Cascading Tomatoes
Cascading tomatoes
Here’s an innovative way to grow tomato plants. You need a hanging basket 10″ or larger. Make a hole in the middle at the bottom of the basket just large enough to insert a tomato plant . Once you have made this hole, insert your tomato plant thru the hole planting it upside down. The root ball is now inside the basket and the plant hangs out from the bottom. Fill your basket with potting soil and a time release fertilizer and hang it in a sunny spot. I’m going to hang mine on a shepherd’s hook in my flower bed, where there is lots of sun and perhaps another on my deck so that I can have easy access to tomatoes when I need them. I’m sure we can all get creative as to where to hang these baskets. I haven’t tried this method yet but imagine that a smaller variety of tomato such as “Patio Princess” would work better than your large beefsteak varieties due to the weight of the tomatoes.
So dig out your empty hanging basket from last year and plant a tomato upside down. If you don’t have an empty hanging basket there are specially designed containers available on the internet.
If you do try this method, please write back and let us know your success story.
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Kapusta
What fruits and vegetables can be planted in pots for city gardening?
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Comment by Kapusta — 2/18/2007 @ 9:31 am
I am considering growing a few tomato plants in an area that gets only partial sunlight. Would it be advisable to supplement light from a grow lamp, when natural light is not available? What about the use of mirrors to reflect sunlight to shaded areas?
Comment by Larry — 4/2/2007 @ 1:01 pm