[Silentgypsy]

Thanks for posting your photos. Please excuse my ignorance re: container gardening. Do the tomato plants remain at a size commensurate w/the containers? How many heads of cabbage can you get from one container (e.g., do you have multiple cabbage plant containers?). Same way for lettuce?

We planted a flat of tomatoes from the FFA plant sale in late May, and they’re huge now. How long are your winter tomato plants viable?

[Darth Reardon]

Those tomatoes in containers are an offshoot of my hydroponic system. I suspect if they were growing in soil, they'd probably be limited in size, but with the hydroponics I'm pretty much just limited by how much room there is for the roots.

These tomatoes, in the main "stacker" hydroponic system, are about two weeks older.

Each of those square pots sits at a 45 degree offset from the pots above and below, so each level has four exposed corners you can grow stuff in. Nutrient rich water is pumped into the top pot three times per day, and filters down through the growing medium and then through the holes in the bottom of each pot.

Cabbage is one of the things I tried last winter and didn't have much luck with.

My winter tomatoes will go until the cold gets them, or more likely until it is time to plant new ones in the spring (Feb). Last "winter" was really mild and I brought them inside a couple times, though I probably didn't really need to.