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My baby, Big Mama Hybrid
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Sweet100'S
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These 2 plants are growing in 1 Topsy Turvy
I had to use tape to hold the up with stick in the dirt also
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What they say about the topsy turvy planter is that it cuts down on soil borne diseases and keeps your tomatoes at a handy height for picking and doesn't need staking or cages. Keeps cutworms away from them and they say makes it easier for water and nutrients to flow from roots to fruit, increasing the yield.
I haven't used one myself, but reading what people are saying about them, they seem to be a mixed blessing. In order to hang it, it's a smaller container than you would usually grow tomatoes in, so you have to really add fertilizer and water frequently. And even so you have to have something really sturdy to hang it from. Then the water tends to run down the plant so your plant is covered with dirty water. And once the branches get big and heavy with fruit, they are going to need support anyway. I don't have the impression that people are getting really better yields from them than they would with regular container grown tomatoes and probably less than in the ground ones. (But again all of this is hearsay, not my own experience)
Probably the best use for them is people that only have a balcony or something and would still like to grow some tomatoes...
I haven't used one myself, but reading what people are saying about them, they seem to be a mixed blessing. In order to hang it, it's a smaller container than you would usually grow tomatoes in, so you have to really add fertilizer and water frequently. And even so you have to have something really sturdy to hang it from. Then the water tends to run down the plant so your plant is covered with dirty water. And once the branches get big and heavy with fruit, they are going to need support anyway. I don't have the impression that people are getting really better yields from them than they would with regular container grown tomatoes and probably less than in the ground ones. (But again all of this is hearsay, not my own experience)
Probably the best use for them is people that only have a balcony or something and would still like to grow some tomatoes...