Tomato Dirt Newsletter
Volume 13, Number 11

Dear Tomato Dirt reader,

Welcome back to Tomato Dirt! A couple times a month, we’ll send you this newsletter packed with tips about growing tomatoes and using them.

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NEW! Check for tomato growing tips each day on our Facebook page

Here’s the dirt: Tomato Dirt’s long-standing Facebook page was recently hacked. For your safety and privacy, we closed it.

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You’re invited to like the page and get plenty of tomato growing tips. And please share the new page with other gardeners you know!

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FEATURE: What Your Container Tomatoes Need to Succeed

For one thing, you need to water containers on a consistent schedule – even daily during the height of summer. A container tomato plant cannot extend its roots more deeply into the soil, so you need to make amends for that.

Garden tomatoes, on the other hand, grow deep root systems and can thrive when watered in tandem with local rainfall.

Yet another issue: staking.

Container tomatoes don’t have that luxury of sprawling across the garden floor. Typically, they’re in a limited space. Plus, tomatoes in pots have balance working against them ..

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Get the Dirt on Container Gardening

How? Grow veggies in containers. It's the shortcut to a plentiful harvest.

Our good friends at Gardener’s Supply have put together oodles of helpful information about growing tomatoes, edibles, and flowers in containers .

Here’s a quick start guide to the best crops for container gardening .

You can also watch this quick video about how to put together tomato grow bags and take a look at to decide what you’d like to grow.

And you can browse different kinds of pots, containers – even self-watering planters to choose one that’s best for you. Have fun!

More about Growing Tomatoes in Pots