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gentlearts · 08-26-2009, 06:53 AM

I have 3 golfball sized tomatoes on mine, so I figure each tomato will cost me about $13.00.
It got off to a bad start wanting to grow UP instead of down, and then we had a very cold summer this year, and the planter itself seemed to shade the plant too much.
Maybe next year I'll have better success.

Debsi · 08-26-2009, 07:39 AM

Awful. Plant is spindly and unhealthy looking. Has one tiny tomato on it right now.

Our summer was too hot, and we thought maybe it had too much sun!

We're going to try it again next year in the backyard.

Elke Mariotti · 08-26-2009, 04:20 PM

I have seven tomatoes - from pea size to tennis ball size and one seems ripe--will try it later

. We had a very wet June, and only hot weather in August... Very disappointing results...

Debsi · 08-27-2009, 11:19 AM

Just discovered that in the course of just a few days, 3 HUGE pretty greeney-yellowey caterpillar type things that blend in very well with the plant, ate almost every leaf off my topsy turvy plants. I have 2 marble sized tomatoes growing.

My non turvies in the backyard are looking very promising. It seems these bugs prefer the hanging ones as I've only caught one little one on the back plants so far...

Ggschmerl · 08-27-2009, 02:40 PM

I had horrible success also. I have three different plants with cherry tomatoes. One plant produced 5 cherry toms, the rest, zero.
I will probably try again next year, and if no luck, that will be it.

TXtrkgrl · 08-27-2009, 03:07 PM

I had one with cherry tomatoes. I harvested about 10 tomatoes, some the size of peas.

NRaleigh Mom · 08-27-2009, 03:45 PM

Ours did fantastic! I was skeptical at first when my husband bought it (he always buys crazy things when I'm out of town) but it grew so big and fast and we have been enjoying plenty of tomatoes. We will definitely buy a couple more for next year.

Pictures are early in the season when we just started to see a few tomatoes.

si33 · 08-27-2009, 11:13 PM

We trialed two of these at the nursery where im currently working and both of them did awful..neither produced any tomatoes and the plants themselves always looked sick despite being watered and fertilized properly..

This is not a product i would recommend..

We also made up several Earth boxes..which are essentially self watering planter boxes to demo and had lots of tomatoes and peppers come off each of the boxes we'd planted so far this summer..

LaceyEx · 08-28-2009, 05:24 AM

My sis-in-law bought and planted 6 and nothing but spindly vines-no blossoms/no fruit.

janetvj · 08-28-2009, 06:08 AM

Same here as most of the rest of you - spindly sad-looking plants with a couple of golf ball sized tomatoes. However, even when I've planted them in the ground, with the exception of the first year this is typical of my results. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The first year I had beautiful healthy plants and tons of big, juicy tomatoes. Have not had any luck since then.