I love to grow tomatoes, but we RV. I saw the “Topsy Turvy” on TV, liked the idea, but they wanted $20.00!!! I saw in another newsletter, that you can accomplish the same thing if you do the following:

green soda bottle

1. cut the bottom off, I cut at the mold mark on the bottle.

2. punch 4 holes, so you can hang it at the level you want.

3. put the tomato plant through the neck add soil.

*Save the bottom of bottle:
Use the bottom of the bottle as a saucer for an existing plant. I understand that if you use a clear soda bottle, that the roots will burn.

Not only is this a “Green” project, but you can get the soda bottle cheap. This is recyclable.

I have 2 Tomato plants this way, and will take them when we RV.

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