If you've been relying on a cage to keep your tomatoes healthy and supported, you might be holding back the plant's growth.

Indeterminate tomatoes, on the other hand, rapidly grow on a vine and will continue flourishing until the cool months when the season ends -- they can even reach up to 10 feet in height.

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 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.

A well fed indeterminate tomato can grow 10 to 12 feet tall by the end of the season. To tame this growth, it’s best to prune out suckers so that the plant is left with three to five main stems.

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

This is especially important for indeterminate tomato plants, which just don’t stop growing and get huge unless pruned. Coaxing tomatoes into production is easier if we can keep them happy and warm.