Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jambop on February 25, 2019, 20:36

Title: fibre pots for tomatoes and other seedlings
Post by: jambop on February 25, 2019, 20:36

Hi what is the opinion of using fibre pots for thinning tomatoes and other transplants into for direct planting into the soil. I have hundreds of plastic pots of several sizes but am thinking about the possibility of just planting pot and all. Do the roots o the plants find their way through these things easily?

Title: Re: fibre pots for tomatoes and other seedlings
Post by: JayG on February 25, 2019, 20:57

For me, hopeless - those with moister soil may have fared better...

Title: Re: fibre pots for tomatoes and other seedlings
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on February 26, 2019, 00:24

I do all my beans and sweetcorn in cardboard posts. With my wet clay based soil the roots have no problems breaking through and the pots themselves rot down very quickly. I know others like to use newspaper pots for the same job.

Title: Re: fibre pots for tomatoes and other seedlings
Post by: mumofstig on February 26, 2019, 08:39

Quote from: jambop on February 25, 2019, 20:36

Do the roots o the plants find their way through these things easily?

Not in dry or sandy soil, as others have said. I find the pots dry out too quickly before planting, while the plants are still growing, as well....

Title: Re: fibre pots for tomatoes and other seedlings
Post by: jambop on February 26, 2019, 11:59

Thanks for the advice... giving them a body swerve :D