Been perusing Baker Seeds. All their tomatoes are heirloom, right?  I've picked out a few varieties that have smaller fruits in hopes that they'd have smaller, stockier vines as well. Only one, Cosmonaut Volkov, I think, got a good review as a container plant.

I did find one called Mountain Princess that was developed for the short mountain growing season in West Virginia. Funny, I think of W.V. as so much hotter than W.N.Y. But then they threw a curve-ball with the words "determinate" and "indeterminate".  Determinate ripen all at once I guess. Would one want that for a container garden?

And to our friends in the U.K. Do any of you know anything about a type called Money Maker. It is described as a "English Greenhouse variety" with 4-6oz. fruits. Would that be a good container type?

Mamawolf, is it because the plants are too vine-y that they don't do well in containers?

All I want is 40 acres and a mule and then I wouldn't have to ask these questions.

This company has a great  variety of peppers & tomatoes to choose from,  we have bought most of our tomato and pepper seeds from them for years.  If you go to the Web Site at http://www.tomatogrowers.com/    there is a little window on the left that will let you type in container gardening,  short season etc.  We are fortunate to have a large garden so don't know much about container growing but hope the address might help. 

KateS.   Believe it or not, I have a tiller. A large Troybilt that I paid more for than I did the car I bought at the same time (back when I was 20 years old in college, waaaaaa-ay back when I was 20 yrs. old)  The car is long gone but my brother-in-law has custody of the Troybilt until I get my land. Yup, still hopin' to be a farmer.

Joyce from WVa.  That TomatoGrowers site is teh Bomb! Lots of suggestions for containers, dwarf plants, some in mid season varieties. Everyone should take a look.

I've grown cherry tomatoes in containers before. They grow really well but my husband is begging for a "real tomato". Of course my answer is "buy me land and I'll grow you any tomato you want" but until that time, we have to make due with containers.

Mrs. Fuzz  Hoping to bring some buckets home from work and try that double bucket system someone posted about on the forum here.  Someone also suggested 18 gal. buckets. Is that the deep rectangular storage buckets that we all pack material, craft stuff and canning jars in?  I have a hard time buying those and not using the lids. We use a low one as a big litter pan and I still am trying to think of something to do with the lid.

I love the Garden Web site but tend to get lost in the herb section.

I see you've posted another container garden topic. Cool, going there to study up next.

There are a few heirlooms that thrive in containers.  A small nursery in my region specializes in seeds for compact gardens — open pollinated and hardy only.  The Demidov tomato plants are the best container tomatoes I've seen, better than any of the cherry types or determinates I've tried in the past — great in pots, good flavor.

http://afewgoodplants.com/seed…..htm#Tomato – and http://afewgoodplants.com/photos.htm

Somewhere on my hard drive I have pics of the grown plants and nearly ripe tomatoes from the nursery's seed stock patch, and maybe some of a sliced ripe one.