How many tomato plants or seedlings?
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Anonymous
| How many should I plant, i want to eat tomatoes every day once the season starts. Thanks |
Anonymous
| If you truly want to eat every single day, you may need two or three plants. Make at least one of those a cherry (or similar smaller sized) tomato plant, those produce in huge quantities in my experience. |
Anonymous
| I'd do 4 or 5 plants with 2 of them being something like a sweet 100 variety. |
Anonymous
| Thank you very much. I estimated 9, so am clearly clueless. |
Anonymous
| 9 is not a bad estimate, 2-3 isn't gonna give you enough tomatoes to eat everyday. I would do minimum 6. |
Anonymous
| We normally plant about 5-6. Plant a variety - including some early varieties so you aren't getting all your tomatoes at once. |
Anonymous
| A lot also depends on how much sun they get, the quality of the soil, the watering. One plant could give you 2 tomatoes if it's sad... but it could give you tons if it's happy. |
Anonymous
| We do three or four every year in our little urban garden. Remember, they grow BIG. So give them space. This year we planted one heirloom slicing tomato and two Sun Golds. You can never have too many cherry tomatoes. We eat tomatoes every day until early October! |
Anonymous
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If you do 9, you will have an absolute buttload of tomatoes for some two-week period during the summer. And hopefully that won't be the time you're on vacation. (I encouraged a few garden-less local friends to come by while I was gone and harvest tomatoes for themselves.)
I typically do 8 plants - cherries, grapes and romos. I did 7 this year and I'm worried that may still be too many. |
Anonymous
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11:38 here. Romas, not Romos. Now I'm picturing little dallas cowboys QB's on vines.
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Anonymous
| Plant some cherries and indeterminates which will fruit until frost. Determinates will set one big crop and be done. |
Anonymous
| We're planting 5 (maybe 6, but I can't remember). 1 Roma, 2 Sweet 100, and 2 Better boy. It's more than we've done in the past, and we've always had more than enough to eat and share. |