Thursday, April 24, 2008

2007 Tomato Totals Analysis

First off, people are amazed that I count tomatoes. “You count them??? Don't you have anything better to do?”

It's really not time consuming. You pick 'em, and place them all on the kitchen counter. Then you count them and record the amount and date on 3 x 5 cards. I got challenged to make a database with the results, so I transferred the 3 x 5 card results to electronic form. Not time consuming at all.

Several numbers jump out. Snow White's 1771 tomatoes is amazing. The tomato is about 3 or 4 times larger than SunGold Cherry and doesn't have the cracking problems of SunGold. The Garden Peach total was in reality two plants, but then again, they were crowding each other.

As mentioned previously, the Husky Cherry Red total of 1116 is tremendous given the small stature of the plant. Red Currant (388) was constrained by being in a container – we may double or triple that with this years plant.

Another impressive number is 160 Mr. Stripeys. That's a lot, considering this was a beefsteak tomato. We had several over a pound.


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