Growing Tomatoes Upside Down

[ole 147]

Originally Posted by magrigg

Hey Guys,
Just bought one of those Topsy Turvy Tomato Growers a couple of weeks ago for 9.95 at Ace Hardware. The tomato plant is doing great. We wanted on to use as a pattern. Here is what we found.

You can buy the TYVEC shopping bags at Walmart for $1.00 each. We are filling the bag with potting soil and placing our tomatoes in the bag. When the plant is large enough to hang, we place another bag upside down, cut a hole for the plant to stick to, and place a sponge over the stem to keep any dirt from coming out of the bottom. We then turn it upside down and remove the first bag. A lot cheaper than buying the kits. We will send pics as soon as the first one is ready.

magrigg;
and all!
I purchased 2 of the topsy turvy planters.
Well it's been all summer and time to blast the upside down planter.
I hope your tomatoes did better than my tomatoes did.
I got 8 tomatoes on one planter 2 med and 6 small ones.
The other 4 med tomatoes. For the lack in size and amount they did however have very good flavor..
But I will give them a thumbs down for a waste of time.
As the ones I planted in the garden had huge tomatoes and each plant had well over 2 dozen on each plant. They both came from the same flat of tomatoes.

ole 147

[Cub124]

We grew tomatoe plants upside down and only got 2 small tomatoes. My grandma got a topsy turny tomatoe plant and got a lot of tomatoes but they all had black spots on them.