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.

2007 Tomato Totals By Tomato

SunGold -- 1791 tomatoes.
Snow White -- 1771 tomatoes.
Red Pear Italian -- 1218 tomatoes.
Garden Peach -- 1197 tomatoes.
Husky Cherry Red -- 1116 tomatoes.
Black Cherry -- 535 tomatoes.
Jaune Flamme -- 479 tomatoes.
Red Currant (in a container) -- 388 tomatoes.
Green Zebra -- 247 tomatoes.
Health Kick -- 234 tomatoes.
Red Lightning -- 207 tomatoes.
Green Grape (in a container) -- 203 tomatoes.
Mr. Stripey -- 160 tomatoes.
Speckled Roman (front yard) -- 156 tomatoes.
Noire Charbonneuse -- 137 tomatoes.
Kellogg's Breakfast -- 121 tomatoes.
Snow White (in a container) -- 109 tomatoes.
Heart of the Bull -- 109 tomatoes.
Roughwood Golden Tiger -- 107 tomatoes.
Box Car Willie -- 101 tomatoes.
Jeff Davis -- 74 tomatoes.
Omar's Lebanese -- 64 tomatoes.
Purple Calabash -- 62 tomatoes.
Patio (in a container) -- 56 tomatoes.
Mortgage Lifter -- 56 tomatoes.
Speckled Roman (back yard) -- 53 tomatoes.
Cherokee Purple -- 52 tomatoes.
Black Krim -- 52 tomatoes.
Taxi (in a container) -- 47 tomatoes.
Bush Big Boy -- 36 tomatoes.
Gargantua -- 31 tomatoes.
Homestead -- 15 tomatoes.
Mr. Brown -- 6 tomatoes.
Pink Ping Pong -- 0 tomatoes.

2007 Tomato Totals By Month

May 2007 -- 98 tomatoes.
June 2007 -- 1259 tomatoes.
July 2007 -- 6154 tomatoes.
August 2007 -- 2806 tomatoes.
September 2007 -- 647 tomatoes.
October 2007 -- 26 tomatoes.

Total: 10,990 tomatoes.

We stopped counting when we went on our three week honeymoon in October.

As mentioned earlier, Husky Cherry Red continued producing until January, putting us somewhere over 11,000 picked tomatoes for the year.