My grandma in Arkansas called tomatoes love apples, her mother told her tomatoes were the original apple in the garden of Eden that Eve gave to Adam for the original sin. My grandfather used old tires to grow tomato’s. He would plop an old tire on the ground and fill it with growing dirt and plant the tomato plant inside. The tire had 2 uses. A wide tire made it hard for box turtles to knock down the plant and eat the tomatoes and water would settle into the inside of the tire and supply the plant water through out the day… now days I grow tomatoes on my deck, there are just to many critters that love tomatoes.