The Benefits of the Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter
October 17th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized
We all love the taste of a home grown tomato although many of us have never mastered the art of growing them. Tomato growing can be very easy especially if you use the Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter for your plants. Some of the very things that make tomatoes hard to grow for the beginner are addressed by the Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter making it easier than ever for you to grow great tomato plants.
The Topsy Turvy Planter Tomato is simply a tube that is suspended with a hook and has a hole in the bottom of it. You fill add your tomato plant to the tube with the plant sticking upside down through the hole in the bottom of the planter then fill the tube up with a soil less planting mix. Just hang it up like you would any other hanging plant and feed and water as needed. That is all there is to it, the plant grows upside down and produces plenty of big beautiful plants.
What makes the Topsy Turvy Planter Tomato so great is the fact that you will not need to stake, tie or otherwise prop your plant up to keep it from falling over and to keep limbs from breaking. Gravity does all the work for you as you grow your plant upside down. Because you are using a soil less plant mix you will not need to worry about soil born pests eating at your tomato plants and because the plant is hung upside down in such a way as to encourage good air circulation the plant is not as susceptible to air born diseases and rot that tend to live in the soil first and the plant second.
Maintenance is easy for cooler areas your plant should stay warmer because of the small soil area that is open to the sun but in warmer regions you may wish to place some aluminum foil around the tube part of your Topsy Turvy Planter Tomato to reflect the sun and keep it from scorching the roots and drying out the soil to quick. You will need to water it more frequently than you would a plant in the ground, when fruit is set you may wish to check your plants twice a day to make sure that they are getting plenty of water.
The Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter is a great way to have fresh home grown tomatoes without a lot of the work that planting tomatoes the traditional way can take.