On Apr 26, 10:39*am, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
> notbob > wrote:
> >Do any of you rfc'rs do it? *If so, how?
>
> Try rec.gardens.edible.
>
> -snip-
>
> >Strikes me that growing good tomatoes is more than a hanging gimmick grower
> >and a garden hose.
>
> I'll just say here that if you have 4square feet of ground-- a corner
> of a flower bed-- steal from the lawn- take up a block or 4 from the
> patio- street median. . . *whatever. * *Use that and you're in for an
> easier time than container growing tomatoes.
>
> Not saying it isn't done, done often, and done well--- just saying
> that the *most important thing for good tomatoes [after lots of direct
> sun] is a *steady* source of moisture & food. * * It is a lot easier
> to accomplish that in the ground.

I second that.
>
> Jim

--Bryan