best size pot or bucket,tub, bag for growing your tomatoes.

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LILLILEAF

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i usually use rectangle tubs that have had sheep mineral in,they are good and strong last years,best of all they are free :D.
All my toms seems to manage well and produce a good crop.

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Re: best size pot or bucket,tub, bag for growing your tomatoes.
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2024, 16:53 »
10L black builders buckets for me with drainage holes drilled into the bases.  Bought them years ago for very little and they are still going strong.

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Re: best size pot or bucket,tub, bag for growing your tomatoes.
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2024, 17:27 »
10L black builders buckets for me with drainage holes drilled into the bases.  Bought them years ago for very little and they are still going strong.
Same here, good old Wilko buckets :D

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Re: best size pot or bucket,tub, bag for growing your tomatoes.
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2024, 07:27 »
same as others 10l builders buckets cheap as chips and last forever [stack nicely when not used] we use 20 in greenhouse about 12 are what i call 1 and a half I cut out the bottom of a bucket then stand this in a bucket that is over 2 thirds full of compost then fill this  gives much more volume and dries out slower . they are filled and in greenhouse waiting for toms and cues [no chillies this year].
from bow like to grow

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Re: best size pot or bucket,tub, bag for growing your tomatoes.
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2024, 12:25 »
Five gallon bucket minimum, unless the plant is a mini type. For indeterminate plants I use a 10 gallon nursery pot if I have one available.

Most of my main season tomatoes are grown in the ground, containers are used at the end of the growing season.
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Re: best size pot or bucket,tub, bag for growing your tomatoes.
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2024, 17:00 »
Mine are all in 33L pots, apart from a couple of old council recycling tubs that I think are 55l which have two plants in. I have a bunch of felt 35l ones I will try this year too, for some reason I tried tall chillis in them last year and they were a bit late producing. Smaller pots for chillis this year

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Re: best size pot or bucket,tub, bag for growing your tomatoes.
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2024, 13:06 »
Hi i used the grow bags and cut them in half, one plant in each half as i don't think they are big enough for three plant .But now use confiscated cannabis growing pots donated by my local pc ,about 5 Gallon in size and have no complaints with the results ,cool.  :)



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