a garden question ? Woke up to 2-3" of white, so someone's feeling better.......

 re: toms... Tbars every 6-8', 3 horizontal grape wires, through the tbar holes, then sisal to figure 8 loosely secure the plants.

Found it best to grow as the northern most  E-W rows.

As for type of toms, whatever has the earliest  maturity time !! Get 60 day variety not 90 day ones. dang season is too short...sniff sniff.

My first advice is to space your tomatoes at least 3'-4' apart, if you have enough room. I put down black plastic to keep the weeds out.

I never had any luck with the fence style, but that could be my failure.

I find letting them grow naturally, leads to a lot more rotted fruit and makes picking them much harder.

If you have good fertile, healthy soil (I have a lot of earthworms), do a little watering, rotate your plants and keep the weeds down, you will have a lot of tomatoes!

By the way, I disagree with Jay on maturity. I plant one or two early tomato plants, but if you want flavor and size, you need to grow longer maturity varieties. 

I plant a couple plants every two weeks from May 1 (I have to cover them in case of frost until after Memorial Day) until July 15, so I have a constant fresh tomato supply until frost.

wow ,planting on May 1st !!! heck, I HAVE to wait until after May 26th before I can plant the 'tenders' else Mr. Frost can do bad things.

60-90 is from seed to eating, in theory. if you start late and frost comes early, you can end up with a LOT of green tomatoes......BTDT..80,yes EIGHT, plants. Probably still have some quarts of green tomato relish in the pantry...

if you plant ''determinate' variety , they ALL come at the same time (great if you make sauces...use Roma variety ), indeterminate means a few ripe ones every day(sandwiches !! )

wish I could find a tomato I could grow indoors as I HATE the 'Winter Wooden Wonders' from the stores.

sure, rub it in.......

I have to wait until 3 days after the Bridal's wreath spirea blooms for tenders. The late farmer cross the road told me that...he was right !

locally, I can buy concrete reinforcement wire by the foot.  I forgot the length but recall maybe 5 feet as  the required cage.  Some of those rascals are getting some years on them.

BTW my neighbors chickens don't seem to have a preference on variety. 

My center of the road variety is celebrity.

Mine neither!!!

Caged them last year in 6 foot cages and they went up to the top, then back to the ground, then another 3 to 4 feet across the row.

The ones that I didnt have cages for ran over each other and were for the most part impossible to pick and the ones under the mess didnt get ripe.

This year I gotta chop the tops off when they get to the top of th cages! lol!

also not going to plant the 4.5 acres this year due to health problems.

As of now,-- a couple rows of onions and some sweet corn, a few tomatoes, a couple cabbages, maybe a few green beans. 

Strawberries might make a lot if the winter dont kill them out.

I grow mine on woven wire fence.  I try and set the fence about 18" off the ground and then I clip the plant to the fence as it grows.  As they get bigger, I prune the plant so no part touches the ground.  They about overtake the fence and I have to brace accordingly. I grow hybrids for my main production but do grow a few heirlooms as well. The picture of ripe tomatoes was about 2-3 plants.