TOMATOES! Tomatoes?! I don't care if you don't like them. It's freakin cool if you can grow anything upside down. Hammacher Schlemmer sells an Upside-Down Tomato Garden. Admittedly, I've seen products like this before and I haven't told you about them. For about $17, you can buy yourself a Topsy Turvy instead, but the aesthetics and ability to plant things on top make the nearly $70 latter option viable for those who don't have a place to hang stuff. I too like inexpensive things, but I also believe that things should just look cool. By growing certain fruits upside down (yes, tomatoes ARE a fruit remember), the chances of rot from sitting on soil is virtually eliminated. There are probably other practical reasons for growing stuff upside down, but I don't think any of them compare to the excitement when your friends exclaim "Holy crap! That's freakin awesome!".
Upside-Down Tomato Garden
March 18, 2006 by Kristoff
[...] And you say “They’re not round. But tomatoes are, AND they’re red and people plant them upside down… see upside down tomato garden“. [...]