my boyfriend planted about 20 plants in the yard and I have another 7 or 8 in pots on the porch. We don't have a huge harvest every day but he's the only one eating them anyway. I usually pick a few whenever I am going to my parents' house. Their neighbor goes nuts over the homegrown tomatoes, even though ours are rather small. It's just nice to grow things sometimes, even when I myself don't eat them. We had a jalepeno plant that put out peppers until early December last year. I had a bunch of giant sunflowers too, but they were just the lucky ones that fell out of the feeder and weren't devoured by squirrels.