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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: marc555 on January 24, 2010, 18:40:06
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First year with my greenhouse but not sure what to use for my tomatoes growbags or put them in pots, any advice?
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Big pots every time for me. Growbags are hard to water properly, you can always see what you're doing with a pot. Growbags frequently claim to take three tomatoes but there's not really enough compost in them to do so.
chrisc
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Big pots for me as well ;D
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The black florists flower buckets are recommended. Co-op Morrison's etc do them. Some give them away others charge about £1 per 10. Use grow bag compost in the buckets.
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Thanks that helps me too, tis also my first time growing them ;D
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I did actually buy the black pots from morrisons a few weeks ago then someone mentioned grow bags. Pots it is then, cant wait to get started this year
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I know alot of you favour the Morrisons pots etc but dont you find they become a top heavy and fall over? How do you support them and stop this from happening. I grew some of my chillis in the black pots and had this problem.
Duke
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We use the black buckets... saw the bottom off, fill with "growbag" compost... or our own but plant them a couple of inches into the border... then you can push the cane through the pot... at the end of the year empty the pots outside .. so pests/diseases don't build up. You can stand them in growbags we do it for the peppers and Aubergines on a "table"... :)
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I cut the growbags in half - each becomes two big soft 30cm pots.
As a lazy person, I also set up a row of them (crosswise) on a pair of 4x2" timbers: Cover the gap between with thick polythene so it's a trough, push a 15x3cm strip of capillary cloth through the bottom of each 'pot' so it can dangle to the bottom of the trough, fill the trough with water - and neglect for a week or two at a time... You need something to stop them toppling - a loop of rope will do.
Cheers.