Market Farming

[robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>]

Grow bags were popular in the USA in the 1980's. I have used them and they
grow great tomatoes. They need alot of soluble fertilizer at each watering
to maintain a yield.   After harvest the mix is discarded or some times
used to grow lettuce then tossed. It allowed us to always have fresh
soilless mix free of disease, insects and soluble salts. You can still buy
loose fill 2.8cu bags from Fafard, Sungro and Promix and do the same thing
just that the bags are shorter than the old grow bags. If I were to grow
tomatoes today with bags I would choose the mixes with composted pine
bark, they are much looser and plants growing  in that mix have a much
better whiter looking root system... Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton NJ.

pam AT twinoaks.org wrote:

> Well, in the UK, Grow Bags are big plastic sacks with potting compost
> or growing mix sealed inside. They are used by gardeners without
> much good soil. It's a common way of growing greenhouse tomatoes -
> set the bags flat on the bench or ground, cut a hole in the top, plant
> your starts into the compost mix, add water and stand back.
>         So possibly I've been overlooking grow bags in catalogs,
> thinking they were those huge things. I'll check Peaceful Valley,
> thanks!
>         Pam Dawling, Twin Oaks, Louisa, VA
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