Tomato yields

[redser]

Hi there, looking for some guidance on how many plants to plant out. At the moment I have 12 on the go and pretty much ready to go up to the tunnel when the weather improves.

It is 2 each of ...
Moneymaker
Gardeners delight
Marmande
Golden sunrise (cherry)
Tigerella
Datteri (plum)

I intended only growing 6 in the tunnel, the other 6 were backups. But I've put so much in to them I'm thinking of growing more of them on. So any general advise on whether 6 is plenty and 12 is way too much? I don't want to increase my workload just for the sake of it. I know it's all relative, we're a family of 2 adults and 2 small kids. How many trusses would you usually let grow and how many fruit would you get off each truss?

I asked a similar question about dwarf french beans and two sheds said you'll get roughly a couple of meals from each plant which was a perfect way for me to judge.

Thanks for your patience!

[Thelma Sanders]

In the g/house you get about 5/6 trusses from each cordon plant, the size of truss depends on the variety. ie you'll get a lot of smaller tomatoes from each truss of a cherry tom, but at best only 2/3 from a truss of something like Marmande. (Moneymaker is somewhere in between the 2
I hope that helps


grown outside they don't usually get as many trusses, unless they in a very sheltered spot.

[Florence Fennel]

I don't think you can have too many tomatoes redser. They can be used for soup, salsa, chutney, passata, preserved in many ways (have a look around the threads). There's not much waste from tomato plants!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Grow them all what you don't eat fresh you can freeze, either whole or as puree.

Colin

[Leeds_lad]

Can never have too many tomatoes. Between salads, soups, sauces, passata's etc you get through them pretty quickly =)

[redser]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll squeeze as many in as I can so.