Snyder recommended using any type of organic mulch or black plastic with the tomatoes planted inside circles cut in the plastic. Once in the ground, tomatoes need an average of one and a quarter inches of water a week. If you water just a little, the roots don't get soaked and tend to grow shallow rather than deep. Once growing, stake the tomatoes before they fall over. If using the stake, loosely tie string or nylon stockings around the plant and fasten it firmly to the stake.
Cages work well, but make it difficult to sucker the plants.
The plant normally makes lots of branches and each of these can produce fruit clusters and make more branches. You end up with a bushy small plant with lots of small fruit. Snyder recommended removing suckers up to the first fruit cluster. Suckers, found where the leaf meets the stem, can be snapped off by hand. With fewer branches, the plant's yield stays constant because the average fruit size increases.