A lesson from a tomato plant?

I was watching a YouTube video this morning regarding care of tomato plants. And something the woman said really caught my attention. She said that a tomato plant isn't trying to grow you a beautiful tomato, it's trying to spread it's seed. So it spreads itself way out in the attempt of spreading its seeds more and more.

By spreading itself out like that, it makes itself vulnerable to animals that would come and eat it's fruit, rather than the gardener. So to circumvent this,

we put up stakes and help the fruit/plant grow upward instead of outward. She stated that if the plant fails, it's not necessarily because she's a bad gardener (though obviously the gardener is often at fault) but it's because the challenge is that we're asking the fruit to do something contrary to it's nature.

She went on to say that she often waits until she sees the beginnings of stress (the curling of the leaves) on her plants, because that stress releases chemicals that actually enhance the flavor and vitamins in the fruit. If her plants never faced stress they wouldn't be as resistant to bugs and disease.

So she watches. Wanting to water, but careful to wait for a sign of stress.

I'm not going to write out the significance of that in a spiritual sense. It all seems so clear to me.

But she went on to say that over-watering, also causes the plants to lose their flavor.

I find that idea very interesting.