More Grow Bags.
This time the extra large one designed for tomatoes.
For ‘Easy Watering, Better Root Growth, Extra Yield, Top Quality Full-Flavoured Tomtoes’. Yes please to all the above
56 litres of compost. Just under 19 litres each for 3 plants .
I’ve planted one with 3 x Sungold and 3 x ‘No Label’; to be known as The Lucky Dip bag.
Method:
- Lie bags in position.
- Cut out the three panels as per dotted lines on the bag.
- Put cane in each opening and drive down into the ground beneath the bag.
- Dig out a space for the plant (have container handy to hold compost).
- Place plant and replace compost around it.
- Tie plant to cane.
- Repeat for each plant.
- Water. 6 litres of water per bag. It helped to hold the plastic edge away from the bag and then water down inside the bag to prevent compost washing over the outside of the bag.
Instructions for these bags advised to avoid piercing the base so I have complied.
Other instructions were to wait to plant until the first flowers open. Not possessing that kind of faith or patience, that got ignored !
The giant grow bags were easy to put in place and to plant up. However unlike with the upended bags and pots I couldn’t plant deep and by having 3 plants per bag the distance between each is only 10” to 12”. Less than the ideal, which depending on variety, is between 18” and 36”.
However it’s all part of the great Tomato Towers Trials! ( A fancy, smancy way of saying it’s all trial and error here; with an optimistic bent towards trial !)
