Tomato plants grown in the past years.
Brandywine tomato plant grown in a 5 gallon pot. All this on two vines.
Big Red one is one tomato that weighed 3 1/4 pounds. his name was Hulk.
More Brandywine grown in the ground. So heavy with fruit the vines insisted on dragging the ground.
More Brandywine Tomatoes
Sweet Million Cherry Tomato
tomatoes grown in 5 gallon grow bags. 1st crop I ever grew for produce sales. If I can
do this in a 5 gallon grow bag------YOU can do this in the ground soil.
Those same plants were lowered twice---and they grew out the top of the greenhouse frame
that was 8 feet tall.
tomato plants-------Big Beef in 5 gallon pots.
more toms in 5 gallon grow bags
The green house Ghost (orb)
One single Sweet Million Cherry tomato cluster.
25 gallon pot----One plant---pruned to have one vine every 6 inches around the pot/cage
2010
Big Beef
B
Brandywine
2011 Sweet Million Cherry
2011 Tommy Toe cherry= my least favorite flavor...... but is a.beautiful plant!
Big Beef
This is marvelous. Were you happy with the results of a grow bag as opposed to in ground? What was your source for grow bags, do you think they are available in most areas? What did you fill the grow bags with, a mix similar to your current raised beds?
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The mix in the grow bags was
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half peat moss.
I had to use commerical fertilizer.
I bought the grow bags from a wholesale company that sells they in bulk quantities. I do not know where to get then in small quantities.
http://www.hydro-gardens.com
I normally buy them 500 at a time.
I like tomatoes grown in the ground better because I grow so many and I don't have to deal with the containers so much----but then again I will have to worry about tomato problems by growing them in the same beds over and over.
But at least the ground is not permanent either. If I need to give the soil beds a rest for a long while, I can always use containers or grow bags on top of the bed areas. I have noticed that The deeper my ground soil is loosened and amended the bigger and better the plants are. You might be able to grow one single vine tomato plant in a 6 inch deep bed-----but the deeper it is the better they grow.
I will try to locate a company that sells the grow bags in small quantities to the home gardener.
Happy Gardening
Carolyn
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI am in love with these pulpy tomotoes. I wish I could eat one of them fresh. :)
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