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Planting and growing hanging tomato plants has been a pleasurable hobby to many and has proven time and again for producing fresh and juicy fruit crops by hanging tomato planters. Growing upside down tomatoes is usually preferred and appreciated by most planters who are unfortunate to own a spacious backyard garden. The growth of tomato plants in this manner is basically the same however upside down plants are more convenient and easier because it can be moved around freely anywhere within the premise of your house.

You may use a 5 gallon container with a fix and strong handle to be able to hold your fruit bearing upside down tomato garden. Just like any other tomato plant, growing tomatoes in hanging baskets requires sunlight thus it is absolutely an advantage growing them in hanging pots since they can readily gain access to sunlight.

It is also advisable to hang the plants inches apart from each other. Furthermore, upside down tomato growing allows free flow of air circulation in your plant. Plus it is very advantageous to working and busy moms because it eliminates the time to weed when growing tomatoes in hanging baskets. Upside down hanging plants do not need staking since the growth of your tomato plant is directed towards the ground. So much more it inhibits pests and other bacteria to reach your hanging plant thus impedes them from affecting the plant. Indeed, growing tomatoes in hanging pots is relaxing yet rewarding.

Take note that there are two types of tomatoes and that is determinate and indeterminate. Determinate types grow and bear fruit at the same time then stops producing new sets of fruits. Then the determinate tomato plant slowly loses its vigor and eventually collapses.

Indeterminate types tend to grow and produce tomatoes more and more throughout the season and stop only when frost comes along which causes the plant to naturally run dry. Therefore, determinate tomatoes are more appropriate for a hanging tomato garden. The size is also an important factor to consider since growing tomatoes in hanging pots refrain tomato plants from growing to its optimum maturity because of space constraint. Henceforth, cherry, grape and other dwarf tomatoes work flawlessly with an upside down tomato garden.

What you need to consider now is to know the appropriate variety that you should choose to plant in your hanging baskets. There are several varieties that are well suited to this type of gardening like the Celebrity and Roma tomatoes. Other varieties include the tumbler, yellow pigmy and garden pearl. These types are well suited for upside down tomato growing because they bear more fruit and lesser root expansion.

These varieties are smaller in size but have a great sweet flavor. The skins are hard which apt to grow on confined spaces like the hanging tomato plant in containers. Most individuals who have tried growing tomatoes in hanging baskets say this type of planting produces better yield and bears more sweet delicious tomato fruit crops than those planted in the ground.

One of the main reasons is because of the free flow of air circulation and sufficient supply of sunlight to the fruits and to the whole plant as well. Growing hanging tomato plants in baskets provide stress-free growth for its branches which results in an utterly luscious tomato flavor produce.