How to Build Tomato Baskets

A tomato basket is a devise that allows your tomato plants to grow upside down, with the green part of the plant toward the ground and the roots pointing upward. In this way, the water you provide the plant with runs more easily through the roots to the stems and leaves, and finally the fruit. Hanging tomato baskets also take less space and allow you to grow tomatoes even if you don't have a large garden.

Bucket with lid and handle, 2- to 5-gallon capacity
Hacksaw
Coffee filter
Potting soil
Utility knife
Tomato seedling
Drill

Instructions

- 1
  Cut a 3-inch-diameter hole with a hacksaw in the center of the bottom of a 2- to 5-gallon bucket that has a lid and a handle. Place a coffee filter over the hole, then fill the pot with potting soil.
- 2
  Hang the bucket by its handle from a hook on a roof eave or other location where the final basket will hang. Carefully cut a slit in the coffee filter and insert the root ball of a tomato-plant seedling through the hole and into the soil.
- 3
  Drill a 2-inch hole in the bucket's lid, then place the lid on the bucket. Water the tomato plant through the hole in the lid.

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