Growbags

[browndmb]

Getting set for the planting of my tomatoes and cucumbers. I am going to use growbags and can anyone recommend the best ones. I am thinking I need ones which have peat in them but many just say peat free
Thanks for any info

[Buenchico]

The policy of Defra, supported by organisations such as the RHS and by 'celebrity gardeners' such as Alan Titchmarsh (as well as many garden centres), was to have seen the total abolition of the use of peat by amateur gardeners by 2010. While that may not have been fully achieved, the use of peat is always to be deprecated:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Sustainable-gardening/Peat-and-the-environment/Peat-and-the-gardener

Peat-free growbags will have a composition designed specifically to compensate for the absence of peat (such as through the inclusion of coir) and they're perfectly suitable for tomatoes. However you could try the tips here to improve them
http://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/tomato/greenhouse-tomatoes.php
and, of course, remember to feed with tomato fertiliser as soon as the flowers disappear.

[rockyracoon]

If using growbags, I'd cut the bottoms off some plastic pots and place them over holes in the growbags, fill the pots with compost and plant your stuff, the root systems will be able to go deeper than if using a growbag on it's own. As for cucumbers, you'll need a bit of depth to put a support rod in to hold the plant up once it starts fruiting, you might not get this with just a growbag as they tend to be only a few inches deep.

Hope that makes sense. :)