Subject: [Homestead] Tomatoes, for the seriously space challenged
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 09:24:02 -0500
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: