Hanging Tomato Plants

Things You’ll Need To Make One Hanging Tomato Plant:

• 1-5, Gallon Bucket

• Drill or Utility Knife

• Tomato Seedling

• Newspaper waded up length wise to wrap around the stem so it want slip through the hole thats cut in the bottom are you can use dried moss they sell it in bags cost me a couple bucks,  that's what I use to hold my plants in place with.

• 40-lbs Potting Soil

• Good Compost

Step 1

Purchase an empty 5-gallon bucket with out the snap-on lids the lids cost extra. These bucket can be found at hardware stores place's like Home Depot, Lowe's, Harbor Freight and Tool.

Clean the bucket with warm sudsy water,  before you plant the tomato plant in it.

Step 2

Cut a hole in the bucket using a drill or a utility knife. The hole should be right in the middle of the bottom of the bucket and about 2 to 3 inches in diameter there is a ring on the bottom of the bucket you can trace and cut with your utility knife it's about 3”inches in diameter.

I drill extra hole on the bottom of the bucket and on the side at the bottom of the bucket for extra drainage.

Step 3

You will need some kind of support with a hole in it, a card board box with a hole cut in it will do now set your bucket on the support so you can see through the bucket and the support.

Step 4

To plant the tomato plant, push the leaves through the hole now hold the plants root ball up in side the bucket and wrap the wadded newpaper around the stem to hold the plant in place on the inside of the bucket,  this will keep the soil from falling through, next cover the roots, new paper, and the stem with enough potting soil to hold the plant in place so it want move.

I used moss myself to wrap around the stem holding the root ball up away from the bottom of the bucket, it works great.

Be sure when you place the newspaper that 80% percent of your plant is planted in the bucket there should be only 20% percent of the plant visible after planting.

Step 5

Fill the bucket with 8”inches of potting soil, something like Miracle-Gro for veggie and tomato, this is great for growing tomatoes in, next place 2:inches of compost on top of the potting soil spread evenly,  pour the rest of the of potting soil in the bucket.

Step 6

Hang the bucket in a sunny area and water really well excess water will drain through hole's.

Tomatoes require at least 50 percent sunlight. Move the bucket according to where the most direct sun is during the day.

Step 7

Harvest tomatoes as they ripen on the vine. Tomatoes will begin to form not long after the tomato plant flowers. The fruit should be red and firm before cutting off the vine.

My self I have used the hanging planter for other plants, squashes grows great and cucumbers do well when you plant your plant's be sure the stems are strong enough to hold the fruit some veggie stem are to fragile and the fruit will brake the stems when they get a little heavy, these are not suited to be hanging out of buckets, bell pepper are one of them, but smaller hot variety pepper's do well.

This is my first year growing in buckets I am growing tomato, squash.

I all ready broke the cucumber it now in a planter as well as the strawberry and pepper plants these I am using a tomato cage on.

So far my little patio garden is doing well.

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By the way the plants in the buckets or a week old both had 2 tiny leaves on them when I planted them all have double in-size.