[GrannieAnnie]

And perhaps mulch them with something, to help reduce evaporation of your precious water, like weed control fabric or somesuch???

[tetley]

I grew tomatoes in pots last year (newbie in france, the neighbour kept on at me to get them in the ground)   :roll: I was forever watering them.  The cherry toms did fine, but the normal ones mostly split....we had a lot of rain in August which didn't help.
 
I planted several cherry toms this year in the ground, but lost them all to blight :cry:

[muntjac]

try getting the empty cooking oil containers from the restaurants n chippes over there  

[chrissie B]

tetley hi , how big was your pots :?:

[Dreadlock]

Hi chrissie B
Try growing your toms with marigolds once read somewhere that in south america they are considered sacred due to them stoping eel worm on their potatoes.

[chrissie B]

i thought that marigolds only discouraged the above ground pests

[WG.]

i thought that marigolds only discouraged the above ground pests

No, root secretions also discourage eelworm and the like.  Best is apparently tagetes minuta which grows to about 6ft.  I don't recomend it for Greece since it will probably manage to set seed & become a noxious weed itself.

[muntjac]

get an old bucket stick concrete in it .now stick a 4x4 post in the concrete allow to set . now nail a 4 ft piece of wood across the top ,train with strings 5 toms to grow up it  

[tetley]

they were in plastic tubs 30cms across.  also had a couple of large troughs, which were terracotta......they dried out in no time.
I grew them with marigolds.  the cherry toms were more successful