Upside down planting and conventional planting.

Today was a beautifully warm day, it topped out at 26c(79f) and tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer. Perfect timing to start planting the tomatoes and I started with the upside down ones. I first had to figure out how high to hang them. I choose 9 feet high to account for the length of the container (30"), the height of the plant in the container (36") and the tomato plants growing below them (36"). Good thing I am over 6 feet tall and have a watering wand. Here is how they are planted:

In the bottom they have this white foam
disk with a slit in it to support the plants stem.

You remove it and place it around the plants stem.

Then stuff the plants root ball into the bottom followed by the disk.

I filled the planters with a mix of 3/4 potting soil & 1/4 compost.
Well filling I stuck my hand into the top and supported the root ball/stem
until there was enough soil to hold it in place. Once it was supported
I finished filling, leaving a 3" void at the top for watering.

I then hung them in place and installed the top cap.

Here they are all planted, pretty ugly I must say, maybe I will spray
paint them next year with krylon plastic paint. Starting on the window
side we have Black Cherry, the middle one is Black Zebra which I save
the seed from grocery store produce and the one on the other end is
Chocolate Stripe. I choose to only plant small fruited tomatoes in them
for obvious reasons.

I then planted 'bright lights' chard, tatsoi, deer tongue lettuce, australian yellowleaf lettuce and a red lettuce that I have lost the name of. They were all planted in the top bed by the potato bin. I also managed to plant the window box under the second story window. It will look much like last years window box(at the bottom of the link) but I added some veggies this year, cardoon & tuscano kale. Here are some photos of the planting:

Before ripping the chard apart for planting I noticed their roots
are as colourful as their stems, aren't they cool. The seed for this
chard came from Daphne's Dandelions.

Here are all the wee greens planted. This area is partial sun due to the hedge
so it should be an excellent spot to extend the green harvests into the warmer
months. The big void will be melons trellised against the wall. That part
of the bed bakes in sun all day. Funny how a small bed can be so diverse.