Why Experienced Gardeners Plant Tomatoes Horizontally in Trenches (And Why Your Upright Method Is Costing You Harvests)
Most gardeners plant tomatoes upright and wonder why harvests disappoint year after year. But experienced growers know a counterintuitive secret: laying tomato plants horizontally in shallow trenches triggers explosive root growth and dramatically better yields. Here’s the science behind the technique that looks wrong but works remarkably right.