Good Friday Coffee

Good morning all!

Just sipping on my fake latte this morning, enjoying the quiet of the office.  Last night I had dinner with Edie -- what a wonderful woman!  I'm so glad to have met her. 

QOTD -- I don't have any garden space, so I tried planting a container veggie garden on my patio last year but it only lasted about a week before the rabbits (or whatever) got to everything and nibbled it down to nothing.  This year I'm going to attempt it again, but put things out of their reach.  I've got seeds started for mixed lettuces in hanging baskets that will hang from my tree and shephard hooks.  I'd also like to try those upside down tomato plant -- put it in a hanging basket upside down (so it grows out of a hole in the bottom of the basket) and hang that somewhere too.  I'd love to plant some zucchini, but I can't think of how to do that in hanging baskets out of the reach of nibbling bunny teeth.

In the patio pots from last year?  Probably some flowers or something that bunnies don't like to eat. 

I have thought about trying those upside down hanging tomato plants, too!!!  If you are talking about the ones they advertise on TV, they have others besides tomatoes.  I think there may be a squash one, too.  I'll have to look it up, now.  LOL!  My inlaws do green peppers, tomatoes and hot peppers in pots around their patio. 

If I DID do a garden, I would have to have some major fences to keep out the deer, rabbits, and everything else.  I'm not going to need to mow my back yard for a while because EVERDAY there are at least 4 or 5 deer munching away on the grass.  I love to watch them!  

My mom did the upside down tomato last year -- she just bought a $3 hanging basket pot, cut a small hole in the bottom and planted the tomato in the bottom and flower on the top.  It did really well.  But she did big, normal size tomatoes.  I am probably going to do cherry size. 

I'm going to go check out the squash idea!  If I can do that in a hanging thing, I'm definitely doing it.  With all of Eggface's recipes for casseroles ... most of them have squash and zucchini in them in place of pasta, so I go through a lot of that stuff.

Yeah, I'm reading the reviews of the "topsy-turvy". Some good, most not.  But some of the reviewers posted their own home-made version.  I think I might try one of their ideas.  Most were done as your mom did.  

Here's a link I found to a DIY upside down planter.  Do you think this would work with squash, as well?  It seems the zucchini would be a lot heavier than tomatoes.  I'm getting excited thinking about trying this!  LOL!  I may have to get all the stuff this week to try one!  

http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/1620-how-to-make-an-upside-down-tomato-planter

This is exactly how my mom did her tomato last year.  I imagine that squash would work if you picked them when they were still small.  Although squash plants tend to run all over the place and grow like crazy... so it'll be interesting to see what it does when it's just hanging in the air.  I'm going to try it.  What's the worst that'll happen?  (I'd have a mess all over my tree and shephard hooks, but who cares!)

My green-thumbed sister does the tomato plants in two liter pop bottles cut in half and hung upside down.

http://www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/2009/04/make-your-own-upside-down-tomato.html

At topsyturvy.com, the website claims to be able to grow cucumbers, peppers, zucchini and herbs in the same contraption.  Hmmmmm....interesting!  

Hey Pam and Mi.,

It was great meeting you too!  Hubby had some of my salmon for lunch and I'll have some later tonight, since I was meeting an old high school buddy for lunch today.

If any of you read the thread last week hubby and I garden a TON, but like Pam I want to try those upside down hanging tomato plants NO WEEDING!!!!!!!  Has anyone tried them???  I'd love to know.  My tomato plants become monsters and I'm afraid they'd break off at the stock???? does anyone know???

Anyways,  hope everyone has a great day. 

Pam and Kristi (sp?) good luck on your 5k tomm.

Edie

Guess I should finish the thread before I ask a question!!! 

e