An upside down tomato planter can be a fun way to grow tomatoes. HuyThoai / Getty Images Growing tomatoes upside down is a technique that has been around for more than a decade. Although upright ...

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If there were a prize for gardening ingenuity, Gerret Marchello of Sea Cliff would win for inventing these upside-down tomato planters. “First, I paint the bucket black, which helps warm the roots and ...

Have you ever bit into a store-bought tomato and tasted…nothing? Some remedies: buy tomatoes at the farmer’s market (which can get expensive) or grow your own. Sure, there are a lot of excuses people ...

One way to grow tomatoes is upside-down with one of those Topsy Turvy planters, but how do those tomatoes compare to others grown in a traditional way? We teamed up with /*Consumer Reports*/ to test ...

I first heard of upside-down tomatoes from the late Tom Robinson of Russelton, Pa., back in 2000. I still use the techniques he taught me to plant one or two tomato plants each season. When I saw the ...

Since May, I've been conducting a tomato experiment in my back yard. I've been growing tomatoes in the ground, in a homemade upside-down planter and in a commercial upside-down planter called the ...

I've been doing annual Tomato Experiments since 2003. The hands-down favorite with readers -- worthy of Tomato Experiment Hall of Fame -- is the upside-down tomato. It's my favorite, too. I love ...

There are two Topsy Turvy tomato planters in our yard, and although for a while it really seemed like they were on the verge of abundance, we ended up with only one large tomato in one of the planters ...