On Monday, March 5, 2007 at 7:34:06 AM UTC-8, geronimo wrote:
I am in a rent house so I don't plant anything in the ground, its
all in pots. I am in zone 10. Last spring (EARLY) I planted a
tomato(a variety that others are growing here with excellent results)
in a pot. Had full sun. Had plenty of drainage holes, volcanic rock at
the bottom. The tomato plant grew only so-so. I don't think it was
anywhere near the size/foliage spread of one planted in in a garden.
This pot actually is a large galvanized wash tub, so the plant sure
had more than enough room.
I used a mix...some sand, but mostly Miracle-Gro potting soil. At
the price of Miracle-Gro, it should be THE BEST, but the plant only
produced three or four fruit. There are lots of honeybees around.
I thought that maybe it was just that tomatoes don't do well/produce
much fruit when potted...however a relative of mine said that he once
grew tomatoes in pots, and they produced lots of fruit. SO I guess I
don't have the right soil or fertilizers. I watered them ocassionally,
as all the potted plant, with MIracle-Gro solution. What did I do
wrong, or is there some better soil I can put in the container?

Dunno if this has been covered, but did you provide DRAINAGE?

On 4/28/2015 3:03 PM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:
On Monday, March 5, 2007 at 7:34:06 AM UTC-8, geronimo wrote:
I am in a rent house so I don't plant anything in the ground, its
all in pots. I am in zone 10. Last spring (EARLY) I planted a
tomato(a variety that others are growing here with excellent results)
in a pot. Had full sun. Had plenty of drainage holes, volcanic rock at
the bottom. The tomato plant grew only so-so. I don't think it was
anywhere near the size/foliage spread of one planted in in a garden.
This pot actually is a large galvanized wash tub, so the plant sure
had more than enough room.
I used a mix...some sand, but mostly Miracle-Gro potting soil. At
the price of Miracle-Gro, it should be THE BEST, but the plant only
produced three or four fruit. There are lots of honeybees around.
I thought that maybe it was just that tomatoes don't do well/produce
much fruit when potted...however a relative of mine said that he once
grew tomatoes in pots, and they produced lots of fruit. SO I guess I
don't have the right soil or fertilizers. I watered them ocassionally,
as all the potted plant, with MIracle-Gro solution. What did I do
wrong, or is there some better soil I can put in the container?

Dunno if this has been covered, but did you provide DRAINAGE?


Now I see why I could not find the original message. It was posted 8
years ago. I suspect Cocoly -- a Chinese fertilizer company -- has been
trolling for the purpose of injecting spam. Cocoly is now in my filter
for rejection of messages.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 3:58:41 PM UTC-7, David E. Ross wrote:
On 4/28/2015 3:03 PM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:
On Monday, March 5, 2007 at 7:34:06 AM UTC-8, geronimo wrote:
[...]
Dunno if this has been covered, but did you provide DRAINAGE?


Now I see why I could not find the original message. It was posted 8
years ago. I suspect Cocoly -- a Chinese fertilizer company -- has been
trolling for the purpose of injecting spam. Cocoly is now in my filter
for rejection of messages.

Dern it, why didn't I notice the 2007 date! Good detective work, David.

It should have been obvious, come to think of it, that anyone touting Miracle Gro SOIL!!!! was a troll.

HB

On 28 Apr 2015, "David E. Ross" wrote in
rec.gardens:

Now I see why I could not find the original message. It was
posted 8 years ago. I suspect Cocoly -- a Chinese fertilizer
company -- has been trolling for the purpose of injecting spam.
Cocoly is now in my filter for rejection of messages.

I wouldn't waste the electrons trying to filter them. They will surely
never return.

At least we got your potting soil recipe out of it. That made it all
worthwhile.

Once upon a time on usenet Hypatia Nachshon wrote:
On Monday, March 5, 2007 at 7:34:06 AM UTC-8, geronimo wrote:
I am in a rent house so I don't plant anything in the ground, its
all in pots. I am in zone 10. Last spring (EARLY) I planted a
tomato(a variety that others are growing here with excellent
results) in a pot. Had full sun. Had plenty of drainage holes,
volcanic rock at the bottom. The tomato plant grew only so-so. I
don't think it was anywhere near the size/foliage spread of one
planted in in a garden. This pot actually is a large galvanized wash
tub, so the plant sure had more than enough room.
I used a mix...some sand, but mostly Miracle-Gro potting soil. At
the price of Miracle-Gro, it should be THE BEST, but the plant only
produced three or four fruit. There are lots of honeybees around.
I thought that maybe it was just that tomatoes don't do well/produce
much fruit when potted...however a relative of mine said that he once
grew tomatoes in pots, and they produced lots of fruit. SO I guess I
don't have the right soil or fertilizers. I watered them
ocassionally, as all the potted plant, with MIracle-Gro solution.
What did I do wrong, or is there some better soil I can put in the
container?

Dunno if this has been covered, but did you provide DRAINAGE?

So *there's* the original post above yours. :-)

FWIW honey bees won't do any good when it comes to tomatoes. Bumble bees are
far and away the best pollinators of tomatoes, the need to be
'buzz-pollinated'. All of the commercial growers here with their acres of
glass houses use only bumble bees.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)