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Ooooh! I really like that rain chain on rainbarrellsandmore.

I'm going to look into those rain barrels! I have wanted one for awhile but didn't like the looks of most of them.

I lost my veggie garden spot when we relocated and rebuilt our garage. So herbs are going in the front garden, and I'm trying something called Topsy Turvey for the tomato plants. Goofy name, I know, but you can hang them anywhere you have sun, and since the plants grow upside down I won't have to stake them. First year trying this, so we'll see how it goes. I'm willing to try something new to get some fabulous fresh tomatoes!

This is what it looks like:

Please please please report back on how that tomato plant thingy works!

My mom recently lost her tomato garden area to a small deck and I was going to get one of these tomato plant thingys but didn't know anyone who had one.

I'd love to know hope well it works (or didn't).

Thanks!

For those New England gardeners, highs in the 90's this weekend so water water water those new plantings well!

We used to do that with a five-gallon bucket. Cut a hole in the bottom (wide enough for plant stems - a few inches), put the tomatoe plant in upside down, then fill with soil and hang it up. Works great!
-Ruth

we are on our 3rd year with the Topsy Turvy platers and we lov ethem. They are so much easier than wedding and staking and all that garbage. They are VERY heavy so you really have to have something that willl not bend with the weight of it.

I can not recommend them enough. I will never plant another tomato in the ground

I saw those for the first time last year, but my only concern was the weight once the plant has lots of tomatoes. Doesn't it get really heavy and what do you hang it from?

Anybody know the best place to get one of those Topsy Turvy deals?

Xislandgirl wrote:we are on our 3rd year with the Topsy Turvy platers and we lov ethem. They are so much easier than wedding and staking and all that garbage. They are VERY heavy so you really have to have something that willl not bend with the weight of it.

I can not recommend them enough. I will never plant another tomato in the ground

Errr...either you were reading my mind, or I wasn't paying attention.

The Topsy Turvy things do get heavy. They come with hooks so you could hang them from an eave, for example. We didn't want to drill into our house or garage, so I did use shepherds hooks but I had to tether them to a wrought iron fence. (They fell over once when I just had them stuck in the ground.) You could also hang from a sturdy tree branch, as long as the tree lets them get enough sun.

Teresa Rae, call around the garden centers near you. I found mine at a Vaughan's for about $14 each; they are also available online.

X - how do you hang yours?

RickG wrote:Oh, and she grows stuff that you can't eat that have flowers.

Does she have Big Bambu growing in the garden?

Chet wrote:

RickG wrote:Oh, and she grows stuff that you can't eat that have flowers.

Does she have Big Bambu growing in the garden?

Lets just say that living 2 miles from the George W Bush Center for National Intelligence and having Dick Cheney as a neighbor means that we get a little paranoid. Time to cut back.

Cheers, RickG

Plow and Hearth (www.plowandhearth.com) has the topsy turvy tomato planters. I ordered one but it was WAY too heavy to hang anywhere. They have special hangers (sold separately), but Plow and Hearth posted a comment that people were having trouble with them. I ended up taking my tomato plant out of the topsy turvy and putting it in a regular old pot!

Jamestown

We have a fence that goes around the pool area. I attached a tall shepherd's hook to othe fence posts and have had no problem at all. You just have to be creative.

RickG wrote:Mmmm, fresh radishes with dinner tonight.

We are in year 3 of our big yard make over. We have our apple trellis in place (6 trees total), new shed, three raised beds, new composter, a pretty good kitchen herb garden and a big pepper bed on the south side of the house. Sweet Christine can fill in all the veggies she started from seed this year. Oh, and she grows stuff that you can't eat that have flowers.

Cheers, RickG

We call them Gladiolas Rick!

Cheers,
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