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Post by brownrexx on Jun 21, 2021 9:00:37 GMT -5
My friend ahntjudy recently mentioned to me that she counted her tomato plants and has 82. Wow, that's a lot of tomatoes. I was watering last night and counted mine and I have 15 tomato plants, all in cages. I also have 21 pepper plants and I don't actually need that many but I buy those seedlings from a local greenhouse and they mostly come as 4-packs. Approximately how many tomato or pepper plants do you grow and what do you do with all of the tomatoes if you grow dozens of plants?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 21, 2021 9:19:17 GMT -5
I have five producing tomato plants (Cherokee Purple hasn't set any fruit) this season and they are enough for fresh use tomatoes, a few batches of tomato sauce, and drying some for tomato powder. I think the most tomato plants I ever had at one time was 14 or 15.
I can't imagine the amount of tomatoes from 82 plants if they did reasonably well!
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Post by paulf on Jun 21, 2021 10:29:11 GMT -5
Twenty-three tomatoes started out, two croaked, so twenty-one with twenty varieties. KBX got doubled up since one other yellow/orange died way early. That is down from what a few years ago was the normal 32. Fifteen peppers just because that is how many plants were viable and why toss a living plant?
We eat fresh tomatoes as much as possible, freeze a bunch and give away the rest. As for peppers, we eat some and give away most. A few get frozen for later use.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 21, 2021 12:15:25 GMT -5
I usually have around 30 tomatoes, plus or minus a couple. This year I have 36, because I got a few more seeds than usual. I freeze a lot of them, and only can a few - I grill them, and purée them, mostly to use in Mexican food. Most of the tomatoes I eat in the summer, either raw, or in "slightly cooked" dishes. I rarely cook them in long cooked dishes in the summer.
Peppers I used to grow around 50 of, but when I started growing most of them in the SIPs, they produced way more, so I grow only 21 in the SIPs, along the side of my house, plus a few in the ground in the front flowerbed every year. Long ago, I would freeze so many that I would end up with a lot still frozen when the peppers would start ripening, so one year I weighed everything that I froze, then weighed the leftovers, to see about how many of each type I used, then after that, I froze that many of each, plus about 20%. One good thing is that freezing in vacuum sealed bags will keep the peppers for a few years, and I'll skip a year with something, if I freeze a lot - gives me space for new varieties. I did that with the aji dulce this year - just one plant produced a huge number of frozen and dried.
Eggplants I only grow 6 of now in the SIPs, and have way more than I need every year - the reason I found out about dehydrating eggplants. I used to grow 16 eggplants every season, and never dehydrated any.
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Post by octave1 on Jun 21, 2021 15:41:55 GMT -5
Every year I start out thinking of downsizing, but by the end of May I always have more plants than I anticipated. This year I have some 20 tomato plants and a lot of pepper plants (14) because all the seeds I sowed sprouted. This year is also the first time that I have no tomato sauce/products left from the previous season because we managed to eat it all, which means that I will have to make more than I did last year. Hopefully 20 plants will give me what I need.
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Post by paquebot on Jun 21, 2021 18:34:54 GMT -5
For tomatoes, I think that the total is 69, and that is 34 varieties. Only 2 are repeat from the past. Already have a waiting list for anything that we don't need. We'll need a medium-size batch of sauce, a sloppy Joe batch, and lots of V-8 juice.
Peppers ended up with 27 sweet and 11 hot. Most of the sweet ones will be diced and frozen. Hottest ones for Nigerian friend and milder ones for chili powder.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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