My wife will continue to garden the ground, she can still reach it. It has drip irrigation on timers, and landscape fabric, so all she does is plant and pick. But I am looking to grow peppers and maters in containers next year, up where I can get to them. I will use a drip system also because I don't like to water with a hose, too much wasted water. I may try to prune them to keep them short and contained, but don't know if the will work or not, all I have to lose is a few seeds and I usually start way too many.
Have you thought about growing the dwarf indeterminate tomatoes they’ve developed over the past 4 or 5 years?
Those do great in containers but they make continually and not just once and then kinda enh the rest of the summer.
Here’s a link to some of them:
http://heritagetomatoseed.com/category/heirloom-and-op-tomato-seeds/dwarf-tomato-project/
Other places carry other varieties of them too. Sandhill Preservation had some last year, didn’t think to look for them this year.
http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/tomato.html
I see a few on there. The ‘Tricot Czech’ one isn’t an indeterminate one though, but the Perth Pride one is.
http://www.tomatogrowers.com/SUMMERTIME-GREEN/productinfo/0211/
http://www.southernexposure.com/rosella-purple-tomato-016-g-p-1662.html
If you search for ‘dwarf tomato project’ you may find others.
A pepper I’ve had good luck with in containers (and in the garden too) is ‘Albino Bullnose’. I got mine from Baker Creek. It got about 24” tall by early Nov and was loaded with bell peppers. These are the smaller 1980’s size bell peppers, not the ginormous ones you get at the grocery store. For stuffing they’re perfect. Ditto cutting up for salads, tacos, pizza, etc. They start off sort of a cream color and progress through orange to a dark orange/red color. So they’re pretty too.
http://www.rareseeds.com/albino-bullnose-pepper/?OrderItemId=628529