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The idea was just to get an early start next year and to get plants that were a bit stockier by taking cuttings rather than sowing seed early, not to keep harvesting - the plants are about 9 feet tall and in the border now! :)
I am having a go at this. the gardeners delight that I planted this year have just about done. so I have trimmed some of the plants down to 6inch (but still have leaves on and a sucker growing at the side), took them out of the buckets they were in and trimmed the roots so they fit in a 1litre pot, I might bring them inside and keep them slightly moist or keep them in the garage again slightly moist, I have green zebra as well, but they still have lots of toms on, but once they are finished, again I will trim down and try and keep them some where warm. i want to also try this with a bell pepper and chilli plant too.
One thing I tried last year that seemed to work was cutting down on watering the tomato plants in October, and stopping watering altogether after that. This way I was still harvesting tomatoes after Christmas....not a huge amount but it kept them going!
Try one of the eastern european varieties and sow them in January... I grew Black Krim beefsteaks this year indoors and they were astonishingly early for me, I'm going to really try to push these forward next year both outdoors (under fleece in a hotbed) and in the GH and see how early I can get them..... it shouldn't take too much time as they'll be starting after the big onions but before the standard maincrops, for the first batch, then again in the gap between the standard onions and the hardy veg for anther set.... I've got tons of seeds so if they fail I'll still have plenty to run through "normally"chrisc
Well, here they are, the original surviving plant had a single flower truss on it when I took cuttings. All 4 now have them, and the greenhouse is warming up nicely which along with the increasing light gives me hope for fruit fairly soon.Might need to get a water spray on the trusses later today to be sure though.Crap picture I know, but you get the idea. ::)Might try to see how many years I can keep a single plant going...