Tomatoes like heat!... and not direct sunlight during the hottest time of the day which can cause 'sunscald'. If you can find a place in your garden that is warm or even hot absent direct sunlight in the heat of the day, and/or has filtered light all day, or at least morning sun and afternoon shade, your tomatoes will do well.
Withholding water once your tomatoes reach the size you want makes them ripen on the plant juicy and sweet. In other words, stop watering them at that point and allow them to ripen on the vine. If you don't, often they will start to split open and they won't have much taste even if they don't split.
At the end of the season when cleaning up your garden area, you can pull of all green tomatoes remaining. At this point you have a choice...  You can have some fried green tomatoes (yum!), and/or or you can put those green tomatoes in a warm, yet shady, place and they will ripen juicy and sweet off the vines.
Growing tomatoes is fun! If you ever grow 2-3 vines up a fence of cherry tomatoes, you will have more than enough for a whole growing season and lots to share with neighbors and friends. If birds are a problem, then cover the vines loosely with fine plastic mesh or even some cotton gauze which can be purchased by the yard or the bolt lots of places. I like the latter, as the birds don't notice the bright red fruit underneath as easily.
Whatever you choose to do when growing tomatoes, DO REMEMBER that the following year you need to plant them in a different place in your garden. Tomatoes do not thrive in the same place the following year... thus the known philosophy of 'crop rotation'.
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