Best grow-bags?

floss2

I'm trying to work out which are the best grow-bags to use for my tomatoes, chillies, peppers, aubergines & cucumbers in my allotment greenhouse....have seen several different brands at the local garden centre - Levington's (the original yellow ones); Miracle Gro "Giant"; plus Westland at the supermarkets and B&Q's own brand ones. I haven't yet looked at Aldi or Lidl, and haven't got any experience of their grow-bags so any info would help in the decision making process.

Which, in the opinion of the Greenfingered MSE'ers, are the best for the plants that I will be growing, as against the best value / cheapest? I will be decanting the contents into pots for my plants, rather than using them as bags.

Thank you!

Leif

Which do tests, and you might be able to find results if you Google. Sadly composition does change from year to year. I recall some did very poorly. Here are some:

http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=458665

http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=458642

I suppose these aren't really directly comparable as you want a grow bag.

I always wonder what size they are, as they do not say. It might be cheaper to buy a 60L bag instead. I buy New Horizon, and Westland.

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I am going to grow my chillis and peppers in growtubs in a mixture of various composts that I have in. JI 2, b and q mp and arthur bowyers traditional. I got good results last year just with b and q mp but I do feed with the best organic tomato feed and sometimes comfrey water

I also have 3 levingtons tomato planter bags that I`ll be using

tbh, the compost will be cheaper and I know will be just as effective. I will be growing about 21 tomato plants so most will be in compost, not growbags

Yolina

I grow my stuff in containers - the tomatoes are in troughs 110cm×40cm×40cm (and I squeeze 5 plants in one trough!) I never bother changing all of the compost every year, just discard some of the old one add and add the contents of a fresh B&Q own brand grow bag in each through - seems to work perfectly well given that I get plenty of tomatoes each year!