There's no set number for average yield per tomato plant that I could sit and assign a number to because it varies a great deal from one variety to another and from one year to another. I think you might ask your local TAMU extension agent and see if he or she knows an average yield in pounds for your area because the yield is affected so much by soil and by weather conditions.

I figured you'd say that. Lol. It's hard to put a number to stuff like this. Trying to get it all together for tomorrow.

Well I think maybe closer to 15pounds than 30. Just my estimation but the only tomato plant ever to produce over 20 is a sun gold or TX wild cherry but who would want to pick that many tiny tomatoes. Lol. ?millions last year. The birds had the best time with that vine. And my porters. They are the best producer here. My big tomatoes just can't match up.

I would bet my Early Girl has 10 pounds on it right now. Over the course of a season, through fall, I would think it could do 30 pounds. None of my others are anywhere close in production, and of course Early Girl is a hybrid. In my garden, it seems position is everything. EG is in the best soil. Things in the new beds are struggling. Arkansas traveler might do that much over the season.

This is my first year doing early girl and Arkansas traveler. And jet star seems to be an overachiever. Since all my plants had a little setback it will be interesting year.

Amy, location in my garden makes a difference, too. Believe it or not, the row that gets the least sun, and the row that gets the most sun are the two most productive rows. It makes no sense. I think I actually get really good production with the 6 hours of direct light, and whatever partial sun/shade/indirect they get.

My Jetstar is doing well, too. I have 2 8 foot beds that make up a 16 foot length east to west that has 10 tomato plants. These beds were new dirt last year and things didn't grow well. East bed was my compost pile over winter and west had Austrian winter peas and rye in it. I bought the early girl as a Dawn style early sacrificial. It is in the south east corner of the east bed. It could be the varieties I'm growing, but they are tallest on the east and and shortest on the north west end. The ones in the new-this-year bed are pretty much a loss. Already pulled one. I should get to taste each, which was kind of the point. Determinates are growing in straw bales over the low spot that tends to stay wet. 2 in the middle are goners, eveything else looks fine. I am impatient to find out how everthing tastes and produces this way, but I am not sure about starting new plants. I'm going to put something else in the new bed, so I will end up with tomatoes and no place to put them...again. So I am scaling back on those plans, and then I remember how bad the plants can look in July and I waver again. Jeez, I think I'll go plant the new flower bed that finally has dirt in it.