Having 31 Tomato Plants from my ‘Growing Tomato Plants from a Tomato Slice’ experiment, I decided to try out if some of the Plants would like to hang upside down.. Since the plants were already quite big, I did like this:
- Drill a big hole in the bottom of a bucket
- Use a PET-bottle to keep the plant in place and prevent the soil to fall out. First cut the bottom of the PET-bottle and only keep the “neck part” of the bottle. Than cut the top into two parts (to create two half bottles).
- Place one half of the bottle into the bucket, and the Tomato Plant in the final position. Then use the second half of the PET-bottle to “lock it” together. Use a simple plastic strap or string to tie the construction together.
The plants grew just fine, and turned nicely towards the sun. It was a bit tricky to keep the watering at a good level, since those buckets did not have a self watering system. But still a fun (and somewhat space saving) way to grow Tomatoes. I will do this again for next year.