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Upside Down Tomatoes
Article in Telegraph today about a "new" growbag" being sold by ASDA for
growing tomatoes upside down! They rekcon you hag it high up and let the plants trail towards the floor. Roots will get warm cos of the "green" growbag, and all the nutrients will travel down to the plants. Supposedly been successful across the pond! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening...-tomatoes.html Doen't have the piture that they have in the paper! As far as I cant work out, it's not April 1st in any calander! Roger T |
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RogerT wrote:
Article in Telegraph today about a "new" growbag" being sold by ASDA for growing tomatoes upside down! They rekcon you hag it high up and let the plants trail towards the floor. Roots will get warm cos of the "green" growbag, and all the nutrients will travel down to the plants. Supposedly been successful across the pond! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening...-tomatoes.html Doesn't have the piture that they have in the paper! As far as I cant work out, it's not April 1st in any calander! I don't know about that, but I'm going to have a go at growing them in a hanging basket this year (so long as the seeds I planted last weekend germinate). -- www.slowbicyclemovement.org - enjoy the ride |
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"RogerT" wrote in message .uk... Article in Telegraph today about a "new" growbag" being sold by ASDA for growing tomatoes upside down! They rekcon you hag it high up and let the plants trail towards the floor. Roots will get warm cos of the "green" growbag, and all the nutrients will travel down to the plants. Supposedly been successful across the pond! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening...-tomatoes.html Doen't have the piture that they have in the paper! As far as I cant work out, it's not April 1st in any calander! Roger T I've seen them for sale over here - various garden centres & stores. http://shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/pro...side-down/325/ http://www.greenfingers.com/supersto...=LS4817D&co=fr |
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RogerT wrote:
Article in Telegraph today about a "new" growbag" being sold by ASDA for growing tomatoes upside down! They rekcon you hag it high up and let the plants trail towards the floor. Roots will get warm cos of the "green" growbag, and all the nutrients will travel down to the plants. We had one last year. It didn't work very well, but Nick thinks he put the wrong kind of tomato in it. (he used a tumbler. Apparently you should use a normal non-tumbling variety) And he's a bit heavy handed, planting is normally my job. He hasn't given up, he bought a new upside-downer last month. I think it came from Wilkinsons. |
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On 24 Apr, 05:46, RogerT wrote:
Article in Telegraph today about a "new" growbag" being sold by ASDA for growing tomatoes upside down! They rekcon you hag it high up and let the plants trail towards the floor. Roots will get warm cos of the "green" growbag, and all the nutrients will travel down to the plants. Supposedly been successful across the pond! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening...-tomatoes.html Doen't have the piture that they have in the paper! As far as I cant work out, it's not April 1st in any calander! Roger T hello, Maddie here from across the pond in Tennessee. I had an older friend in my previous home over across the state in Eastern Tennessee. Mr Cates had decided to use his wife's iron hanging pot pole that used to be rather popular many years ago for people who liked to hang baskets of flowers ou every year. They look rather like large iron naked umbrella supports. He'd gotten his bride one when they were fashionable, and she had done what a lot of people did. (these things were usually cemented into the ground and held up under years of weather!) he took some discarded heavy duty five gallon plastic buckets that had those good handles, cleaned them out and used a large bore drill bit to cut a center hole in the buckets bottom. the hole was about the size of a four inch starting pot. He said he then filled each bucket with his best compost, but had put a cut off piece of similar sized pvc pile in the hole to keep a tunnel. favorite tomato plants were then picked for leggyness. The longer stems the better. put the lid on the tubs temporarily, pulled out the pipe and gently tucked the leggy tomato plant all the way up to it's neck and leaves. If there were more than three sets of leaves, he pinched off the bottom two and left the ends. firmed up the compost a bit and watered the bucket after he took off the lid and hung it up on his bride's old iron hanging flower yard ornament (there were usually at least six of these to hang from, some had eight, they all looked like oversized naked umbrellas) and let nature do it's thing. Mr Cates has done this for well on 14 years. The tomato's grow all the way to the ground, he gently uses a rubber and cloth wrapped bungee cord to gently hook the tomato vines on and hooks the other end to the top of the bucket and it continues to grow. I've never seen so many tomato's. And he planted different kinds. Not just cherry tomato's or slicing ones. the leggy tomato stems rooted all along in the soil, giving more support and providing more nutrients to the tomatos, and by gently hanging a soft support bungee on the lip, actually never had to prune the overgrowth. One bucket his wife said got well over 18 pounds of tomato's off of! Once the season is past, he just cut the tomato vine and composted it, dumped out the dirt into his compost pile and turned it in and kept two buckets for his sunroom with the most green tomato's after spraying them off good to get all little hitchhikers off. He'd prune some of the stems off, but he said the green tomato's would ripen until almost Thanksgiving sometimes if she didn't make fried green tomato's with them! so if you want to try something that would be recycling, this is an idea. I did it after I saw his, and my only problem was I didn't have mine in full sunlight. HIs were. I still have my own buckets I drilled holes into, and I know there will be reduced tomato plants soon once everyone puts their gardens in, and they'll get all leggy and those will be perfect for hanging in a good bucket of compost. Not too rich, though, as too rich makes lots of leaves and not much fruit! just my experience and input. I think you might enjoy it. And they're great space savers. to keep my soil from washing out before the roots got established, I put coffee filters over the hole with a slit cut in it to thread the tomato plant through. And I didn't use a pipe to make a tunnel, I just threaded my plant into the hole, and filled it up from there. easy peasy! maddie over across the pond in west faerie holler in Tennessee near the Mississippi River |
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On 27 Apr, 07:26, madgardener wrote:
On 24 Apr, 05:46, RogerT wrote: Article in Telegraph today about a "new" growbag" being sold by ASDA for growing tomatoes upside down! They rekcon you hag it high up and let the plants trail towards the floor. Roots will get warm cos of the "green" growbag, and all the nutrients will travel down to the plants. Supposedly been successful across the pond! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening...-tomatoes.html Doen't have the piture that they have in the paper! As far as I cant work out, it's not April 1st in any calander! Roger T hello, Maddie here from across the pond in Tennessee. *I had an older friend in my previous home over across the state in Eastern Tennessee. Mr Cates had decided to use his wife's iron hanging pot pole that used to be rather popular many years ago for people who liked to hang baskets of flowers ou every year. They look rather like large iron naked umbrella supports. *He'd gotten his bride one when they were fashionable, and she had done what a lot of people did. (these things were usually cemented into the ground and held up under years of weather!) he took some discarded heavy duty five gallon plastic buckets that had those good handles, cleaned them out and used a large bore drill bit to cut a center hole in the buckets bottom. *the hole was about the size of a four inch starting pot. *He said he then filled each bucket with his best compost, but had put a cut off piece of similar sized pvc pile in the hole to keep a tunnel. *favorite tomato plants were then picked for leggyness. The longer stems the better. *put the lid on the tubs temporarily, pulled out the pipe and gently tucked the leggy tomato plant all the way up to it's neck and leaves. *If there were more than three sets of leaves, he pinched off the bottom two and left the ends. *firmed up the compost a bit and watered the bucket after he took off the lid and hung it up on his bride's old iron hanging flower yard ornament (there were usually at least six of these to hang from, some had eight, they all looked like oversized naked umbrellas) and let nature do it's thing. *Mr Cates has done this for well on 14 years. *The tomato's grow all the way to the ground, he gently uses a rubber and cloth wrapped bungee cord to gently hook the tomato vines on and hooks the other end to the top of the bucket and it continues to grow. I've never seen so many tomato's. And he planted different kinds. *Not just cherry tomato's or slicing ones. *the leggy tomato stems rooted all along in the soil, giving more support and providing more nutrients to the tomatos, and by gently hanging a soft support bungee on the lip, actually never had to prune the overgrowth. *One bucket his wife said got well over 18 pounds of tomato's off of! Once the season is past, he just cut the tomato vine and composted it, dumped out the dirt into his compost pile and turned it in and kept two buckets for his sunroom with the most green tomato's after spraying them off good to get all little hitchhikers off. He'd prune some of the stems off, but he said the green tomato's would ripen until almost Thanksgiving sometimes if she didn't make fried green tomato's with them! so if you want to try something that would be recycling, this is an idea. I did it after I saw his, and my only problem was I didn't have mine in full sunlight. HIs were. *I still have my own buckets I drilled holes into, and I know there will be reduced tomato plants soon once everyone puts their gardens in, and they'll get all leggy and those will be perfect for hanging in a good bucket of compost. Not too rich, though, as too rich makes lots of leaves and not much fruit! just my experience and input. I think you might enjoy it. *And they're great space savers. *to keep my soil from washing out before the roots got established, I put coffee filters over the hole with a slit cut in it to thread the tomato plant through. *And I didn't use a pipe to make a tunnel, I just threaded my plant into the hole, and filled it up from there. *easy peasy! maddie over across the pond in west faerie holler in Tennessee near the Mississippi River If you want to try growing tomatoes this wat then look at http://www.grabitnow.com/ecamp/daily for today Tuesday, the offers only last 1 day. David Hill |
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