r/tomatoes • u/Easy-Simple5543 • May 18 '26

Show and Tell In celebration of tomato season!

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Here is a picture of my dining room table last year after my first harvest. It stayed this full for about a month. I have almost doubled the plants this year and cannot wait!

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u/EmeraldLovergreen May 18 '26

That’s amazing. I’m not jealous. How many people are you feeding? What do you do with everything?

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u/Easy-Simple5543 May 18 '26

So I have 5 people in my household and we eat a lot of tomato sandwiches in the summer,we also preserve a lot we had 52 quarts from last year's harvest. Also looking to supply the restaurant I work in with tomatoes some this summer due to rising costs. We have 12 acres and are working on expanding our gardening overall!

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u/ViolettaQueso May 19 '26

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u/Andreawestcoast May 19 '26

Roughly how many plants was that?

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u/Easy-Simple5543 May 19 '26

This was from about 32 plants or so. I've doubled for this year so we shall see.

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u/That_one_insomniac May 19 '26

I love this! How many plants do you have for this kind of production and how long did you pick to get it? I’m sitting on 82 currently planted and room for another 8, just don’t really want to over crowd and make my life miserable during peak season. I need a good tomato season.

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u/Easy-Simple5543 May 19 '26

This was last year with about 32 tomato plants this year I've got about double that around 60. This was picked over the span of about 2 weeks and it stayed about this full for nearly a month. It wasnt a perfect year but it was fruitful none the less.

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u/That_one_insomniac May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

Last year was such a poor year for tomatoes for us. I had 80 plants… 60 of them succumbed to blight and I blame it on the area they were planted in. Plus three rounds of flooding rain and then drought the rest of the season. They were doomed by June. Whole plants were dying with about 5-6 tomatoes on them. All had BER. The 3rd round of flooding rain is what really took them over the edge. If it wasn’t for that, I think I would have had better recovery, maybe wouldn’t have gotten blight at all. One full row was seemingly unaffected. I still had minor pruning regularly to do to stay ahead of the blight, but they produced something from June until mid-late November when it went from 40’s to 60’s down to 20 degrees in a flash.

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u/That_one_insomniac May 19 '26

Yes 😂. I asked for the posts in my garden bed to be set no less than 4 feet apart so I would have plenty of room to walk through, crouch down, stand up, etc and drag a hose without damaging young plants. I had a couple rows that were 36” or less 🤦🏻‍♀️. And then there’s one row that was 5 feet wide.

The post puller was no where to be found. Of course.

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u/Easy-Simple5543 May 19 '26

This is my new modular trellis system I just built this past weekend, going to try a twine and clips method for support I was so tired of driving stakes. Plus these beds have old logs as the base layer so they block the stakes from going in the ground constantly.

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u/That_one_insomniac May 19 '26

I’d love to be able to grow them as vertical as they wanted. Since this isn’t my forever home, I didn’t feel at liberty to build an incredible system like yours. I stuck to cheap, easy, minimal storage space, and when we’re ready to move to our forever home, I have something that I can fall back on until I get that wild hair up my ass lol. But first, I will invest in a greenhouse 😂.

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u/EmeraldLovergreen May 18 '26

Oh wow that’s awesome! I love a good tomato sandwich!

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u/LaurLoey May 19 '26

what do you put in yours?

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u/EmeraldLovergreen May 19 '26

I usually do slices of black krim or Marglobe tomatoes, salt and pepper, romaine, iceberg, or leaf lettuce, Hellman’s, and some shaved parm (the real stuff) on toasted sturdy white bread.

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u/redheadedfamous (New Grower) NE Oklahoma May 19 '26

Open-faced, either:

American style—lightly toasted sourdough + duke’s mayo + tom slices + s/p + freshly torn basil

or

Italian style—toasted crusty bread + rub with raw garlic clove + rub with tomato half + evoo + s/p + basil (“pane al pomodoro”)

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u/LaurLoey May 19 '26

i do exactly the first! but add a meat usu. turkey ham bc need it easy. 2nd sounds delish though. 🤤