Tomato plants can have determinate or indeterminate growth patterns. Learn the difference between determinate and indeterminate tomato plants and which one is best for your garden.

Tomatoes come in many different varieties and the main types you see described are indeterminate and determinate. They are also commonly referred to as cordon and bush tomatoes. Knowing the ...

Indeterminate tomatoes continue to grow and produce fruit throughout the growing season until frost kills the plant, says Ankit K. Singh, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture at the ...

Indeterminate tomato plants, which continue to grow and produce fruit throughout the growing season, can keep yielding ripe fruit for 3-5 months or until the first frost.

Q: If I plant indeterminate tomatoes can I crop the top to keep them from growing tall? Carolyn Byers, email A: Pruning an indeterminate tomato to make it bushier is possible but you’ll be ...

Indeterminate tomato plants grow larger and require more management. (They have to be trained on stakes and desuckered.) But they have the potential to produce more fruit over a longer period.

Indeterminate type tomatoes are vining and keep growing until they are killed by frost. Their mature height varies between 3 and 6 feet. These require a support system through caging, ...

Indeterminate tomatoes can also be grown in large cages (at least 4 feet tall). When grown in a cage, they are not desuckered. Determinate tomatoes may be grown on stakes or in a commercial tomato ...

Meanwhile, indeterminate tomatoes grow wild and super tall. You can pick fruit on and off all season, but they are not great to make sauces that require tomatoes all at once.

Determinate and indeterminate describe two types of growth habits for tomatoes. Indeterminate tomatoes are vining varieties that require support; they grow and produce fruit throughout the growing ...