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Picking Deliciously Inverted Tomatoes for Your Garden

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

If you want to grow upside down tomatoes, do you know what type of tomato is good for planting upturned?

Planting tomatoes the other way around is a great option for your garden. However, once the plants start bearing fruits, the branches are subjected to stress because inverted tomatoes are pulled down from their branches by gravity. Regular tomatoes can fall of early from their branches too. Although almost all types of tomatoes can be planted upside down and produce good harvests, some will grow faster and better than others. Which type then is good for this upside down tomato planter technique?

First, you have to know that to grow upside down tomatos, seeds will not work. The plant should at least be three inches tall before you can grow tomatos upside down. Among the varieties of tomatoes that work best for inverted planting include Big Boy, cherry or grape varieties, and Early Girl.

Tomatoes can be classified as either determinate of indeterminate. Determinate tomatoes grow to a predestined size, bear a fixed number of fruits at a definite time, and then die. Normally, they produce fruits within 60 – 75 days. Indeterminate tomatoes grow for the whole tomato season until it dies. Just the same, the first fruit comes within 60 – 75 days.

If you are just starting with gardening and want to take it easy, determinate tomatoes are easier to handle. The plants do not grow much and then eventually die after they complete their growing cycle. If you want to grow a garden of upside down tomatoes, plant indeterminate tomatoes on your first try.

Choose small varieties such as the grape or cherry tomatoes. The 100 and Early Girl types are good if you want plenty of fruits quickly. Celebrity tomatoes are large varieties that are best for slicing. Roma tomatoes grow very well in upside down planters. They are the ones that are normally used for salads and sauces because of the bright color and strong flavor. They are harder to find though.

Determinate Cherry tomato plants work well if planted upside down. However, they normally do not grow well, become very large, and gets stressed by the end of summer.

Varieties that are specifically designed for inverted plating include Window Box Roma, Micro-Tom, Basket Boy Red, and Basket Boy Yellow.

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Wintertime Gardening Fun: Grow Upside Down Tomatoes!

Friday, March 12th, 2010

No, this is not a tricky title. Not at all. We’re quite serious when we say that you can indeed have fun with wintertime gardening with a revolutionary new gardening system know as the “upside down growing” method. Basically, it allows you to grow whatever you want whenever you want by allowing you to grow things upside down in the comfort of your own home! That means, even if you live in the icy depths of the North Pole itself, as long as your home manages to get even a smidgen of sunlight each day, you’re ready to roll! You can grow whatever you want, whenever you want and that includes the notoriously difficult to grow in the wintertime: tomatoes!

That’s right! Even though it is the winter time wherever you may happen to live and the snow may be blanketing the ground no matter where you look outside, you can grow tomatoes anywhere in your house as long as their is ample sunlight through whatever window openings you may have. It may sound too good to be true, but please believe us when we tell you that it is entirely possible and you can indeed enjoy growing tomatoes in the wintertime from the comfort of your very own home with upside down tomato growing.

Isn’t it time you stopped being amazed and in wonder and instead started on the path to your own upside down tomato growing this winter? Winter is almost over so make sure you get going and grow your very own first batch of tomatoes before the end of this winter as soon as you can!

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Upside Down Tomatoes Better Then Regular Tomatoes?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

A lot of you might have been looking at the title and wondering, does it really matter? Well, let me assure you — it does. Until a few months ago, most people haven’t even heard of upside down tomato growing — or even just upside down growing in general. It was exclusive to only to the most die hard of gardeners and greenest of green thumbs.

However, many different things contribute to the fact that upside down tomatoes have been proven to be far superior to regular tomatoes. Upside down tomato growing allows you to get the best sunlight, the best air circulation, the best air moisture and more importantly allows you to not have to worry about the temperature.

All of this adds up to larger, more juicy and more delicious tomatoes. Isn’t that what we all really want? Isn’t that what we all really shoot for when we grow tomatoes? Nay, isn’t that what we shoot for when we try to grow anything and everything at all?

Of course it is! So don’t you think you owe it to yourself to at least try out upside down tomato growing? Or even just upside down growing in general? Of course you do! So what are you waiting for, exactly?

If you feel you need to learn more about the growing upside down system then please feel free to take some more time and read around. There’s a lot to learn and research with the system and we can guarantee you that once you try it out, you’ll never go back to ordinary gardening ever again!

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The Future of Upside Down Tomato Growing

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Even if you don’t even know about upside down tomato growing, it certainly has a bright future. A very bright future, indeed! This is because there is just so many different things about upside down tomato growing that are so appealing to anyone and everyone. For one, you can grow upside down tomatoes — or upside down strawberries and upside down blueberries — anything — from the comforts of your own home. No matter the season!

Yes, you read that right. Since you can grow upside down tomatoes from your own home via the window or whatever spot gets the best sunlight, you can literally grow whatever you want, whenever you want. That means it doesn’t matter if it’s winter or if you live in Antarctica or Russia. This means that you barely need any good sunlight at all because you can essentially place the crop in the spot in your house or garden where the sunlight is the very best. It simplifies practically everything that is complicated about gardening — it’s really quite amazing!

Essentially, the future of upside down tomato growing or really upside down anything growing, is that it’s going to get more and more popular. Really the only question is just how popular will it become? Just how far reaching will it go? It’s already proved to be popular throughout many countries across the world, what’s stopping it from becoming popular in all the rest? Wherever there are fans of gardening or those with a green thumb, upside down tomato growing and upside down growing in general will be popular. You can count on it!

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Upside Down Tomato Growing: The Who, What, Where, When and Why

Friday, February 26th, 2010

As with most things, the who, what, where, when and why are commonplace questions to ask of something when you don’t really know very much about it. As such, they’re very common questions to ask about upside down tomato growing and everything related to it — and with good reason! The whole term, “upside down anything growing” is most certainly a new one to the majority of cultures throughout the world.

The who doesn’t really lend itself a proper answer as no one person actually invented the process of upside down tomato growing. Perhaps the first culture to implement upside down tomato growing and make it truly popular however are the Asian nations. Upside down tomato growing is a way of growing tomatoes so that you don’t really need to worry about things such as sunlight, air moisture or even air circulation. Temperature is also a worry of the past, as upside down tomato growing can lend itself to being able to grow things in the winter or even inside atop your window.

The why is quite a simple question to answer. Why wouldn’t you want to be able to grow upside down tomatoes from the comfort of your own home and in the winter no less? Upside down growing takes out so many of the stressors from normal growing in soil that it will have you wishing you’d discovered it far earlier in your green-thumbed, gardening career.

So it’s time to stop asking so many damn questions! Start growing your own upside down tomatoes and be happy today!

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Top 5 Reasons You’d Love an Upside Down Tomato Planter

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The new “cool” thing these days in the realm of gardening is upside down tomato planting. If you’ve been debating whether or not you’d like it or if it is for you, we’ve gone ahead and listed the top five reasons that you’ll not only find an upside down tomato planter useful, but also LOVE an upside down tomato planter.

Let’s get the party started!

1. It’s easy and simple.

As long as you can hang something from a hook and water it daily, then you’re good to go. If not then, well, you can just stop reading this article and go play with your pet rock.

2. It’s going to give you some really delicious tomatoes.

Is this not the ultimate goal when we plant anything that can be eaten? The tomatoes you get with an upside down tomato planter are not only going to give you delicious tomatoes, but it’s also going to give you some enormous tomatoes. Always a good thing!

3. It doesn’t matter where you live!

Even if you live in that town that is similar to the one that was featured in the film “40 Days and 40 Nights” and has barely any sunlight throughout the year, you’re still okay! Just place it where the sunlight will get at it the most and you’ll be just fine. No problems at all!

4. Winter is no longer the enemy!

Not a fan of being unable to plant anything in the winter? No problem! That’s a thing of the past now with upside down tomato planters.

5. It makes a great conversation starter.

Really, it does — especially if you’re a guy. Well, if you’re a guy, admitting that you do anything gardening related PERIOD is a good conversation starter with the females, but even if you are a female, talking — nay, bragging — about upside down tomato planters is going to make you the envy of all of your annoying, shallow little friends. Good times!

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Upside Down Tomato Planters and How They’ve Changed Winter Gardening

Monday, February 15th, 2010

If you live in any part of the world where it’s very cold in the winter, like most of the northern United States or Canada for instance, then you likely know how very hard it is to try and grow pretty much anything during the winter. Or grow anything in most parts of Canada pretty much year round!

Thankfully, for those of us with a green thumb no matter what particular season it is, there’s been a new discovery that can help us and it is known as upside down gardening. One of the particular crops that it works best with is tomatoes and as such, upside down tomato planters have absolutely changed the game when it comes to enjoying tomatoes in the winter.

Not only is it now possible to grow tomatoes in the winter, but it is also now possible to grow some very lusciously large and delectable tomatoes no matter how much effort you put into growing them. It’s simple, it’s effective and it will likely help you renew your love for tomatoes once more.

So if you live in the northern United States, Canada or pretty much anywhere else it’s cold much of the year (Like Antarctica for instance! This was a joke… and a bad one at that) then you owe it to yourself to try out this new method. In our opinion, we suggest that you try it out with some upside down tomato planters as they are by far the best and easiest crop to get started with.

Off to the store with you! Go and get some upside down tomato planters today!

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Upside Down Tomato Planters vs. Normal Tomato Planters

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

If you’ve learned or heard about upside down tomato planters recently then you’ve likely wondered to yourself in your head (or aloud for those of us on the more “wacky” side of the fence) how they were different from regular tomato planters. In the interests of helping you answer this question with some factual information, we’ve gone ahead and written this write-up. So let’s get right into the answer, shall we?

Normal tomato planters are great for one thing — helping new gardeners finally plant tomatoes at long last. Usually, they don’t work very well unless you live in one of the gardening capitals of the world (we’re not all that lucky). Things like poor soil, poor sunlight and improper air moisture or circulation can wreak absolute havoc on the quality of the tomato you try and grow.

Thankfully, a new method to growing things has emerged and it has quite literally turned the gardening world upside down! (Pun intended)

Upside down tomato planters can help you plant tomato in the winter, it can help you plant tomato from your window and quite simply, it can help you plant tomato in places where you’d usually have absolutely no right whatsoever to be planting tomatoes.

To answer the question of upside down tomato planters vs. normal tomato planters more simply — upside down tomato planters are not only better, but they will likely (and very soon) be putting normal tomato planters out of business. Think paper newspapers and the new media on the Internet and you’ll likely catch our drift.

Now go buy some!

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Why You Need to Buy an Upside Down Tomato Planter

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Assuming you know what upside down tomato planters are, you may be facing the daunting prospect of deciding whether or not it is worth your hard earned dollars to actually purchase some. Well, let’s take a look at how this revolutionary new system can make your life easier and your tomato tastier, shall we?

Planting crops upside down allows you to grow them in places where… well… it allows you to grow things in places where the ground just isn’t present (like in the air — where it’s especially sunny, for instance!). And as we all know (if we fancy ourselves gardeners of any variety), having an optimal level of sunlight is perhaps the second most important thing when it comes to gardening besides actually remembering to water your plants.

Do you want tastier tomato? Do you want to have an easier gardening experience? Have you ever wished you could spend your time picking huge, ripe tomatoes off of the vine instead of slaving over a hopeless crop that you know is going to produce puny, disgusting, sorry excuses for tomatoes? Whether you’ve said yes to all or even just one of the previous questions, you owe it to yourself to purchase an upside down tomato planter!

Some of us don’t like change because it’s strange and it’s often also a mystery. But trust us on this one — this type of change — which is quite literally turning your way of gardening upside down is the way to go! It’s likely going to be the way of gardening for the future, or at least, the way of gardening in the future in regards to crops like tomatoes who seem to benefit greatly from a more favorable vantage point in regards to gardening sunlight, moisture and air circulation.

And that’s why you need to buy an upside down tomato planter!

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Upside Down Tomato Planters 101

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

In case you’ve been living under a rock these past couple of months, then you’ve surely heard about the new “upside down” method to planting fruits and vegetables. In the realm of tomato planting, upside down tomato planters allow you to eliminate practically every problem imaginable when it comes to planting. It allows you more time to spend enjoying your tomato rather than worrying about how to not get them to spoil because of where you planted them or any of the other (many!) tomato growing horror stories.

Whether it’s air circulation, ground-based bugs, not enough sun — practically anything — you don’t have to worry about it with the upside down tomato planting method.

In a nutshell, upside down tomato planting allows you to place your tomato plants practically anywhere you’d like, allowing them to get the best sunlight, achieve the optimal level of moisture and every other key gardening strategy that helps to give you the best possible crops possible.

If you’ve ever had trouble growing tomato (and odds are if you’ve ever tried to plant them then you most certainly have), then it would behoove you to look further into the next best thing in regards to planting: upside down tomato planters! It will help you get the biggest, most ripe and delicious tomato possible from your planting efforts. And ultimately, isn’t that really all we look for when it comes to the fruits of our labor? (No pun intended!)

So what are you waiting for? Go and get some upside down tomato planters today!

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