Jason's Upside Down Garden 09 - 10

June 20, 2009

More and more growth. Finally have eggplants and lots of bell peppers.

Squash and zucchini and doing well. They are really big, but luckily not shading out my tomatoes in that bed.

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[steveeb1269]

cool, i have seen tomatoes grown upside down, but thats the first time i seen a complete garden like that, great idea, thanks, i think i know how im doing my garden next spring. so , do you fill the buckets, then put a lid on em , then start the plants, through a hole on the bottom, or what?

[14dollarz]

@steveeb1269 Thanks. I cut the hole in the bottom then put the plant in there and then put dirt on top of that. If you search "how to make an upside down container" on youtube I think you can find some videos on how to make them.

[steveeb1269]

@14dollarz oh, ok. i know what your saying. cool. thanks you very much. yeah if i can keep my tomatoes plants off the ground, maybe then i wont have to deal with them damn gaint green calipillars, and the other varments. thanks again..

[14dollarz]

@steveeb1269 Please let me know if you have any other questions. This is definitely a fun alternative way to grow veggies. Some plants do better than others and they don't produce as much as regular ground planting but it does work.

[steveeb1269]

@14dollarz ok, thanks, will do. i mainly grow tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, and onions, but nothing ever bothers my onions., i added to my subs...

[14dollarz]

@steveeb1269 I found that the determinate types of tomatoes did best along with cherry or smaller tomato varieties. Those and peppers work great. If you see my next gardens you will see I went to raised beds, but upside down does work. Thanks a lot for watching.

[ninapuder]

very interesting video, thanks.

[OutlawMCC]

Do you think the low harvest of Tomatoes is due to the fact you have them against the fence ? Would only get limited Sun depending on the Direction its facing

[TRUTH11able]

@steveeb1269 WOW I JUST STARTED A GARDEN IN FLORIDA I LOVE YOUR GARDEN , I HOPE MY GARDEN IS 1/2 AS GOOD AS YOURS

[CrysRhain]

This is awesome! Now I know what to do for my garden. Great job!

[naturekid13]

wow!!!! love ur garden man!!! i want to grow water melons!! how much sun do urs get!! im gelous of ur garden!!

[steveeb1269]

@14dollarz cool, yeah my current garden is a 10 x 12 raised bed. im just tired of waking up to find 2 or 3 tomatoes plants almost completely stripped, by them big green cali,s.. yeah i dont grow the bigger ones, i like the roma,s , they never get bigger than plum.