About that Crazy Hanging Tomato Planter
We did it last year and got a few tomatoes off of it. A few things I learned from last years attempt: The planter is very heavy but you need to fill it nearly to the top with potting soil. If not the plant gets very root bound. It needs to be watered practically every day, when you water it runs out the bottom so it needs a good soak to keep it … Read More moist. And it needs to be fertilized frequently as the planter exhausts a lot of the nutrients out of the soil in the container. We have it hanging from a metal swing frame, and can move it into the sun if needed. But it weighs probably 40 pounds when watered.
This year we already have at least 15 blooms all over the thing, so I think we will get a good yield from it. Its gimmicky and I don’t think we will get more tomatoes than if we had planted it in a pot on the deck, but it was fun to do.
