Gardening in Small Spaces: My Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter

Reader Contribution by Lindsey Siegele
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Gardening in small spaces on a small budget can be challenging. I’ve longed for a garden of my own for years. This year, my “garden” is a single Topsy Turvy tomato planter.

My husband and I are both full-time students during the school year, which means that we live on very little money. We share a small, two-bedroom apartment with a little porch big enough for two chairs and a tiny gas grill. We don’t buy organic foods, despite our deep desire to do so. We don’t have our own garden — where would we put it? Despite all of that, we are both strict vegetarians, and cheap convenience food is rarely an option.

About a month ago, we were shopping at our local food cooperative — the only place in our area that sells hard-to-find vegan foods like seitan and tempeh — and we realized that 

we needed a tomato for one of our recipes. Driving to another grocery store would have been a waste in more ways than one, so we decided to splurge and buy one of the local, organic tomatoes at the cooperative.

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