How many is too many...

[veggiechicken]

Too much faff!
I'd have to save the seeds to plant them if I did . Its easier to chuck them to the chooks!

[Snoop Puss]

The skins of frozen toms split. I'm guessing it's to do with water expanding when it turns to ice. Dead easy to just pull off when they thaw.

[veggiechicken]

But you're left with frozen fingers and a saggy, squelchy bag of red stuff that still needs to be cooked.
I'm lazy!!

[Bren In Pots]

I grow 10 toms in the GH then a couple on the kitchen window sill, sometimes I put a couple in the garden but they never do very well.

[chillithyme]

I grow 12 tomatoes outdoors in grow bags, 9 tumbling types in pots and the odd few that I can squeeze in here and there, and that can mean 20-40 extra plants. If I feel like I can't manage that many plants then I will be happy with my 12 in grow bags and 9 tumbler types in pots, and maybe another 5 or so max.

[SarrissUK]

I probably had 25 odd plants in the greenhouse at home last year, and although I did eat a lot of tomatoes, I didn't have too many, and I did freeze a few, but really not enough to see me through the winter by any means.

This year I will aim to fill the greenhouse at home, as well as the greenhouse on one of the plots. It just means I need to go to water more often than I did last year.

[SimpleSimon]

How many people are you hoping to feed?

How many plants have you grown in the past and did you have a surplus of produce or not enough?

In my case, I grow far too many - anywhere between 22 and 48 - for the two of us and anyone else I can fob tomatoes off onto at the same time as they have a glut...

2 of us and we are tiny. Grew 30 last year, lost a couple of plants. Didn't grow enough for saucing so ran out about December. Thought I'd grow lots of San Mizano this year. Probs gonna try and raise 60 and as I get overwhelmed start to give them away. Might aim for 45 - 50ish by the time they are ready for outside. Well that's sort of a plan.

[Mark Rand]

I only had 7 last year and two of them got away from me on the side-shooting (lots of compost, not a lot of fruit). Going to be good this year and do side shooting at least once a day and probably twice when they try to outwit me by growing too fast.

Biggest problem I tend to have is volunteer tomatoes coming up wherever I've spread old compost or reused any of it. If only I could get the same germination rates from 'some' of the commercial seed companies!

[Snoop Puss]

2 of us and we are tiny. Grew 30 last year, lost a couple of plants. Didn't grow enough for saucing so ran out about December. Thought I'd grow lots of San Mizano this year. Probs gonna try and raise 60 and as I get overwhelmed start to give them away. Might aim for 45 - 50ish by the time they are ready for outside. Well that's sort of a plan.

Looks like you've answered your own question.

Interesting to read how many others grow. I start off 20 or so from seed that I know we like. But then get given loads of plants by a friend and it seems rude not to grow them too.

[bramble]

I usually grow about 30 plants .
As many as I can fit in the greenhouse and the rest outdoors.
I always seem to get a reasonable crop from the outdoor plants.
I give a lot of the tomatoes to family, use and much as possible ourselves while they ste fresh and the rest go in the freezer to make soup, sauce, passata, or put them into stirfry.