Topic: another question! Tomato yield, does anyone keep records?

[betula]

Read the books you naughty little tomato growers and don't come back till you too have over 20lb off the first truss,can't see what the problem is myself. ::) :D ::)

[Larkshall]

Jeannine   the reason I listed the giant veg books because bowcock set  set record  of 20.25 lbs (9.1 kg)on single  tomato truss. He also set a potato yield record from single seed potato. 515 lb (234 kg).

 Charles Wilber grew 342 lbs of tomatoes on single plant.

Jeannine the bowcock book you can get out local library and
 Charles Wilber info has been posted on the web.

Libraries that own the Bowcock book.

   
1. British Library    Wetherby, W Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ United Kingdom
2. Buckinghamshire County Library    Buckinghamshire, HP20 1UU United Kingdom
3. Cambridge University    Cambridge, CB3 9DR United Kingdom
4. Kent County Council Arts & Library    West Malling Kent, ME19 4A1 United Kingdom
5. London Borough of Hamersmith & Fulham    London, W6 7AT United Kingdom
6. London Borough of Harrow    Harrow, HA1 2UU United Kingdom
7. London Borough of Lewisham    Lewisham, London, SE13 6TJ United Kingdom
8. Swansea City and County Council    Swansea, SA1 3SN United Kingdom
9.University of Oxford    Oxford, OX1 3LU United Kingdom
10.Trinity College, Dublin    Dublin, 2 Ireland

Cambridge University Library is not an open library. You can only borrow books if you are a member of the University.

When the Amateur Bush Tomato first became available I grew 24 plants from seed, I kept a record of the fruit picked, 2 1/4 cwt. That's a 114.5Kg or 4.77Kg per plant. I can't find any seed now.

[Jeannine]

That is interesting as tgg lives in the States LOL XX Jeannine

PS I have Amateur seed

[GrannieAnnie]

TGG It seems to me that one needs a lot of space to apply Wilbers methods (other than those that are just a matter of common sense). I suspect it would be totally impractical for me. Unless I had one or two giant plants, which would mean little variety of tomato and the loss of space for veg.  How many square feet do you allow per plant?

The "read it in a book" response is not just irksome but, given the nature of this forum, approaching ill manners  - unless of course you only know where the information is rather than what it is.

I wasn't familiar with the Wilber book so Googled around and read he recommends planting toms 5 feet apart!  Mine are more like 3 feet apart which I'll admit is too close yet they produced well (though not anything close to Wilber's). I'm uncertain about banking on fewer plants hoping for a heavier yield in case one gets diseased, eaten by horn worms etc.   After seeing how the brassicas have been decimated I might delete them next year in favor of more toms ala Wilber.

[thegreatgardener]

Larkshall If don't have access to Cambridge Uni there are always 9 other sources.

[Amazin]

Oh, that IS good news. Off you go then, don't let us keep you!

[Eristic]

And we are still waiting for the photos that were promised months ago.

Forum rules.

1. No photos, No bragging.
2. No bragging without photos.

[thegreatgardener]

Which photos are refurring since I may forgot when I got busy.

[davyw1]

Which photos are refurring since I may forgot when I got busy.

Re: How are your tomatoes doing!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #149 on: July 24, 2008, 17:47:38 » 

QUOTE THE GREATGARDENER.

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sorry all for not posting my pictures of my early set out set-up last weekend but my camera has been giving trouble I will post the pictures this weekend since I have lot on my plate till Sunday. some of are bit impatient but good things come to those who want and those who complain have no reason to since the set-up will not help this time year anyway.

I THINK THIS MAY MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO KEEP ANY CREDIBILITY YOU MAY HAVE LEFT.
So how about some photo,s of your set up and set out. We are all willing to learn and improve on our meathods, so help us get better results.

The ball is now firmly in your court

DavyW

[Larkshall]

PS I have Amateur seed

Hi Jeannine, where do you get them?

[Jeannine]

Not sure, I will search through the stash to see if it has a name on. XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

Hi, they are Chiltern  seeds. XX Jeannine