My Story About Growing Tomatoes Upside Down
After reading a webpage about growing tomatos "upside down", I decided to try it myself. I had never heard of such a thing until two weeks ago. And on the Saturday May 28, 2007 when I went to Walmart and bought a couple of tomato plants and potting soil, that was when my first experience started. So that is how I decided to embark on my own journey for growing tomatoes upside down.
While standing in line to check out, I saw a couple of people I knew and starting telling them I was taking the tomato plants home to plant upside down. Everyone starting listening and looking and wondering, I even think the cashier was about ready to call for those guys in the white suits to come take me away. But I do think I had a couple of people believing me, and that I was not crazy. This one man I didn't even know, told me he didn't have internet access, but his wife did, and he was going to check out my 'upside down tomato webpage'. He told me he was going to call me too, just to find out more and check on the progress of my tomato endeavor. But he never did. lol
14 days after setting the plant in a bucket upside down, the plant is just starting to show blooms. The plant looks very healthy. There is no sign of any leaf disease. There is no sign of bugs eating on the plant.
So you know, there is absolutely no difference in taste between a vine ripened tomato and one picked when good and pink, showing some softening, and placed on the window ledge to ripen fully. Vine ripening only opens them up to bird damage.
And thus, growing tomatoes upside down ended up in succeeding! In summary, everything ended fine. In most cases, it turned out that due to the lack of weeding, lack of watering I had to do, and lack of extra care I had to do because the plant didn't catch any disease.
While standing in line to check out, I saw a couple of people I knew and starting telling them I was taking the tomato plants home to plant upside down. Everyone starting listening and looking and wondering, I even think the cashier was about ready to call for those guys in the white suits to come take me away. But I do think I had a couple of people believing me, and that I was not crazy. This one man I didn't even know, told me he didn't have internet access, but his wife did, and he was going to check out my 'upside down tomato webpage'. He told me he was going to call me too, just to find out more and check on the progress of my tomato endeavor. But he never did. lol
14 days after setting the plant in a bucket upside down, the plant is just starting to show blooms. The plant looks very healthy. There is no sign of any leaf disease. There is no sign of bugs eating on the plant.
So you know, there is absolutely no difference in taste between a vine ripened tomato and one picked when good and pink, showing some softening, and placed on the window ledge to ripen fully. Vine ripening only opens them up to bird damage.
And thus, growing tomatoes upside down ended up in succeeding! In summary, everything ended fine. In most cases, it turned out that due to the lack of weeding, lack of watering I had to do, and lack of extra care I had to do because the plant didn't catch any disease.