Sean Martin
June 13th, 2005, 12:16 AM
You may be plagued by living in an apartment or city where you don’t have a yard or there may be zoning laws against plowing up your yard.
The upside down plants. You can grow tomatoes cucumbers, melons, beans, peas and an assortment of garden goodies thought hanging the plant upside-down.
Another method is the milk crate or laundry basket method. In this fashion you can grow potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, herbs and a variety of other things.
http://tinypic.com/5twimt
First thing you must do is put a garbage bag in the basket, poke holes in the plastic for drainage and then fill with dirt.
Then for those extremely limited you can use flowerpots to grow fresh herbs for seasoning your food.
If nothing else you will learn a skill, provide fresh oxygen, get some fresh food you had the pride of growing, create a useful hobby and plants have a relaxing effect.
Next year (after they come on clearance for $1.00 each) I am going to experiment with kiddy pools the plastic kind that are about 8 feet circle. I think that would be a good way to sprout seeds and actually grow some crops.
Flowerpots, milk crates, laundry baskets, upside down plants.
Here is a trick for those living in an apartment, or whatever. Growing your veggies in a flowerpot. The thing is if you grow them through the top like a regular flower they will droop over the side and rupture the vine and eventually come uprooted from the weight. But using this trick you can grow tomatoes, cucumber, melons and probably watermelons if you had something to hold the weight of the melon and a bigger pot.
When your plant is very small and beginning to develop a root, fill a flowerpot half full of dirt and turn it on it’s side. Stick the root of your plant in the small hole in the bottom and fill the rest with dirt. A tomato plant will develop root one everything that is covered so it is important to stick the plant in the hole to the leaves. This will give it a strong enough root. While the plant grows the root will expand and be so large that it can hold the weight of the fruit without coming through the hole, which at full growth will be about the same size of the actual vine.
Here is a pic of one of mine from the side.
http://tinypic.com/5x1s49
Anyone can do this anywhere you can grow a houseplant. It doesn’t even have to be outside. You may want to put a plate under the plant when you water it so the water doesn’t get on your carpet if this is on the inside. You will also have to use miracle grow or other supplements since you plant can’t get natural nutrients from the ground.
Each plant should yield at the very least 15 tomatoes a year. This is something that can be done for ninety-nine cent pack of seeds and salvaged (or buy them at the dollar mart for a buck) hanging flowerpots. A pack of seeds will sprout 20-30 tomato plants. If you are creative you can salvage cans or something like them and make you own hanging flowerpots for nothing. Imagine 20 tomato plants yielding 300 tomatoes in a year for a dollar. You will pay a dollar for a lesser quality single tomato in the store. Also imagine spending a couple more dollars and getting cucumbers, melons and possible peppers (I haven’t tried pepper yet but that is coming this year wish me luck). Ten dollars could literally supply you with a thousand dollars worth of produce following this easy method.
The upside down plants. You can grow tomatoes cucumbers, melons, beans, peas and an assortment of garden goodies thought hanging the plant upside-down.
Another method is the milk crate or laundry basket method. In this fashion you can grow potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, herbs and a variety of other things.
http://tinypic.com/5twimt
First thing you must do is put a garbage bag in the basket, poke holes in the plastic for drainage and then fill with dirt.
Then for those extremely limited you can use flowerpots to grow fresh herbs for seasoning your food.
If nothing else you will learn a skill, provide fresh oxygen, get some fresh food you had the pride of growing, create a useful hobby and plants have a relaxing effect.
Next year (after they come on clearance for $1.00 each) I am going to experiment with kiddy pools the plastic kind that are about 8 feet circle. I think that would be a good way to sprout seeds and actually grow some crops.
Flowerpots, milk crates, laundry baskets, upside down plants.
Here is a trick for those living in an apartment, or whatever. Growing your veggies in a flowerpot. The thing is if you grow them through the top like a regular flower they will droop over the side and rupture the vine and eventually come uprooted from the weight. But using this trick you can grow tomatoes, cucumber, melons and probably watermelons if you had something to hold the weight of the melon and a bigger pot.
When your plant is very small and beginning to develop a root, fill a flowerpot half full of dirt and turn it on it’s side. Stick the root of your plant in the small hole in the bottom and fill the rest with dirt. A tomato plant will develop root one everything that is covered so it is important to stick the plant in the hole to the leaves. This will give it a strong enough root. While the plant grows the root will expand and be so large that it can hold the weight of the fruit without coming through the hole, which at full growth will be about the same size of the actual vine.
Here is a pic of one of mine from the side.
http://tinypic.com/5x1s49
Anyone can do this anywhere you can grow a houseplant. It doesn’t even have to be outside. You may want to put a plate under the plant when you water it so the water doesn’t get on your carpet if this is on the inside. You will also have to use miracle grow or other supplements since you plant can’t get natural nutrients from the ground.
Each plant should yield at the very least 15 tomatoes a year. This is something that can be done for ninety-nine cent pack of seeds and salvaged (or buy them at the dollar mart for a buck) hanging flowerpots. A pack of seeds will sprout 20-30 tomato plants. If you are creative you can salvage cans or something like them and make you own hanging flowerpots for nothing. Imagine 20 tomato plants yielding 300 tomatoes in a year for a dollar. You will pay a dollar for a lesser quality single tomato in the store. Also imagine spending a couple more dollars and getting cucumbers, melons and possible peppers (I haven’t tried pepper yet but that is coming this year wish me luck). Ten dollars could literally supply you with a thousand dollars worth of produce following this easy method.