Tomato Growing Thread 2012

Me too FC. My 9 indoor Maskotkas (description=Dwarf,compact basket variety) are now 13 inches tall and I can just see the beginnings of the first flowers deep inside the growth stem. I don't know how to stop them either!!
Jenny namaste

 

No use whatsoever BUT the only good thing about a growbag is the profit it makes for its producer!

Bucket with holes drilled into bottom, compost fill, plant and "hey presto"

"Simples"

 

Go to Morrisons,( possibly tesco asda etc), They sell the large flower buckets,8 for 99p

Carefull drilling holes in the base as they can split, best to use a bradawl or burn holes in (The buckets are usually below the table in the fresh cut flower section, bound in yellow tape in packs of eight)

Jack McHammocklashing

 

You can cut a growbag in half, and stand each half "on end" to make two "pots" for Tomatoes, if you like. That will give you a nice deep "pot". Make sure they don't topple over though! A Tomato plant fully laden with fruit is very heavy, and unstable ...

Or use some other sort of pot, and tip the contents of the grow bag into it - I have used grow bags as a source of compost, in this way, in the past, but only if they worked out cheaper than buying some other form / brand of Multi purpose compost

I now grow Tomatoes directly in the border soil of my greenhouse (because they need watering less often), but when I grew them in pots I used a 12" diameter pot, so I would be wary of using anything narrower than that.

 

Yeah result, It was Scrungee who put me onto it good in it
Mind about putting holes in the base, bradawl or sharp stanley knife, a drill may split them if you push it through

Regards

Jack McH

 

I use a flat wood bit at slow speed with some wood tightly pressed to the other side of the plastic base to prevent the base from breaking up.

Does anybody use these flower buckets around tomatoes with the bottoms completely cut off, as the Sankey ones are over £1 each even at Wilkos.

 

I've bought loads of the cut flower buckets from Morrisons over the last 18 months, they're approx 5-7 litre size at a guess??

I've had two different sizes, some deeper than others.

I've managed to drill the holes ok, but don't put too much pressure on otherwise they will split as Jack says.

Last time I bought some they were the last spare ones and I got about 15 for £1...

 

What a bargain thread this is turning out to be !! This will help keep the cost of toms down

 

Help!! I have pooted on into 13cm x 13cm pots and they are growing into spindly giants. I think that the dull weather hasn't helped but their final place is to be 2 x window boxes under the kitchen window. They have grown disappointingly tall. "Dwarf compact for the patio etc." At least they are all showing first set of flowers now. I'm thinking they may end up in pots on the ground as too tall for window box.