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You can also make your own out of five-gallon buckets. Cut a 2-3" diameter hole in the bottom and line with newspaper to protect the plant from falling out. Then cut a larger hole in the lid for easy watering access. It's not self-watering, but it's cheap (or free if you recycle food-service buckets from restaurants)

If you grow determinate types of tomatoes, you can use a plastic milk jug... but you would probably want to create some kind of cover for it just so you're not looking at a milk jug all the time.

I got a similar product, for strawberries, for my husband's birthday. It's available on Amazon (search for Buzzy and Strawberry), and they have a cherry tomato version as well. The cool thing about the strawberry one is that it's a special variety that produces fruit the first year, unlike many strawberry plants.