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Can I get tomato plants from seeds of store-bought tomatoes?
Brooklyn1 wrote:
.... Just how many acres of tomatoes do you grow that you can average your yield accurately in a 50 percentile range, or do you just have a couple three plants... I'm serious... between 16 and 50 plants depending upon what we have for space and what we need to put up. it is easy to measure output in the rough because a full pail of tomatoes runs about 22lbs and when canned that usually ends up around 7 quarts. do it enough times and you get an idea of what the yeild roughly is. I put in about fifty plants of various types and often plants right next to each other have a very different yield. yes, that is true, i just measure it roughly as a whole and we keep track of what we can so that gives us a lower bound (i don't keep track of what we eat fresh). However with ~fifty plants I always harvest way WAY more than I can use, I give plenty away, feed those bitten by rodents and bugs to deer, and at end of season I harvest many more green tomatoes than I feel like frying/pickling... we put them in the garage on a table and they eventually ripen, they are not as good as fresh but they are better than nothing or most of what we get at the store. a few will rot, but while i love fried green tomatoes i can't eat that many of them. deer eat green tomatoes too. I long ago gave up canning tomatoes, salad tomatoes are too wet and besides I can buy canned romas by the case at the big box stores and use those to make sauce for a whole lot less money, time, and labor. to me the whole reason for growing veggies is to cut down on food expenses and i like knowing what goes into the food i eat. canned store bought tomatoes taste like metal to me. the silly thing of it all is that i'm getting reactive to tomatoes. after 50something years of eating many lbs a year and now i start reacting to them? The only time I may weigh/photograph is when I happen to find an exceptionally large/unique specimen. I've actually never bothered to weigh/count any of my crops, there's always more than I can possibly use... in fact a few years ago I decided to donate a third of my 2,500 sq ft garden to growing blueberry bushes. i'd like to put in blueberry bushes too, but at the moment i'm having fun with what is here. as we grow many flowers in addition to the veggies and a lot of our space is just wasted IMO we don't get a huge over production, but when we do Ma will turn it into something and take it around to the families or we'll can it or i'll make jam. songbird |
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