OK, Gene brought up tomato rotations, how about staking or caging?
I say try every method you can find and you will learn which one you
like the best.
As each garden condition is unique, so each gardener is unique. Some
prize neatness. Some care less. Some are content to tie, tie, tie.
Some push sticks (I cut saw-kerf notches in the sticks, to keep them
stable). Reinforcement-wire cages are probably most popular.
I've tried every method of supporting tomatoes. I have other things to
do this year. So I am trying something new. I am growing tomatoes in
the Christina Garden, the garden about twenty feet behind the house;
the kitchen looks out upon it. It has the stone wall, the soil goes
back a couple feet level, then slopes upward. I keep a very heavy
mulch of grass clippings and mower-chopped leaves on it at all times.
I have the tomatoes planted about a foot back from the wall, spaced at
three feet. I will plant basil between. As for staking or caging, I
will do nothing except push the vines back toward the hill. My plan is
that they will grow backward and upward. The only challenge I foresee
is harvesting. With my thighs against the wall I can reach back three
or more feet. For the fruits farther back I am thinking perhaps one of
those fruit-picking devices. Might have to build or modify one. I will
report on the experiment.