On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 22:39:24 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 8/3/2015 9:39 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 8/3/2015 3:34 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 8/2/2015 10:42 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> My question is this, do you all prune your tomato vines? I just
>>>> put square wire cages around them and let them go. I've heard
>>>> of people pruning them so they grow more tomatoes on more linear
>>>> vines.
>>
>>> I met a grower that did some work for Campbell's years ago. He says a
>>> good plant in proper soil should yield a bushel of fruit. I never got
>>> half that.
>>
>> A bushel! Clearly I'm doing something wrong. Ha. I get a
>> good amount from my plants, enough to freeze some and maybe give
>> the neighbors some, but a bushel per plant? Not even close.
>>
>> nancy
>>
>
>This was in New Jersey where they have some of the best growing
>conditions for tomatoes. I could never come close on the total of my
>plants let alone one.


The tomatoes grown for the commercial purposes of Campbell's would
vary greatly from backyard gardener types. They need high yield,
easily picked, all similarly sized fruit. Flavor takes a back seat.

Although I must say that we call it the Garden State for a reason.