Babied Tomatoes. I know of some who live in the lower 48 who carelessly toss their tomato plants ouside and let them fend for themselves. Somehow the tomatoes thrive and provide enough fruit to can salsa and and still have left overs for tomato fights. Here, we baby our tomato plants by raising them from infants in our very homes. Then we plant them in buckets and tenderly place them in our greenhouses where they whine and withhold fruit if we look at them wrong. Here's some of our new babies raised from seed. So much effort!