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If you've got a bright enough location, or can provide some additional light for a hanging basket, you might try growing a tomato plant or two indoors. However, if you expect to have a large healthy plant, you really need to wait until outside temperatures are getting fairly warm. Tomato plants are really hot weather plants, and will absolutely thrive with the onset of summer. Tomato plants have a tendency though to want to settle on the ground, which causes the fruits to rot. They are also sensitive to too much moisture, which will cause the fruits to break and split. Recently, the Upside Down Tomato Garden has become a trendy way to remedy these issues. There are now several different types of hanging tomato products on the market that will allow you to grow your tomatoes upside down. Most of them are fairly expensive though for growing a single tomato plant. A far more economical way of growing an upside down tomato plant would be to simply get an inexpensive hanging basket that you could hang up, and allow your tomatoes to just grow as they normally would. The question becomes, "How many of these hanging tomatoes could you realistically have around your house?"...The answer: as many as you think you can stand. Personally, I believe that growing my tomatoes in the ground, and placing a basket around each of them works just fine. They might require you to do a little pruning throughout the season, and mabey some thinning as well. You might even find that you need to tie some of them up to keep them up off the ground..... There's a certain amount of pleasure to be had from tending your own garden, and spending time each day helping your plants to be all that they can be. The challenges, the trials, the erors are what gardening is all about. The idea of spending $70 bucks on an Upside Down Garden thing just doesn't make much sense to me. After all, the purpose of growing my own fruits and vegetables, is to save money, and enjoy a better product than what can be found at the store. I want to have somewhere between 30 and 60 tomatoe plants growing in my garden so that I can first, make canned dilly green tomatoes. Then, I want to enjoy fresh tomatoes all through the growing season. Thirdly, I want to have enough tomatoes to can my supply for the coming year so that I don't have to go to the store and buy canned tomatoes and sauces that have been inundated with additives and preservatives.(read some of the lables) If you really think that you want to grow tomatoes in a hanging type of situation, I would suggest building a raised bed about 4 feet high, two feet wide, and the length should allow for two feet for each tomato plant you intend to grow. This way, your tomato plants will have enough height off the ground to be able to hang down over the edge of the raised bed without resting on the ground. But it sure seems like a lot of extra work. |
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