Growing tomatoes in buckets

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tomatoes  grown in buckets with holes drilled in edge of bucket for water

Douglas Hunt · Answer

You certainly can grow tomatoes like that, and if you have, we'd love to see a photo.

Swan Road Designs · Answer

Yep! Not only tomatoes..but other veggies as well. Because of health issues, we planted quite a few bucket plants. In all, there were 6 tomatoes, one cucumber, one green bell pepper and one eggplant. All did amazingly well. So well, in fact, that I was able to can tons of homemade oven-roasted tomato sauce, along with picking a minimum of a pint of a mix of cherry, grape and yellow baby pear tomatoes daily. The Roma tomatoes (there were 2 of them) grew at least 6-feet tall and produced more than ample tomatoes to can and to eat.

My system worked well and I plan to add more containers next year and have ideas for some refinements to help the plants bear even more produce.

Swan Road Designs · Answer

What I did was to drill a 1-inch hole in the center of the bottom and then, evenly spaced around it about an inch or so from the outer rim, I drilled eight 1/4-inch holes. I also notched the bottom edge of the bucket in 4 even spots so the bucket didn't sit flat onto the pavement, which would allow the water to drain normally.

As the plants grew and begin to gain some size, I realized that some water needed to remain in the buckets, so I went to the Dollar Tree and bought some automotive oil draining pans to use as underplates. Worked like a charm.

Douglas Hunt · Answer

Another Hometalk member shares her experience here: http://www.hometalk.com/diy/grow/tomatoes/growing-tomatoes-in-five-gallon-buckets-1618549

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