greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots

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Jonajo

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greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« on: April 02, 2010, 08:52 »
Which do folk tend to go for in their greenhouses for growing tomatoes: large pots or growbags?

And is it customary for greenhouses to get pretty full: I am planning what to grow in there (8 by 6 ft) and trying to work out rough spacing beforehand and numbers of plants (melons, cucumber, aubergine, peppers, toms). I fear it will look like a jungle!!

Thanks
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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2010, 09:11 »
For the first time this year I'm going to try half a grow bag with the bottom slit open sitting in the greenhouse border. I'll let you know if it's a good method!

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2010, 09:20 »
Last year I grew toms in grow bags but also cut the bottom out of large plastic plantpots and sunk those into the grow bag so the plants could establish nice deep roots. I've attatched a pic so you know what I'm trying to explain.
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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2010, 09:41 »
I grow mine in flower buckets from the local store on trays so I can water from the bottom.  Have decided to grow a bit less in there this year. ::)
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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2010, 11:01 »
i use them green recycling crates,loads of room for root growth.

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Slowgrind

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2010, 11:11 »
Does Andrew Glen type your posts out for you blackbob?  :D

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2010, 11:17 »
Does Andrew Glen type your posts out for you blackbob?  :D

who's Andrew Glen?

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Slowgrind

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2010, 11:26 »
Are you to young to have read the Dandy comic blackbob?
He was a Scottish shepherd with a border collie dog called blackbob.
Every week they would have an adventure where blackbob would save the day! Finding someone down a well or preventing a catastrophe of some sort, or bringing the doctor to the rescue if his master took ill! It was great stuff for a ten year old!!!

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blackbob

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2010, 11:28 »
Are you to young to have read the Dandy comic blackbob?
He was a Scottish shepherd with a border collie dog called blackbob.
Every week they would have an adventure where blackbob would save the day! Finding someone down a well or preventing a catastrophe of some sort, or bringing the doctor to the rescue if his master took ill! It was great stuff for a ten year old!!!

i thought you meant some member on here lol.i'm a bit slow today good one lol. :D

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tosca100

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2010, 12:53 »
OH says to put toms etc in pots this year in case we sell the house, easier to move. He's hoping! 6 months and a price drop and not a sniff! :(

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suesowsseed

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2010, 13:52 »
Can someone please tell me what 'OH' stands for?  Its been bugging me for ages 

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blackbob

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2010, 13:55 »
Can someone please tell me what 'OH' stands for?  Its been bugging me for ages 

other half,hubby or wife lol.

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Trillium

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2010, 14:37 »
We have loads of short forms on here, like DD - darling daughter (or it could be Digger Dave, one of our currently absent members  :D), SWMBO - she who must be obeyed, LOL - lots of laughs, etc.

As for the growbag toms, I'm pretty sure John had a pic somewhere with his toms, a growbag slit, with a pot with extra soil inserted into the top. This gives the toms much more root space than just the bag which they'll quickly outgrow.

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Ice

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2010, 17:08 »
Just don't go nuts with the abbreviations as they can get confusing to some members.  Also, some members (me) find them irritating. :tongue2:

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Re: greenhouse tomatoes - growbag or large pots
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2010, 17:19 »
Anyway, back to the tomato question....

I got my dad some of those big fish boxes, the hard plastic ones, not the polysyrene ones.

He's go a geenhouse, I HAVEN'T  :tongue2: :tongue2:

Every spring he just stacks them in his trailer, goes to the farm, loads them with muck, re stacks them, Bobs your uncle.....




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