The Secret to Growing Better Tomatoes? Leave Them Alone

The Secret to Growing Better Tomatoes? Leave Them Alone

September 7, 2026

Growing tomatoes usually means months of watering, staking, and fussing over every shoot. But what if you could skip all that work and still harvest bigger crops than ever—without lifting a finger?

That’s what I find on Erich Stekovics’ farm in southern Austria, where he tends the world’s largest living collection of tomato plants—over 7,000 varieties…

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