I had my first ever tomato plant this year and I got at least 48 tomatoes off it. It was in a container on my deck.
I made Salsa with the first 2 dozen, and then the next week I made a sweet cherry salsa with the other 2 dozen.
I also had a cherry tomato plant in a topsy turvy planter.
Not bad for my first try and growing something edible.
Only problem, I didn't water consistently and got yellow shoulder on most of the tomatoes or they had cracks on the tops of them.
I also had something called tomato spotted wilt virus. It made the leaves turn purple and most of the later blooms just dropped off the plant.
And then a tornado came through our area about a week and half ago and finished it off. LOL