Upside-down Tomato Gardens

 

Whilst attending to my G-Mail yesterday (31/03/07), I noticed an ad from
Amazon.com regarding Upside-down Tomato Gardens. Wondering if I was looking
at an April fool ad from Amazon, a day early, I had a look at the
Upside-down Tomato Garden website. It seems that growing tomatoes
upside-down in special containers, only available in America,  gives you
more tomatoes per plant than you would hope to get growing them upright.
I've grown tumbler tomatoes in hanging baskets with some success, but would
never had thought of growing the whole plant upside-down.

MikeCT

 

Upside-down tomatoes will work, but the only person I know that has tried
them was disappointed.  She may not have done it correctly, or watered it
correctly, or whatever.  When she plants them the traditional way she always
picked a lot more tomatoes.  I think it is a new idea that people like to
try because it is different.  Try it and report back.

Dwayne  (in Kansas)

 



Thanks Dwayne, so it wasn't an April fool after all! As we here in the UK
are not it seems able to buy the special containers from a UK supplier, I'll
have to make my own and give it a try on a nothing ventured, nothing gained
basis.
Only problem is, what variety of tomato should I use for the experiment?

MikeCT

 

On 1/4/07 15:11, in article g4PPh.41501$Lz4.755@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net,


Heaven forbid I should crush such enterprise but if nature decreed plants
should grow 'up', why, I wonder, would we expect them to be better if grown
'down'.  I hope you will try and will let us all know because it sounds
interesting.  I must be getting (I know I am) but I do have a touch of
scepticism about this.  I'm waiting for someone to suggest we grow potatoes
(not Solanum crispum for the smarty pants!) up a trellis.  ;-)
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There have been experiments, notably to grow plants in space: I remember
seeing some at Epcot, where they were more or less growing lettuce in
some sort of rotating tumble dryers. I can't remember if the roots were
inside or outside, but they were fed by spraying.



Absolutely. For once gravity and the weight of the tomatoes will pull
the stems in the same direction.
Maybe there will be consequences as to how much sunshine each tomato
receives, too.



Well, they do grow those gardens vertically now...



Greg
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