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We have been having some wicky thunderstorms lately.
Thank you for your advice in advance.

HI Nyce,
Tomato plants are pretty hardy, and resilant!
As long as it's not snapped off completely you
shouldn't have a problem....
The tomato plant has the wonderful ability to send out roots from anywhere along the stem...

If you feel the roots are in securely, just mound a bunch of soil up and around the stem to secure it in some more.
(or even place some thing around the base of the plant, like brick's or stone and throw in more dirt up the neck of the plant. *(don't bury and leaves, you can pull off some stems at the bottom with no problem, just don't leave the foliage into the ground to rot).

Actually also, *(even though I don't grow mine with this method)* I understand tomatoes can be grown on the ground, as they are a sprawling type plant... My husbands parents have never staked them.

How come the limited space? (not being nosey)
And can you container garden??
Tomatoes grow wonderfully in 5 gallon buckets!!!

Weezie

Yes Weesie, I have grown tomatoes in pots, and they did very well.

Weezies right, your tomato plant should be all right. Try putting in a stake to hold the plant upright.

Tomatoes are also good at rooting from the stem. If you bury the plant deeper so the bend is below soil level, that might make the plant stronger.

Actually,
I left part of my post off,
I was going to add a story of mine to it,
and got side tracked, :rolleyes: , as usual!

One year when my dad was sick and couldn't do the garden, and it would have been the first year they hadn't had a garden in 47 years!!!
So, I made some containers out of BBQ 5 gal. buckets from my friends pizzeria, and drilled holes into the bottom....
My mom had bought some tomato plants called "Patio~plants", I'm thinking these are a very hardy, large tomato??? Not exactly sure of the difference between the two...
Anyways, I was planting them for her, and they were a good sized plant, and I'm not sure how I did it, but I snapped the top half off, accidently and thought, OHMYGOSH!! and I gave the plants a good dose of my personal favorite "juice" for a quick fix for shock and transplanting, is Schultz Plus 10~60~10.
And told mother to give it some every other day..
And guess what???????
It survived, and thrived and produced......

It was just the top of a broken off tomato plant, but with the right care immediately after the fact, it can be helped!

love tomato plants, you don't even have to be too good of a gardener to get them to thrive...
Hmmmmmmmmm, no wonder they do so good for me?

Weezie