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Monday, January 11, 2010

2008/2009 Tomato Harvest Summary

As I do each year, I kept track of the tomatoes picked in the 2008/2009 season. For various reasons, I haven't had the chance to report the yield results until now. In total, I picked 945 "good" tomatoes this season, weighing in at just under 57.5 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. 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)
A17451074.5
A2223518124.17
A3209018116.11
A423252593.0
A540504296.43
B116452178.33
B2511544116.25
B36204812.92
B4454542108.21
B5523544118.98
C0109912.11
C1403537109.05
C247105585.64
C32742411.42
C4449011240.09
C527557138.8
D110301473.57
D2283024117.92
D313469614.02
D4372010336.12
D535908840.8
TOTAL5749494560.84


This season was my second best so far in terms of total yield. At 57.5 kg, the yield was not quite as much as the yield for the 2006/2007 season (61.4 kg). The total number of tomatoes picked (945) fell well short of the total in the 2006/2007 season (1312). However, the average yield per plant was much better: in 2006/2007 I planted 42 seedlings, producing on average 1.46 kg of tomatoes per plant, while in 2008/2009 the average yield for the 21 seedlings was 2.74 kg. It's unfortunate that the heatwave in late January/early February 2009 brought the productive capacity of the plants to a premature end.

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