How many tomatoes will a normal "beefeater" plant give in a year?
Question:Growing said plant in Florida. Have already received one with many more on the way...
Answers:
Do you mean Beefsteak? I think beefeater is a kind of gin.
The yield depends on alot of things. The quality of the soil, how much water the plant has recieved, are you pinching off the suckers? Is the plant staked or in a cage?
Etc.
To get the most tomatoes, you would grow the plant in rich organic soil, provide it plenty of water, don't pinch any of hte suckers and grow it in a cage. The tomatoes will be smaller but there will be more of them.
Some people are religous about pinching off all of the suckers. When you do that the plant grows more straight up and down, produces fewer tomatoes, but the ones that it does produce are much bigger. These plants are usually held up with a stake, not a cage.
Even with this info, there is no set # that I can give you. It varies plant to plant.
Depends on the soil, conditions, and especially how well you fertilize and prune it, a plant can easily give you at least 10 or so.
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