Chicken nachos and salsa. 

My best sucess was clover 60lt salad and tomato bags, struggling to get them this year so have 3 new bags from last year and 3 peat free from this year, I'll let you know how I get on

Lucky guess 4 for me again 

Why do you find them a pain to use?

I haven’t bought a grow-bag since everything went peat free, but given the awful nature of most peat free multi-purpose, I can’t think things have improved.

The cheap small and thin grow bags were almost impossible to keep watered properly and the compost inside was dire.

The bigger and thicker grow-bags did have better compost and more of it, but were still not easy to keep watered, even with the green tomato ring pots stuck into the tops of them.  I also found they took up a lot of room.  I could fit 2 side by side along the glass in my greenhouse.  I can fit 6 builders buckets in, the plants are more evenly spaced and I can keep them fed and watered much more effectively.  I usually put a single tomato plant into a bucket, but I have done 2 cucumbers growing up a plant support in a bucket and that worked.  The bigger grow-bags have lines on them indicating you can cut 3 holes for plants, but in reality I found that is a push and 2 plants produce more than 3 competing with each other for limited resources.

Thanks both for your replies. I’ve prepped a couple of beds ready for them and hope to get them out one day next week.

steven c - that’s really helpful re the spacings. That’s a good idea to dot any spares around.

jaydig - I’m glad you said that as I always lol when it says “plant out when thickness of a pencil” , mine are barely the thickness of the lead inside a pencil! 

I will definitely persevere then, thanks for the encouragement!