How to Plant Tomatoes In a Container Her latest lesson ... Angela likes adding an olla to her pot. An olla is a clay pot that ...

making the plants more resistant to disease and water stress. Tomato seedlings will fill their pots quite quickly. Allow them to become slightly pot-bound and almost starved of moisture and nutrients.

When roots come through the drainage holes put into a 12.5cm (5in) pot. Unless you're growing a bush tomato, the aim is to create a single-stemmed plant. To do this, snap out shoots that grow in ...