Topic: Tomatoes

[deboydoyd]

Having no transport at present and somehow managing to end up with 60 or so tomato plants ready to be planted in buckets on top of growbags I was wondering if you can use soil in the bucket as getting adequate amounts of compost to our allotment is proving somewhat difficult. I presume it may lead to increase risk of disease, then again I'm planting some outside and they go in the soil!!

[saddad]

Soil is what they would grow in normally! It only becomes a problem if you use the same soil over and over again, like in a greenhouse border. Rotate the soil or the position of the plants on the plot and you should be ok.

We have about 200 hundred tom plants for tomorrow's plant sale and any that aren't bought are going straight into the soil..
Then we might be able to sell some toms in ea Sept!
 8)

[Merry Tiller]

Normal soil in a container goes sour very quickly and the structure isn't ideal, it compacts badly and won't allow air through.