Strawberries and Cherry Tomatoes in Hanging Baskets

[Ready]

Would someone please tell me how to go about producing strawbs and cherry toms in hanging baskets. Where do I start?

Can I buy the plants at a garden centre? As I am shamefully bad at growing from seed (perhaps it was just poor seeds? )

The plan is to have a snowball effect, and end up growing LOTS in my garden. But so far I have only had success with tomatoes in grow bags, and let's face it - that's not really an achievement to brag much about ... and so, I feel if I can move on to hanging baskets and do that well, it will boost my confidence a little and encourage me to plant in the ground

[TheFallenMadonna]

We grow tomatoes in hanging baskets. We raised them from seed, but you could buy plants from the garden centre. We used Tumbler, a mix of yellow and red fruits, three plants per basket in John Innes number 3, with some water retaining granules. They were hugely productive, and most importantly, out of reach of dd!

[Mung]

Check out this thread for a bit of info on strawberries.

I have grown tublers in the past but had little success. Trying again this year in a new location.

Perhaps you should try something like courgettes in a pot or potatoes in a compost bag to give you that feeling of success.

[Ready]

Thank you ladies :D

We had wild strawberries in the rockery of our last house, but they were already there when we moved in, and we have now moved on. I miss having strawbs

How easy is it to grow peas? I got a catalogue from the real seed company, and really keen to try a few things in gro-bags. Can you really grow potatoes in a grow bag < at naive novice>

[Mung]

I just bought some strawberry plug plants at the gardewn centre. 4 plug plants were cheaper than a large grown plant, so its worth a go!

[soozze]

I put strawberries in hanging baskets last year. A smallish cone shaped hanging basket has two plants (from garden centre) and they did fine.

I also have the little wild strawberries in the garden - they grow like weeds so imagine would be easy to get started in your new place. They are very cute.

[woodstock3]

i grew tumbler tomatoes in a hanging basket last year and they were brilliant but i also had a plug plant left over and put this in a tall pot on the patio and this was much the most prolific. so i'd say go with big pots (quite high ones so tomatoes dont end up brushing the ground)> think it's cos you get more compost in them so they are fed more.
strawbs i did in one of those pots with holes in the sdies so you can have 2/3 plants in the top and one sticking out of each of the holes. they were good but unless you have looooads of plants you never get more than a few ripen at the same time so never get bowfuls. will do toms again this year tho.

[BigBadMouse]

THESE are apparently fantastic tomatoes for hanging baskets. They are new out and you can get up to 2000 tomatoes on one bush which have a good flavour. They are grown for container use and are on offer now - limited stocks apparently.