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Felknor Ventures 82506 Topsy Turvy Upside-Down Tomato Planter | 
| Brand: Felknor Ventures
Category: Lawn & Patio
List Price: $20.00
Buy New: $5.99
as of 3/11/2010 03:41 CST details
You Save: $14.01 (70%)
New (28) from $5.99
Seller: nextpower
Rating:  230 reviews
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 11 x 4 x 11
MPN: DAS-TOPSYTURVY
Model: 82506
UPC: 740275000687
EAN: 0833894000197
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 knees¿or even getting your hands dirty |
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Product Description
Topsy Turvy Upside-Down Tomato Planter
The Topsy TurvyTM Tomato Planter works in a simple yet ingenious way. As the sun warms the plant like a greenhouse, the root system explodes and thrives inside the planter. Because the Topsy TurvyTM is upside down, water and nutrients pour directly from the root to the fruit, giving you up to 30 pounds of deliciously ripe tomatoes per plant!
Enjoy delicious tomatoes all year round!
Use your Topsy TurvyTM to grow deliciously ripe tomatoes for homemade sauces, sandwiches, salads and more without harmful pesticides or backbreaking work.
Use the Topsy TurvyTM to grow:
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Peppers
Zucchini
Homegrown herbs
Topsy TurvyTM eliminates:
Ground fungus
Harmful bacteria
Cutworm damage
Use of pesticides
Digging and weeding
Backbreaking work
So easy to use!
Place any tomato plant in the planter
Add your favorite potting soil
Hang it up and water
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 230
 topsy turvy is groovy March 3, 2010
Jerry in Texas (Texas)
Had great results with both cherry and regular tomatoes last year, so going to only go upside down this year.
 2 Words ... Don't Bother!! February 28, 2010
April
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're thinking at all about buying this product, I strongly suggest you don't. I thought I would give it a try. Not having to stake my plants sounded great. Next year, I'm going back to planting my tomatoes right side up.
The planter itself is kind of a spendy investment. Especially if you plan to have more that just one plant. If you're like me and don't have the option of hanging them on your house or from your porch, you also have to invest in shepherds hooks. But the planters were so heavy that I ended up having to sandwhich the hooks between a couple fence posts to keep them from bending. Then I also had to buy bricks to try to keep them from coming out of the ground. And the first stiff breeze (or squirrel) that comes along, downs the whole thing, breaking the plants off at the base. Which means having to start over again with all new plants. In the end, I ended up investing a lot more money than I had ever intended.
Supposedly this planter helps you get bigger plants with higher yields. That is not the case. What plants I had that survived, looked terrible and produced little. Some never bore fruit at all. I think part of the problem is that they dry out too fast. The sun may warm the soil (which supposedly helps that plants grow better,) but all the moisture evaporates and escapes through the big opening in the top. The soil inside bakes into a nice brick. Which doesn't help the plant to grow.
The package says that you can use the Topsy Turvys for multiple years. Not so! They were so deteriorated at the end of the season, that when I went to pull them down, my fingers went right through the sides. All that money for 3 months.
Skip the Topsy-Turvy. They are too much cost for too little benefit. Buy a pot, a cage, and a spool of twine. Then use the money you save to take your family to the movies.
5 Gallon Bucket Works Better February 23, 2010
Anna Surbeck (Hoquiam, WA)
Like other reviewers have said, you can make a better one out of one of those reusable grocery bags. There is a reason the new upside down planters have openings on the sides. The water drains down the plant causing rot. The cables and hardware rusted. The green printed bag faded in the sun.
Terrible! February 21, 2010
T. Spergel (Naples, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We planted 3 tomato plants and got 4 cherry tomatos from one of them. The planter itself completely disintergrated before the season was through. I won't even bother to plant the strawberries in the "free" hanging planter. This was a horrible investment. Also it needs to be watered very often. Certainly didn't work for us as advertised.
topsy turvy upside-down planter February 4, 2010
Linda L. Ellis (Canyon Lake TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this as a gift for my mother, and she is very pleased with it (so far). I am planning on purchasing one for myself very soon.
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