John McGaw wrote:
I have only grown tomato plants one time - Sub-Arctic variety in a
raised bed when I lived in Alaska. I don't think that the experience
carries over very well though.

What I have now is two plants in a home-made self-watering planter.
One is a Sweet 100 and the other is a German Queen and they are
growing at an insane rate (over three feet and moving fast) and that
is the problem or will soon be. The planter is sitting up on a brick
retaining wall in the only decently sunny patch I could use on my
heavily-wooded lot. I set up a couple of prefabricated wire plant
supports but the plants have both topped those. Would it be safe to
encourage the plants to grown over the top and back down, draping
over the front of the planter and down the wall? Do tomato
indeterminate tomato plants snap off under their own weight? Are the
stems "brittle" or are they even a bit pliable?

I've had tomatoes in the past that went out the top of 6 foot tall
concrete reinforcing wire cages and were back down to the ground by
frost - bearing bushels of tomatoes!! Go for it!!

Tom J