If you live in an urban setting and are looking for convenient and creative ways to garden, try growing tomatoes upside-down! Hanging tomatoes offers more space and a greater yield (if you use smaller varieties) due to less stress on the branches.

Most people who choose to grow tomoatoes this way use five-gallon buckets, however they lack aesthetic appeal may not provide the sophisticated look you're aiming for. This tutorial shows you how to use hanging baskets rather than the buckets. The baskets are reasonably attractive, providing a more clean, natural look to your garden.

Intro: How to plant hanging upsidedown tomatoes

Using hanging baskets instead of 5 gallon buckets, I will show you how to grow a hanging tomato plant. There are many instructions online to make hanging tomato plants out of 5 gallon buckets, but I think they are ugly (no offense meant). I had tomatoes in my ground garden last year, but i had a very hard time with tomato bugs. I also had cut throat bugs too. The best solution I could think of was to hand them :)

Step 1 Materials needed

You will need the following materials:
-hanging coco basket with a hole in the bottom of the frame
-dirt (more on this later) I used peat moss, manure, and vermiculite
-something to hang it from (I used a Shepard's hook)
-and a tomato plant!!!!

The plant needs to be a baby plant, not one of those huge 1 gallon bucket plants.

To see the remaning steps to build your own hanging tomato baskets, hit the jump!

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