High Yield Tomato Plants: 50-80 lbs per Plant

Learn how to get 50-80 lbs of tomatoes from every tomato plant. Planting a garden can be a lot of fun but get a harvest is really what it is all about. Follow these steps to dramatically improve your tomato harvest.

1. Buy the right plants for your area. Talk with the Master Gardener association or university agriculture extension in your area.
2. Lay plants on their side so the tips will grow upwards.
3. Dig a trench and bury all but the top 3 inches.
4. Add 1/4-1/2 cup slow release fertilizer, like cotton seed meal, Osmocote, etc., to the trench.
5. Build a 5 foot high 2 foot diameter cage around each plant.
6. Cover cage on the sides and on top with "floating row cover" (a light polyester material) or plastic to protect from wind and weather until plants are large and strong and weather is warm.
7. Weekly apply water soluble fertilizer, like Rapid Grow or Miracle Grow, through a hose-end fertilizer applicator on the leaves.
8. When plants have set their first cluster of fruit, side dress with two to three tablespoons of ammonium sulfate and water well.
9. Pick tomatoes when 30% ripe to avoid the birds from eating them.
10. Do not put tomatoes in the refrigerator. Keep on the kitchen counter.

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[jboze3]

Do you prune your tomato plants? I've read that they should be pruned into one main stem until it gets closer to the top.

[LDSPrepper]

@jboze3 For our determinate plants we only remove the suckers. For the non-determinates we prune for one main stem. The more pruning you do the less fruit you will get.

[bryncomeaux]

my wife keeps eating all my tomatoes before i can get to them . do you have some sort of organic solution to keep wives away from tomatoes . I hears a quick slurry of poverty and alcohol usually does the trick but im not sure if its organic.

[LDSPrepper]

@bryncomeaux LOL. Have you tried giving her chocolates instead? :)

[alan30189]

I heard another tip recently to keep birds from eating your tomatoes. Birds are after the moisture in the tomato. They don't really like to eat them. They said to keep a bird bath near your garden for the birds and that would solve the problem. I plan to try this this year.

[LDSPrepper]

@alan30189 Sounds great. We tried that last year to no avail. Please let us know how that goes.

[alan30189]

Your dog pissed on your planter at 9:30! A little extra nitrogen for that plant. :-)

[alan30189]

Those cages make it difficult and time consuming to pick the tomatoes. The larger tomatoes will not fit through the 2"x4' spaces.

[LDSPrepper]

@lillypondlane33 I have heard that from others. I'll definitely have to do that. Thanks

[lillypondlane33]

try organic heirloom tomatoes.... the taste of them will have you hooked~