.colostate.edu/Gardennotes/717.pdf
• https://web.stanford.edu/~sommer/TomatoTips.html
• https://extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/extd8/files/documents/12281/growingtomatoes0.pdf