Hanging Tomato Planter

Most of you must have seen those hanging tomatoes in someone's yard or in your greenhouse visit and wondered how exactly is that possible! A hanging tomato planter is the latest addition that you can do in your vegetable garden. Hanging garden planters have been used as a space saving solution for quite some time now. All that you need to do with these planters is to find the correct spot where the plants that you are growing can get direct sunlight! These are various brands of gardening tools that have launched their special range of hanging planters. If you don't want to use such ready to use planters, then you can also make a hanging planter at home.

How to Make a Hanging Tomato Planter

As we know, growing tomatoes at home is a tough task that requires heavy maintenance. Even if you provide the required maintenance, there is no guarantee that you will get the desired results. This fact can deter amateur gardeners. Secondly, when you try growing tomatoes in ground, you also need to be extra caring for tomato plants, especially from soil borne plant diseases. To evade all the problems, you can choose the planters and grow the best tomatoes! Hanging planters are easy to grow tomatoes and even though the plants grow towards the gravitational force, you get larger and riper tomatoes. Here are the instructions for making an upside down tomato planter, the DIY way.

Material

• A hanging planter
• A hole saw
• Potting soil
• Landscaping fabric
• Tomato plant

Instructions

• First of all, create a hole in the bottom of the planter. It should be large enough to feed water to the tomato plant. Then cut a piece of landscaping fabric, big enough to cover the bottom of the pot.
• You need to use this fabric to prevent the soil from draining, when you will water the plant. Then, cut "X" shape in the landscaping fabric. Size of this "X" should be large enough to pass the tomato root ball through.
• Then, place the hanging planter upside down and feed the plant inside (in upward direction). Fill the planter with potting soil. Place the plant in soil in such a way that only its roots should be inside the soil. This is an important lesson of container gardening.
• Lastly, you need to tamp the soil around the roots and water the tomato plant as you would normally do. If you face difficulty regarding placing the plant in the planter, then you can ask someone to hold the planter, while you place the plant.

Review

If you are not sure about making the planter at home, then the best solution would be to purchase a planter, for growing tomatoes at home. As I said earlier, there are various kinds of planters that are available on the market. Some popular brands of tomato planters are: Topsy-Turvy Upside-Down Tomato Planter, Hanging Tomato Plant in Woven Planter by Bright Delights, Hanging Tomato Basket by Target, Plug 'N Gro Hanging Planter, Little Yellow House GROW KITS * 2 Cherry Tomato Hanging Garden Bag Planters, etc. When you are choosing a tomato planter for hanging tomato plants, you need to make sure that the planters have a sunlight absorbing outer shell. The outer shell of a planter absorbs sunlight and create warmth for the plant roots and soil inside the planter, which is an important step for healthy growth of tomato plants. You should also need to be sure that the planter that you have choosing is secured with a tough twine or rope, since you will be hanging that planter for the entire summer season. This is an important thing to consider when you will make a homemade hanging planter for tomato plants as well.

Choosing the best hanging tomato planter is a relatively easy gardening job and if you also want to have some fresh and homegrown tomatoes, then these planters are worth a try!