subject: How To Grow Your Own Hanging Tomato Garden [print this page] How To Grow Your Own Hanging Tomato Garden
For anyone who has space constraints but wants to enjoy a bit of gardening, hanging gardens akin to the biblical ones are the way to go. The pots bearing the plant can hang anywhere in the house, be it the patio, the deck, or even the yard. These regal plants add a certain amount of beauty, not to mention the satisfied look that you harvest your big, red, juicy tomatoes.
To start of this hanging garden, you need humid soil, an airtight bucket with lid, clean water, soapy water, tomato seedlings or seedlings, heavy duty scissors for dredging up a hole in the bucket, sphagnum moss and coffee filter and a heavy duty chain with which to hang the bucket securely.
You can recycle any type of container for this purpose so long as it has a handle that can be used to hold and suspend its weight with the soil include. These containers can also be gotten cheaply at a local hardware store.
Clean up the bucket with soapy water then rinse it very well. Using scissors cut up nearly two inches off the top and bottom of the container. Seal the holes with sphagnum moss, coffee filter or cheesecloth. Bundle them together firmly so that the soil in the container may be held in place when you tip it over.
Fill the bucket with water up to the brim while tapping on it to free trapped air. When you finish put the lid then turn it upside down. Dredge a hole in and insert the plant in. Make sure you water the plant regularly and give it fertilizer, it should be about to form roots in about two weeks.
The plant should be kept where it can easily access sunlight. Because tomatoes thrive in places where there is enough light. Sunlight is essential for their growth, sustenance and for producing fruit.
Tomatoes can practically be grown anywhere from what we have seen. These hardy plants can survive anywhere so long as the conditions are controlled. The good thing with having hanging plants is that, apart from pruning, you don't do anything like weeding as you would an outdoor garden.
Pests do not perch onto the plant as it hangs neither can diseases move from one plant to another. Most hanging garden enthusiasts put one plant in one container. The number of plants you have depends on your own personal choice. Nobody can dictate to you the quantity of plants you want to keep.
The idea of having a hanging garden makes one feel fulfilled when the fruits finally arrive and you can have bragging rights when you manage to have a good harvest. Furthermore, you may pass over the acquired knowledge to more and more people thus making this type of gardening even more popular.
