[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Eric in the Ozarks :" We are actually eating the last of the grape tomatoes picked green more than a month ago. "

In Western NY, we have 5 1/2 inches of frozen, white pollution on the ground right now.
Boy, how I miss the taste of a fresh home grown tomato right now; this years drought really did us in in the NorthEast.
Have you ever tried to carry over a couple of tomato plants from the previous year by bringing them indoors, for over wintering ?

[Wneighbor]

Have you ever tried to carry over a couple of tomato plants from the previous year by bringing them indoors, for over wintering ?

I overwinter tomatoes in pots inside the house. They don't do quite as well as peppers for me but usually half to 2/3 rebound very well once spring arrives. I feed them well when I first bring them in from the cold and then don't feed again till late winter when they begin to show more growth. I water normally until all tomatoes have been harvested then cut back on watering. In spring I plant them out or repot in fresh soil, feed well and very quickly those tomatoes begin producing.

Usually a tomato given such care produces better the second year than the first but, for me, I've found that the tomatoes are pretty much "used up" then. I keep peppers in the same manner but they last longer, at least 3 years and I have 2 in my sunroom with me now on their 5th winter. (I know you asked about maters, but these 2 nightshades have so much in common.)

[greeneyes]

I have brought in Tomato plants from outdoors several times as well as bell peppers. The indeterminate tomatoes all continued to form flowers and fruit. Didn’t even need hand pollination. Peppers did well, they just weren’t a big as usual.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We start tomatoes indoors around February 1st. They go in the garden in April, usually covered temporarily. By the time November rolls around, the plants are worn out. We generally plant Roma varieties and the plants really produce well. We've picked 12-15 tomatoes every day when warm weather gets here, plus we have a big lake that tempers the cold.
We're expecting the roof to fall in today. 30 degrees at 6:30 AM. Single digits by 2PM. We're making a grocery run, then hunkering down.
Firewood. Check
Beverages. Check
Chili fixings. Check.
Maybe there's an old Jimmy Stewart movie on later.

[Bellflower]

Have you or others tried indoor growining in water with a growing light? I am really curious if it really pays to do.