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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

My neighbor lady told me about this a while back (yes, the lady who  
will hereafter be known as She Who Removed The Tick From Gene's  
Navel)--growing tomatoes upside down in a container. In her version,  
someone was using a five-gallon bucket. Here, the offering is a  
commercial container. Even for those of us with unlimited land, it  
would be interesting to experiment. For instance, I would like to  
verify that soil-borne diseases could thus be completely thwarted. And  
who would not like to eliminate building supports and affixing growing  
vines year after year. For those of us who rotate crops, those  
supports have to be moved. So I consider putting a line of supports  
down the middle of each long bed. But then it's in the way of  
preparing the soil and tending other crops that don't profit from  
supports. On the other hand, building supports from which to hang  
eighty-pound tomato-growing containers would be a substantial task, too.

Here is a site that describes the process and sells the containers:

http://www.gardeners.com/Gardener+s+Revolution+Planter/PotsPlanters_HangingPlanters,37-000,default,cp.html?SC=XNET8019

Go to the Instructions PDF for more info.