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29-05-2006, 04:46 PM posted to rec.gardens

"Mark Anderson" wrote in message
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In article says...
You will likely have to water them daily (it depends on how big your
containers are and what type of potting mixture you used). The drip
systems work fairly well, but again, it depends on the potting mixture
you used.

Last year with the drought I had to water them every day and sometimes
that wasn't even enough. My container tomatoes never did well. Last
year they grew funny and I had lots of BER and cracking and the time
before that the fruit looked deformed although very edible.

Just to clarify this for the OP (because I suspect it's intuitive for you at
this point), one reason for cracked tomatoes is extremes of moisture -
letting them get very dry, and then watering a lot. They like their soil to
be evenly moist all the time, if possible. When grown in the ground, this is
less of an issue, and a thick layer of mulch will go far in terms of
helping.