Help me grow some tomatoes in my window boxes while we wait on the list for an allotment!

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After 4 years we are now No2 on the council list for the allotments 1/4 mile from our house.
So near yet so far..... so have decided this year NOT to put pansies in my kitchen windowboxes but tomatoes.
Can anyone advise me of the type of tomato plant I think I've heard that can be grown in hanging baskets as I think this will be the best kind.
What else could I plant that would grow UP, lettuce? Spring Onions? I have no idea!
Also has anyone had success growing potatoes in a tub? We just have a small back yard that doesn't get much sun.
Any advice greatly appreciated.

I've done tomatoes in very small pots on my very small patio - dwarf cherry tomatoes, though (the full size ones too big). I think variety used was something called "Tumbling Tom" - very prolific and very very tasty!

Tumbling Tom are a good choice, but check the labels at the garden centre for others.

they will need LOTS of water and feed and good drainage.

And if you are struggling with tomatoes in window boxes I hope you are studying some good books on how to garden your allotment or you will find it an awful shock!

you could put in herbs like basil with your tomatoes (from seed, if you cheat and use supermarket ready-growing ones they can just keel over and die as they are so pampered). If it's full sun lettuce may find it too hot and dry. Peppers or a chili plant - chilis especially good as you don't need many. again you can get them at homebase.

We are no 37 on the list at the moment...we reckon maybe 10 years unless we (ahem) bypass the council systema nd get in with somone who wants to share aplot

Cut and come again salad leaves are supposed to be good for containers.

If it is a very shady yard I think you will struggle to gor many veg ( of anything else except hostas, ferns and similar...)

Thanks everyone! We are just lucky that dp decided to apply for an allotment before the demand started to rise a couple of years ago.
II'm not 'having trouble' growing toms - I've just never tried! So will take ds1 to the garden centre for some tumbling toms and I think basil is a good idea.
DP's family home had 1/4 acre garden of which 2/3 was veg, and there were fruit trees in the other 1/3. So he is very used to it, and misses it as my house just has a small yard. I am very practical and good at planning, we've got a couple of allotment books already so are getting ready.... I already make jam, jellies, chutney, pickles and have a ton of books on preserving so I think between us we will manage to make good use of it.
Plus the boys are 22m and 3yo now so if we get one next summer (fingers xd) we will be able to take them up there and give them their own little bit or just let them run about.
I just want dp to put a blokey shed on the allotment and disappear up there for hours on end

Oh, forgot to say tigana, one half of the yard gets sun for quite a few hours so hopefully something will grow

We did cherry toms, from seeds of suermarket-bought ones, on our balcony last year. Seeds on tissue until they germinated, then into soil. The plants grew to at least 2m and we had loads of toms - but due to late planting (not until late April, we'd just moved house) then the washout of a summer they almost all remained green.

Oh so my chutney recipes might be needed then as its almost April....

have a look at this - this is a fab organisation
DON'T wait for 10 years, have a look at this bit (hopefully it's showing answers to the "there are no allotments in my area" bit.)
Then start phoning the councillor in charge of the allotment committee and remind them that elections are always just around the corner (May for some of us). They need to start doing something about it for you, its a statutory duty.
It is so upsetting just hanging there waiting when its spring - there must be a corner that could be cleared of brambles, or taken back where its being rented out to a farmer.