Drainage for tomato plant?

-taff

With gro bags you're not actually getting that much bang for your buck. Sometimes it's better to buy two normal and use those than one grobag. 

If you are going to use grobags though, put them on their sides and give them a bash, slice along the top which was the side and put your plants in like that, they'll have a deeper root run. Also slice holes about an inch or two above where it rests on the floor to provide a reservoir. 

Emmia

-taff said:

With gro bags you're not actually getting that much bang for your buck. Sometimes it's better to buy two normal and use those than one grobag. 

If you are going to use grobags though, put them on their sides and give them a bash, slice along the top which was the side and put your plants in like that, they'll have a deeper root run. Also slice holes about an inch or two above where it rests on the floor to provide a reservoir. 

I don't use gro bags as grow bags... Just the content

-taff

You = a general you not a specific you

Dustyevsky

Emmia said:

Farway said:

Emmia said:

kimwp said:

Good idea to feed the plant (with tomato feed) as well. 

I'd fill the pot with the contents of a tomato growbag, to give them a good start.

https://amzn.eu/d/8xReksX

Gulp, at that price I'd just buy toms from M & S 

Getting good toms needs feeding though and that costs...

Not if you grow your own feed! Comfrey's free. If you haven't room, guerilla garden it on some unloved council land. 

Emmia

Dustyevsky said:

Emmia said:

Farway said:

Emmia said:

kimwp said:

Good idea to feed the plant (with tomato feed) as well. 

I'd fill the pot with the contents of a tomato growbag, to give them a good start.

https://amzn.eu/d/8xReksX

Gulp, at that price I'd just buy toms from M & S 

Getting good toms needs feeding though and that costs...

Not if you grow your own feed! Comfrey's free. If you haven't room, guerilla garden it on some unloved council land. 

You clearly don't live in a flat with a patio in London...

Dustyevsky

Emmia said:

Dustyevsky said:

Emmia said:

Farway said:

Emmia said:

kimwp said:

Good idea to feed the plant (with tomato feed) as well. 

I'd fill the pot with the contents of a tomato growbag, to give them a good start.

https://amzn.eu/d/8xReksX

Gulp, at that price I'd just buy toms from M & S 

Getting good toms needs feeding though and that costs...

Not if you grow your own feed! Comfrey's free. If you haven't room, guerilla garden it on some unloved council land. 

You clearly don't live in a flat with a patio in London...

I don't, having chosen to relocate from Kilburn to the West Country 56 years ago. My comment was intended for a majority of the population, not a specific minority, who've also made choices.

-taff

You can make your own feed if you want to though, collect weeds as you walk about, stick them in a small bucket with a lid and fill with water, leave for a few weeks and you have our own feed with probably more trace elements than a bought one.

YoungBlueEyes

Re compost - this year I've started using a brand called Erin. It says it's "reduced peat" rather than peat free so I'm hopeful. Bit early to pronounce it better than the usual nonsense but it does look+feel+smell better than the stuff I was buying previously (big purple bags from the orange diy shed). 

Edit - it's from my local garden centre and not dear at all.

Bargain42

After punching the holes out I usually put a few sheets of paper in the bottom to stop compost falling through. It's a good alternative if you can't find  suitable sized stones to completely cover the holes.Seems to work well for me anyway!

-taff

I've never been sold on this putting stuff in the bottom to stop stuff coming out, or to improve drainage or whatever. I put nothing in mine except the compost, it always drains fine, and no compost falls out. The only way it wouldn't drain was if the roots filled it up and blocked it. And as I've found with letting them do their own thing, they don't do that either...