After seeing the "Topsy Turvy" Commercial too many times I decided to try and grow an upside-down tomato plant. I had a couple of tomato plants growing out of the compost pile so I used one of those since it was extra and this is an experiment. The ad says . . .
"As Topsy Turvy® hangs upside down, gravity pulls the water and nutrients directly from the root to the fruit, giving you a deliciously ripe tomatoes! Plus, hanging in the air helps reduce ground fungus, harmful bacteria, cutworm damage, use of pesticides, digging & weeding and backbreaking work."
I did a little Googling and found out that it's easy to make your own upside-down tomato planter.
Basically you just cut a small hole in the bottom of a bucket.
Set the bucket up on something that will allow a plant to hang through the bottom.
Place some cloth in the bottom and cut a hole in it, this keeps the dirt from falling through.
Thread the leaves of a tomato plant through the hole/cloth being careful not to damage it.
Hold the rootball up inside and carefully add dirt to the top of the bucket
Fertilize and water it all, then hang it up on something strong because it will be heavy.
It's a fairly tricky process but not too bad.
The information I saw said Not to use plants that grow to be very large, the plant I'm growing is a Big Boy so I don't know what to expect it to do. The plant tries to grow Up and the roots try to grow Down which is a contradiction in itself. People that have done this say that the upside-down plants don't grow as good and produce less fruit but this is only a test so I don't care.
The picture was taken today. It's been growing this way for 3 weeks.
I'll make updates here as things happen . . .