what is the point of organic container gardening?

[Balr14]

Originally Posted by mdvpc

Balr-how do your tomatoes do in the city pickers?

City pickers? If that is a slang term for earth boxes, they do great. My plants are usually about 9' tall and very full and depending on the tomatoes, yield is extremely good, especially considering I have no idea what I'm doing and over-crowd the containers. I grow about 70% cherry tomatoes of various types and usually get 400 - 500 per plant. The large varieties (non-cherry) are usually heirlooms, some are great yielding, some are not. Last year, I got at least 50 Purple Cherokees, 50 - 75 Black Krims, 200 green zebras. But, I only got about 7 - 10 Old Germans and 5 or 6 Aunt Gladys Green something. I tried a hybrid Roma called Health Kick and got tons of them. I don't use any herbicides or pesticides, I do get some losses due to critters and birds ( probably about 50 tomatoes).

I'm usually getting ripe fruit by July and they are still producing until mid-November. I picked 500 tomatoes of all sizes last December and ripened them in the dark. I didn't run out of tomatoes until March.

[mdvpc]

Bair

Sorry, I thought they were the brand city pickers. I have used them for lettuces, garlic, kale, chard. I had a thread on them here last winter.