I got an upside down planter for Christmas and planted 4 different plants in it about a month ago. I have blooms on all bushes but the funny part is they try desperately to grow up toward the sun and cannot. I have never seen anyone have success with these planters but I am optimistic. Just keep them wet. Tomatoes really need large deep pots or at least to be planted in the ground. the soil base is actually very shallow in these planters. carol In a message dated 5/1/2009 10:04:43 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Kat, where can those planters be bought and do you plant your own seed? Tomatoes here in Florida are very exspensive and are from other countries. They are very hard and not very good. Lois -----Original Message----- From: Kat Fulcher Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 10:41 AM To: vafloyd Subject: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--Tomatoes This is probably a good year to consider growing your own tomatoes! Just saw a report on the news that Florida growers (who supply a huge portion of US tomatoes) are literally plowing under their fields and not putting in a crop this year because there is a big supply and not enough demand, so they are not making enough money. Some farmers are simply getting out of the tomato business all together. At the moment, tomatoes are very plentiful and cheap, but that will not last long as new crops don't make it to the market. Of course, there will always be local growers and local farmer's markets should have them, but they may get more pricey at the regular grocery stores late in the year. Still highly recommending the "Topsy Turvey" planters. I'm just about ready to put mine out this year and I know my friends from further south already have theirs up!! Those things REALLY work and are absolutely fool-proof, especially for people like me who are NOT farmers and generally can't grow anything. I plan to have 7 planters up this year, with tomatoes, cukes, and peppers. We just experimented with our planters last year, because we moved to VA so late and didn't think we'd have time to actually get eatable tomatoes. We didn't put our plants in until the first week in July. Well, we definitely DID eat some tomatoes before the first frost. Those plants grew like crazy! Obviously, we didn't get anything like the crops you see in the ads--because we planted so late--but I am hoping for a big harvest this season! I am a tomato lover and wouldn't want to have to go hunting for some later this year if the supplies get scarce. I'm going to grow my own! Kat To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen [email protected] View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen [email protected] View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003)

Can't speak for anyone else's experience but mine...but our tomatoes grew like gang busters. The Topsy Turvey planters we have are about 17 inches tall, so I think they get a pretty decent root structure. Being watered from the top, they get plenty of water. I rotated my planters every week so that they would get the same amount of sun on all sides. The individual branches did tend to grow upwards at the very ends, but the overall weight of the plants, and especially after the tomatoes came out, kept them hanging down very nicely. I put mine in Miracle Grow soil and gave them a boost of fertilizer for tomatoes later in the growing process. Like I said, we didn't get them started until into July and still got tomatoes and had big plants. My mother in law had gotten plants from the same store at the same time, but put hers in the ground and got nothing at all. The plants hardly grew. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I got an upside down planter for Christmas and planted 4 different plants > in it about a month ago. I have blooms on all bushes but the funny part is > they try desperately to grow up toward the sun and cannot. I have never > seen anyone have success with these planters but I am optimistic. Just > keep > them wet. Tomatoes really need large deep pots or at least to be planted > in the ground. the soil base is actually very shallow in these planters. > carol > > > > In a message dated 5/1/2009 10:04:43 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Kat, where can those planters be bought and do you plant your own seed? > Tomatoes here in Florida are very exspensive and are from other countries. > They are very hard and not very good. > > Lois > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kat Fulcher > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 10:41 AM > To: vafloyd > Subject: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--Tomatoes > > This is probably a good year to consider growing your own tomatoes! > > Just saw a report on the news that Florida growers (who supply a huge > portion of US tomatoes) are literally plowing under their fields and not > putting in a crop this year because there is a big supply and not enough > demand, so they are not making enough money. Some farmers are simply > getting out of the tomato business all together. > > At the moment, tomatoes are very plentiful and cheap, but that will not > last > long as new crops don't make it to the market. Of course, there will > always > be local growers and local farmer's markets should have them, but they may > get more pricey at the regular grocery stores late in the year. > > Still highly recommending the "Topsy Turvey" planters. I'm just about > ready > to put mine out this year and I know my friends from further south already > have theirs up!! Those things REALLY work and are absolutely fool-proof, > especially for people like me who are NOT farmers and generally can't grow > anything. I plan to have 7 planters up this year, with tomatoes, cukes, > and > peppers. > > We just experimented with our planters last year, because we moved to VA > so > late and didn't think we'd have time to actually get eatable tomatoes. > We > didn't put our plants in until the first week in July. Well, we > definitely > DID eat some tomatoes before the first frost. Those plants grew like > crazy! Obviously, we didn't get anything like the crops you see in the > ads--because we planted so late--but I am hoping for a big harvest this > season! > > I am a tomato lover and wouldn't want to have to go hunting for some later > this year if the supplies get scarce. I'm going to grow my own! > > Kat > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen [email protected] > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen [email protected] > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the > web. Get the Radio Toolbar! > (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen [email protected] > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >