[Homestead] Tomatoes, for the seriously space challenged
Sage Austin | Eureka! Design
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Sat Jan 17 12:34:43 EST 2009
I experimented with this the year before last and it was a disaster. I
did not buy the official product, but made my own from recyclables too.
For areas with high temps such as ours, the roots just baked to death
and the tomato plants suffered and eventually died without providing fruit.
--Sage
Way Out in Texas
Lynda wrote:
> I set this aside and meant to answer it awhile ago. Well, duh, a long while
> ago but life got in the way. I have a net friend who uses these or rather
> the non-store bought version. We're going to add some of these to the
> garden this year to make double use of the space and because it is just one
> more way to grow stuff where the only soil to speak of is rocks! Here's a
> link to her blog and pictures of how she hangs them. For the full story,
> click on the "Older Posts" links.
>
> http://littlehouseinthebigsuburb.blogspot.com/
>
> Now, I'm not going to leave my buckets open, I'm going to put the lids back
> on them with a small hole drilled in it for the neck of the soda bottle used
> for watering.
>
> Lynda
>
> "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a
> cross"...Upton Sinclair
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue at ruralize.com>
>
>
>
>> My neighbor lady told me about this a while back (yes, the lady who
>> will hereafter be known as She Who Removed The Tick From Gene's
>> Navel)--growing tomatoes upside down in a container. In her version,
>> someone was using a five-gallon bucket. Here, the offering is a
>> commercial container. Even for those of us with unlimited land, it
>> would be interesting to experiment. For instance, I would like to
>> verify that soil-borne diseases could thus be completely thwarted. And
>> who would not like to eliminate building supports and affixing growing
>> vines year after year. For those of us who rotate crops, those
>> supports have to be moved. So I consider putting a line of supports
>> down the middle of each long bed. But then it's in the way of
>> preparing the soil and tending other crops that don't profit from
>> supports. On the other hand, building supports from which to hang
>> eighty-pound tomato-growing containers would be a substantial task, too.
>>
>> Here is a site that describes the process and sells the containers:
>>
>> http://www.gardeners.com/Gardener+s+Revolution+Planter/PotsPlanters_HangingPlanters,37-000,default,cp.html?SC=XNET8019
>>
>> Go to the Instructions PDF for more info.
>>
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