Tomatoes in Hanging Baskets

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flowerlady

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Tomatoes in Hanging Baskets
« on: July 02, 2008, 12:48 »
This is my first year at trying this ...

I have be given two types to grow ... Balcony Wonder and Lilliput

The BW's are sturdy plants now and bushing out well but the others have grown much taller that I was lead to believe ... are there other varieties that you folk prefer to use??

(I can find little info on Lillyput) :(

... pinching out the tip will sort the 'too tall' problem I suppose, but I was just wondering if this should be standard practice???

Anything else I should be doing??   :?
How often to feed too as they tend to dry very quickly, despite the quantities of moisture retentive ranules used!!  :?
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Tomatoes in Hanging Baskets
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2008, 12:55 »
Garten perle is good for containers but any small thing will do, they all will hang eventually, I had gardeners delight in window box last year, bit smaller fruit that's all, I fed them as per usual need a looooooooot of watering though. It was cropping the odd few well into the winter and never got blight in the shelter of the house somehow.
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2008, 13:53 »
And Munty gave me some Tiny Tom seeds which I grew in an old tall waste bin.  But I thought Lilliput were a cordon tomato.

However as Gobs says, they will all go downwards after a while!!!!  But they do need loads of water and feeding.


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