11.   So he we came along dug the tomato plants up and took them home?

12.   A few tomato plants, a pepper or two, are nearly always supplemented by donations from crack gardening friends.

13.   A tomato plant that has borne a half-bushel of fruit should not be expected to look like the strapping youngster you planted in May.

14.   Again, it is a tomato plant.

15.   Cage your tomato plants just after transplanting to keep them off the ground and away from damage and disease as they grow.

16.   Cut to Ray in the garden, watering five-foot tomato plants and some towering yellow flowers that flash by too fast to positively identify.

17.   Encouraging a symbiotic relationship, I rested a stakeless tomato plant on a yew.

18.   Even people who scour garden centers for special varieties of full-size tomato plants will grow just about any old cherry tomato offered.

19.   For centuries, the English used these to start their tomato plants.

20.   Furthermore, because heirloom tomato plants are less productive and tend to be more susceptible to disease than modern hybrids, they are even less attractive to large growers.