Specialty Gardening: Raggedy end of a summer container garden, 1 by Jaywhacker

Jaywhacker wrote:
This determinate type tomato plant (gardeners delight) has 30 green tomato's on it. Each stack pot is approximately 2 gallon size and many people say they are too small for plants like tomato's but the plants roots can grow down through the drain holes into the next pot down and even on down into the third and fourth pots. That is providing that you maintain all pots completely full of grow mix so the bottom of each pot is touching the grow mix in the pot below it. This doesn't prevent you from growing plants in all the other plant sites on the stack. Each stack of 4 pots has 16 plant sites. The stacks can be planted much heavier than most seed packs recommend. For instance, in a row type garden, it is recommended that you plant one mustard green plant per linear foot. 16 mustard plants would require a row 16 feet long. In a stack of four pots you can plant one mustard plant in each of the 16 sites making that stack equal to the production of a 16 foot long row garden. The good news is that you can easily grow 2 plants per plant site making that one stack the equivalent of a 32 foot garden row. You will notice some begonia flowers on this pole and quite a few green onions. It doesn't matter what you have growing on a pole or how thick it is planted, if you can find a space to make a hole with your finger, you can stick an onion it there.

This message was edited Oct 23, 2011 3:58 PM