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Re: Patio Tomatos?

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>In his book Mel show tomatos in a patio garden but
>I have my doubts about this due to tomatos being
> a deep root crop  Paula aka Sticklady

I can't comment on tomatoes and deep roots I can only
comment on tomatos in containers.  Mine grow fantastic.
I grow cherry and micro tomatoes in 8 inch pots, I grow
vining cherry tomato and smaller regular tomatoes in 1 foot
pots.  I would tend to avoid anything really really big.
But this year I am going to try some brandywine in some
5 gallon buckets.  There just is not enough room in the 
garden for everthing (yet).
I use plastic containers as I could not keep the plants
from dying in pottery.  The containers have a lip about
4 inches down from the top.  The growing medium 
(half compost half really nice garden soil and a 
handful or two of vermiculite) goes to the lip and then
I fill up to 1/2 inch of the top with fresh grass clippings.
(every week or so I top off with some fresh clippings).
I water every day when I first get home from work (7-8pm)
and also water in the morning on really hot days.  The 
harvest is great.  Most of my container plants are 5 feet
off the ground on old fence posts in my yard so zero 
pests.  If I am going to be gone for a few days I set
one of those fan sprinklers (sends up a spray of water
and oscilates back and forth about once a minute) halfway
between my garden and the container plants on a timer
and so that they both get watered for 15 minutes a day while
I am gone.  (my regular garden gets watered by hand twice
a week).  My containers on posts have full sun all day long
so no skipping on the watering there.
Containers that were in partial shade only needed watering
2-3 times a week, but the yields are lower.

Try it, works great and fun.  Also try some scented
geraniums, I had some that smelled like citronella
last year, they helped keep the bugs down when eating
outside, and if the bugs were to bad I would just
pop off a leaf and rub it on me, no more bugs...
Enjoy  - Ron Souliere


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