Herding Cats

3.17.2009

Upside down Maters Planted

I planted 2 upside down buckets on Sunday, each has a tomato plant out the bottom and herbs on the top. I used a 2 liter soda bottle in each bucket as a olla, I know tomato plants need lots of water, especially when the Florida sun really gets cranked up so hopefully this will help. I have a yellow squash and a zucchini to plant in the top of the next 2 buckets, I'm hoping they will use the cat fence as a trellis.

The trickiest part was getting the leaves of the tomato plant through the opening without breaking them all off, I finally used a length of netting from a bath pouf pulled over the plant and held taut to keep everything together while I pulled it through the hole in the bucket.

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