A while back my wife and I moved into a new place. It’s an apartment so you can imagine the amount of room that we have to move in it. We’ve been married for a few years now but in all the time that we’ve been together we have always had a house with a front yard and back yard to stretch out in.
Needless to say, this has been a transition.
Personally, I like to be able to grow some things in order to be able to think that I’m self sufficient on some level but living in an apartment has really limited my ability to grow anything. We’re on the second floor so we don’t have any ground to play with so I’m stuck trying to find ways to grow things in planters.
We have a few folks in our church who have used these things called Topsy Turvey’s in the past. Basically they work like this: You find a place to hang the Topsey Turveym choose a plant that you want to grow (tomato in my case) and you place the small plant that you’ve choosen into the topsy turvey. Then you flip the whole thing upside down, fill it with soil, hang it with the plant shooting out of the bottom and then you water the plant. The plant grows upside down so we don’t have to worry about putting it into the ground, which means with tomatoes that we don’t have to stake them. It also means that there is less of a chance that pest will get at them (at least not the traditional ones).
We haven’t gotten any tomatoes just yet and I’m not sure that we will because we get late day sun and not morning sun. But the second there is an edible tomato I’ll have that satisfaction one gets when they’ve made something on their own. That tomato always taste’s the best!