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vegetable grow bags

moandtomoandto Posts: 15
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Hello all gardeners hope you are all safe and well, my question is about grow bags,I have bought Westland grow-sure vegetable grow bags for my tomatoes and peppers, they will be placed on grow bag trays in the polytunnel greenhouse, is it necessary to cut extra holes in grow bags allthough their are tiny drainageholes at the base of these bags.
I wiil also be using plant halos. All comments please.
Thank you

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  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    I usually poke extra holes into mine. I don't use grow bag trays though but I do use plant halos.
  • moandtomoandto Posts: 15
    Thank you Singing Gardener for your post, my poly-tunnel is on flag stones as I don't have open ground, my grow bag trays have dozens of drainage holes in the base.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    My grow bags will be on paving too so it would probably be easier for me to keep the greenhouse clean if I used trays! Not sure if there will already be drainage holes as I don't have them yet.
  • moandtomoandto Posts: 15
    Hello again,on the subject of grow bag trays I bought mine from Wilkinsons or Wilkos as they are known these days,they do have hole impressions just need drilling out.
    Hope all is well with you stay safe and stay well.
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487

    Moandto -  If it's any use to you, a local strawberry grower uses the grow-bag method and replaces them annually but, for his plants, he cuts each bag down the middle, lengthwise, and then three times across to accommodate six plants per bag.

    It's as well to remember that, whatever you choose to grow in a particular bag this year, the nutrients it doesn't need will still be left in the bag.  My strawberry man used to permit people to take his spent bags away (after stacking them face down for a year to allow the plants to die) and I could guarantee a great crop of onions on them before digging them in the next year.

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