If you have mastered the art of growing tomatoes in your garden and even moved on to growing different varieties such as the indigo rose tomatoes, then this is probably the next thing you want to master. What am I rambling on about? I am talking about learning how to over winter your tomato plants, duh. LOL

Why would you want to over winter your tomato plants, I hear you ask? I mean you can just start your seedlings indoors and have them ready for planting in early Spring. Here is the thing though, if you had over wintered your tomato plants then by the time Spring comes they will be ready to start fruiting and you will have fresh tomatoes to enjoy with a few weeks.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• tomato plants
• pruning shears
• glass jar
• water
• potting soil
• rooting hormone
• container

There is two approaches you can take. However, for both of them you will need your plants to be in containers and not in the garden beds. For a never ending supply of tomatoes in the not so cold areas for example in the South, you can keep one or two plants in containers indoors. On the warmer days, move them out into the sun during the day.

The other way involves, removing cuttings from your best plants at the end of the season. Clip the suckers off and then allow them to root in a glass jar filled with water. When the root system is established you can then transplant them into a container filled with potting soil. The plant or plants will grow throughout the winter and be ready to fruit when Spring arrives. 🙂

You can follow step by step instructions on the Gently Sustainable blog, here…

How To Over Winter Tomatoes

You can watch the video below on Growing Tomatoes Outdoors in the Winter…

You can watch the video below on Growing Winter Tomatoes ~WITHOUT A GREENHOUSE…

You can watch the video below on Over Wintering Tomatoes…

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