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My wife gave me one of these for my Birthday last year. In the spring I planted a jr tomato plant (green zebra was the variety). It grew and grew, like crazy. The neighbors, everyone commented on it, because I hung it on my front porch and it so quickly turned into a huge upside down bush. But somewhere along the way, the leaves started to wilt and yellow. I tried more water, less water, but nothing seemed to help. I already had 2 dozen tomatoes and they slowly matured inspite of the problems with the plant. Finally I picked my first tomato I was SOOOOO disappointed by the taste. It had NONE. I tried one more, and then I stopped watering and let the plant die.
But for full disclosure, I should admit that I'm no gardner. I don't know if it's my fault or the topsy turvy's fault. I used potting soil, and a little fertilizer to start. And I watered it every day.
One forum I read suggested that there isn't enough room for the roots to spread in the Turvy. That seemed to fit, since like I said it grew so large and then hit a wall. But I don't know.
Good luck, and thanks for posting. I'm sure my wife paid full price for it last spring.
One of the worst products we ever bought. Mature plants look nothing like the pictures. Ours grew down, then curled back up. VERY few tomatoes compared with traditionally planted ones.
We have been using these for 3 growing seasons and have tried different varieties of tomatoes. We water these plants a lot and have had lots and lots of tomatoes (Mr. Stripey variety this year).Our neighbor grew patio tomato in theirs and it did really well. Someone else we know used one this summer. Their tomato plant was scrawny. You have to remember that soil in containers will dry out much faster than soil in the ground.
Every one of these I saw around town are small scrawny plants. I bet they never produced a tomato. We planted tomato plants in our driveway (between the cement runners) and they did really well. We had lots of tomatoes.
0AfterRebates said:Every one of these I saw around town are small scrawny plants. I bet they never produced a tomato. We planted tomato plants in our driveway (between the cement runners) and they did really well. We had lots of tomatoes.
Yeah. We had 2 of these last year. Scrawny plants, no tomatoes. Waste of money. Other plants, both in the ground and in regular style pots did fine.
We had this exact item this year. We grew grape tomatoes and they were excellent! Produced tons of tomatoes and kids and I gobbled them up every day. Very tasty. She put a lot of extra dirt in the planter to start with and I believe added some more dirt during the summer. She also watered nearly every day. So it probably matters how much you tend to it. We are not gardners. This is the first vegatable plant we every grew, so I don't know how it would compare to a normal plant.
I've used these. Cherry or grape tomatoes do quite well. You have to water on a very regular basis and you have to use fertilizer all through the growing season. On the negative side, they are made of the same material as cheap tarps and after one year in the full sun, two of my topsy turveys just completely fell apart and were worthless... Much easier to use a 5 gallon plastic bucket with a hole in the bottom...more dirt for the roots and much more sturdy.
I just got 3 of these from Amazon this past weekend and planted a mr stripey and a big boy variety. I can usually grow really nice plants but get only a couple tiny fruit. Hopefully I'll have some tomatoes for the new year (I live in South Fla).
edit: Mr. Stripey died (he sort of fell on his head) and has been replaced by another Big Boy variety. I also used my third TT for a green pepper plant.
Message edited by: captainlynne on 2009-10-10 14:45:54 CDT
Have you even noticed that almost everything that grows in nature seems to grow towards the sun? Kinda seems counterproductive to try and grow something away from the sun don't it? I had a better boy tomato plant in a plain 5 gal bucket sitting on my deck this year and I bet I got 30 tomatoes from it growing natures way (straight up). Just wondering but if you planted carrots in the topsy turvy would they grow up or down???
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