Like your tomato plants? Here’s how to prepare for a fall harvest

1. If you have a favorite tomato plant, “clone” it now to start new plants for a better harvest in autumn by layering or by making cuttings from 18-inch-long stems. Layer by burying a foot or so of the older portion of a long stem, allowing several inches of the leafy tip to keep growing above the soil. Then cut it off the main plant after a month and plant the rooted portion. Or plant an 18-inch cutting now as deep as possible in its new home, allowing no more than three inches of t