How many tomato plants are you growing?

[Snoop Puss]

^It's not an ideal part of Spain for growing toms... Here they're often killed off by cold towards the end of September.

[SarrissUK]

Yeah, it wasn't intentional to have that many LOL I sowed really old seeds and all the buggers germinated lol I will take a load to work for people, but I'm going to experiment and have toms outdoors too this year. I just don't seem to get enough tomatoes for even just me with what I grew last year, around 20 plants... It's only enough for fresh use. Maybe I'm no good at tomatoes and get rubbish yields... I have another greenhouse this year, and a polytunnel, so more space!

[nickdub]

Yeah, it wasn't intentional to have that many LOL I sowed really old seeds and all the buggers germinated lol I will take a load to work for people, but I'm going to experiment and have toms outdoors too this year. I just don't seem to get enough tomatoes for even just me with what I grew last year, around 20 plants... It's only enough for fresh use. Maybe I'm no good at tomatoes and get rubbish yields... I have another greenhouse this year, and a polytunnel, so more space!

I'm in a similar position to you, though in my case the over-supply of plants is more down to cheap Lidl seeds than anything-else. I find I rarely have all that many tomatoes to spare - that may be poor attention to giving them optimum growing conditions on my part - I tend towards the slap-dash side sometimes.

I did manage to sell a wodge of spare plants last year, so I'll probably do that again this time round.

[veggiechicken]

I've just sown another 60+ seeds - hoping to grow 20 or so in the GH and will try the rest outdoors.

[B Porcupine]

^I'm intrigued you grew Rosa de Barbastro. I've not come across anyone in the UK growing them before. One of my favourites. So easy to peel.

...and the dogs eat a fair few...

Edited to say: I should add that I grow all mine outdoors, so space is less of an issue.

Yeah, that must be my problem: I have cats: the useless creatures don't like tomatoes

The Rosa de Barbastro came from a Spanish ex-colleague - his sister grows them there. They are amazing tasting but you only get a few (monster sized) pink fruits. But they are well worth it. Let me know if you want some seed, ha-ha, not that I want encourage you to grow MORE tomatoes

Ah, OK! Well, I gave up on outdoor growing of tomatoes. It worked very well when I lived in the US but it is heartbreaking here.

[Derbydal]

Iv'e sown so far 10 varities 12 of each in modules and a seed tray full of Marmande ,so depending on what comes up I should have enough ! but Iv'e a few more types I want to try . atb Dal.

[PepperMonster]

I managed to grow all of mine outdoors last summer and not get blight! It was great! I will try not to get complacent and be more strict on the pruning in the future in case they need to go inside...they got a bit out of control on the patio. The wild tomato jungle was not what I'm used to, peppers and aubergine are quite well behaved.

[annie8]

Sowed another 20 tomato seeds today. Already got about 25 on the go. New ones are from seeds that Scarlet sent me - black icicle, Black Russian, green grape, orange banana and white zebra. Think I can fit in 11 outside and was planning for about 10 in the greenhouse. So reckon I have a few extras as usual.

[Snoop Puss]

The Rosa de Barbastro came from a Spanish ex-colleague - his sister grows them there. They are amazing tasting but you only get a few (monster sized) pink fruits. But they are well worth it. Let me know if you want some seed, ha-ha, not that I want encourage you to grow MORE tomatoes

I cheat and actually buy these as plug plants. Either that or one of the locals gives me his spares. They are really good salad toms, I agree.

[Small pumpkin]

peppers and aubergine are quite well behaved.

Really!?! Mine are bl@@dy great thugs .
Mind so are the tomatoes

[Derbydal]

had a look in the proagators this morn and from nowt yesterday to 50% growth today! well pleased because most that have germinated so far are self saved seeds from last year spread out on tissue & dried .atb Dal.

[veggiechicken]

I've just sown another 60+ seeds - hoping to grow 20 or so in the GH and will try the rest outdoors.

Some of mine have germinated too - that's 4 days.
First up was Scarlet's Violet Jasper (like the name so had to give Violet a go).

[Bacchus]

I don't actually like tomatoes "raw" (or very rarely a beefsteak one on a burger), but I do like pasta sauce which t'mussus makes in abundance and apparently the rest of the family like them so...

Golden Sunburst x 5
San Marzano x 5
Yellow brandywine x 4
Gardeners delight x 5 - probably give these ones to my mother later
Giant Tree x 5
Green Zebra x 5
Sungold F1 (a seed left over from last year)
Big Daddy F1 (a seed left over from last year)
Speckled Roman x 5
Red Pear x 5
Golden cherry x 3
Kelloggs breakfast x 5

And 10 more plum types that I don't actually have yet but I'm instructed that they are in the post. The above was only planted yesterday.

I have space for 26 plants in the main central bed in the tunnel and then I have other beds or large self watering pots for others. Obviously there's too many here for the space so I'll have to have a cull at some point - I'll just see what plants are the strongest. I estimate about 30 plants at the end of the day.

[Kirk]

Looks like 5 or maybe 6.

[MarkPelican]

The plan is for 32 (16 in each greenhouse) (I think one needs that number to get a full mix of colours and sizes) but it might be more. I've sown 42 different varieties so it might end up being that number if I can fit them in.

What weight of tomatoes do people get from their plants? I seem to average about 1-1.5kg (but that's a mix of different sizes).