Tomato Time! (Part 1)

If you look carefully you can see the tomato plant coming out of the bottom of this plant hanger! I had seen the containers for planting tomatoes upside down while looking on the web for tomato cages and decided I needed to try this. Not wanting to wait for an order to be delivered, I bought this planter at the local Wal-Mart store after dinner and finished planting before dark. The picture above was taken the next morning around 8 am. As you can see, the tomato plant had already started growing up!! That was about three weeks ago and this is what it looks like now... much bigger and with flowers...

To plant a tomato upside-down:

Items needed: 1) a small tomato plant in a 4 inch or less container, 2) a hanging planter with a coco mat liner, and 3) some potting mix.

Directions:

1) Cut a hole in the coco mat liner at the bottom of the planter in the middle (optional: reinforce the cut hole with duct tape),

2) Put the tomato plant on a flat surface

3) Turn the planter over the tomato plant,

4) Guide the plant through the hole,

5) Turn planter right-side up, remove tomato plant container, fill in with potting soil, hang and water. All done!!!