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| Seen here, plant surrounded by people like mothers to a newborn baby. |
We just opened up the Topsy Turvey, vertical planter. As its name states, the goal of a Topsy Turvey's is designed to produce more fruit from being upside down. The first step is to plant the tomato plant at the bottom and fill the device with soil, so that the plants are forced to live in a state of inertness before they find out that their roots go against gravity. This doesn't kill or weaken the plant at all, and in fact they start growing to the sun almost immediately!
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| Topsy Turvey hidden from view. Not seen: Toby drilling a hole to hang it from. BZZZZZZZZ... |
Make sure to moisten the soil before adding it, so that the roots have plenty of nutrients to grow as they try to figure out what just happened to their world of roots down, plant up. However, unlike most things with brains, these plants figured out how to thrive upside-down within two or three days. Pretty adaptable! How would you like it if you had suddenly found yourself living upside-down?
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| Not seen: The plants screaming in terror before figuring out nothing was wrong. Then we had awkward silence. |
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It takes a team to make a strong topsy turvey! This thing weighed at least forty to fifty pounds. Here Amanda is carrying the device while Lisa is preparing another plant for the trauma of an upside-down living space. With water, the thing weighed even more!
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| There are only six plants added, despite at least nine holes. |
The end result...A topsy turvey full of fruit in a month or so! Here we have two Japanese eggplant plants, two strawberry plants, and two cherry tomato plants. They've adapted quite well, despite the struggles to shove them in a world of vertigo. Hopefully they'll be living a world where people walk on the green ceiling without a problem!
-Lisa
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