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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    As I mentioned before,  I bought the one with the big yellow flower on the bag from Morrison, it was ok,  but....that’s not to say it will be this year, they seem to vary from year to year.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It pays [literally] to check the price per litre, which seems to be how they do it, rather than weight. It still doesn't guarantee it'll be any good though, as many people have found. 

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • StephenSouthwestStephenSouthwest Posts: 635
    edited May 2023
    I tried growing tomatoes in compost sacks last year, and found it quite a challenge to guess how dry or wet the compost was.
    This year I've been to various local recycle centres and found enough giant pots, troughs and saucers. It's so much easier!
    I fill them with a mixture of well rotted manure (collected free from local stables - check facebook), with cheap community compost, old compost, soil - pretty much whatever comes to hand.

    I've also put pots with their bottoms cut off on the top to extend root space upwards and make watering easier.

    I've never had such large healthy tomato plants.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Builders' buckets are cheap, and ideal for toms, if  you don't have any pots of a suitable size.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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