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Felknor Ventures 82506 Topsy Turvy Upside-Down Tomato Planter | 
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| Brand: Felknor Ventures
Category: Lawn & Patio
List Price: $20.00
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $10.01 (50%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 611
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 4 x 11
MPN: 82506
Model: 82506
UPC: 833894000197
EAN: 0833894000197
ASIN: B0001WYNP0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Just plant it and hang it up -- on a patio, balcony, terrace or tree | | • | No need to dig holes, use stakes or cages, tie up tomatoes or get down on your knees to pull weeds | | • | "Sucker" and harvest your tomatoes in a standing position | | • | Eliminates cutworms, ground insects, and ground fungus | | • | All the taste and freshness of vine ripened tomatoes without bending or getting down on your kneesor even getting your hands dirty |
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Product Description
Topsy-Turvy Planter makes it easy to grow tomatoes and vegetables because it eliminates the need for a backyard garden plot, stakes or cages, weeding, soil prep, hole digging, cut worms and in-ground insects! Saves your back and knees too! Hang it from a hook on a deck or balcony and you’ll work standing up. Water and fertilize through the built-in top funnel; trim and harvest at chest height! Also for cukes, peppers, flowers. Just add your soil and plants. FLOWERS thrive in TOPSY TURVY, too! And talk about an interesting way to grow them! Flowers grown in TOPSY will "curl" upward seeking the sun, creating gorgeous "upside down umbrella-like sprays" of flowers. Flowers grown this way look "interestingly different" (almost like a new variety of plant).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 86 more reviews...
 Topsy-Turvey tomato plant August 4, 2008
This is great! This is the second year I have used this method of growing my tomatoes. Granted, they are not the super-sized tomatoes as used for sandwiches/hamburgers, but they are a great size for salads. I have my plant hanging from the sunny side of a covered deck. So easy to trim suckers and water. Highly recommend!
Topsy Turvey Review August 4, 2008
I got this product since I missed the number on a TV ad. The product had all the parts and was sent quickly. The box was damaged so it wasnt good for a gift, but it was for a project that I am doing. You can see the address below. I want to see what the difference is between making your own and one of these. I have seen other ads for more than one for the same price, so next time, I would go for those. Overall, good product.
A fun, space saving way to grow your tomatoes July 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Last year our tomatoes did really well on the south side of our home, but we needed to make room for other things so I decided to give this a try.
Out of the box it's pretty self explanatory as to what you need to do. Open, insert tomato start, fill with dirt, hang and water.
So far my tomatoes are looking great! They haven't ripened yet, but there are plenty of them on the verge. I'll be posting pictures within the next few days to show what it looks like.
Overall this is a good product that I think is worth the price, especially if you are limited on your space. The only suggestion I would make is to make sure that you get your tomato start in early. I got busy and put mine in after it had grown quite a bit, not easy at all and more stress on the plant than it needed.
great product July 29, 2008
Excellent idea but very heavy. Hard to find a place to hang it and there was a recall on the stand for it. But excellent idea they need to just master how to hang it.
 I can work magic with plants -- but not in this thing! July 20, 2008
I have to echo some previous negative reviews. First off -- many of the positive reviews are from people who have just received the topsy turvy -- or people who have only seen some growth -- but haven't raised a successful crop. This is the third year I have tried to grow a tomato plant in this thing. The first year I admit I started with a larger than recommended plant -- and wrote that off as my mistake. The second year I started with a properly sized plant -- but the sponge trapped moisture around the stem and the plant rotted. I wasn't over watering -- it's simply that the sponge is the last section to dry out. Then I discovered through research that the 2 large discs included in the box were to be used to divide the soil into thirds for even moisture. So this year I planted a properly sized seedling the correct way -- and it rotted. I got a second tomato plant now that the hotter weather is here to see if that made a difference -- and pulled the sponge out after about a week. Still had the stem rot. Just cut the plant off -- removed some leaves -- and will see if I can revive it in a regular pot. Just talked to a woman who has worked at a nursery for 20+ years -- and she can't get tomatoes to grow in her topsy turvy either!
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