First year with my greenhouse but not sure what to use for my tomatoes growbags or put them in pots, any advice?
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
Big pots for me as well ;D
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.
Thanks that helps me too, tis also my first time growing them ;D
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
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
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"... :)
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.