Choose Your Tomato Varieties. Plant tomato transplants when the soil has warmed enough to keep the plant actively growing. Big Boy and Big Girl are two good producers.

Old varieties remain popular choices by gardeners for growing a vegetable garden despite the multitude of new hybrid disease resistant tomato plants available. Tomatoes can be afflicted with many different diseases. Do you want just a few tomatoes and avoid having to stake or prune your tomato plants? Make each block just wide enough so you can comfortably reach the middle from each side.

You can avoid most tomato diseases with proper care. However if not caught when the very first leaf shows signs of the disease that control is of little value. Late Blight in the Northeast.