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tomatoes for containers

Home › Forums › Edible-Garden Questions › Vegetables & Herbs › tomatoes for containers

Tagged: tomatoes, vegetable garden

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  • March 24, 2010 at 12:35 am #28975

    Anonymous

    Which varieties are the best for growing in containers?

    March 24, 2010 at 11:56 pm #29248

    margaret
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    If the pot is big enough, like a whiskey barrel, anything goes. Otherwise stick to the “determinate” (meaning not so vigorous and vinelike as “indeterminate” ones, but reaching a maximum size after they set a flower cluster at their terminal growing point), or even to the ones labeled for containers (see below). So-called “patio” type tomatoes are a sub-set of the determinates.

    This U of Illinois factsheet has a good list of dwarf/container type tomatoes as well (scroll down):

    http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/tomato1.html

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