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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Upside Down Plants?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What plants can you grow upside down besides tomatoes? You might be surprised to find out that you can grow A TON of different plants in upside down planters! Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to today's episode of the Epic Gardening Podcast. This is the quickest and most information-packed podcast about gardening on the internet.

0:11.0

Welcome back. Today we are talking about upside down plants and now when you think of upside down plants you might be thinking oh you can just grow those topsy turby tomatoes.

0:20.0

Well, yeah, that's the most obvious one, but what about other plants that you can grow upside down?

0:26.4

Well, before we get into the four or five other recommendations I have for you,

0:31.4

let's address the question of why you might even grow upside down in the first place.

0:35.0

Well, if we're talking about small space gardening, and I know a lot of you are interested in that, I am interested in that,

0:42.0

although I do have a yard, I do have an

0:44.4

out-sored garden, I want to pack as much productive growing space into my home as I

0:48.8

possibly can. And so why would I grow upside down?

0:52.6

Well, it leads to a lot of benefits.

0:57.1

And one of the first ones is that you can make use

0:59.3

of vertical space in a way that you normally wouldn't

1:01.6

be able to. So let's say you're trying to grow in a way that you normally wouldn't be able to. So let's say you're trying to grow in a container

1:06.0

and you're growing tomatoes vertically up a trellis.

1:08.0

Well, that's great, and that's a great way to grow tomatoes.

1:10.0

However, there are places in your home where you can grow upside down tomatoes and you could not grow

1:16.8

standard tomatoes or a standard plant in a container.

1:19.9

The first thing that comes to mind as I look outside is I have a porch at my house and

1:24.6

there are rafters that I could hang top-sitervy plants from and grow them

1:30.4

that way that I could not grow them from the ground up.

1:33.3

So it's a space saving technique.

1:35.1

Another reason why you might want to do this

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