Getting the spacing right with tomatoes is critical to having healthy plants and abundant harvests of tasty fruits. The distances do vary by type and variety, and it can get confusing, so let’s focus on how far apart to plant tomatoes.
Tomatoes come in different groups, and trained vining varieties can be planted closer together than bush tomatoes. But with any type, the danger of putting plants too close together is that they battle for water, nutrients, and sunlight, which ultimately affects yield, and they are at risk of disease.
