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post #21 of 23
6/15/09 at 9:53pm
WOW! That is some amazing chard. And I am glad I am not the only one who has propped up a droopy plant with extra soil
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post #22 of 23
6/15/09 at 11:58pm
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Originally Posted by Talula Fairie View Post
WOW! That is some amazing chard. And I am glad I am not the only one who has propped up a droopy plant with extra soil
Oh definitely not It's an often used first aid technique around here lol. I've resurrected quite a few plants that way

Funny, the 7yo & I finished his science reading for the day (which was on plants hehe) and we ended up going outside & starting a heap of seeds lol. We started evergreen bunching shallots, more bok choi, cos verdi lettuce, grape tomatos and black russians (to replace the poor dead souls out there now lol) and for the fun of it we put in about what will be (hopefully) 15sweet corn in the garden bed. It's got crawpy soil, as it's just the bed of shrubs the builders put in, but the seeds need to be used by august so I figured we'd give it a shot. :
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post #23 of 23
6/16/09 at 11:13am
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Originally Posted by Talula Fairie View Post
If you look at the urban and small space gardening thread, you can see photos from the very first post of someone who did successfully grow tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets. Her plants were huge! Not the 8+ feet that garden tomatoes would be, but they looked pretty big in the pictures. Tomatoes are listed among one of the recommended veggies for containers, although I'm sure some varieties do better than others...I have one tomato plant called "husky cherry" which says it's excellent for containers.
That is me... my tomatoes average 5 - 6 feet a plant each in it's own 5 gallon bucket (on year 3).

When it doesn't rain, I try to water my tomatoes every day to every other day depending on how dry the weather is. I give them 3L each. Making sure I water the soil and not the plant.

I didn't fertilize last year and saw little to no difference in yeilds from the year before.

And as previous folk have mentioned... it may have nothing to do with the container and everything to do with the plant.

Good luck!
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