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SFGL: Growbags & tomatoes

What size of soil bags do you use for tomatoes? I have too many for my
square foot beds.

>Hey all!  We (my mother-in-law and I) have a book on growing bags.  When
>we decided to do a garden and went to Hastings to look at books on
>gardening we came across the grow bag method and Mel's book.  At the time
>we just bought Mel's book because you can't do everything in a grow bag.
>We read the section on grow bags at Hastings and came home and decided to
>experiment with one grow bag with two patio tomatoes in it.  They are
>doing beautifully!  To date, they are the only ones with baby tomatoes on
>them though our square footers aren't far behind and full of blooms.  We
>went back and got the book and now have a grow bag with 3 eggplants.  It
>really is simple and we plan to dump the soil into our compost pile at
>the end of the season.  I didn't know you could do lettuce that way, but
>will try it in the fall since it's too hot here now.  The grow bags have
>less problem with pests than our square foot garden as the bag keeps all
>of the ground pests away (at least so far).  Give it a try!  We love it!


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Natalie McNair-Huff
Publisher/Editor Mac Net Journal
http://www.blol.com/web_mnj/

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