experimenting

[Deleted]

I am trying some container gardening. I've planted potatoes,squash, lima beans,lettuce,corn in containers.
tnborn

[bergere]

Please let me know how it goes.

Most of my plants are in containers but they are just flowers and herbs.
I want to plant my Tomato plants but I have such a gopher/mole/vole problem I can't put them directly into the ground.
Wonder if I put them in a plastic pot first and then set them in the ground part way. Would that work to keep the pests off the roots?

[kitaye]

I've seen pictures of tomatoes grown in hanging baskets, and more recently hanging upside down in plastic bags. Might be an option for ground burrowing pests.

[Deleted]

Lettuce in the continers are moldling and rotting from allllllllll of the rain. looks like a bust so far.
tnborn

[dlangland]

tnborn said:

Lettuce in the continers are moldling and rotting from allllllllll of the rain. looks like a bust so far.
tnborn

That's too bad. Do you have drainage holes, TN? I am sure you do. Deb

[antiquestuff]

tnborn said:

Lettuce in the continers are moldling and rotting from allllllllll of the rain. looks like a bust so far.
tnborn

Maybe it's too late, but, when that happens to me, I move what I can under the overhang of the roof so the rain doesn't hit the plants...and then I can control the water the plant gets. Unfortunately, I did raised beds this year and couldn't move my potatoes, corn, etc. under the roof. But yesterday it warmed back up after a very cold and rainy week so I think my plants will make it...


For Bergere: tomatoes grow well (usually) in 5 or 6 gallon buckets, with drain holes on the bottom of course (and maybe just an inch of gravel on the bottom under the dirt to keep the holes open).

[bergere]

tnborn,
Can you start over again?
Try used Chamomile tea,, cool, then poured over the seedings to keep them from damping off.

Am giving that a try with the Basil,,which has the same problem.
So far so good.

I did the container planting of tomatoes last year. This year I just stuck them in the ground,, gophers and all.
Though the weather hasn't been good for growing tomatoes. Sigh ~ ~

[Deleted]

I replanted in a real garden. I had holes drilled in my containers, but the stuff was rotting. :'(However, my tomatoes are doing well in the containers.
tnborn