Ive done it to save space many times without problem, but never for any other reason. It worked out fine. Just be to allow ample space for both!😁

Vapor, It sounds so interesting. Do you have pictures of them growing together?

Sorry. I lost all my pics when my phone and google account were both hacked and everything was erased om phone and google password changed. I have no access to anything prior to late Fall 2021.😥

Oh, I'm sorry to bring you the bad memory back.

What did you read about the nature of the benefit to the roses, candace?

I can see the tomatoes would be happy with something to climb over.

Dont feel bad. Just didnt want you to think I didn't want to post them.🙂

No worries, I certainly don't think that way. Last month I chatted with a friend and talked about growing roses and vining annuals together. It seems unusual and I'm curious about how well/bad it will be. Do you think it may work like with sweet peas?

Rifis, supposedly, or theoretically, tomatoes secrete a chemical that helps fight black spot.

I guess I should tell that to Zaide.🙄

I've done this before. Several years ago, I lost several roses and had 3 or 4 empty spots. I didn't have time to be creative and shop for annuals to fill them so I just put in several extra tomato plants. My tomatoes are either caged or staked. My roses are also caged to protect them from deer till they're of a size that the deer can't destroy them. The tomatoes did fine and we enjoyed a bigger harvest that year. The roses were unaffected, meaning that if a rose was normally clean, it still was. If it was affected with blackspot, the roses didn't improve.

Yesterday I made an order with Restoration seeds and within a few hours I got an email notice my seeds had already shipped, incredible !

Wish I had gotten just one more tomato in my order that I had overlooked.

If you do grow tomatoes with roses be sure to check the dimensions of how large the mature tomato plant will get; prune and stake it well so as not to shade out your rose, or deprive the tomato of it's needed sunlight. I'm totally new to this and read so much it gave me eyestrain, I'm finding out how expansive tomato world is, just like rose world.

Aunt Ginny's purple- isn't she a beauty.

Whatever you do, make sure you don't use systemic rose poisons or fungicides and then plant food there!! Or sprayed ones, after you've planted tomatoes!!
Carla in Sac

IfThere are also so many uses for green tomatoes themselves.😊

And if the green tomatoes don't ripen, they make a delicious roasted green salsa.

LOL, I'm 66 and have been gardening since I was 15. I've never had a fried green tomato... what was I thinking? I'm currently on a tomato growing hiatus due to various health isses, but perhaps in the future?

It crossed my mind what if my stomach isn't up to eating tomatoes once they ripen from the forest I planned . I guess i could just stare at them growing like I do the roses , then flock my neighbor's yards .

I have some Juliet tomatoes that I planted several yrs ago. They come back every year now in different places, including in the rose beds. I think the chickens spread them around lol. They seem to do well with roses and other flowers. They like the water and fertilzer.

@sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish) Juliet is one of my favorites! Do your volunteers come true to actual Juliets? I'll never forget ~20 years ago, I had a student who was really into gardening visit my garden. I pointed out a volunteer tomato, which I hadn't yet tasted. He took a bite of one and spit it out. And this was a very polite kid with a pretty refined palate. LOL!