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Monday, April 07, 2008

2007/2008 Tomato Harvest Summary

As I did last year, I kept track of the tomatoes picked in the 2007/2008 season. So far, I've picked 542 "good" tomatoes this season, weighing in at about 33.8 kg. The table below summarises the "good" crop.

In addition to numbers picked, I've included the total weights of fruits picked from the individual plants. This year I didn't bother keeping track of the "bad" fruit - i.e. those that were diseased and thus picked early and discarded.



"Good" Tomatoes
Plant IDTotal Weight (grams)Number pickedAverage Weight (grams)
A23666.00
A32045.00
B180180.00
B25551732.65
B4422.00
B551510.20
C075175.00
C112451773.24
C211901674.38
C34551237.92
C443157855.32
D1265833.12
D2185537.00
D316702957.59
D421253757.43
E1395498.75
E2327022148.64
E3274517161.47
E4259514185.36
E5270645.00
E630203586.29
F114454333.60
F218704640.65
F311774029.43
F410382639.92
F58801088.00
F6212021100.95
G125125.00
G2225732.14
G34201235.00
TOTAL3376654262.30


This season was quite a bit shorter than both the 2004/2005 and 2006/2007 seasons. The 2005/2006 season was a write-off (see earlier posts for more details). By early March I had removed all but one plant. Despite the shortened season, the total weight of edible tomatoes picked was more than 2004/2005. However, it fell well short of the bumper harvest of last season (2006/2007).

2004/2005 Tomato Harvest Summary

I've finally got round to summarising the tomatoes harvested back in the 2004/2005 season. The weights were written down on paper, but I hadn't entered them into my computer for analysis.

The summary is nowhere near as detailed as that for later years, since I didn't keep records for each plant. Instead I just recorded the weights and the crop. As a refresher, here are the two crops I planted back in 2004/2005:

* Crop 1: Zio Pasquale's seedlings, (15: mixed beefsteak, grosse lisse, whatever) planted in September 2004
* Crop 2: Costolato di Marmande, 5 seedlings, planted in January 2005

Also I should mention that I didn't start weighing the tomatoes until a few weeks into harvesting, so I had to estimate the number picked and assume were the average weight of the weighed tomatoes.




"Good" Tomatoes
CropTotal Weight (grams)Number pickedAverage Weight (grams)
Crop 1: Zio Pasquale's seedlings23968125191.74
Crop 2: Costolato di Marmande19602870.0
TOTAL25928153169.46


The average yield for each plant in crop 1 was a bit over 8 tomatoes, and 1597 grams. The average yield for each plant in crop 2 was 5.6 tomatoes, and 392 grams. The combined average yield: 7.6 tomatoes and 1296 grams per plant.

Comparison with recent years is a little distorted, due to the different varieties that made up the crops.

It's also worth noting that the harvest period went from late December to early May. This is very similar to 2006/2007, which is the best season to date on all counts: total number of tomatoes, total weight and length of harvest.