Table 3.

Fresh weight of biomass (FW), total dry weight (DW) and total fruit per plant and fruit weight (Yield) per plant of tomatoes growing in soil (S), and two hydroponic systems; deep water culture (DWC) and drip irrigation (DI).

Parameter	Growth environment			Growth environment
	Polytunnel experiment (2018)			Glasshouse experiment (2019)
	DWC	DI	S	DWC	DI	S
FW (g)	594.69 ± 172.5	649.8 ± 128.4	739.4 ± 174.9	405 ± 67.6	351 ± 48.4	389.9 ± 132.4
DW (g)	41.7 ± 9.9b	49.9 ± 7.9ab	57.6±12.5a	24.9±8.6	17.1±4.7	23.5±9.4
Yield (g)	138.1 ± 52.5b	399.5 ± 127.3a	247.1 ± 159.2ab	401.3 ± 14.8	411.1 ± 15.7	379.4 ± 51.8
Fruit per plant	3.0 ± 0.0b	3.7 ± 0.5a	3.3 ± 0.5ab	4.0 ± 0.0	4.0 ± 0.0	4.0 ± 0.0

Means with standard errors were calculated from 7 replicates. Each replicate comprised a maximum of 4 but sometimes 3 fruits.