Plant pots upside down on sticks??

Never saw such a thing myself. But I caught a Gardening with Cisco spot about planting tomatoes upside down. There didn't seem to be any reason for it, only that it could be done, so wow let's do it, though the vines don't need to be braced in any way. I thought it looked stupid, but then, Cisco was using a commercially made upside-down-tomato-basket which was a plastic piece of shyt. It might could be done in a less ugly way.

Here's are some random pages about the method; it seems to be a fad:

-paghat the ratgirl

Were they stuffed with straw? The theory is that earwigs are attracted to them (warm shelter or something) and you can easily dispose of the straw in the morning.

Neil

Sure, why not?

You can put CDs in that retractable cup holder on you computer too!!! ;-)

The message from snipped-for-privacy@another.com (Andy H) contains these words:

Where gardeners are working, it stops them poking an eye on the canes. Or, the pots might have straw inside as an earwig trap.

Janet

"............ Where gardeners are working, it stops them poking an eye on the canes. Or, the pots might have straw inside as an earwig trap............."

OR

It could be that they covered that area with netting or fleece and the pot would stop the canes poking through. You can also use cut off plastic bottles.

Have you noticed there aren't nearly as many earwigs around as there used to be?