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Re: Vertical tomatoes

> > Ron Souliere said (edited) 
> >I also like to do the untrellis bit.  Before I did the square foot bit
> >I did container gardening.  With the pots 5 feet off the ground,
> >(on old fence posts, the fence went away a long time ago) I used
> >to let the vines (for the vining types)  just drape down from the
> >container.

> Laurie Mandigo replied (edited)
> Thanks for this idea on expanding the tomato garden.  Can you tell me if
> you have a favorite variety for container growing?  I was considering
doing
> something with containers for some gold nugget cherry tomatoes I've got
> started right now.  I unexpectedly ended up with quite a few of them, and
> was having trouble working them into my square foot garden plan.
> 
> Regards,
> Laurie Mandigo-Stoba
> San Francisco, CA zone 9

A couple people asked what I planted back
when I did tomatoes in containers.  That unfortunetly
is before I kept good notes.  I found my log from back then
and it just makes reference to tomatoes (seedlings) picked up from the
local grocery store.  A few other I recall starting from seed but I have
no idea what they were.  They were all just popular seeds from the store.
I believe I had a few determinates (based on the sudden yield then
die back of a few plants) but most were probably indeterminates due
to the continued production.  Sorry I don't have better information.
Now days I keep the log in the computer and it is detailed, so I can
learn from my mistakes.  

Two things about the container gardening.  After I brought them in at
the seasons end.  They still (dropping off) kept producing tomatoes for
a few more months.  If I had a nice (warm) sunny day in December
they went outside for the day, but always in at night.  Eventually they
stopped producing and living under the grow lights in the basement
they survived.  Grew very little if any (didn't measure them didn't happen
to "notice" any growth). But at the start of the next season I had 
full grown adult plants which started producing in a few weeks once
back outside.  This last year was my first year for doing the SQFRT bit.
I unpotted all my tomatoes and peppers and put them in the garden.  
The yield was considerably larger, perhaps twice as much.  (of course
the plant had been getting larger everyear)  Some of the tomato
 plants were over 3 years old and going strong.  I was planning
to dig some up and pot them again 
near the end of the season but we had a early 
halloween present.  A whole bunch of nice wet sticky snow.
I lost a dozen trees and still go outside every nice weekend to reduce
the felled trunks to firewood.  So no adult transplants this year.  Darn.

As I said I am going to do the container bit again this year. 
I am going to try in containers.
Green Grape tomatoes
    Yellow Cherry
        Sweet Million
and a couple of determinate paste types.
I also picked up some type (forget the name off hand) that is
supposed to be grown in containers.  I know how well everthing
worked for me, I wonder how well something designed for containers
will work.

That is if my order from Totally Tomatoes comes in.  It's been two weeks.
The order from PineTree showed up a week after I ordered it with a 
note apoligizing for being late.  Go figure.

Ron Souliere 
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