Upside-Down Tomatoes
Recently some students in the Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series asked about growing tomatoes upside-down. I can happily say that I’ve done that without any special equipment –
and it works!
One year, on the patio of our apartment, my husband and I decided to take a regular hanging planter and plant a tomato in it. Instead of staking it up, we let the vines hang
down. It flowered, it set fruit, the fruit ripened and we ate well. There are a couple of caveats, however, to be aware of when using a regular hanging planter:
1) The branches do bend or crease at the …