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Growing Upside Down TomatoesIf you're lacking ground space and want to grow tomatoes, you might try growing them upside down! There are many commercially made upside down tomato containers for doing this these days, but if you've got some time, you can make your own planter with a 5 gallon bucket. Besides having something unusual to talk about with your friends and neighbors, some people who plant tomatoes in this way swear they have a better yeild of tomatoes. They claim this is because the plants get better circulation hanging upside down and that the branches have less stress hanging this way.
One thing to keep in mind is that you can't plant just ANY variety of tomato in a bucket. Pick a variety that's already suited to growing in a container, for best yield and outcome. Planting Tomatoes Upside Down 1. Get a 5 gallon bucket and drill a 2-3 inch hole in the bottom. 2. Cover that hole with a coffee filter and put a slit in the filter. 3. Place the bucket on a pair of sawhorses (or have someone help you with this project and hold the bucket for you) 4. Carefully push a tomato seedling through the coffee filter and the hole in the bucket so that the leaves and stems are sticking out the hole in the bottom, but the roots are still inside the bucket. 5. Add compost and soil to the bucket. 6. Hang the bucket up (be careful not to bump the tomato plant as you move it) and water it. 7. Take care of your tomato like you would any other container plant and enjoy the harvest! Other non-traditional gardening information you might be interested in:
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