Heirloom Tomato Garden in Smart Pots 7-18-10

2nd season of using smart pots in my tomato garden and they are holding up really well. A timed dripper feeds them water and they get fertilizer 3 times a year. Brandywine Black, Striped German, Sweet Cherry Million, Sun Gold, Carbon, Mortgage Lifter, Black Prince and Black Krim round out the selections. We had a really wet spring that ruined a bunch of plants in our area that were planted in the ground. All hail the Smart Pot!

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• gardening
• tomato
• heirloom
• Brandywine Black
• Striped German
• Sweet Cherry Million
• Sun Gold
• Carbon
• Mortgage Lifter
• Black Prince
• Black Krim
• garden
• plants

[TheFallguy11]

your plants have reached wilting point if ya know about this

[TheFallguy11]

your plants have reached wilting point if ya know about this 

[thesmileyguy05]

Is it determinit

[WisconsinEric]

What size(s) of Smart Pots are you using? I am the former peppersnsmartpots from the comment above and I have a 65gal for a Brandywine. I think yours seem to be about that size. My peppers are going in 10gal Smart Pots, and I have potatoes in a 45gal, and may put more potatoes in the 25gal from last year.

Again the potatoes worked well for me in a Smart Pot, you should give 'em a try.

And thanks again, your '09 garden video is the main reason I'm into Smart Pots.

[Garysgarden007]

I've watched your 2 vids & now I wanna use these smart pots too. This will be 1st yr in growing all heirlooms, but i was wondering what kinda soil mix do u use? Buying bagged soil can get pretty expensive & how do you recycle the soil? Do you regrow in same soil? I know that can lead to disease problems & mineral/fertlizer deficiencies if you keep growing same type veggie in same soil instead of crop rotation, especially if you get a blight like what happened probably to you brandywine!

[theracemixer]

Try adding bountea and you will get bigger result.

[LordStanley1066]

Thanks for the props and never done organic. Teach me Yoda.

[merctwyn]

Jurassic sized plants and production to boot, quite an amazing accomplishment!  I have tasted one of these tomatoes this year, and it was like eating a tomato flavored cloud from heaven.... Perfect in every way. You my friend need to be a farmer.