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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vegies hanging
  • Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:17:42 -0400

On Fri, 7 May 2004 08:55:37 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi!
> I am on a list of folk serious about their Tomato growing. Several
>of them have tried various tomatoes and a few other vegies in hanging
>pots and found it a washout. There is not enough soil in most hanging
>pots to be adequate for the root systems needed for so many vegetables.
>The yields were poor - even when a few people tried making hanging 5
>gallon buckets!!

I'm sure it wouldn't work well with regular tomato plants -
a five gallon bucket (not hanging) is wildly inadequate for
a regular tomato plant. I've grown a Yellow Pear cherry
tomato plant in a container, and wound up using a 22-gallon
Rubbermaid storage tub with holes drilled in the bottom and
even THAT was inadequate - I was watering the thing twice a
day, every day. What a nuisance! It just sort of wound up
as a container plant by accident, I didn't it plan it to be
that way ....

But there are some tomatoes that would probably work in any
reasonably-sized hanging container: the mini-tomatoes.
Yellow Canary would be a good choice, mini-plant, very
nicely flavored yellow tomatoes, indeterminate so it likes
to droop and vine, etc.

There are others that are described as great for hanging
baskets, but I haven't tried them yet myself. I think one
is called 'Tumbling Tom'.

If I were going to do this, I'd look here for seeds:

http://www.tomatogrowers.com

Pat
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