Topic: ring culture

[aebal]

Good morning,
 Can I grow other vegetables using ring culture such as cucumbers, peppers and chillies? in anticipation thankyou.

[littlebabybird]

i dont see why not.
lbb

[Trevor_D]

I was going to try peppers & aubergines this year. Normally I use 10" pots, but I was going to try a couple of each, just to see.

Mind you, the whole point of growing tomatoes this way is that you water the roots that grow into the aggregate, but feed the roots produced from the stem. Aubergines & peppers don't produce roots in that way. (Do they? Technical advice, Tee Gee, or someone?)

But I'm sure it would make watering more certain.

[Barnowl]

Probably a good idea for cucumber - they are prone to rotting at the base of the stem,

[Tee Gee]

Can I grow other vegetables using ring culture such as cucumbers, peppers and chillies? in anticipation thankyou.

Yes to all! plus tomatoes, squash, melons basically anything that can be grown in a pot!.

I have a greenhouse (I inherited) with a concrete floor so I grow all sorts in it.

I have had to use this method  in order to rotate my crops in each greenhouse rather than changing the border soil every year!

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Tomato/Tomato%20culture/tomato%20culture.html

[mummybunny]

Great pics Tee Gee very inspirational  ;D

[Hector]

Tee gee, what substrate are you using under your pots of compost with the ring culture method? Sorry if there's already a written explanation of that somewhere, I have looked :)
Are the pots totally "open" at the bottom?
I really find your site helpful.

[Tee Gee]

what substrate are you using under your pots of compost with the ring culture method?

You can use many things e.g. gravel, clay pellets or as in my case well rotted manure.

Basically anything that will hold moisture.

Are the pots totally "open" at the bottom?

Yes! They are sections of 9" diameter sewage pipes.

[Hector]

what substrate are you using under your pots of compost with the ring culture method?

Yes! They are sections of 9" diameter sewage pipes.

Thank you :)

That's an idea. I think we still jhave some of that left from when we did our drains.

[Hector]

Ok, got all the bottoms off poys....have any of you an opinion re ring cultured toms tastiness compared to pots embedded in grow bag approach taste? Reason I ask is some say ringculture is reason toms in shops tasteless due to easy water uptake?

[davyw1]

I don,t think commercial growers us ring culture i think they use an irrigation method. They are not to bothered about flavor only quantity, that's why the grow F1,s.
A number of years ago i was given a tomato to try and biting into it was immediately spit out it tasted of Jeys Fluid, his granson had watered them with a mix he had made up. So i think the tomato drinks up what fluid you give it.

[Hector]

Thanks Davy. I am more inclined to think it's the case of them being sat in cold storage as opposed to picked fresh, that is the problem. Anyhow, have planted out a greenhouse-load tonight...all ring culture :)

Regrding the Jeyes fluid-tasting-tomato ...at least you won't get nibbled on by a Vine weevil

[Hector]

Thanks to you lot, especially Tee gee we have done this

[davyw1]

i done that, then i done this

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