How to Build Upside Down Hanging Tomato Plants

Those Topsy Turvy Tomato Plants advertised on tv commercials are a great way to grow tomatoes when space is limited. Upside down tomato buckets, planters, hanging baskets, containers, or whatever you want to call them, are perfect for balcony's, inner city patios, and any upside down vegetable hanging garden. But why spend money when you can just as easily build one yourself. Here is a step by step guide to building your own homemade hanging tomato plant.

Things You'll Need

• Baby tomato plant
• Empty gallon milk jug
• Knife
• Soil
• Metal wire clothes hanger
• Open flame

Instructions

1. Using your knife, carefully cut the bottom off of your milk jug. This is what will house the plant and soil.

2. Gently shove the tomato plant up through the nozzle of the milk jug. You might need to fold some of the branches down so it fits through the narrow opening at the top of the jug. It should now look like you planted the tomato plant inside the jug and it's growing up through nozzle-minus the cut off bottom.

3. Un twist your coat hanger until it's almost perfectly straight. You might need to use a pliers if you are not able to twist apart the wires by hand.

4. Hold one end of the coat hanger over an open flame until it gets red hot. The flame from a gas stove works perfect.

5. Pierce the milk jug- about two inches from the bottom cut- through both sides of the plastic. Now your jug should be suspended on the wire hanger.

6. Twist the hanger back together so it takes its original form and your ready to hang it. You can fill the carton in with soil if needed.

   This same process can also be used to grow great upside down strawberries.