There are many upside-down containers available on the market, as a matter of fact you might find this link at amazon.com useful (link). But this isn’t the case in that tutorial, this time I actually what to show you how to use some of your home waste to generate a really easy and simple tomato upside down growing container.

All you’ll need for this project are those handy ingredients:

  1. A plastic bottle. Any type of bottle will do, I even think about doing it using a milk carton.
  2. A piece of wire. Here I used a piece of wire to be the container holder, but you can actually use any type of plastic string that you think will hold the container.
  3. A tomatoes plant. You could read more about tomatoes plants the east way at my post about growing tomatoes plants from seeds.

Now let’s go and do it!

Preparing the bottle to become a tomato plat container:

  1. Cut the bottom of the bottle with a sharp knife. Try to cut a thin piece of the bottle as you can, so you’ll still have a big size tomato container, so don’t cut the bottle in its middle, but cut it at its end. Keep in mind that the more bottle you have- the bigger tomato container you have, the bigger the tomato plant will get, as you leave a lot of space for its roots to develop.
  2. Drill holes in the bottom side of the bottle (the small piece that you’ve just cut of the bottle) and drill two holes at the bottom part of your tomato container, where you’ll put the hanging wire/string. You can use a good nail for that propose, I used a hot nail to drill those holes (just be careful!!!).

 

 

 

Putting the tomato plant in the container:

  1. Hold the container carefully while its small hole if face down.
  2. Put the tomato plant into the bottle and carefully let the tomato plat stem to  get out of the bottle’s small side.
  3. Hold the container upside-down and fill your tomato container with good soil mix (you can buy it in some stores).The better soil you put in your now tomato upside-down container the better chance your tomato plant will grow into a big fruity tomato bush.

Closing you upside-down tomato container:

  1. While still holding your container upside down (his natural way from now on), put the small bottle cap you cut off before into the bottle.
  2. If it doesn’t fits well cut a small cleft of one of the cap’s sides to “help” it fit in.
  3. Put the bottom cap in and close it firmly.
  4. Attach the wire handle to your upside- down tomato container and here you go, you have a great upside-down tomato container!!!