This logic and be used in many things but tomatoes is one of the things i started my post-uni life with so that the best terminology to speak about as the concept is there. This terminolgy culminate all the things I was say all this time to this point.
cycle of planting exponential curve.
1. lag phase where you plant it and you don't know if you're going to get anything
2. when you see the plant comes up and you see one and two of the fruits and here you wonder if you'll get enough to eat.
3. this is the part what will happen is there will be a bunch that comes up and then you can have a quality meal from the plant you reaped, and some left over. This is where the exponential phase occurs. as you'll always have an excess as long as you alone eating the fruit. use this time to store as much as you can in whatever way possible. then when you store it. you'll always have extra leftover. you can give to close family, then to close friends. then maybe to strangers.
4. following the quantity vs quality here the thing you planted will be so much quality that it has a value, and you make get some dollars from it.
5. here is the plateau because doing 3-4 you'll eventually use as much as being produced, then after you'll use more than is produced. then the plant will finish and that would be the end of the plant seasons.
using the logic of don't compare a person's first year to your 4th year. what will happen is if apply these steps. you'll have enough of that plant stored up to satisfy you for the next year. so, what will happened is the first year you are approaching from a mindset of scarcity. the next year you are approaching from a mindset of abundance. and what happens is the plants this time around may have more time to grow then repeating steps 1-4 you'll have a bigger plant the next time around and better quality of the same product as you are not relying on it much as food but more as a commodity now that increase your quality of life.