Mike CHS
Herd Master
I have posted a similar thread either last year or the year before but seeing that it is gardening time for many I thought I would do one again. I plant my tomato plants in a shallow trench since the ground isn't at optimum growing temperature yet but you can easily break a plant stem when you try to turn it up to finish firming the ground. The solution is to let the plant turn upward toward the sun by itself. I put some of my more leggy plants flat on the ground yesterday afternoon and you can see they are straight out. I took another picture a few minutes ago and you can see they are turning up toward the sun. By the time I get ready to plant late this afternoon they will be turned up another couple of inches and enough that they can be planted without having to worry about breaking the stems.