Anyone had luck with the "Topsy Turvy" tomato plant thing? (containers, north)
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The instructables site has instructions on how you can make your own for practically nothing. There are a bunch of other ways to grow tomatoes there too.
I put two tomatoes out yesterday using kitty litter buckets. One of the handles broke off after we hung it. We did manage to save the plant and use a new bucket. I guess the other one had been collecting rain water for too many years.
Elke, have you thought of growing edible flowers with your tomato? Pansies and marigolds wouldn't be flowing enough, but how about some nasturiums? You could add the blossoms to the salads you make using the tomatoes. Just a thought.
Elke, have you thought of growing edible flowers with your tomato? Pansies and marigolds wouldn't be flowing enough, but how about some nasturiums? You could add the blossoms to the salads you make using the tomatoes. Just a thought.
What a great idea, MICoastiMom Thank you!
I'll check out some nasturtium - might even try growing them from seed
I've planted 3 of them and found they seem to be great at allowing the plants to grow. I placed grape tomatos and zucchini in the ones I've done and they seem to to all be blooming prolifically. I feed the plants regularly and water them twice as much as I feed them. being outside there has been no need for watering this week. I would say it is indeed what they claim. You can buy them at Target for $10 I did place larger plants in them, you know the kind the $3.50 ones at Home Depot.
You can save yourself a bunch of money by making them yourselves, plus get an extra plant out of it. If you purchase the hanging pot with the coco bedding, just cut a hole in the bottom. Buy or grow a tomato seedling and put it in upside down (I usually use a little bit of bunched newspaper at the roots to make sure it doesn't fall out, and make sure to make your slit just big enough to get the plant inside), and the fill with topsoil. You can then plant another plant on the top. I prefer herbs, as they don't root too far and still look very nice. Just don't put any hot peppers, as they will make your tomatoes hot. You can reuse the hanging planter next year, and it is so much nicer to look at than the ones you see on TV.
I do this exact same thing. I have three of them and all are doing well. I have annuals planted on top that looks pretty spilling over the cocoa fiber pot. To me they are way more attractive looking than the Topsy Turvy.
Mine died. Don't know when it happened, but I found it wilted, and when I was messing with it, it felt like the stem was broken. Ouch. On the other hand, the pepper plant is doing well.
You can save yourself a bunch of money by making them yourselves, plus get an extra plant out of it. If you purchase the hanging pot with the coco bedding, just cut a hole in the bottom. Buy or grow a tomato seedling and put it in upside down (I usually use a little bit of bunched newspaper at the roots to make sure it doesn't fall out, and make sure to make your slit just big enough to get the plant inside), and the fill with topsoil. You can then plant another plant on the top. I prefer herbs, as they don't root too far and still look very nice. Just don't put any hot peppers, as they will make your tomatoes hot. You can reuse the hanging planter next year, and it is so much nicer to look at than the ones you see on TV.
Well, today I planted a "larger" tomato plant in the Topsy Turvy and a home grown one in a coco planter. Again, thanks for the idea with the coco planter - am shopping for nasturtiums to put on top
Now I'm waiting for three days in the 80s to get the tomato plants "going"
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