Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Helpful Ideas On Growing Tomatoes Pots And Containers

By Amana Mills


If you do not have a large space of land to plant a fresh garden on, no worries. Container gardens are all the rage now and take up so much less space. Almost every vegetable can be grown in these pots and containers. Growing tomatoes pots is one of the easiest to achieve or even make the first addition to your new container garden.

Growing tomato plants and other vegetables can be done in buckets, half of a whiskey barrel, planters, window boxes, baskets for bushels, pots for strawberries, wash tubs or even food type of pots. Some popular container varieties include The Red Robin which gets as tall as only twelve inches and will be ready for harvest within no time at all.

The Risentraube tomato variety is one full of robust flavors when cooked and is more of a medium sized vegetable. These plants can grow to as much as two whole feet in this variety and the fruit it bears is larger and have massive quantities on them when ready for harvest. Each of this plants vines can have as many as forty tomatoes per each one.

The Roma tomatoes are immersed with flavors that are rich and tangy. These have more of an oblong shape to them instead of the regular round forms. These plants also let you harvest over 200 fruits per plant within them. Harvest time is usually around ten to eleven weeks.

There are many other types as well do your research and find the varieties which interest you the best. Other container favorites are the Sun Gold, Sara Black, Green Zebra and Beefsteak. The more space for a plants roots to grow in any type container the better chance of a healthy, fruitful plant you will have. Never use a gardening type mix use regular potting soil instead.

If you have access to compost or make your on then add this in as well for added fertilization and health. You should mix about twenty five percent compost to the rest potting soil for best results. Place a layer of mulch around the plants top as well to hold in the moisture longer.

Add gravel or broken pottery shards to the bottom of your container once it has small drainage holes drilled in the bottom of each container you plan on using. This helps drain properly and keeps rot from setting in on the plants roots also. You can even get creative and paint your containers in happy and cheerful colors or scenes.

Never use clay: Growing Tomatoes Pots they are fragile and tend to crack very easily. Your best bets are fiberglass types to even the more affordable plastic types. Drill some small holes in the bottom of pots if they are not already their for maximum drainage efficiency.




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