I was asked to post how I did my tomato's in the upside down planters. I heard a lot of people had bad luck with there's. I tried it this year and yielded more tomato's than ever before. First I built a stand to hang the bags, using 2- 10 foot 4x4' and a 2x6 10 feet long. I put the posts in the ground about 6'apart using post spikes and nailed the 2x6 at the top of the 4x4. ( yes there 10 feet high seems bit much but trust me it needs to be that high)I spaced heavy duty hooks about 15" apart. this let me hang 8 planter bags from the 10' long board. The important thing that I learned with this method is the type of tomato's you use. If your stuck on the huge beefsteak variety than this wont work for you. they are just too heavy and break the vine when hanging. I used early girl witch is still a good size but not too heavy still. romas work great and any small to medium variety of tomato. also the plant is only going to do well if you put it in good soil. I bought a high quality soil to start these. the planters come with seeds. I throw them out and used started plants. the plants you start can not be too big cause you got to put the plant in the hole so if it is too big it will damage the plant pulling it through( remember you can start these earlier too cause there up off the ground and if it does get too cold you can always move them in at night). after you pull the plant in place I put about 4" of soil in the bag than added a bit of bone meal ( tomato's need a lot of calcium) than fill the bag almost full. hang the bag where ever you plan on growing it ( full sun is best) and water it a lot. You cant over water these. any excess water just drains off so the roots wont be over watered like they can in the ground. You don't need to steak them, no weeding, no turning the soil. They are very high so a water wand is needed but other than watering and pruning the suckers they are very low maintenance. I found a dollar store that was selling the bags so I bought the bags cheep. the soil was the most expensive part, but I empty them in the fall into the compost and am just going to refill them with that next year. I am going to do my peppers this way next year as well. This saves a ton of space in the garden as well.
any questions feel free to message me.
any questions feel free to message me.