Jonno wrote:

Suggest you find that old italian,

Naah, he killed half his tomatoes this year by planting them into a
fresh mixture of chicken and mushroom compost and had to relay on self
seeded ones for replanting. Tried to explain to him that if he was going
to grow them in 10" pots with the bottom cut out, then he would have to
water them each day. Hmm.

I have also found out that mine gets a lot of his gardening "Advice" off
italian gardening shows. Not that helpful here.