This month's TheDirt Garden Video Chat was about growing toms in pots!
Here is the wrap.
Tomatoes are perfect if you have location issues such as small space or deer. Pots give you the option to move the plant to different areas as needed. You also have control of sun, water, and nutrition by planting in pots.
Just a few tips for those of us growing tomatoes in pots this year:
- decide between determinate & indeterminate- determinate has an "all at once" harvest, while indeterminate has a continual harvest. Look on the plant tag when buying seeds and/or transplants.
- cooler climate- choose early or cool weather varieties- 'Early Girl', 'First Early', Seattle Best of All' and 'Frisco Fogger' are good choices.
- Refer to your state's extension website, University of Georgia has an abundance of information on growing just about anything in our state!
- Tomatoes flower and fruit between 55 degrees and 95 degrees. Pots in the full sun can be moved to part shade when the heat is on!
- "Pots" can be buckets, beautiful glazed containers, or old plastic pots that larger trees were in!
- Choose soil for vegetables when at the garden store, use 2/3 soil and 1/3 compost if you'd like.
- Group your pots together in the garden or patio for an interesting focal point. Get creative with your stakes---stake your tomatoes when you plant them, this could get hairy later..
Check out the following websites for more info on seeds and tomato growing!
Next month, Growing Tomatoes from Seed: The Basics
Blessings from the Garden.
ML
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