My wife and I both love fresh tomatoes for the table. We don't do anycaning. I planted 25 tomato plants this year but four of these arecherry type tomatoes. We can each eat five or six tomatoes a day so Ihope that I have enough for the two of us until the frost in the falldestroys the plants. Should this be enough or should I considerplanting a dozen or so more plants that mature very early?Rich

I'd worry about gout. I got my first case of gout from eating too many tomatoes.Paul

Will 25 tomato plants be enough for two people?

Jun 23, 2010 23 Replies

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Dan L. 16 years ago

You are correct, I looked it up in the Holy Bible of canning books, "Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving" ISBN-10: 077880139X On page 360, "On average, it takes 3 to 3.25 lbs of tomatoes to make one quart of juice". 7 quarts is about 22lbs. So I am way off, Thank you for correcting my mistake :(

I think, not postive now that my brain received a massive jolt. The number 56 is the average weight of a bushel of tomatoes. In the Bible The number is 53 for the average, Page 427.

It's not often I get a strong head smack, it hurts. Kneeling in penitence: Repeating: "I am not stupid" over and over until the pain goes away :(

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Phisherman 16 years ago

Plant early varieties and late varieties. Yield varies depending on sunlight, temperature, water, soil conditions, polinating insects, etc. Staking tomatoes may somewhat reduce the yield of a plant, allowing them to vine on the ground usually helps yield but you should the fruit off the ground with straw. A tomato plant in Ohio will typically outperform a similar tomato plant in east Tennessee because tomato plants like cooler nights.

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brooklyn1 16 years ago

Nightshades do much better with warm nights

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kate 16 years ago

then he took out his hammer and saw...

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