upside down tomatoes and cucumber

[dreams_in_color]

Has anyone had any luck with this method?

http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/tomato2.html

I want to plant my cucumbers and tomatoes sing this method this year. Sounds like getting the plant just right sounds a little tricky so I was looking for hints.

Thanks,

Susan

[Deberosa]

I got my mother a tomatoe tree that has a stand and huge bag that held three plants upside down. They grew great! I helped her winterize it when I was back there last fall so it's all ready for her again this spring. I got it for her because the chipmunks kept eating tomatoes she had growing in pots and on the ground but left these alone!

I am thinking of getting a few five gallon buckets, cutting holes in the bottom and hanging them in my arbor this year to have kitchen tomatoes handy.

[dreams_in_color]

I am going to use the hanging bucket technique. I bought 10 of them from Firehouse subs they sell their old pickle buckets for 2.00 which goes to buy equpment for local firefighters.

If you get yours started before I do plese let me know what you did to actually get the young plant to stay in the upside down bucket.

I am also going to try to grow globe artichoke which have to be covered to winter over so figured I can use the bckets for dual purposes.

Happy growing,

Susan

[Maverick]

While it makes a neat display seeing maters growing upside down, I have found they are NOT near as productive as their right side up counterparts.

If you want to hang up your cukes and maters, you'd be better served (and fed ;)) to hang them in buckets and merely allow the vines to spill over the edge.

[PK.]

An old greenhouse method is to use large wire baskets, line them with spaghnum moss and fill with good potting soil. Plant one in the top, growing up. Plant three around the basket about halfway up the side of the basket growing down. This method works extremely well for cherry tomatoes. It gives you tremendous yields for the space used. You're growing four plants in the space of one and since they're hanging, you can put them pretty much anywhere.

[dreams_in_color]

Maybe I will experiment and try several methods and see which one works the best.

Thanks for all the great comments.