Do tomatoes come back year after year?

Answer 1

Generally, no. They must be started from seeds each year. However, you might get "volunteers" if you dispose of bad (bird pecked or rotten for example) tomatoes in your garden. However again, these are starting from the seeds in the tomatoes you threw out. Also most varieties of tomatoes these days are hybrids and don't always come back like the original. You're better off to buy new seeds or plants each year or grow an heirloom variety that can be restarted from their own seeds.

Answer 2

If you lived in the tropics, yes, your plants would continue to grow and produce for a number of years. But here in the US, tomatoes are annuals - they last for one growing season, and when cold weather comes, they are history. If you really wanted to put in the effort, you could take cuttings off your tomato plants and root them, keep them in a reasonably warm and sunny place (window, under fluorescent lights, etc.) and have a head start next spring. I inevitably get "volunteer" tomato plants each year - plants that came up from the seed of a tomato that fell to the ground and somehow didn't get cleaned up last year. If they are not in a completely inappropriate place, I let the volunteers grow; although it's a toss of the dice what kind of tomatoes they will produce, since most modern tomato plants are hybrid and the seeds won't produce tomatoes with the same qualities as the plants they came from....

Answer 3

My parents have one that grows back every year it kind of wild looking and rhey are full size tomatoes and they never planted it at all and i use to live in a place were cherry tomatoes would come up every year and i live in pa not sure how it worked i never had the luck after i moved

Answer 4

A friend of mine planted a tomato plant in front of her house (not really a planter, did it for her kid) and she didn't pull it up and it grew back the year after and fruited. So the answer is obviously yes. They will grow back the next year. Don't know what kind of tomatoes they are but they are cherries.

Answer 5

I live in California, and I have several cherry (both yellow pear and red round) tomato plants that for whatever reason, have come back every year for last two years. I do nothing to help, they just grow and they're healthy!

Answer 6

No. Tomatoes are not perennials. The only way they would is if you planted heirloom varieties, and allowed some of the tomatoes to rot on the vines, thus they would seed themselves, so to speak.

Answer 7

If you save the seeds . you can replant them every year. But once you plant them, they don't come back year after year. not unless you live in the tropic....you can have tomatoes all year round.

Answer 8

the only way they would is if u covered a tomato and left it untill the seeds sprouted the next year ,,
but usually not ,,you would have to plant seeds or another tom.plant to have more tom, the next year

Answer 9

Both are good for you, each fruit/vegetable has different vitamins. And so as more variety, as better. Vegetables have generally less sugar than fruits.

Answer 10

No. You have to replant them every year. My parents have a garden and plant new tomato plants every year.