Growbags

Hi folks. This will be my first year 'proper' for growing tomatoes in the greenhouse. What I'd like to know is, is it worth paying the extra for those larger growbags ? I've seen them from £1.50 for the smaller ones,up to around £3.50 for those larger ones. I reckon I'll be able to put around 8 growbags in there, 2 plants per growbag. Cheers...freddy.

 

I'm not mad about growbags. Hard to get the watering right. Personally I would get some large (12" - maybe a bit bigger) pots and fill them with Growbag "compost". If you have a conservatory (i.e. which is more sheltered / warmer than your greenhouse) then you can grow the Toms [in 12" pots] up to about 4 foot, and have them relatively close together, in the Conservatory and then move to the Greenhouse in, say, 1st week of June - they'll be a lot further ahead than ones in a cold greenhouse. It would be hard to do that if they were planted in grow bags.

 

Freddy, Westland planters are very good, I`ve used them for all sorts.:gnthb:

 

Mine are going in the hammock as usual, they`ll keep last years strawberry plants company

 

When I put tomatoes in growbags (which I do outside -- my gh has an earth floor) I use those rings of fibreboard planter things on top. It gives the tomato roots somewhere to go. I sink a 3" flower pot into the growbag itself and water into that. Seems to work. I'll have to see if I have any photos as it's much easier to show than explain

I have used Aldi 99p organic peat free growbags quite successfully with this method.

Steve

 

Hi folks, thanks for the replies. Kristen (with a big 'K' ), my only option really is what I'm doing, starting them off/growing on in a cold g/h. Dai, they're a bit pricey ! £5 a hit. That'd be around £40, hmm. Steve, last year (although late) I managed to grow a few toms in the greenhouse. What I did was to use some pots that Asda were giving away (they use them to hold their cut flowers) which I cut the bottoms off and pushed into the tops of the growbags. Then I filled these with J.I. No3, planting the toms into these. By only putting in 2 plants per growbag, this allowed me to push in another of the said pots, and water into this. Seemed pretty effective. Cheers...freddy.

 

hi Freddy, My mum had a lot of success with toms last year using the same sort of idea. She bought some bottomless pot thingies with a ring around for watering, and filled them with topsoil & sat them on top of growbags. The toms grew down through the soil & rooted into the growbags. She got 3 to a bag and they were really brilliant. Good luck!