Tomatoes & Peppers: Cherry Tomato Harvest, 1 by DonShirer

DonShirer wrote:
Here is a chart showing the yield per plant from my cherry tomatoes this year in Zone 6. As you can see if you click on it, Moravsky Div earned the early season honors, Riesentraube and Sungold pumped out fruit for a long time starting in midseason, and Pink PingPong and Black Cherry took over in mid-August. Actually there are still loads of fruit on the Black Cherry which may ripen before our soon-to-be expected frosts. All of these were good to eat, with Black Cherry getting the prize for best taste and biggest plant (it drooped way over the top of my 6-ft cages).

I'll grow all of these again except perhaps the Sungolds, which were very sweet but over a third of them cracked on the vine. I think I will try Sun Sugar next year instead.

The Red Pear produced a bunch of crunchy fruit that were fun to put in salads, but then declined quickly (even though the seller listed it as indeterminate) and only grew a few tiny tomatoes too small to use.

Multiplying the total yield by the average weight of each variety, SunGold and Red Pear plants grew about 41 ounces of fruit, while Pink PingPong and Moravsky Div produced about 51 ounces. Black Cherry and Riesentraube were the heavyweights with 56 and 59 oz respectively (The Riesentraube was in a 5 gallon container--it grew only about 4-5 ft high).