{"id":176,"date":"2010-05-10T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/05\/10\/growing-tomatoes-in-containers\/"},"modified":"2012-02-16T14:09:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T19:09:37","slug":"growing-tomatoes-in-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/05\/10\/growing-tomatoes-in-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Tomatoes in Containers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tomato-Greenhouse-Production-9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2994\" title=\"Tomato Greenhouse Production (9)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tomato-Greenhouse-Production-9-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tomato-Greenhouse-Production-9-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tomato-Greenhouse-Production-9-1024x687.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Apartment renters and townhouse and condominium owners till the soil in containers on their patio and deck. For containers the shorter growing determinate type tomatoes are a better choice. Spread out the harvest interval, by not planting all your tomatoes at one time. Start your last tomatoes from seed for June planting and harvest beginning in late September and October.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Container grown tomatoes need a deep container- at least 16 to 18 inches tall. A 5- gallon (or larger) pail or pot works well. Drill out several 1- inch wide drainage holes and add a few rocks in the bottom for ballast. Plant in a good growing media and add some inorganic fertilizer or organic bone and blood meal to increase fertility. Container-grown plants require more frequent fertilization than field-grown, as there\u2019s less soil from which to obtain nutrients. For water soluble fertilizers, apply every two weeks.Here are some good varieties to try. The yield will vary with the variety:<br \/>\n\u2022 Slicers<br \/>\n\u2013 Bush Early Girl<br \/>\n\u2013 Bushsteak Hybrid<br \/>\n\u2013 Spring Giant<br \/>\n\u2013 Better Boy<br \/>\n\u2013 Jetstar<br \/>\n\u2013 Bush Celebrity<br \/>\n\u2013 Mountain Fresh Plus VFFN<br \/>\n\u2013 Super Bush<br \/>\n\u2013 Saladette (Roma type)\u2022 Cherry<br \/>\n\u2013 Golden Nugget<br \/>\n\u2013 Sweet 100 Patio<br \/>\n\u2013 Tiny Tim<br \/>\n\u2013 Patio<br \/>\n\u2013 Supersweet 100<br \/>\n\u2013 Sun Gold<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apartment renters and townhouse and condominium owners till the soil in containers on their patio and deck. For containers the shorter growing determinate type tomatoes are a better choice. Spread out the harvest interval, by not planting all your tomatoes at one time. Start your last tomatoes from seed for June planting and harvest beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[710,665,599,847,603,630,870,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}