tomatoes in hanging baskets

[bramble]

Has anyone tried growing Red Alert in hanging baskets.
I haven't myself but have grown them in small pots. They don,t need staking and produce very well. They are also very flavoursome.

[Alison]

Has anyone tried growing Red Alert in hanging baskets.
I haven't myself but have grown them in small pots. They don,t need staking and produce very well. They are also very flavoursome.

I wouldn't do it, they're upright bush types and get quite big when I've grown them in the ground. I prefer to grow tumbling types in hanging baskets.

[binley100]

There's seems to be a disagreement on the garden pearl toms . Some people on here who opinion I value like them so this year I am going to grow some along side the tumbling tom ones I usually grow and give it my considered opinion.......
Liking the idea of tea bags in the bottom of the baskets..........

[Potstubsdustbins]

Very sensible Binley what suits one pallette won't suit another and the only true way is to try.

Colin

[Davyburns]

Tried both yellow and red Tubling toms last year. Not impressed! quite prolific fruiters, but very bland in taste. Trying Mastkotka and Centiflor this year

[bobleponge]

I grew tomberries (donated by a kindly Grape, but cant remember who sadly) in a hanging basket last year, beautiful. Will be doing the same again this year with seeds saved from last year, but more than one plant this year.
They are a bush type so they do grow up, but they dont grow too high at all, so had no problems picking them.

[LittleShamrock]

Thanks Colin, I've got a few varieties of other tomatoes so hopefully they'll be yummy! The tumbling cherries will just be devoured by the kids (you'd think cherry toms were sweets!) or munched on the way out the front door lol. I'll be impressed if they grow at all, if they are delicious then thats a bonus!

[Dane End Dolly]

I am going to try Balconi red this year in a hanging basket, i grew it in a pot last year and it was a small bush plant so would be suitable with some other bits surrounding it like basils to add interest in a large hanging basket

[cotton54321]

Wow! SO many different opinions...the plus side being we get to try all these lovely varieties rather than putting up with the tasteless shop bought variety . I am getting SOOOO impatient waiting for summer :-D

[AntonyM]

I have grown Tumbler in a basket for the last couple of years. First time I put 3 plants in, and last year just 2. I got a much better yield with just the 2 plants - they seemed much happier.

Lots of water & regular feeding essential.

[King Carrot]

Tried both yellow and red Tubling toms last year. Not impressed! quite prolific fruiters, but very bland in taste. Trying Mastkotka and Centiflor this year

I think Centiflor are too much of a "vine" for baskets although you could stop them at one or two trusses and perhaps let them bush from any lower sideshoots - I have trouble picturing this as I had hundreds of toms on each truss and had to keep the sideshoots under control or everything would have got too crowded including the toms beside them.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Gayle,
I suffer a very similar problem with toms not reaching the table the only difference being I am the KID Whoopee roll on summer.

Colin

[Davyburns]

I think Centiflor are too much of a "vine" for baskets although you could stop them at one or two trusses and perhaps let them bush from any lower sideshoots - I have trouble picturing this as I had hundreds of toms on each truss and had to keep the sideshoots under control or everything would have got too crowded including the toms beside them.

Thanks for that. I may have a rethink as I have never grown Centiflor before