OT-Hung my tomato plants yesterday!

omahagreg · Apr 15, 2009

Don't know anyone who has tried, but thought we would try the 'topsy turvy' tomato plant this year. Hung them yesterday.

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Getting the final inspection tonight!

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Heres hoping! Greg

super99 · Apr 15, 2009

I've been thinking about getting one and try it. You would have had to take it inside last night here in western Ill, frost on the car windows this am. Chris

Roy in Ga · Apr 15, 2009

many people here have done it and like it

rgvtx · Apr 15, 2009

Do you have to stand on your head to water them?

Adrian Billheimer · Apr 15, 2009

My mom just bought 2 similar ones, they hang from a rope, no stand. She is putting a tomato in one and a strawberry in the other, we'll see how well it works.

Adrian

Anonymous-0 · Apr 15, 2009

5 gal buckets are cheap. Drill a 2" hole in the bottom wrap the stem with foam rubber to plug the hole. Fill 1/2 to 3/4 full of soil, hang in a suitable location, water and you are done. Use a white bucket so it doesn't over heat the roots.

37 chief · Apr 15, 2009

You should have talked to me first. My wife bought three of these things. We followded the directions exactly as indicated. They just didn't grow.You might have better luck. What I found out that works to hang the things is a tie down strap. The small 1 inch wide ones. Hang them from the kids (grand kids) swing set. Stan

John B. · Apr 15, 2009

A friend of ours did this in a 5 gal bucket and had a sprinkler on a timer every day. They didn't do much.
You have to remember it's a potted vegetable plant when it's like this, I did a potted pepper plant last year and the two peppers I got from it were smaller than a ping pong ball.

What's the purpose of upside down tomato plants any way? Looks like some one came up with this idea and decided to try and make some money at it. If it really worked all tomatoes would be grown this way.

Trying to fool mother nature!!!

HENRY E NC · Apr 15, 2009

John B----This has been done for lots of years.m Right after WW II a company started up in Copley, Ohio (Near Akron) called Hydroponics and they raised tomatoes hanging from big wheels similiar the paddle wheels and they rotated very slowly and the roots were in water laced with fertilizer. I don't know if the co still exists but they grew fairly fast in the fifties. Henry

Anonymous-0 · Apr 16, 2009

Thats what i did found a volunteer plant in the garden late so i tried it. Plant wants to grow up for a while but later on will start down. I used potting soil mixed with black dirt 50-50. Needs water every other day. Plant was started late but still grew down 4ft. I am going to do it again only an earlier start.Tomato plants will do best in a 5 gal container so i dont see how those little things they advertise on TV would have enough room for the roots to grow good.

El Toro · Apr 16, 2009

My wife grew a tomato, belle pepper and a cucumber on this planter. Hal

jim in N M · Apr 16, 2009

We've had great luck planting tomato plants in bales of straw (small) just dig a hole in the bale and plant,with a little dirt,water the bale every day. we got scads of tomatos last year......Jim in N M

El Toro · Apr 16, 2009

My wife planted a tomato, green pepper and cucumber on this planter. Needs to be watered often. Hal
PS: This was last summer. She got a ripe tomato before I got one from the garden. She has a single planter for growing them upside down too.

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