Anyway, my issue is this:
The red arrows represent the direction in which I planted the roots, because it is not a deep bed (only about 1.5 ft.). This is the reason I planted it sideways and didn't really put anything else in there. I may or may not buy a slicer tomato and plant it to the left of the Sun Gold, but I haven't decided. The yellow line represents where my stake is set (not shown in this older picture). The stake that is indicated by the green line is no longer there (that's the one I moved to the yellow location). The blue arrow is pointing to where I have another stake set in the corner of the tote. I also have a stake set in the corner of the opposite tote.
The bed is on the patio (this is a rental, so it had to be the patio and not the grass), so there's no chance of the stakes going any deeper than 1.5 ft.
Originally, my plan was to tie the tomato to the stake and call it good, but then someone told me that sun golds get huge and too heavy for one stake. I was considering trying the method where you run strings between two stakes, and weave the tom up the strings, but because the stakes are not set very deeply, I was concerned that it wouldn't make much difference in terms of better support.
All I have is five foot stakes, and I can't afford to go out and get other materials (we're on a super duper low budget here, and I already spent all my garden budget on soil, liners, seeds, plants, etc.) So now I'm not sure what to do. I was considering making a stake cage of sorts, but because of where the roots are, I'm worried that I will damage the roots by poking stakes down at that end. D=
