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  • Upside down tomato growing

    Hope this is the right place.. saw a gadget in the harrods hort brochure which was essentially a hanging basket with inbuilt reservoir which was designed for toms, the theory being that you plant them upside down in to the bottom of the basket and they grow down and there's less weeds better crop etc as the plant doesn't fight gravity etc.

    Sounds good I thought to myself, I've got an empty hanging basket I'll give it ago - not worried about the reserviour as the hanging baskets are all on an irrigation system anyway. So 2 days into the experiment, my 12 inch tomato plant is now doing a u-turn and trying to grow the right way up.. now this is sort of what I expected to happen else seeds would get terribly confused :-) but my question is, has anyone else tried this? or maybe bought the gadget and got it to work?

    cheers

    Herb..
    My Blog is here.../

  • #2
    I've moved your thread out of Growing Techniques and onto an appropriate board.

    http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ard_36376.html

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Herbgardener View Post
      Hope this is the right place.. saw a gadget in the harrods hort brochure which was essentially a hanging basket with inbuilt reservoir, has anyone else tried this? or maybe bought the gadget and got it to work?

      cheers

      Herb..
      I think a few have tried this, there are various threads if you search.

      http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ers_15775.html
      BumbleB

      I have raked the soil and planted the seeds
      Now I've joined the army that fights the weeds.

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      • #4
        I don't think you're meant to use ordinary climbing plants. There are cascading varieties of tomatoes which these gizmos are designed for.

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