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OT: Upside down planters

vidalia1
vidalia1 Posts: 7,092
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
I am thinking of making my own upside down tomato planters out of 5 gallon buckets. Has anyone else down this and did you have success?

There are lots of websites that talk about doing this. I also want to plant jalapeno plants on top of the tomato plants using the same soil. this should work...yes...no???

Any suggestions are appreciated...
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  • bubba tim
    bubba tim Posts: 3,216
    I did that knid of planting with strawberries. Worked great!
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  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
    This has been all over tv here recently.


    http://www.asseenontvguys.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=267
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  • vidalia1
    vidalia1 Posts: 7,092
    Tim,

    Did you make your own planter using a bucket or did you do something else...more info please...

    Richard,

    Yep but I am cheap and spent all my money buying mini eggs and going to Eggfests..... :laugh: :)

    I am trying to do this on the cheap...
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  • FlaPoolman
    FlaPoolman Posts: 11,677
    Hey Kim I'm doing that this year with 5 gal. buckets. I have a ton of them. Friend did it last year with a plant I gave him and it worked great.
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  • Gator Bait
    Gator Bait Posts: 5,244
    LOL, I'd have to plant an Oak tree and wait 50 years before I had any place strong enough to hang a 5 gallon bucket full of earth from. I think my little mobile home would tip over. I can see the news headlines now "Mobile Home Taken Out By Killer Tomato's, the Peppers Plead Innocent!". :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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  • vidalia1
    vidalia1 Posts: 7,092
    Pat,

    What are you going to hang the buckets from? Like Gator says the weight is my biggest concern...
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  • WokOnMedium
    WokOnMedium Posts: 1,376
    I did it once when I first got out of college. I used large planters. They weren't large enough. A five gallon bucket is a lot bigger than the planters I used.

    I think the idea of planting something on top is to protect the soil from wind and sun. That soil on top will dry out a lot faster because its exposed.

    My plants had tomatoes. They didn't get very big due to the size of my planter and the lack of moisture.

    Then...in July of that year...I had a keg party at my house...it started raining....so we pulled the party and the keg into my apartment...and some of my friends went out to smoke...and the deck pulled away from the building... and 4 of them fell the two stories to the ground. Lots of broken bones...and tomato plants. Never got to finish my expiriment. The guys are all OK now, but whewee that was quite an ordeal!

    Sorry, the two things were connected. Forgot about the tomatoes til now.
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  • vidalia1
    vidalia1 Posts: 7,092
    Now that is something else to consider... :silly:

    glad everyone is ok...
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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I did this last summer with one tomatoe plant in an upside down planter with flowers planted on top. More of a novelty than anything else. The two plants planted conventionally in containers on my deck did produce more and better tomatoes.

    YMMV
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  • FlaPoolman
    FlaPoolman Posts: 11,677
    Kim, I'm going to build an A frame setup similar to a swingset.
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
    Last year I 'box' planted different items. Flowers, veggies, peppers & tomatoes.

    I used the earthboxes for corn & tomatoes. Planter box for some onions, herbs, peppers & strawberries.

    On the tomatoes, 1 plant in the ground, 3 plants in 1 earthbox & 2 plants in a upright planter. The earthbox was the easiest to use, but I had to get some cement blocks to steady the boxes against the wind. The plants got big and corn tall. The wind blew the boxes over a couple of times.

    All turned out good tasting tomatoes, I planted late in the year so I can't say much as to the yield.

    Make sure you check with someone local to see what type of fertilizer nutrients you need for the soil.

    I am going to try an upside down hanger this year just to see how it works.

    There was a post 2 or 3 days ago about someone making their own earth box, looked like a pretty good idea.

    GG
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