Tomatoes In A Hanging Basket ?

rubiales

I agree with Hepcat that your plants may need a little help with pollination to set the fruit. Just wondering whether by feeding them before they have set fruit you are encouraging extra leaf and not fruit? All the advice I have been given says not to start feeding until the first truss of fruit has set.

I have some of these Tumbler basket tomatoes as well and they are doing fine. Just starting to pick a few this week. Didn't start feeding them until I saw the first green fruit though.

Shoey1610

I was given a kit to grow some tomatoes in a bag and I now have 4 lovely seedlings. It says I can leave them in the bag to grow, but I also have some hanging baskets with nothing to do, would I be able to put the tomatoes in a hanging basket as they are of the trailing (?) variety?

ALWAYS_POOR

Yes, I've done it in the past. The best variety I found for this is actually called 'Tumbler', they are specifically for hanging baskets. About three plants per 14" basket is ideal. They look really pretty but ensure that they don't dry out.

Shoey1610

Thank you, I will give it a go then. My hanging baskets are slightly smaller so willl be able to put 2 in each I should think.

alanobrien

Gaartenperle is good i had this one growing to late in the year
http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/773/1

and of course tumbling red
http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/515/1

Lotus-eater

I've done it and I know other people have good results with it..... but, I just couldn't get on with it. You must get as much compost in there as poss, use the water retaining gels if possible. You MUST water all the time, no letting it dry out, at all.
I gave up because even forgetting about it for a day when its hot meant that it was really a waste of time.
Last year I did tumbling toms, red and yellow in large grow bags, off the ground so they had room to "tumble" and it was great, so much fruit I could hardly keep up.

Sola

I'm planning on doing Tumblers this year, but I suspect I'd struggle to keep hanging baskets watered. I like the idea of growbags on a bench though.

katiel

Last year I put a couple of Gartenperle tomato plants in a large hanging basket along with various herbs, a couple of sweet peas and some nasturtium seeds. The sweet peas keeled over but the rest did really well. In fact, the oregano is still happily growing in the basket, so I shall dig out the spent soil around it to replace it, and then do the same thing again this year. I recommend some plastic from a bin bag or similar to line the bottom of the basket on top of your basket liner, and lots of water gel crystals. When I went away for a week I sat the basket in a bucket of water and got a neighbour to top it up from time to time.

acemoola

I did tumbling Toms in a wall basket last year and had fantastic results - we had masses of good fruit and plan to do it again next year. If you can get them on s sunny sheltered wall, I think the heat from the wall does them the world of good.

angelavdavis

I did a combination of various basils with tumbling tomatoes, grown in a clay strawberry pot (I have never had any luck with growing strawberries in it!).

This worked really well and great to have by the back door for a quick salad!