Heavenly Hanging Tomato Gardens: Fact or Fiction?

Heavenly Hanging Tomato Gardens: Fact or Fiction

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Growing hanging tomatoes? Huh? That's the question I first asked myself when I heard what I considered to be a ridiculous story. How could you grow hanging tomatoes? And where would they hang from? All these questions ran through my mind and I decided to do a bit of research. I will share the findings here with you.

The growing of hanging tomatoes helps in so many ways. For starters, there are people who enjoy gardening but lack the single most important thing in gardening, and that's the gardening space.

Most gardening is done in a garden in the outdoors. Growing hanging tomatoes is done in containers rather than in a garden. Therefore those with space inhibitions can still enjoy the act of growing their own tomatoes.

Where you have no continuous direct access to sunlight, you can rotate the containers bearing the hanging tomatoes so that they get the requisite amount of sunlight needed for their growth.

When growing hanging tomatoes, there is no need for staking. When tomato plants in a garden grow taller, they always need support but in hanging tomatoes, this is not the case since when they are hanging, the weight of the plant follows the gravitational pull.

This type of growing also negates the need for weeding since all impurities would naturally fall to the ground and weeds would never find their way up to the containers. Furthermore, if you do not have nutrient rich soil you do not have to go through too much trouble to prepare your gardens since working on the soil in a container is fairly easy.

Growing tomatoes in this manner also offers more benefits to the plant itself, this evident since the plants hang freely and thus have a better air circulation which helps improve the yield and there is also less strain on the branches during growth. These tomatoes ripen faster as compared to those grown in a conventional outdoor garden.

Since the tomatoes don't come into contact with the soil, the problem of rotting tomatoes is one problem you will never have to deal with.

One very big advantage that hanging tomatoes have over conventionally grown tomatoes is that contact with pests is almost completely removed from the equation. Pests that plague tomatoes find it difficult to latch onto the plant as it hangs further than the ground. Moreover, when you plant the tomatoes separately you limit ways in which they can pass diseases to each other.

This is certainly not the case in an outdoor garden. Diseases are easily passed from one plant to another because of their close proximity.

This method of planting generally suits tomatoes that are of the smaller variety but is not limited to them. You can grow bigger varieties as successful as the smaller ones.

Hanging tomato growers ascribe to this method so much because of the ease with which you can grow the plants and also when harvesting you don't need to go all the way to the garden, you can just stretch your hand and pluck a big, fresh, juicy, organic tomato from your patio or deck.

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