Tomato 'bags'

Bought 2 of these this year for convenience mainly - just like big potato bags with handles, really deep.  And they're red.  Anyway, the 2 tom plants are loving them (Ive also added gravel on the top to keep moisture in).  Other two plants in big pots (but not as big as the bags) look really lame in comparison.  Available (over priced) from all naff Dobies garden centres.

Just thought Id give a headsup 

If you water via a plant pot or cut off pop bottle partially sunk into the grow bag, it ALL goes in.

Wombat, I grew my tomatoes in grow bags last year and my mum grew hers in pots (same varieties).  She reckoned mine were better than hers so she too is growing them in grow bags this year.

I have always grown my tomatoes in growbags, but get some of that lawn edging stuff the wide one - 8") to make an extra pot to increase the depth a bit:
• Measure lengths (to make a an 8" diameter circle) and stick each one tog in a circle with parcel tape.
• place the green bottomless pot circle on your growbag, measure an x inside the circle and cut from the points in an x shape.
• Fold back the flaps and fit the circle in the resulting square - a little bit of a fiddle, but fine when its done.
• Then fill up this extra depth 'pot' and plant your tomato in it, leaving about 2" between the top of the plot and the compost
• Add a cane - don't push the cane in too hard, you don't want to puncture the bag :happy:, and put a (benecol, actimel or whatever) pot on the top, or use some string (do whatever you do to support your plants)
• You can also plant Tagetes plants in the circle in front of the tomato - this is supposed to keep it free of whitefly (I never have whitefly, so perhaps it works, but in any event, it looks nice)
• Water every evening into this space. Don't ever let the plant dry out. If you do, and then water heavily to catch up, some varieties of tomatoes will burst/split.
I have also grown tomatoes in pots, but this has never been as successful. Perhaps a HUGE pot would work. But then it would take a growbag's worth of compost for one pot, so use the growbag!
Oliver