This is my first year gardening in 20+ years and I think I got too excited or overwhelmed with information and just started winging it. I bought these huge 25 gallon containers 21x16in thinking it would just be for one tomato plant. Now I’m trying to see how many they can hold and getting different inputs so I’m just going to put some stuff in there and see how it goes. When purchasing soil I decided to get different kinds and mix it together. 🤦🏻♀️😅I guess we will see how things go but I’m open to suggestions
by rebelheart35
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I’d still stick to one tomato plant per that container size. You don’t want them competing for water and nutrients.
Although this does give you some room to pursue larger-sized varieties of tomatoes! Just have to keep up on the watering. If you’ve got the space consider tucking an herb in too for some pest control and bonus herbs.
If you’ve got more than one of these you’ve got some options for packing in salad greens or maybe doubling up on peppers or bush beans.
Regardless, good choice – you have a lot of options!
My only recommendation would be to look at what the ingredients of your soil are.
Mixes for containers will have things like perlite and vermiculite to keep it from getting too compact.
The top soil and possibly some of the others will only be soil with maybe compost/manure/fertilizer already mixed in. You will want to modify these to be more breathable for container plants. The most common is like two parts soil, one part perlite, one part vermiculite with adjustments depending on if the plant needs more sandy soil, etc.
I would save your manure and mushroom compost for next year, you can add these to your old soil from this year to freshen it up and get it ready for another year of gardening.
Good luck!
I love my grow bags. I have fruit trees in my 25 gal bags. Last year I used 30gal bags for blueberry and raspberry plants. All got their own bag.
All my herbs are in 3gal buckets. I just got a cart so I can move them around.
Go for it!