would love some feedback on growing tomatoes in big containers. always get tall healthy plants but not much fruit.
I want to keep my dirt as chesterfield va dirt produces a quality tomatoe.
Grow some paste varieties.
Smaller tomatoes but lots of tomatoes every week.
The real large tomato types won’t do well in containers, but this year I’m trying Bella Rosa and Tasti-lee, regular salad tomatoes but not huge. I use $2. 2 gallon Walmart buckets with holes drilled in the bottom, filled with potting soil. Could use larger, but couldn’t lift them, & these work. Keep the plants fertilized & save up ground eggshells to dig into the soil. I use spray-on blossom set cuz I don’t see many bees any more.
We always do some of our tomatoes in large containers. We have great success and abundant fruit. We use really big patio plastic pots and still have some goat manure we mix in with the recycled soil from the previous year. We also do our best to pinch off secondary growths. The patio plants get more sun than the garden ones and probably more water and love.
We have had great success growing Celebrity tomatoes in large pots using Blackgold potting soil but we garden is a very unique Garden Zone...
Sounds like your pot soil is a bit rich. Tomatoes do need calcium, I use egg shells. I mix my potting soil with sand.
Do not potting mix, I tried that and didn’t get fruit. I use the potting soil, some sand and some compost plus egg shells. I’m not a great gardener, but keep trying. We have some real gardeners here. They’ll help you.