Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Jonajo on April 02, 2010, 08:52
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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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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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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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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. ::)
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u190/Dee56_photos/tomatoes001.jpg)
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i use them green recycling crates,loads of room for root growth.
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Does Andrew Glen type your posts out for you blackbob? :D
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Does Andrew Glen type your posts out for you blackbob? :D
who's Andrew Glen?
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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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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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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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Can someone please tell me what 'OH' stands for? Its been bugging me for ages
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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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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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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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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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pots! I find growbags are too sprawly and take up too much space and are more difficult to water. Last year I used our ex-recycling boxes - two toms to a box.
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Flower buckets here too! Much easier to move around. If you remove about one third plus of the leaves off your tomato plants it helps the air circulate and lets light through to the fruit and you can then put the pots closer together.
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One side of my greenhouse is soil, but on the otherside...........I use growbag compost, but tip it into pots (the free flower bucket ones) which stand in any old container I can find, that will hold an inch or so of water :)
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I use plastic rings on top of growbags.
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I use flower buckets and growbags cut in half on their sides for depth.
What worries more is sometimes cucumbers and tomatoes together tend not to always work with me and the tomatoes suffer
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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.....
no i'm not :D
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Not you, sorry. :blink:
In the saying I mean't......... ??? ???
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Not you, sorry. :blink:
In the saying I mean't......... ??? ???
joking lol
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One side of my greenhouse is soil, but on the otherside...........I use growbag compost, but tip it into pots (the free flower bucket ones) which stand in any old container I can find, that will hold an inch or so of water :)
I am probably being a bit thick here but I keep seeing references to "flower buckets - the free ones". Where the heck do you get free flower buckets from? :unsure:
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One side of my greenhouse is soil, but on the otherside...........I use growbag compost, but tip it into pots (the free flower bucket ones) which stand in any old container I can find, that will hold an inch or so of water :)
I am probably being a bit thick here but I keep seeing references to "flower buckets - the free ones". Where the heck do you get free flower buckets from? :unsure:
the free flower bucket shop of course. :D
recycling bins are better.
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I am probably being a bit thick here but I keep seeing references to "flower buckets - the free ones". Where the heck do you get free flower buckets from?
Most of the big supermarkets get their cut flowers delivered in black buckets. If you ask nicely in most stores they are free, or sometimes 10 for 99p (almost free) :lol:
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I am probably being a bit thick here but I keep seeing references to "flower buckets - the free ones". Where the heck do you get free flower buckets from?
Most of the big supermarkets get their cut flowers delivered in black buckets. If you ask nicely in most stores they are free, or sometimes 10 for 99p (almost free) :lol:
I have been successful getting free ones in local and large Tescos. I haven't asked for ages though. I recently bought some in Morrisons after reading on here that they sell them. I must admit I have been looking for months and never saw them. Plucked up the courage to ask someone and they went off and got them and put tape on them for me, so just ask and there they are. A bargain whether free or 10 for 99p in my opinion.
Last year I used grow bags and flower buckets and I preferred the flower buckets to be honest so won't be bothering with grow bags this year I don't think. Although I may buy some grow bags and tip the compost into flower buckets. Just to be awkward!
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I am probably being a bit thick here but I keep seeing references to "flower buckets - the free ones". Where the heck do you get free flower buckets from?
Most of the big supermarkets get their cut flowers delivered in black buckets. If you ask nicely in most stores they are free, or sometimes 10 for 99p (almost free) :lol:
Ooooooh! I thought that the flowers turned up in boxes or such like and they put them in the buckets so they were part of the fixtures. :blush:
Although ........... I haven't got a greenhouse, but maybe they would look better in buckets outside than in growbags. I HATE seeing growbags messing up the garden - all that advertising! It wouldn't be so bad if they were plain black or something! :mad:
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I am probably being a bit thick here but I keep seeing references to "flower buckets - the free ones". Where the heck do you get free flower buckets from?
Most of the big supermarkets get their cut flowers delivered in black buckets. If you ask nicely in most stores they are free, or sometimes 10 for 99p (almost free) :lol:
Ooooooh! I thought that the flowers turned up in boxes or such like and they put them in the buckets so they were part of the fixtures. :blush:
Although ........... I haven't got a greenhouse, but maybe they would look better in buckets outside than in growbags. I HATE seeing growbags messing up the garden - all that advertising! It wouldn't be so bad if they were plain black or something! :mad:
If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool :blink:, that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??
Does my question even make sense??????????????????????????????????????????????
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I am probably being a bit thick here but I keep seeing references to "flower buckets - the free ones". Where the heck do you get free flower buckets from?
Most of the big supermarkets get their cut flowers delivered in black buckets. If you ask nicely in most stores they are free, or sometimes 10 for 99p (almost free) :lol:
Ooooooh! I thought that the flowers turned up in boxes or such like and they put them in the buckets so they were part of the fixtures. :blush:
Although ........... I haven't got a greenhouse, but maybe they would look better in buckets outside than in growbags. I HATE seeing growbags messing up the garden - all that advertising! It wouldn't be so bad if they were plain black or something! :mad:
If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool :blink:, that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??
Does my question even make sense??????????????????????????????????????????????
yip
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If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool , that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??
IMO It would just make them dry out quicker :ohmy:
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If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool , that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??
IMO It would just make them dry out quicker :ohmy:
add more water lol.
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As long as you have the time to water your growbag more than once a day, that would be fine!
Personally I couldn't be bovvered ::)
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If the 'bags were plain black, I learn't at skool , that black absorbs heat. So, would it benefit the plant by having 'warmer' roots etc??
IMO It would just make them dry out quicker :ohmy:
add more water lol.
Oh dammit, I just wanted rid of the brightly coloured advertising! ::) But seeing as most of you say that grobags are too shallow anyway, it doesn't matter cos I will just plant my toms in the garden and have done with it. Am not scientific enough to start thinking about heat/drying out etc, and besides it is getting late and my brain has switched off ........ ???
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i was considering growing tomatoes in grow bags again this year, but they seem so thin, i'm sure i have 50l ones last year ??? all i can find is puney 30l grow bags.
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would there be a problem with plain old B&Q buckets with hole in the bottom??
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I have for years grown my glasshouse toms (,peppers, cukes etc) in a mixture of flower buckets (more recently) and grobags with and without special plastic watering/feeding jobbies fitted (3 per growbag). Last summer I recall someone on the site mentioning a trial of combining the two by fitting one of the growbag thingies onto the tops of each of their flower buckets.
The initial instinctive reaction was "that's brilliant!", the subesquent instinctive reaction was also "that's brilliant!" but recognising that sometimes the actuality may turn out to be counter-intuitive, any news on how the trial worked out, either from the original poster or from anyone else who was able to give it a go? I am minded to give it a go myself, at least for a couple of toms, but it would certainly be useful if anyone out there has any suitable do and don't recommendations.
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I got some snazzy hanging bags from the £1 shop and we are going to try them this year for the tom's, i might just hang one on the neighbour's side as well hahahhaha they had a few bits that we had to many of last year. The best bit is they will need a set of step's to get to the toms as there garden is 5 ft lower than our then the fence on the top.
Will let you all know how we get on growing this way.