About a month ago I stared a little experiment to test out the Topsy Turvey product. We're growing tomatoes in our Topsy Turvey. I'm trying to answer two questions for myself: Is it a worthwhile product? Is it a good investment of time and money?
In my second update on the experiment I showed the progress after one week. The update summary then was 'so far so good'. Now its been a full month since we started so I figured I'd give another quick update.
The tomatoes are continuing to grow and there have been no problems with the Topsy Turvey. The only additional work has been watering which takes my wife a few seconds a day.
You can see in the photo that our tomato plant now has 4 tomatoes growing on it. The larger tomato is between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball right now. The other tomatoes are about 1" in diameter roughly.
Money and Time spent:
Day 1: Time spent 1 hour, cost $22
Week 1 : Time spent 1-2 minutes.
Week 2-4 : Time spent 3-6 minutes.
Did I mention they are Organic?
I guess I forgot to spell this out previously. We are growing the tomatoes 'organically' which for us means we're not using any pesticides or herbicides on them and only using a natural fertilizer. This shouldn't impact things a lot either way, but its a detail I figured I'd mention. Eventually when I compare the return on investment I'll be comparing to the cost of buying organic tomatoes which are more expensive than non-organic.
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