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Garden Ornament
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Every year I plant a couple of tomatoes on my deck. I use a gallon hanging basket. I cut an inch hole in the bottom center of the pot. I wash all the dirt off the roots and insert the roots from the bottom into the pot, so the plant is hanging upside down. It usually produces enough tomaotes from me to pick 3 or 4 a day as I walk by (I am kind of a tomatoe addict). I have done a little bit of research and have discovered that it helps to plant a bean of some type in the top of the pot. I am assuming that this is to put nitrogen in the soil which is for the tomatoe plants to fert. My question is what kind of beans? Are there beans that put out more nitrogen than others? Can they put out to much for the plants and kill them? I have a open rafter cover deck and was thinking that I would do some type of pole bean just so I can watch them grow through the rafters (don't really care for them to eat) just because I think it would look neat. Has anyone ever planted tomatoes like this?