Posted on 05/24/2010 8:27:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono
IF pests and blight are wrecking your plants, it might be time to turn your garden on its head. Growing crops that dangle upside down from homemade or commercially available planters is growing more popular, and its adherents swear they’ll never come back down to earth.
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Tried this last summer. It was an utter failure.
It may have been the weather, but tomatoes plants stayed small and some tomatoes grew but never matured.
Word of caution - the planters weigh a ton!! Don’t expect a regular hanging plant holder to support that much weight.
(Crushed tomato plants do not do well)
Same with cucumbers, the stem got diseased and shriveled up.
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