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 ...

Plants are wonderful. They brighten up a your sleepy apartment and purify the stale air inside your hermetically sealed compound. But if you have small place, they’re just about the last thing you ...

Every year, I fly down to Sacramento for a weekend of gardening with my sister. Not that she doesn't know how. Girls just want to have fun. Last spring, she was ready for me with a contraption that ...

Having just spent several weeks fashioning - and fixing, and re-fixing - a homemade trellis for my tomato garden, the Topsy Turvy upside down tomato planter absolutely blew my mind. TIME magazine ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're already a good month into spring, but if your home still looks dreary like winter on the inside, spruce it up with some plants—hung upside-down with recycled food and drink containers. This ...