Gravel Driveway Container Tomatoes

[panhandler]

Here are my "driveway" tomatoes. It's nothing fancy at all and its very small scale. Just growing and experimenting with 5 Indian Stripe and 3 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye. I have some Black Cherry in small pots waiting to be transplanted up to bigger containers but I'm way more interested in the other two varieties. I placed some cheap 18-20 gallon containers along the edge of my gravel driveway among some pines and palmettos and vines. They get pretty full blast overhead sun for several hours and lots of dappled light. They're staked and weaved for support. I don't prune them. I like watching them sprawl out.

I could probably get some bigger plants with another hour or two of full sun, but I'll sacrifice some size and production to prevent scalding. I was expecting far more pests, but I've had little to deal with. It's strange because I live in a hot humid wetland close to the beach and there are insects everywhere. Maybe they're so isolated among so much cover nothing's found them yet?

I got off to a late start (April 20) on the transplants, but they're coming along fine. Just a some BER and my biggest IS snapped at the main stem because I didn't have it supported properly. It had my very first tomato of the season on it too.

I hope I can curb that BER soon and get plenty of tomatoes in the next month or so. Wish me luck!

[AndreaT]

Thanks for sharing. How many hours of direct sun are your container tomato plants getting?

I am growing a Super Bush tomato plant from seed in a container and it really hates anything over 4-5 hours of direct sun here in Pensacola.

For BER, have you tried adding milk dilluted in water to your tomato plants? I have done that with my plant and it seems to like it.

[Alpinejs]

Beautiful 'mater plants but I still want the pooch if he/she is a golden
retriever!!

[meadowyck]

any updates on this years????