Upside Down Tomatoes

On a recent trip to Disney in Florida I saw a display of pumpkins and other vegetables growing from lines suspended above the ground.(They were even shaping gourds like Mickey's head!) This was not through chemicals but just by using ingenuity.

Last week I ran into guy who grows tomatoes upside down. He says he does this because the neighboring trees make it too shady to grow them properly in the back of the house and the . So, after doing some research i found several people were very positive about growing tomatoes this way.

1) No fruit rot because the plant is off the ground.

2) No insects because the ones that would attack the tomatoes live a ground level.

3) No diseases because the plants stay dry.

4) No staking and re-staking as the plants grow.

Procedure:

1) 5 gallon plastic pail with lid, cut a 2" hole in the lid and one in the bottom of the pail.

2) Turn over and cover the hole in the bottom of the pail with a wet coffee filter. Fill with potting dirt and turn over.

3) Put wet coffee filter on the soil and snap the lid on being careful not to dislodge the filter. Turn over until the bottom shows again.

4) Cut a slit in the coffee filter and put in small tomato plant.

5) Place in a sunny area and water for 3 weeks.

6) Turn over and hang from a pole in a sunny area.

7) Tomatoes grows upside down.

And that's how it's done!