Growing Vegetables
By kellyt82
@kellyt82 (204)
United States
April 24, 2009 7:07pm CST
I live in an apartment, but I still want to be able to grow some vegetables. Someone told me that certain vegetables can be grown from my balcony if I hang them upside down. Has anyone ever tried this? Has it worked? What types of vegetables did you try?
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
25 Apr 09
Hello kelly and welcome to myLot. There are many thigs that you can grow on your balcony. But you must get plenty of sunshine for a lot of them. Tomatoes can be grown in pot or hanging upside down as well as cucumbers and some squashes. Herbs are another garden item that will do well in pot or containers.
Here are a couple of web sites to help you get started.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/container/container.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?Growing-Vegetables-in-Containers---The-Compact-Solution&id=6
@carcher777 (141)
• United States
25 Apr 09
I haven't done this myself, but recently I saw a device on television that allows your tomato plants to grow upside down. This is supposed to result in juicier tomatoes and better production in very little space. Keeping in mind that it was a commercial, it did make sense to me.
I would think that nearly any vegetable that hangs down from a vine would do just as well, such as cucumbers or peas.
