Top Notch Indoor Upside Down Tomato Planter

To start pick a 5-gallon plastic bucket.

Indoor upside down tomato planter. You can purchase a planter to hang your tomato plant in and grow it upside down. Maintenance is a breeze. Also because the plant and fruit does not come into contact with the soil growing tomatoes upside down reduces the incidence of soil borne issues such as pests and disease.

I have no idea if it will work well but it was pretty fun to make. However if youre working on a limited budget or dont want to invest a great deal of money into a planter you can make your own easily. The challenge with an upside-down planter is that when it dries out it is difficult to re-moisten.

I made some minor modifications to the original design including a better support system with a bamboo chopstick and venetian blinds cord and hot glue basically everywhere to k. In addition upside down planters get better air circulation which eliminates fungi and allows for better pollination. Hang the entire plant upside down.

Remove the tomato plant from the starter cell. A plant such as tomato in such a planter grows upside down with its stalk growing out of the planters bottom hole. Push your tomato plant down into the soil through the hole in the bucket up to the first set of sturdy leaves.

Gardeners who lack an area that receives the required 6 8 hours of sunlight needed by tomato plants to fruit will also benefit from using an upside down tomato planter. It makes a U shape and bumps against the planter and looks kind of contorted and unsightly when growing this way. Put the lid onto the bucket then tip the bucket onto its side.

Tomatoes like growing up. Dry soil and broken plants 8. When planting tomatoes upside down you will need either a large bucket such as a 5-gallon 19 L bucket or a specialty planter that is easy to find at your local hardware or department store.