How many tomato plants per Bounty Unity

I would go with the 2 heirlooms.

Uh-oh ... I planted 7 AG Heirloom Cherry Tomato pods in a new Bounty two weeks ago and they are growing nicely now.  Sounds like I need two more Bountys.  I wish the top of the Farm 24 Plus was 8 inches lower so it would fit under the table now covered with Bountys.  My better half won’t let me put the table legs up on 8 inch concrete blocks 

Thank you!  My first bounty is on its  second month.  I made the newbie mistake of planting 4 tomatoes, basil and minty.  It is way too crowded but I knew my first venture would be trial and  error and I wanted to make sure that I could maintain the garden easily.  I am going to try to remove 2 of them and just leave the basil.

Now I am looking at getting my second one and using the bounty for lettuce and herbs- maybe with a second bounty.  How much extra work goes into the farm?  That looks like my best bet for tomatoes but I want to make sure that the water changes are not too difficult and I won't make a mess all over the floor.

While I don’t have a farm, I do have a Bounty on the floor under a table completely covered in Bountys and AeroVoirs.  I use 2 battery operated pumps, one for clean water only and the other for dirty water only to minimize cross contamination.  I have two 7 gallon jugs that I got on Amazon for $14 each, again one for clean water only and the other for dirty water only.  I pump water out of the Bountys into the dirty water jug on the floor and pump clean water into the Bountys from the clean water jug on the floor instead of lifting gallons of water over top of the front row of Bountys to fill the rear row.  I don't usually fill the 7 gallon jugs full (which would be 56 Lbs) but it is nice to have reserve capacity when I want it, especially since my reverse-osmosis system only stores 3 gallons and it takes 3 hours for it to make another 3 gallons and I change the water in all Bountys on the first Sunday of every month. My Bounty reservoirs currently total 6.5 gallons and each has its own AeroVoir to keep the water levels optimum. Topping off the AeroVoirs under my RO spigot once a week, when I add nutrients every Sunday, is easier than pouring water into the back-row Bountys every day. 

I took advantage of AeroGarden’s $249 deal on the Bounty Elite Artisan this morning and ordered two to spread out the 7 tomato plants that I currently have in one Bounty.  I am thinking that the tomatoes, being flowering plants, will get an extra kick out of the 50 watt light in the Elite as opposed to the 40 watts in my regular Bountys.  

I might regret this, but now that I saw your post about that excellent deal, I bought one.

My only other Bounty is the 30W Basic - I don't want to imagine how bright this will be.

Wow, fldave! It looks like you are running a U Pick tomato farm! What abundance!!!

I may have to try that just for fun.  We are fresh salad lovers here though and are eating huge salads everyday from this garden.   I suspect that we’ll just be tossing the tomatoes into the salads, using them to make bruschetta on the homemade bread that we bake weekly these days, snacking on caprese using fresh-picked basil or cook them in our “One Pot Cheesy Italian Pasta And Chicken” dish.  I also pick at all of the harvestable plants in the garden daily as I tend it, taste-testing everything plant-to-mouth, and these tomatoes are definitely pop-in-the-mouth bite-sized.

The flowering has slowed down dramatically as the fruits mature so I suspect the harvesting phase will be short-lived. I have never grown a tomato plant before so I’m not clear of the duration or repetition rate of these events.  I am just having loads of fun learning something new and harvesting the fruits of my labor.

It is funny that you mention that clumsythumbs ... I just spent the last few days filling the empty spaces between my back-to-back Bountys with Kratky planters.  I had to be careful not to pinch-off the water that flows through the AeroVoir tubing that is routed through there as well.  I made little plastic platforms that fit the space with double-sticky-taped wood cube legs to let the tubing and power wires route freely under the platforms supporting the Kratky planters.  I also long ago discovered that a Harvest-360 fits nicely into the four-corners region of four Bountys clustered together both on top of and under my 24”x48” table.  Oh by the way, I also replaced the 28” legs on the table with 34.5” (Adjustable to 35.5”) high legs so I can now fit two Farm 24 Pluses back-to-back under the table in the future if I decide to keep expanding. I would then have to figure out what to do with five Bountys, one Harvest 360, and a bunch of Kratky planters that are currently in that space.  In the near term, the new legs allow me to fully extend the light hoods on the Bountys that I currently have under the table growing cucumbers and peas back-to-back sharing a 30” high A-frame trellis, pepper plants and tomatoes.