Crazy About Green Tomatoes. We've been growing our tomatoes upside-down for the past three years and really have fun growing them this way! We also grow tomatoes in the ground, and, by comparison, the ones in the upside-down buckets seem to have a little better yield than the same varieties grown in the ground.razy About Green Tomatoes. We've been growing our tomatoes upside-down for the past three years and really have fun growing them this way! We also grow tomatoes in the ground, and, by comparison, the ones in the upside-down buckets seem to have a little better yield than the same varieties grown in the ground.
Water is absorbed at the roots by osmosis, and any dissolved mineral nutrients travel with it through the xylem. The rate of transpiration is directly related to the evaporation of water molecules from plant surface, especially from the surface openings, or stoma, on leaves.
Xylem, which transports water and dissolved minerals, runs from the roots up through the stems and up to the stomates. Refer to your text to familiarize yourself with diagrams of xylem and phloem in typical plant roots and stems. The process of water movement through xylem and out the stomates is known as transpiration.he non-vascular plants (bryophytes: mosses and liverworts) lack a complex system for water transport, and hence remain small; most can survive only in relatively moist environments. But vascular plants (tracheophytes) have conducting tissue that confers some independence from a wet habitat.