Inverted Tomato Planter

Step 4 Inserting the Tomato Plant

FIrst, you'll want to remove your tomato plant from the nursery planter it came in. The rule throughout this whole process is to be gentle. These young plants are fragile and can be damaged quite easily, so you'll want to use care.

Once you have the plant extracted from the nursery planter, gently shake it to get excess dirt off.

Now take your peat paper, and put it around the base of the tomato plant stem.

With the hanging planter on it's side, carefully pass the tomato plant through the hole in the bottom. Take each "branch" of the stem individually and put it through the hole -- you don't want them breaking off.

Hold the pot upright and let the plant orient itself vertically. The peat paper will keep it from falling out of the hole. It will also give the young plant some stability until it develops a root network.