Okay, so I saw the ad on tv this weekend for something called a "Topsy Turvy", basically a collapisble 3 gallon bucket with a hole in the bottom and a wire tri-hanger on top. They want $20 on their website, so being the frugal man I am, I went on a cyber-quest. After checking out a number of different you-tube sites on the subject, I decided that we won't go waste $50 a unit on those stand type upside down garden containers. Instead, we will buy up a dozen or so 3 liter pop bottles at the local dollar store and build them into upside down hanging pots. We will be planting zuchinni, regular and cherry tomatoes, and three types of pepper plants.

Many of the sites showed people using 5 gallon buckets, but I think that is overkill. The plants don't need that much soil to grow in, and 3 liter containers seem a lot easier to handle anyways. We will put the primary plants out through the spigot opening, which will be the bottom once it is hung, and plant herbs or some such small growing plants in the cutaway base section which will become the top. I can put eyelets in the eaves along the southern wall enough for a dozen containers, and I have plenty of copper wire to use as the hanger on the bottles. If we get a nasty wind storm or something, the containers will be easy to locate using the roof rafters in the garage as alternate hanging stations until the storm passes.

Not quite as prolific as what I had in mind earlier, but big enough for us, and plenty clandestine as well, in case someone wants to look in on us, it won't be a typical garden footprint.