Tumbling tom red tomato question

[Leeder]

Thanks for all the help, I will try 3 plants out and thin down if necessary.

Thanks again!

[Catalyst]

Upside Down Tomatoes

Hi,

The URLs posted by Slugcrusher needed a dot before the htm at the end - so, tomato.htm rather than tomatohtm.

An interesting idea, I've never seen anything like it before. I wonder what Bob Flowerdew would think?

Regards,
Catalyst.

[Lazarus0]

Hi,

The URLs posted by Slugcrusher needed a dot before the htm at the end - so, tomato.htm rather than tomatohtm.

An interesting idea, I've never seen anything like it before. I wonder what Bob Flowerdew would think?

Regards,
Catalyst.

I'm actually working on doing this. I've already put the tomatoes in their respective buckets (I'm using 2- and 3-gallon buckets instead of 5-gallon because they're much lighter), and I've been building a special frame to hang them on. If you look at the picture on the minifarmhomestead site, mine is similar, except that instead of one vertical pole, there are two, 8 feet apart, and a 10' 4x4 on top with five 2' poles crossing the top pole. This way I can hang 10 buckets. Yesterday I put up a special wind-block because we've been having a strangely windy year; and now I'm connecting a special sprinkler line going up the pole so I can put drippers in each bucket. As soon as I get the final touches up, I'll see if I can post any pictures. Right now I'm extremely interested in creating new plants from the branches I've cut off the larger plants...that sounds VERY promising.

[vikkib]

Doh! I took all the side shoots off of two out of three of my tumbling toms yesterday.

I will have to wait and see if some grow back and leave them well alone!

[Incy]

Hi treetops,
It's called 100's and 1000's. I am growing some for the first time this year and they seem to be doing really well. Those and my tumbling toms are currently 1 to a hanging basket and they are already producing loads of flowers and even some baby toms. They look as though they will be great for kids ( my 11 year old is looking forward to eating them!)