Hanging tomato plants

If you love tomatoes you need to try growing them in hanging baskets! Discover seven essential tips for hanging basket gardening!

Growing tomatoes upside down helps save space, increases flexibility, leads to easy maintenance and reduction of diseases.

Here are some tomatoes (variety Tumbling Tom) grown by Kath in Linlithgow, near Edinburgh. They are planted into some of our Self-watering Hanging Baskets and fed our Tomato Liquid Feed. This is a great idea if you don’t have much space and miss the just-picked flavour of home-grown tomatoes. Kath says:"I really was amazed at how easy it all was to do and I'm sure the tomatoes taste better than our greenhouse soil-based ones. Will be trying it again next year."

My husband built this frame work to hold three tomato plants. The grass in the top of the buckets helps hold the moisture in. He cuts it with a scissors. The chains on each side allows him to raise the buckets as needed.

Caring for hanging tomato plants is basically the same as caring for tomato plants in garden soil. The primary difference is that those growing in containers will need more water and fertilizer than those in the landscape, requirements that are impacted by the type of container.

Have you seen these? They're ingenious! I love the idea of an upside down hanging plant. I've been wanting to do this for awhile and bought the plants to do so about a week ago and then FORGOT completely about them and they died. So... while my mother-in-law was in town I decided to use her gardening expertise and hunker down and get 'er done! Needed: Hanging basket and mossy-like insert Perlite Potting soil Plant food Tomato plant yielding medium sized fruit 2 Basil plants (or any other…

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The Benefits of Growing Upside Down Tomatoes Upside-down tomato gardening is not just a creative way to utilize space, but it also comes with a host of benefits that enhance the gardening experience. Here’s why you should consider this method for growing tomatoes: Space Efficiency: Ideal for urban gardeners, upside-down…

Planting fruits and veggies in hanging pots is a great way to maximize space, add more visual interest to your garden and save money on your grocery bill.