Drainage for tomato plant?

Farway

-taff said:

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...

I'm a bung something in the bottom type. Maybe habit from when it was only soil / loam based stuff and the peat based ones had not been invented.

Each to their own & whatever suits, but covering holes should stop any roots coming out and rooting into the soil, something like mint for instance

-taff

Maybe that was it then, the soil thing...Maybe also I stand most of my pots on saucers to avoid watering so often so they'll have a reservoir for however long it takes them to suck it all up..None are are sat directly on dirt. though even if they don't have a saucer. I did take jekkas advice this year with the mint though, I took it out of the pot, chopped it in half down the middle, forced the two half circle bits together and mashed it back into the pot. It's going great guns again now. Something to do with the fact the roots go round the outside in a cricle looking for somewhere else to grow and start dying off in the middle...

TeeAy

thanks everyone for your comments.   In the end I went to a local garage and the helpful guy used a heated metal rod which did the trick! 

fatbelly

Following on from my earlier comment about compost, I use Moorland in the red bags from Poundland. I noted today that they are 2 x 40 litres for £6

Poundstretcher have the 20 litre bags and charge £3.50 per bag