This five-gallon garden is insect free.

It’s easy to manage, fun to create and turns gardening upside down — literally.

The Mississippi State Ag Extension Office offered a workshop last Wednesday to teach area green thumbs a new way of growing tomatoes.

Boring a hole in a five-gallon bucket, filling it with dirt and planting your tomato sends the plant growing downward, not upward.

Extension Director David Carter worked with several workshop participants to teach the technique.