Hanging tomato plants?

I have seen ads for little buckets where you plant a veggie plant, such as tomatoes in them and they hang upside down.


They look good in the pictures but we all know they make pictures look good.


Has anyone here ever used them and if so, how did they do???


I am going to grow a large garden this year and was thinking of ordering one of them to see how they are made and making more of them and hanging them on a cable across the yard, but don't know whether to gamble the small amount of funds I have going that route.


If you have ever used one or know someone that has, please let me know.


God Bless


Dennis

Hanging tomato plants?
Under the best of conditions they will not do any better than planting them in the ground. They are a solution for people who wanted a tomato plant and have nowhere to put it, like people who live in an apartment and only have a little deck. If you have the room plant them in the ground. If you want to increase your yield without making your garden larger you can try them but I would start off with just one and see if you like the results. Also, you can't have them where they will cast too much shade on vegetables underneath them.
Reply:I am perhaps not understanding your question right. But if you want to have tomatoes that are hanging from above so that you can pick them up try this. Tomatoes can be sown by drying the seeds from home tomatoes. after germination keep cutting the side shoots and leave the middle one. This will result in one single long shoot. Help the shoot to stay upright by applying a pole or a single thread from a fixed horizontal pole to the ground. The shoots tendrils will close in on the thread and get more secure. Now when the plant has grown tall enough so that you want to see the tomatoes hanging. Let it spread on the horizontal trellis you have made. I have seen tomatoes like this in greenhouses so that workers do not have to lean down to pick them up.
Reply:My friend had one hanging over his patio. I saw it before it was large- early spring- it was quite a conversion piece and looked very healthy. I never saw it again because my friend lives far away. You piqued my curiosity and I am going to ask what became of it. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Reply:Grow them , then hang them in the closet upside down. Let them dry out well and they will be ready to be smoked in about a week.