Upside Down Tomato Garden.

I’ve been very skeptical in my past posts.  I think you may be able to grow them, but if you have a brown thumb I don’t think this is the magical answer.

Firstly,  What do they mean by upside down tomato garden.  It’s not a generic term for this kind of gardening.  It’s another product that you can buy.  It looks like cheap plastic that might last a couple of years in the outside environment.

What are the benefits of the upside down tomato garden.

1. A better harvests
2. better quality tomatoes
3. apartment, flat or small house with no garden, you can still grow the upside down tomato garden .
4. Reasonable prices.
5. No weeding, tilling.
6. Need only potting soil and fertilizer
7. No insect in the soil
8. Just go out on your patio and pick your fruit.

Why does it supposedly work?

1. Improved air circulation
2. Less fungal problems
3. pest attack .
4. fruit less prone to rotting.

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I keep reading all sorts of articles about the Topsy Turvy Planter.

I read about people testing the product and showing pictures.  I have seen them start, but never have seen a plant that has big ripe juicy tomatoes.

I think that most people are trying to push the topsy turvy planter and get some kind of online commission.

I can only deduce from people who are testing the topsy turvy planter and show pictures from week 1, 2 then 3 , but no week 4  is that the thing crashed and burned.

I have also read that the best tomatoes to grow are the smaller varieties because they don’t get so heavey and break.

Personally I thing the you can grow the smaller varieties, such as the cherry tomatos which are awesome, but that won’t get you sales for the topsy turvy.

And what about bugs.  I don’t think that this product keeps the bugs away.

Also after I look at it.  I think I could make my own from some old car part and stuff found in the garage.

A little spray paint and it might look nice.

Popular mechanics did an article on this topsy turvy planter device and found it to be… well… more trouble then it is worth.

Other articles on the subject of the topsy turvey planter.

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What is a Topsy Tomato?

It is a radical system that  ”grows your tomato plants upside-down, so there’s no digging, weeding or bending over.”

A plastic sleeve contains soil and water.  The live plant hangs  with the topsy tomato beneath the plastic sleeve.

“The sun warms the planter like a greenhouse, so the root system explodes inside.”

“from the roots to the fruit.”

Expect :

“up to 30 pounds”

“up to four weeks earlier”

This sounds crazy, but I have always been curious as to weather is works.

Popular Science put this to the test.

“Comparison plantings between Topsy Turvy tomatoes, tomatoes grown in a second novelty product called an Earthbox, and a third batch grown in the traditional dirt method popularized over several thousand years of agriculture. ”

What does the inventor say?

“I’m telling you, you can’t miss with this product,” Topsy Turvy inventor Bill Felknor says. We met Felknor at the National Hardware Show, where he showed us a scrapbook filled with gargantuan tomato canopies dangling from Topsy Turvys, the fruits like studded rubies showing through thickets of fuzzy vines. Page after page, Felknor’s Polaroid testimonials proved the product’s efficacy

What did they have to say?

The topsy tomato didn’t fare to well…

“A stormy season toppled the Topsy Turvy, stifling a promising start. Tomatoes planted in the earth survived and thrived. ”

But when we set up a Topsy Turvy rig earlier this summer, well, let’s just say our results wouldn’t make the Felknor photographic hall of fame.

“Topsy tomato plant at 21 inches long. By comparison, a plant buried in the ground the same day had already reached 32 inches in length. ”

Too much trouble…. “I found it to be too much trouble compared with in-ground planting.”

So there is the topsy tomato.

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