I’ve made a mistake. I planted 20 tomato plants, and fear this will be far more than I can ever use. I guess everyone I know is getting tomatoes.
I’ve made a mistake. I planted 20 tomato plants, and fear this will be far more than I can ever use. I guess everyone I know is getting tomatoes.
by Legend_of_the_Wind
44 Comments
BroadAd807
Those are some nice looking tomatoes!
Sporkwonder
I would give anything to get one of your plants yield.
Gingin3678
Those are beautiful! What’s the variety?
Successful-Letter-53
Can some.
aelfscinu
We purposefully planted about 20 plants hoping to get this many! Make salsa and tomato sauce and can it for the rest of the year!
SnooOpinions2561
Make tomato paste and freeze it
Leutenant-obvious
you’ve entered the “Oh God, What have I done!!” stage of the gardening season.
LaughingBlueDragon
Gorgeous!
Ok_Ordinary1877
Invest in herbs if you’re not growing and fire up the 10 gallon sauce bucket.
Teddys_lies
Roast them over charcoal with salt, pepper, and olive oil. Tastes amazing and freezes well.
PrestigiousLow6312
I grow way more than I can eat every year. I used to can them but started vacuum packing them and putting them in the freezer a number of years ago. Whenever I need tomatoes, I thaw out a bag and the skin comes right off. Great for anything that calls for stewed tomatoes or tomato sauce.
VegetableRound2819
They are looking so vibrant and healthy! I’ve taken more of a survival of the fittest approach this year and the results speak for themselves.
Red_Russ_001
Congrats! I started harvesting mine this week, and with 16 plants, I will have a ton. I make tons of stuff to freeze and can so I will not complain about the massive harvest.Also, keeping the neighbours happy always brings benefits to all!
CurrentDay969
I had to do a double take. Looks like my garden. Same mistake lol
TheBackyardGardener
Abundance is rarely a bad thing 🍅
Bindi_Bop
Freeze it all if you don’t want to can. Or dehydrate and make tomato powder also!
Significant-Ad-5073
Local food bank. Always in need of
Expert-Nose1893
2 plants is enough for my family of 3 and I’ve known that for a few years with that being said I also have 20 plants (again) but there’s no such thing as too many tomato’s atleast not in my household
NefariousnessThese30
Can some tomato sauce! It’s not hard to do, just a bit time consuming; but those tomatoes should ripen around the same time so you could get an amazing amount. I’m legit jealous 😂
Extreme_Ad1261
That is a beautiful sight! 😁
Make sauce, salsa, jam, etc. You can freeze it rather than can it. Except for the jam/marmalade, but that can keep a while in the fridge.
Civil-Cap6471
And all my plants are dead and I’ve started my second round. Here in San Antonio you better have gotten something by June 1 bc it’s too hot 🥵 after that.
CommercialExotic2038
I had wheelbarrows full of tomatoes my first year, trade them for other veggies
Electrical_Rush_2339
The first row is all canning tomatoes, can never have enough canners
adognameddanzig
Look up recipes for green tomatoes as well as fully ripe ones. I made a quiche with green ones and it was fantastic.
blaxxmo
I actually did something the same. I planted way too many seedlings, but I figured someone would die, and both survived. So I have about 20 tomato plants. Not as much fruit as yours as my fruit is still coming in, but yeah… Everybody’s getting tomatoes this year!
God, those are happy plants. Love the Florida weave. If you have the space, get yourself a chest freezer. Run the tomatoes through a food mill and freeze in quart jars with twice the headspace than you would leave if canning. Frozen is so much better tasting than canned and so much easier.
Ambitious_Design1478
I planted 4 this year and I’m drowning in tomatoes 😭 good luck to you.
ramsdl52
kitchenaid makes stand mixers. everyone knows that. what you might not know is there is a sauce making attachment you can use on all these tomatoes. no need to boil or peel the tomatoes. i just quarter mine and run it through. you’ll be left with pulp that i usually run through a second or even third time to get everything out. no seeds or skins end up in the sauce. its awesome. from there I boil down the sauce to the consistency I like and can it in mason jars. it sounds like a lot of work but with your yield you should be able do it in a weekend. I usually get the kids involved to help me harvest. then we go inside and i work the knife and let the kids take turns feeding the machine. then they help me taste the sauce for salt content and make sure its good. We sometimes will dehydrate the finished sauce and then grind it into a powder so you can use it like a seasoning. I like to add it to my rice.
thebluemorpha
People who overdid it with their gardens in my town have been leaving stuff out by their driveways with a free sign or dropping stuff off at the neighborhood center. I Love it! I got the most amazing onions from a driveway the other day.
Beautiful-Lie1239
Congratulations on the great harvest ahead! If I may suggest, please take off the lowest layer of leaves and those leaves that are inside/shaded, so the fruits will have better ventilation and not rot. The light will make the coloration better as well, and more flavor. The fruits need sun and air.
Helpful_Youth_4548
Those are sauce tomatoes, learn to can and freeze. That’s they are bred for.
tlbs101
You can donate some, freeze some (easier to make sauce later), eat a few, and can a lot when they ripen.
Based on past experience with the SuperSauce hybrid and how much tomato sauce we go through in a year, I planted 15 plants (plus 2 cherry and 1 grape in the greenhouse porch just for eating fresh). The SS hybrids are producing like yours, and I hope my calculations are correct.
CommandSilent728
Nice. Every year by the time 1st batch of tomatoes ripe, aphids, white files take over my tomatoes plant and dry it. No amount of water+soap+neem oil spray helps.
Any tips ?
HurleyGirly1224
Get your canning supplies ready!
1bunchofbananas
Make a year supply of pasta sauce
Smoke-Dawg-602
Don’t jinx this for yourself. Never count your chickens before they hatch. Many times I have been sitting where you are and had weather, disease, or critters wipe me old. Start using some now as fried green tomatoes to take some harvest pressure off down the road. You will also get better fruit quality by thinning them some.
Exciting-Baker-9901
My Zio said if you can plant twice as many next year he’ll buy the tomatoes off you for the passata 🤌
MoltenCorgi
I planted over 150 this year. This week my dentist, eye doctor, and nail tech are getting tomatoes. And I may run some over to the vets even though none of my pets have appts anytime soon. My parents popped by today and I handed them a basket and told them to get busy.
I’m about to show up to meet clients I’ve not met previously with tomatoes. My larger plants are only like 0.02% ripe but they are LOADED. Most of my harvest so far has been the cherries from my dwarf tomatoes.
HottieMcHotHot
I have to keep working on my technique. I have 32 (!!!!) plants out there that are all very happy and huge but not getting this kind of yield. This is amazing!
Commercial-Hour-2417
I do this every year. Ketchup, chutney, sun-dried, just freeze whole bags of them for later, and to use a TON at once make tomato paste; boil many pounds of them for hours then bake.
Express_Can1194
I did the same thing this year. I have planted 26 tomato plants from the seed that I started and I am realizing it now that it was a huge mistake. Granted, I did four different varieties so I know I can eat a lot of them but just today I picked 36 tomatoes. After eating 10 I said to myself well self everyone that I know is getting so many tomatoes so I feel your pain.
socalquestioner
I have 4 cherry tomato’s that are going gangbusters here in Texas.
Damn squirrels killed my others.
blurryrose
My mom did this once. She ended up making the best, most deliciously flavorful tomato paste that ever existed
softysoaps
You can freeze tomato products, fyi. I mean, you might need a chest freezer for this number, but still.
44 Comments
Those are some nice looking tomatoes!
I would give anything to get one of your plants yield.
Those are beautiful! What’s the variety?
Can some.
We purposefully planted about 20 plants hoping to get this many! Make salsa and tomato sauce and can it for the rest of the year!
Make tomato paste and freeze it
you’ve entered the “Oh God, What have I done!!” stage of the gardening season.
Gorgeous!
Invest in herbs if you’re not growing and fire up the 10 gallon sauce bucket.
Roast them over charcoal with salt, pepper, and olive oil. Tastes amazing and freezes well.
I grow way more than I can eat every year. I used to can them but started vacuum packing them and putting them in the freezer a number of years ago. Whenever I need tomatoes, I thaw out a bag and the skin comes right off. Great for anything that calls for stewed tomatoes or tomato sauce.
They are looking so vibrant and healthy! I’ve taken more of a survival of the fittest approach this year and the results speak for themselves.
Congrats! I started harvesting mine this week, and with 16 plants, I will have a ton. I make tons of stuff to freeze and can so I will not complain about the massive harvest.Also, keeping the neighbours happy always brings benefits to all!
I had to do a double take. Looks like my garden. Same mistake lol
Abundance is rarely a bad thing 🍅
Freeze it all if you don’t want to can. Or dehydrate and make tomato powder also!
Local food bank. Always in need of
2 plants is enough for my family of 3 and I’ve known that for a few years with that being said I also have 20 plants (again) but there’s no such thing as too many tomato’s atleast not in my household
Can some tomato sauce! It’s not hard to do, just a bit time consuming; but those tomatoes should ripen around the same time so you could get an amazing amount. I’m legit jealous 😂
That is a beautiful sight! 😁
Make sauce, salsa, jam, etc. You can freeze it rather than can it. Except for the jam/marmalade, but that can keep a while in the fridge.
And all my plants are dead and I’ve started my second round. Here in San Antonio you better have gotten something by June 1 bc it’s too hot 🥵 after that.
I had wheelbarrows full of tomatoes my first year, trade them for other veggies
The first row is all canning tomatoes, can never have enough canners
Look up recipes for green tomatoes as well as fully ripe ones. I made a quiche with green ones and it was fantastic.
I actually did something the same. I planted way too many seedlings, but I figured someone would die, and both survived. So I have about 20 tomato plants. Not as much fruit as yours as my fruit is still coming in, but yeah… Everybody’s getting tomatoes this year!
https://preview.redd.it/etwnj7l9opff1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90f8a3ad30e80b7e8f3b4f5b0ab625404dfb66cc
God, those are happy plants. Love the Florida weave. If you have the space, get yourself a chest freezer. Run the tomatoes through a food mill and freeze in quart jars with twice the headspace than you would leave if canning. Frozen is so much better tasting than canned and so much easier.
I planted 4 this year and I’m drowning in tomatoes 😭 good luck to you.
kitchenaid makes stand mixers. everyone knows that. what you might not know is there is a sauce making attachment you can use on all these tomatoes. no need to boil or peel the tomatoes. i just quarter mine and run it through. you’ll be left with pulp that i usually run through a second or even third time to get everything out. no seeds or skins end up in the sauce. its awesome. from there I boil down the sauce to the consistency I like and can it in mason jars. it sounds like a lot of work but with your yield you should be able do it in a weekend. I usually get the kids involved to help me harvest. then we go inside and i work the knife and let the kids take turns feeding the machine. then they help me taste the sauce for salt content and make sure its good. We sometimes will dehydrate the finished sauce and then grind it into a powder so you can use it like a seasoning. I like to add it to my rice.
People who overdid it with their gardens in my town have been leaving stuff out by their driveways with a free sign or dropping stuff off at the neighborhood center.
I Love it! I got the most amazing onions from a driveway the other day.
Congratulations on the great harvest ahead! If I may suggest, please take off the lowest layer of leaves and those leaves that are inside/shaded, so the fruits will have better ventilation and not rot. The light will make the coloration better as well, and more flavor. The fruits need sun and air.
Those are sauce tomatoes, learn to can and freeze. That’s they are bred for.
You can donate some, freeze some (easier to make sauce later), eat a few, and can a lot when they ripen.
Based on past experience with the SuperSauce hybrid and how much tomato sauce we go through in a year, I planted 15 plants (plus 2 cherry and 1 grape in the greenhouse porch just for eating fresh). The SS hybrids are producing like yours, and I hope my calculations are correct.
Nice. Every year by the time 1st batch of tomatoes ripe, aphids, white files take over my tomatoes plant and dry it. No amount of water+soap+neem oil spray helps.
Any tips ?
Get your canning supplies ready!
Make a year supply of pasta sauce
Don’t jinx this for yourself. Never count your chickens before they hatch. Many times I have been sitting where you are and had weather, disease, or critters wipe me old. Start using some now as fried green tomatoes to take some harvest pressure off down the road. You will also get better fruit quality by thinning them some.
My Zio said if you can plant twice as many next year he’ll buy the tomatoes off you for the passata 🤌
I planted over 150 this year. This week my dentist, eye doctor, and nail tech are getting tomatoes. And I may run some over to the vets even though none of my pets have appts anytime soon. My parents popped by today and I handed them a basket and told them to get busy.
I’m about to show up to meet clients I’ve not met previously with tomatoes. My larger plants are only like 0.02% ripe but they are LOADED. Most of my harvest so far has been the cherries from my dwarf tomatoes.
I have to keep working on my technique. I have 32 (!!!!) plants out there that are all very happy and huge but not getting this kind of yield. This is amazing!
I do this every year. Ketchup, chutney, sun-dried, just freeze whole bags of them for later, and to use a TON at once make tomato paste; boil many pounds of them for hours then bake.
I did the same thing this year. I have planted 26 tomato plants from the seed that I started and I am realizing it now that it was a huge mistake. Granted, I did four different varieties so I know I can eat a lot of them but just today I picked 36 tomatoes. After eating 10 I said to myself well self everyone that I know is getting so many tomatoes so I feel your pain.
I have 4 cherry tomato’s that are going gangbusters here in Texas.
Damn squirrels killed my others.
My mom did this once. She ended up making the best, most deliciously flavorful tomato paste that ever existed
You can freeze tomato products, fyi. I mean, you might need a chest freezer for this number, but still.