Is anyone having luck with those upside down tomato plants?? Mine is trying to grow up, and the

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angak

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hole in the bottom of the pot is too big and drains out too much water. I will try to stuff something into it to slow the drainage.

 
My neighbors have three of them and everytime I pass by their house

I swear they've grown an inch a day. They're coming along pretty good - in full sun and look they're happy. I was wondering how you watered them!

 
I read a blog, Crazy Aunt Purl, and she's having problems with the water draining too fast too.

and it looks wilty. But my mum says that wilty tomatoes actually mean they are getting too much water. Good luck, I am so envious of your sunshine and dirt, I really wanted to enter Michael Ruhlman's BLT challenge but alas, not enough light at The Roost for tomatoes...

I hope yours behave and grow beautifully!

 
I have one also Ang and it has been growing up but has alot of flowers

on it. When I water I tilt it back a little and its doing great don't forget a little Miracle Gro
every six weeks. I have Potato's coming out of my ear. And now sugar snap peas. Also looks like a have about 7 pumpkins coming. Can't believe the garden this year

 
I read that blog too, and that's when I went out and looked and posted. next time,

I will block up the bottom hole more with some plastic instead of the paper towel "collar" I put around the tomato plant when I planted it up through that bottom hole, so that it would anchor. Mine is not as leggy as hers, but I haven't had it out as long either. It was a novelty this year, and I have flowers planted up above it, so it looks quite nice anyway. I'll report back come late August.

 
nice! did you have a stretch of dry weather too, like Seattle this summer? lots of sunshine instead

of rain for your gardens---it's a good thing!

 
I met this lady. she is in charge of tomatos

(tomatoes)at one of the local nurseries and she has grown tomatoes upside down for years. Here is a blog she wrote in 2003. She said the tomatoes try to grow up but just keep training them out and around and the weight will pull them down. She suggests a bush type of tomato. She does not recommend the topsy turvy thing. She was very enthusiastic-sort of a tomato evangelist for heirloom tomatoes. I think there are things you can add to the soil to retain moisture. I think she added peat. She was also a big advocate of pelletized chicken manure.

http://oldfashionedliving.com/tomato2.html

 
I heard that same thing on the radio. He said that nature wants the

tomato to grow "up", towards the sun, and why bother fighting nature when there is no real advantages to having them upside-down anyway. He also said the pictures on tv are not how they look, but I can see how they would eventually fall upside-down with the weight of grown tomatoes. Mine tend to, and they are the "upright" kind!

 
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