Jason's Upside Down Garden 09 - 2 "Tragedy Strikes"

[Riyhana]

I absolutely love your videos. My mother and I are working on a non-ground garden as well and we had no luck with the topsy turvey I got her for her birthday. We just recently started using toilet paper rolls to start seedlings and so far it is working great! I was just trying to find something easier than lining the ground with butter tubs and other odds and ends. This is a great idea! Thanks for posting!

[14dollarz]

@Riyhana Thank you. Always great to hear nice comments like these. Hope things grow well for you. Have fun!

[maugr8]

those pots all all uneven and look pretty dumb

[14dollarz]

@maugr8 Wow is this what you do? Go around to gardening videos saying things are dumb? You are pretty cool. Glad you have a life.

[unforgivn81]

Pre-drill your screw holes to prevent the wood from splitting.

[nighthawk5556]

What part of Georgia are you in? We bought a couple of buckets, some soil, and two big tomato plants today. I'm reasearching vids to see what to do. I'm trying to convince my wife we don't have to buy a Topsy Turvy lol. You seem good at this.

[14dollarz]

Buford. You definitely don't have to get the topsy turvy, especially when you can make it cheaper. Thanks for watching.

[nighthawk5556]

Not sure where that is. I'm in the NW of Ga. I just did two upside down tomato plants today. Only problem I had was the plants my wife bought were kinda big, so I had to make a big hole in the bottom. The coffee filters I put in to keep the soil in around the stalk kinda sagged. May lose some soil, but hopefully the roots'll take quick and stabilize it all better.

[alexdalyno1]

cool plants ,i love the buzz of planting something, i think im addicted cant stop growing stuff .

[14dollarz]

I hear ya on the addiction of planting things. After my last video Sunday I have already done something large/new for this week. I'll have an update on that this weekend.

[hombrelupa]

I suggest instead of using a screw, drill a whole and insert a thin long bolt all the way to the other side of the wood and place a nut with a large washer because when the tomato grows it is going to get very heavy, and with the rain, the wood will become soft and the screws will come off. I predict the way you have them, most of them are going to fall sometime during the summer with wind, rain or their own weight.

[14dollarz]

Thanks for watching and the suggestion, but I don't want to put too many holes in my fence. We don't get a whole lot of rain in ga so I'm not too worried about the wood becoming soft as if that was the case then all fences would have nails coming loose and falling apart. But I am new to this so we shall see.

[bookhound63]

Your veggies look great. About the one that fell, it was screwed in too close to the nails that held the board on the fence. That's all. keep up the good work. :)

[ladylovesocean]

Loved your video and it is inspiring to learn different ways to have a garden. I'm just trying upside down gardening this year and have heard about tomatoes being done this way. Your video stands out because you showed other foods that can be grown this way. Keep up the good work and look forward to your progress.

[14dollarz]

Thank you for watching. This is a completely new thing for me so hopefully it will go well. Definitely try more than tomatoes if you can. I just put in a few more veggies about 1hr ago and should post a new vid today or tomorrow.

Post your stuff too if you can. I'd like to see how others are doing with upside down veggies.

[kevnhudson0214]

Hi LadyLovesOcean ... It is pretty cool that videos like this can inspire people to garden in different ways. I "challenged" (friendly) Jason to an upside down grow off in my new video that I just posted as a video response, "Upside Down Gardening - Introduction." Check it out, let me know what you think.

[kevnhudson]

Right there with you. I'm in Colorado so I can't start moving stuff out until mid-may. I came up with an interesting way. I'm using large wire golf ball baskets instead of buckets and pots, lining them with cocunut liner. I've had the same problem last year with hanging, except I have shepherd's hooks and they were bending all the way forward. I finally zip-tied them to poles of the fence. Keep the updates coming and I'll send some back of my experiment

[14dollarz]

Thanks for the comment. The zip tie idea is pretty good. Let me know how your veggies work out.

[tadsgirl]

Would you please give an opinion on how heavy of a pot a shepherd's hook can hold if I zip tie them to the fence?

[kevnhudson0214]

Hi TadsGirl ... If you're hooking them to a good solid fence pole, a good shepherd's hook should probably hold up to about 50 pounds. Gotta remember that the heaviest your planter will ever be is when the soil is wet.  I'll be posting my video (can't let Jason have ALL the fun) later today and you can see how I have mine staked up.

[tadsgirl]

Sorry about the spam thing.

Thanks for your help.

[kevnhudson0214]

No sweat. If you get a chance, check out my video that I posted yesterday "Upside Down Planters Introduction." It'll show you what we're up to in creating our planters - and it shows the shepherd's hooks and zip ties holding up the baskets. Thanks. Please keep us updated on how your planters go.

[destroyahdes]

Greetings from Florida. That's very interesting. I'd heard of upside down tomatoes but not the others. It's supposed to get cold down here again in a few days which is nuts. May-be you can put a foam ring or somethin soft around the main stem so they don't get chopped on the edges of your pots. The wind can be bad even for in ground plants.

[14dollarz]

Ya I just search for "Upside Down Vegetables" on the internet and found a couple sites that talk about the veggies other than tomatoes you can grow upside down. It is going to get below freezing here tonight so I'll be brining them all in.

Thanks for the ring suggestion. I'm probably going to try something around the opening to soften any contact with the plastic.