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Old April 15, 2009   #7
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Ted -

When my Grandma used the mail pails....

She planted two in the opening in the bottom, and two in the top.....

Had four plants out of those milk pails.

You are right, they get darned heavy fast.




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Originally Posted by ContainerTed View Post
Sorry if I seemed totally biased against the Topsy Turvy, but my firecracker goes off when I run into blatant obvious false advertising aimed at stealing from the gullible side of the American Public.

Here on Georgia Public Television they have a gardener program that showed how to do a 5 gallon bucket upside-down tomato planter. It turned out so heavy that the host had to hang it from an old swingset. The key thing the host did was to use a large plant (2-3 feet tall) and hold the roots well up into the bucket while adding in the growing medium. He also packed the "soil" well enough to hold the plant up in the bucket.

Home-made costs less and works better. Clara, hope your experiment goes well. One thing I did with my experiment was to put a lid on the open top on the upside down rig. That allowed for less evaporation and eased the watering a bit. It also kept the wrens from building nests in the top.

Ted
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