Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
I planted tomatoes that way for a couple years. It works great, in that you don't have to stake the tomato plants. The only problem was finding a place to hang them. That year I decided to hang the buckets from the basketball hoop. Not the classiest of setups. BTW the secret was using a 5-gallon drywall mud bucket, cut a hole in the bottom, thread the plant thru the hole, and put a coffee filter around the hole to keep the dirt from spilling out. Then just fill the bucket up. If you do it right you can also plant something else (mint, perhaps?) on the top of the bucket as well.
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I planted tomatoes that way for a couple years. It works great, in that you don't have to stake the tomato plants. The only problem was finding a place to hang them. That year I decided to hang the buckets from the basketball hoop. Not the classiest of setups. BTW the secret was using a 5-gallon drywall mud bucket, cut a hole in the bottom, thread the plant thru the hole, and put a coffee filter around the hole to keep the dirt from spilling out. Then just fill the bucket up. If you do it right you can also plant something else (mint, perhaps?) on the top of the bucket as well.
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