Tomato 'Sweet 100' (Lycopersicon lycopersicum)

Tomato 'Sweet 100'
Lycopersicon lycopersicum

Sweet 100 (growing from a hole in the bottom of a 5 gal bucket)

I love it.....how do you keep the plant from drowning?

Hap

This is interesting. Please post another picture after the plant sets a lot of fruit; I would like to know if it works out well. Thanks.

Wow that is so cool...I would really like to know how to grow this plant in a bucket.

I love the way you painted the bucket! Thanks for posting this one!

Hi! My mother-in-law makes one of these every year and has great success with it. You just drill a hole about the size of a golfball in the bottom of the bucket and put the top 20% of the plant (upside down) through the hole. Then, it is easiest to have one person hold the plant in place while another pours in the dirt. The plant will eventually grow out and up toward the sun. We have had a record dry/hot May here in Nashville so I water it every other day until water slowly drips out of the hole. Since yesterday, several flowers have bloomed out, so I will add another picture if it works out as well as my mother-in-law's, since this is my first try :) Stephanie

This is sooooo cool !! it has to be worth a try! I wonder was it an accident the first time your mother-in-law made one? I'm definately going to give this a go!

!!!!! LIGHT BULB FLASHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why of course this makes sense.....why put hanging plants the way we normally put hanging plants....all the moisture goes to the bottom and out of the pot and the poor babies are left literally high and dry until the next water....This way, they wil have constant moisture or at least until wht WHOLE pot runs dry, but not wet feet because of the drain. EUREKA.....

Now for the 64 1/2 Million $ question. Would ivy, sweet potato vine, etc KNOW that they are upside down and trail up? or just keep heading down, which would not be attractive? Who is our scientist out there?

I think I will start a clinical trial on this one. Have and extra potato vine and has just volunteered.....Step right up "Sweetie" come to Mamma..........let's see what you will do.....

Hap

Ingenious!!

Hi All! The plant is starting to set fruit now, so I thought I would add a couple more pictures. Here is a picture of the whole plant...

and here is a picture of the new little fruits...

(P.S. Hap, how is that sweet pot. vine growing? :)

(Haning my head in shame......) I have'nt got to it yet......so busy with new garden I have been neglecting my potted buddies... But that lil one is still there looking at me....and also, I am trying to find a pot that I can use that doesn't look like a put a hole in a pail......even though that is what I am doing...LOL Trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear type of planter....ya know??? But I will...

Hap

ssherel1:

This is a fabulous idea. I plan to grow vegetables (one day) and I'll have to try this. I'm currently reading Movable Harvests and this is one idea that they missed! Growing a tomato plant like this would definitely keep the nematodes away. Thank you for posting this and please tell your mother-in-law that her idea will make my life easier. :-)

Yep! This is a fun way to grow maters! (And other plants as well!) Although not a new idea the system and info on it has certainly been improved over the years!

Here are a few links from the past with more info if ya'll would like to delve into it a bit deeper!

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/413449/

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/450750/

I'm sure there are more (cus I remember posting pics of some of mine) but just can't find them yet.

Ya'll should go for it. We had a blast growing them like this in the past!

Hi! Just wondering if you are pruning or pinching off the new side shoots since it is an indetermiate varity, it can get really big! Mine are a long way from being as big as yours-I'm in the Northwest corner of Iowa.

Glad you resurrected this thread, gosranch. Makes me think about doing this with a regular hanging basket made with the brown stuff and putting something like ivy on the bottom and regular plant in the basket. (Senior moment)

Thanks.

Hap