[matt80]

Hi,

We're going on holiday for 3 weeks and I'm worried about my tomato plants in pots as they dry out very quickly (I've got someone to water, but in hot weather they need doing every day).

Would it do them any harm to take them out of their pots and replant in the ground? My plants in the ground don't dry out as quickly.

[madcat]

Done carefully and with minimum disturbance to the roots followed by a thoroughly good water to get them settled, probably not.  Less than a prolonged drought in their pots would do.  (I'm worrying about leaving mine for just 3 days ....)

[sunshineband]

You can also plant them deeper than they were in the pots, as more roots with grow from the buried stem, and that will help  too