{"id":2173,"date":"2025-06-28T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2025-06-28T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:43:26","slug":"one-mans-genius-idea-to-grow-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"One Man\u2019s Genius Idea To Grow Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A genuine idea of a man called James Brian resulted in a fantastic achievement. His innovative setup proved to be highly effective and functional, though done in a simple way. Gardeners and repurposing fanatics behold, keyhole garden, meets tomato cage, meets drip irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan says he has started planting four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/?p=903\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">tomatoes<\/span><\/a> around a garbage can with holes drilled in the bottom rim on May 28th. He then planted a second row up about 10 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Next he did was burying the can to a height where the top holes just barely showed above the ground. He put two shovels of compost and added water in the can every 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>He avoided watering the leaves. After less than a month and a half, the four plants reached a height of 5ft 4 inches. Moreover, they were loaded with green tomatoes and hundreds of tomato blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuly 9th, after a week of record, high temperatures and very little rain\u2026the plants here are loaded with tomatoes inside the cage and full of blooms too!\u201d \u2013 joyfully tells James Bryan via Hometalk. \u201cI grow tomatoes now for market, and I have a higher yield per plant than most other growers,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Since they are a lot cheaper and easier to find in quantities, Brian now switched to using 5 gallon buckets instead of the old a 13 gallon kitchen garbage can he used for growing the tomatoes. Even a larger can may be used as long as it provides each plant with 5 gallons of water per week.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, if you use a 5 gallon bucket and plant 2 tomato plants around it, you fill the bucket twice per week. Or if you use a 13 gallon, you could plant up to 5 plants around it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2174\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2174 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/48.1.jpg\" alt=\"48.1\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/48.1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/48.1-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 28th<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2175\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2175 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/48.2.jpg\" alt=\"48.2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/48.2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/48.2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/48.2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">End of June, 3 ft cage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genuine idea of a man called James Brian resulted in a fantastic achievement. His innovative setup proved to be highly effective and functional, though done in a simple way. Gardeners and repurposing fanatics behold, keyhole garden, meets tomato cage, meets drip irrigation. Bryan says he has started planting four tomatoes around a garbage can&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/?p=2173\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loveforhealthyfood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}