growing tomatoes upside down in bucket

Create your own upside down tomato Plant!

1. Get an empty 5-gallon bucket, preferably one who has not been used for painting, mixing chemicals, toxic or otherwise.

2. Flip the bucket upside down on a hard surface, then with a 1 1 / 2 "drill bit, finding the center of the bottom of the bucket (there will be a dimple in the center) and drill a hole there. Alternatively, you can take a hole 3" Or less in the center of your cube, and then make a hole in the bucket and use a jigsaw to cut the circle.

3. Use a 3 / 8 "6 hole drilling with different spacing in the bottom of the pan to provide extra drainage.

4. Find a place to hang very tough the bucket and use a hook to suspend the use of the plant. I saw many gardeners build a framework of 4 "x 4 lumber" using a wood at each end and a high-brace between them. You'll have to bury the concrete supports or at least in a hole two feet deep and filled with gravel and clay on top. Make sure you can easily reach the top of each bucket to water the tomato plants.

5. Finally, get your tomato plants or the local nursery which started at the beginning, and while the bucket is suspended by feeding the plant within the pan gently bend the branches to get through the hole. The plant should be hanged from the root. Then just fill in the rest of the tank at least 3 / 4 with good soil quality.

There are several advantages in growing tomatoes this way:

1. Tomatoes provide a well-drained soil

2. Tomatoes will never lie on the floor and rotting

3. Many people say that the flow of more nutrients in fruits

4. Depending on where you use this strategy, a technique may be somewhat cumbersome.

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Our Homegrown tomatoes turn black!?

We bought 3 tomato plants healthy (no tomatoes in the ground yet.) Instead of planting in the ground we used a bucket (a bucket for each tomato plant) and drilled a hole in the bottom. We have one of those things upside-down pot method. What In any case, they were very good so far. And the tomatoes have started a bit about this in the last week or two. Today we realized that some 15% of tomatoes turn black and gross looking! What could be causing this? How can we stop the spread of other tomatoes? Could it be that over-watering? What we do!

During the watering that could be a problem. Take him immediately and let the plants dry somewhat.

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