Let me know if you don't, Plei.

My dad found a really cool way of planting tomotoes in a hanging basket. You cut a hole out of the bottom and plant it upside down so the plant part hangs out the bottom.

This is intriguing, but does requires hanging something. It might be intriguing enough to hang something....

Lack of light on my back deck means no herb pots for me, alas. Except for chives and pennyroyal, both of which are just bursting out of the strawberry pot they're in. It's kinda pretty--the chives are all long and spikey, with those pointy-ball-shaped pink flowers, and the pennyroyal is all wee fuzzy leaves and round, foamy growth. Sort of yin and yang in a pot.

Chives are low-light? Huh. Might explain my having no luck with them.

The pink fuzzies are lovely but it means they've bolted and gone to seed. I let my mint go to seed but I try to stop the basil and such from it.

But the basil has pretty purple fuzz, so I usually let some of it flower... I admit.

The mint just grows nicely if I let it live out its little life cycle and don't fuss...

Here's a kind of pricey special planter - [link] - but you can do it just with a hole in the bottom of a plain old hanging basket.

That is really cool.

Do you just plant them upside down and wait for the plant to get confused and adapt? I love the idea of the fruit hanging down.

Yup - really nothing complicated. You don't have to worry about staking because the weight of the fruit just hangs without straining the stalks. And supposedly the fruit is less likely to rot because it hangs free and gets better air circ.

That's so cool!

So, I get to plant something upside down to confuse it *and* I don't have to worry about the staking thing? Sold!!! It's like a low-maintenance vegetal mindfuck. With home-grown tomato bonus.

Yeah, my dad's all about the crazy garden ideas. He plants herbs in a wheelbarrow so he can move it around the yard to follow the sun.