CG wrote:I haven't planned on anything yet but this is helpful. I thought the 10 inch was too small but my girlfriends parents sadi it was good. I have a back deck but it faces the north so I'm not sure how much sun it gets all day. Any bigger containers inside probably wouldn't work in my place. Any thouhts on the northern deck? As I said I have just recently starting growing anything, tht's why i'm so ignorant here.

I think any outdoor sun would be better than indoors.

Well, it's been a good summer - a productive summer and I've learned a thing or two about container gardening. One of the things I learned was that you need a solid staking system for indeterminate tomatoes. I use sub irrigated planters and had a single stake on each end with twine running between. Well, that didn't work too well, as the plants became too heavy for these particular stakes (black plastic). When the weather got hot, so did the plastic and with the weight, they bent - a lot.

So I used a four stake system made out of cedar with bamboo inserts. It's working really well. Here's a pic of the project in progress:

updated pics of completed project: