How Many Tomato Plants does a Woman/Man need? - Page 2

Worth1 · March 31, 2015

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Originally Posted by walt456

This is known as the Tomatoville method of gardening.

I have 14 tomato plants 5 pepper plants cucumbers and beans all in a 12' X 4' raised bed.

Worth

KarenO · March 31, 2015

64 no more no less

KarenO

Gardeneer · March 31, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by walt456

This is known as the Tomatoville method of gardening.

Yeah, I agreed. T'villean way of gardening:

"AS MANY AS YOU CAN FIT IN YOUR GARDEN, plus 10 more". hehe

Sun City Linda · March 31, 2015

You will always need just one more.

heirloomtomaguy · March 31, 2015

So i am feeding a family of 4. I was going to limit myself this year to around 50 plants. Of course that is way more than a family of 4 would ever need. But i was only fooling myself. I started roughly 150 varieties and i always start 2 seed per variety just in case. Well i got 290 plants of 300 seed. Then i started some 25 varieties more so i am up to at around 350 plants. Oh and i bought 1 purple haze plant last weekend. So my answer is around 350 plants for 4 people do the math on 10 people and maybe 875 plants may do. May as well start 1000 just in case you know?

Gardeneer · March 31, 2015

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Originally Posted by Sun City Linda

You will always need just one more.

Right , I am germinating JUST ONE MORE right now.

AlittleSalt · March 31, 2015

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Originally Posted by KarenO

64 no more no less

KarenO

Lol Karen, I see your 64 and raise you 23... There's no betting emoticon

PA_Julia · March 31, 2015

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Originally Posted by gssgarden

Do like I do...cram in as many as you can fit in your garden.....then add 10 more!!

This answer right here...

LindyAdele · March 31, 2015

My family of 4 grows 16 plants. It is all I have room for in a city yard ( because I grow other veggies too). It isn't too much, we share some and eat our fill three meals a day. 6 of those are cherries, because we LOVE eating a bowl after bowl of them...breakfast, snacks, in salads. so for 10 good eaters, I would say plant 4 each, 1 cherry and three larger. Total 40 plants.

Father'sDaughter · March 31, 2015

Yup, 10 plants per person. (And I tend to add random zeros to numbers so I had to edit this post because I initially agreed with the 1,000, but I added a zero to my result and got 1,000).

SummerSky · March 31, 2015

Growing up, my dad always planted 20+ tomatoes for himself. Just himself, for fresh eating. He didn't take care of them at all, but the still produced a lot of tomatoes.

In 2013 (my first serious year growing a garden), I grew around 45 plants, thinking it would be overkill for all the sauces my family would go through and for my dad's fresh tomatoes. I totally underestimated two things: just how many tomatoes are required to make sauce, and just how much tomato products my family runs through.

Last year, I grew 100+ plants (I never kept track, once they got in the garden, it was whatever plants I could fit in), and again I thought it would be overkill. I got well over the 400lbs of tomatoes I actually weighed for sauces, AND IT STILL WASN'T OVERKILL. However, it was about right between my parents, my family of four, and the random jars I give to my sister/in-laws/friends. Granted, the chickens got quite a few that were damaged before I could collect them. I also don't spray for disease at all or fertilize routinely, so they putzed out early and produced nowhere near what they *could* have. But I have good soil, a decent amount of space, a love for the outdoors, and a health dose of insanity.

My suggestion is to plant what you *think* you will need, and then learn from the growing year what you will *actually* need. And then plant ten more

charline · March 31, 2015

I grow about 80 tomatoes around my house and in the 4 m x 3.3 m tunnel. Just for me... I love fresh eating, I make sauce and jars, I freeze when I dont have time to cook them and I give some to friends and about twice or three times I do a tomato tasting for friends.
This year I started about 150 varieties. About 60 go in the garden of neighbours and friends where I can taste them. So next year I will have my 80 favorites for me. IF I do not get another 100 new varieties to try ....

oh, I forgot, I got new seeds from heirloomtomaguy that I started recently, so 15 more...

oh, and there will be the grow outs for my crosses... so 10 more....

Worth1 · March 31, 2015

I think I have stuffed just about everything I can in this bed.
The cucumbers and some of the beans haven't even came up yet on the back side.
IMG_2015033142654.jpg

HCWithAltitude · March 31, 2015

42, of course...

HWA

HCWithAltitude · March 31, 2015

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Originally Posted by joseph

One cherry tomato is too many for ten people.

It's no effort at all for me to keep one cherry cleaned off.

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Originally Posted by joseph

so if each person eats 1/2 pound of tomatoes per day

Only 1/2 lb per day?? That's barely my after work snack before dinner.

HWA

March 31, 2015	#20
heirloomtomaguy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: glendora ca Posts: 2,560	So i am feeding a family of 4. I was going to limit myself this year to around 50 plants. Of course that is way more than a family of 4 would ever need. But i was only fooling myself. I started roughly 150 varieties and i always start 2 seed per variety just in case. Well i got 290 plants of 300 seed. Then i started some 25 varieties more so i am up to at around 350 plants. Oh and i bought 1 purple haze plant last weekend. So my answer is around 350 plants for 4 people do the math on 10 people and maybe 875 plants may do. May as well start 1000 just in case you know? __________________ “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

March 31, 2015	#25
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,919	How Many Tomato Plants does a Woman/Man need? Yup, 10 plants per person. (And I tend to add random zeros to numbers so I had to edit this post because I initially agreed with the 1,000, but I added a zero to my result and got 1,000). Last edited by Father'sDaughter; March 31, 2015 at 08:45 AM.

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March 31, 2015	#17
KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,931	64 no more no less KarenO

March 31, 2015	#19
Sun City Linda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Inland Posts: 2,705	You will always need just one more.

March 31, 2015	#24
LindyAdele Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 323	My family of 4 grows 16 plants. It is all I have room for in a city yard ( because I grow other veggies too). It isn't too much, we share some and eat our fill three meals a day. 6 of those are cherries, because we LOVE eating a bowl after bowl of them...breakfast, snacks, in salads. so for 10 good eaters, I would say plant 4 each, 1 cherry and three larger. Total 40 plants.

March 31, 2015	#26
SummerSky Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Michigan Posts: 126	Growing up, my dad always planted 20+ tomatoes for himself. Just himself, for fresh eating. He didn't take care of them at all, but the still produced a lot of tomatoes. In 2013 (my first serious year growing a garden), I grew around 45 plants, thinking it would be overkill for all the sauces my family would go through and for my dad's fresh tomatoes. I totally underestimated two things: just how many tomatoes are required to make sauce, and just how much tomato products my family runs through. Last year, I grew 100+ plants (I never kept track, once they got in the garden, it was whatever plants I could fit in), and again I thought it would be overkill. I got well over the 400lbs of tomatoes I actually weighed for sauces, AND IT STILL WASN'T OVERKILL. However, it was about right between my parents, my family of four, and the random jars I give to my sister/in-laws/friends. Granted, the chickens got quite a few that were damaged before I could collect them. I also don't spray for disease at all or fertilize routinely, so they putzed out early and produced nowhere near what they could have. But I have good soil, a decent amount of space, a love for the outdoors, and a health dose of insanity. My suggestion is to plant what you think you will need, and then learn from the growing year what you will actually need. And then plant ten more

March 31, 2015	#27
charline Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: France Posts: 688	I grow about 80 tomatoes around my house and in the 4 m x 3.3 m tunnel. Just for me... I love fresh eating, I make sauce and jars, I freeze when I dont have time to cook them and I give some to friends and about twice or three times I do a tomato tasting for friends. This year I started about 150 varieties. About 60 go in the garden of neighbours and friends where I can taste them. So next year I will have my 80 favorites for me. IF I do not get another 100 new varieties to try .... oh, I forgot, I got new seeds from heirloomtomaguy that I started recently, so 15 more... oh, and there will be the grow outs for my crosses... so 10 more....

March 31, 2015	#28
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I think I have stuffed just about everything I can in this bed. The cucumbers and some of the beans haven't even came up yet on the back side. IMG_2015033142654.jpg

March 31, 2015	#29
HCWithAltitude Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Colorado Posts: 78	42, of course... HWA