Grow Bag for full-size Indeterminate cherry?

Greatgardens · June 30, 2017

I think I would like to try to grow a couple of IND cherries in grow bags. I've never done that, using Earth Boxes only for dwarfs and smaller indeterminates My Idea would be to use the bag inside large cages for support (18" on a side). I would have to add an extension to the cage since I would lose the height of the bag in the cage. (I could partially bury the grow bag?) The idea would be to leave the bags in place, for ease of use. Aside... this reminds me a bit of an article I read in Organic Gardening many years a go where a trash bag was filled with a soil mix and buried in the desert-like conditions in New Mexico (IIRC).

Anyway, how big of a grow bag would be useful? 10 gallon? I don't want to have to water them more than once a day, same as an Earth Box. Alternatively, I could build a raised bed and fill it with planting mix. What do you think?

-GG

June 30, 2017	#1
Greatgardens Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 1,124	Grow Bag for full-size Indeterminate cherry? I think I would like to try to grow a couple of IND cherries in grow bags. I've never done that, using Earth Boxes only for dwarfs and smaller indeterminates My Idea would be to use the bag inside large cages for support (18" on a side). I would have to add an extension to the cage since I would lose the height of the bag in the cage. (I could partially bury the grow bag?) The idea would be to leave the bags in place, for ease of use. Aside... this reminds me a bit of an article I read in Organic Gardening many years a go where a trash bag was filled with a soil mix and buried in the desert-like conditions in New Mexico (IIRC). Anyway, how big of a grow bag would be useful? 10 gallon? I don't want to have to water them more than once a day, same as an Earth Box. Alternatively, I could build a raised bed and fill it with planting mix. What do you think? -GG