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You will find in your Topsy Turvy® box the grow bag, with hanging wires attached and a screw-eye to secure to into wood. In addition to what comes in the Topsy Turvy box, you will need to make sure you have potting soil, fertilizer, a live seedling and plenty of water. Follow the instructions that come with the Topsy Turvy® planter and you will be on your way to the best vegetables ever!
To get started, pre-drill a hole into solid wood. Using the screw-eye provided with the Topsy Turvy®, twist into the hole until all threads are securely fastened in the wood. Do not hang in sheet rock or vinyl siding overhangs.
For easier access while planting, temporarily lower the Topsy Turvy® Tomato Planter to waist height using a rope or cord.
Yes, you can plant up to 2 plants in one planter.
You cannot over water the Topsy Turvy® Tomato Planter! Watering regularly is the most important thing you can do to get beautiful tomatoes. Early in the season, when the tomato plant is small and the weather isn’t too hot, you should water every other day. When the plant gets mature, and the weather gets hot, you should water every day. To test if you are watering enough, lift the grow bag slightly upward by hand. If the bag is heavy, it is well watered; if it is very lightweight, you need to water more. If the leaves are beginning to curl and/or look wilted, you need to water immediately!
Yes, we recommend that you do fertilize your tomato plant. Make sure to follow the directions of Topsy Turvy® Super Growth Formula, or your choice of vegetable fertilizer throughout the season.
Tomatoes love sun and require several hours of full sun every day. However, they do not do well in extended periods of high temperatures. If you live in a hot climate(consistently over 90 degrees), be sure to locate the Topsy Turvy® Tomato Planter where it will get shade at least part of the day.
Let your plants grow wild, never trimming the plant. The tomatoes will be smaller but more plentiful.
A tomato plant can grow up to 30 or more pounds of tomatoes at a time with the right amount of nutrients and maintenance.
Keep you plants “suckered” – Pinching off all new shoots as they appear between main stem breaks. Additionally, keep limbs, stems and leaves trimmed. This allows more of the nutrients to go to the tomatoes and less to the stems and leaves.
As early in the spring as possible, after the last frost in your area.
A variety of things can be grown in the Topsy Turvy® Tomato Planter, including fresh herbs, zucchini, eggplant, or a variety of peppers. Be sure to purchase healthy plants.
Using the Topsy Turvy® Tomato Planter saves both space and time, eliminating the need to weed, cage or stake the plants. It also minimizes pests and disease by isolating the plant in the planter above the ground.
It uses gravity as a vertical growing advantage. Gravity pulls the water and nutrients directly to the roots never being lost to run-off or to feed the weeds as in ground-grown tomatoes. The vertical grow bag heats up in the sun, warming the plant like a greenhouse so the root system explodes.
If you want to grow 100% organic tomatoes, you will need to use organic products like hot pepper sprays that use no chemicals to kill or ward off insects. Other tomato pests such as tomato hornworms and whiteflies, etc., can be kept at bay by using garden insecticide sprays available at all garden shops. Be sure and carefully wash your tomato harvests if you use chemical sprays. Often your hung-up-in-the-air grow-bag will not be affected by insects or pests. Eliminated completely are ground oriented pests such as cutworms, in ground nematodes and small animals.
