Upside down veg

[broadway]

Hi Folks,

I'm going for this method next year on a lot of plants due to losing some of my space to asparagus but also as it seems interesting.

What I'd like to know is what success peeps have had to date and plant selection.

I'm considering tomato, cucumber, pepper, small squash, courgettes, aubergine, containers will be 5 - 10 .

[Rocketron]

What have upside down plants got to do with polytunnels ?

[zazen999]

This forum is going mentals tonight

[Potstubsdustbins]

Hi Broadway and welcome to the forum.

I have heard of growing tomatoes upside down in a hanging basket though not with great success. I think that courgettes might be pushing it a bit. Please explain a little more.

Colin

[maytreefrannie]

I've heard of growing veg upside down - but - possibly a stupid question: how does the soil stay in there (on account of the law of gravity still operating)?

[Tam]

Perhaps one should emigrate to Australia.

[Leeds_lad]

I recently bought quite a few upside down tomato planters that were going cheap due to end of season, no idea how the soil would stay in there either 0.0

[broadway]

What have upside down plants got to do with polytunnels ?

Nothing, not sure what happened there Rocketron!! Link removed, sorry mods.

[divvy]

I tried upside down tomatos this year , rubbish.

[Leeds_lad]

What made them rubbish?

[zazen999]

I did this a few years back. The water goes straight through the hole in the bottom and they constantly need watering. The plants all try to grow up and over and the thing they are in tries to upend itself.

[Thelma Sanders]

LOL...........really good idea then, sooo worth trying *shakes head laughing*

[shona_b]

I don't know if this would be a suitable alternative but before we got our allotment we tried to grow as much a possible in our tiny garden. My OH drilled some holes in large oblong plastic planters (the type you see in cheap shops!!) and hung them on hooks on our fence. They do need watering as not huge but good for cherry tomatoes and worked ok for cucumbers too. Basically anything that doesn't need too deep a root space - we had lettuces, stubby carrots (think the technical name is chanteray or something), spring onions and baby beetroot. Worked really well as s space saving idea. Gave the snails a work out too having to climb the fence

[Potstubsdustbins]

One thing that may be of interest is that last year several catalogues were advertising upside down tomato planters. This year not one of the three catalogues so far received are promoting them. There may be a clue there.

Colin

[broadway]

Thanks for all your comments folks, still gonna give it a go though:-)