Hello, Monica! I'm Olga, from Russia. I really like to grow vegetables and fruits on my plot of land. I would like to advise you to use a litter for tomato stalks lying on the ground. You can lay ordinary cardboard on the soil. Or black covering material - spunbond, geotextile. Then the fruits of tomatoes will not be dirty. Tomatoes are not damaged by slugs and other pests. I hope that I have written clearly. I used an automatic translation of the text from Russian into English.