Containers for cold 'house Toms etc

[tim]

10l or 14l - significant difference?

[tim]

[Trevor_D]

Don't know. I use bottomless ring culture pots and you can only get those in one size. But then they only contain the top bit of the root system.

I'd say the bigger the better.

[saddad]

I use florist buckets with no bottoms into the border or growbags...
The more the merrier I feel...  :)

[shirlton]

Tony uses the flower buckets. with the bottoms in at home and without the bottoms at the plot GH. We grow the Shirley at the plot and others at home. The Shirley still have toms on whilst the others have been cleared out 2 weeks ago. Tony reckons they grow much better with the bottoms cut out and sunk into the GH border. Of course he does put some compost into the soil in the GH every year

[Deb P]

Interestingly, last year I rescued some larger bottomless pots from the lottie skip and used them for my tomatoes which I sit upon growbags, and the resulting plants did worse than those grown in my usual smaller pots!

This year, I went back to the smaller bottomlass pots again as it cost me significantly more to fill the larger pots with compost, and had a brilliant yield again. They were all fed the same with the same fertiliser, the only difference was the pot size, explanation..???? ???

[tim]

If it was simple, there would be no A4A??

(We don't have a border.)

[shirlton]

We don't have a border.)quote from Tim



Thats why Tony keeps the border at the allotment. I don't think the bottomless ones grow as good in growbags, Tony says that his roots go way down into the soil border at the plot