Well I never- Autumn germinating toms

[Incy]

Don't forget that should you be lucky and get them through to flowering you'll almost certainly have to use a brush or similar to pollinate them as the trusty bees will not be available.

Hadn't thought of that.

[daibreadtwo]

Try to keep them growing slowly through the winter and they will take off in march. I took some side shoots from my Gardener's Delight in October last year and rooted them in jiffy pellets over the winter, they flowered in April and I started picking on 31 May, 410 tomatoes from 3 plants. So go to it

[tamsin]

Just tap them to pollinate.

I've chopped back one of my hanging basket toms and brought it indoors. The two sideshoots I took a few weeks back are flowering now.

[zazen999]

I've got several cuttings from tomatoes this year just in the greenhouse - one seems to be taking off a tad too much so it might get a chop in a week or two. I'm not bringing them in until it gets really really cold and they start to look a bit bedraggled.

[SlugLobber]

I've got a couple of seedlings in the cauliflower bed - germinated from compost, so I don't even know what variety they are! Ooh the suspense, lol. Don't think I'll bother with them, though. If they survive, well, I'll make millions selling winter-hardy toms.

[Shadylane]

Hadn't thought of that.

You don't need bees they do it by themselves, but to be honest I wouldn't have thoguht they'd flower until spring anyway. If they're on a south facing window then they've got as good a chance as owt. Good luck hope you win

[Incy]

If they don't flower till spring that's fine as they will go out in the GH once it's warm enough, assuming they made it through the winter.

[COMPOST CORNER]

Tomatoes are perennial in their natural setting so go for it. It's not that different to over wintering a chilli plant I'd have thought.

[Incy]

Just a quick update. They have indeed made it through the winter! I have just transplanted them into individual pots and buried them nice and deep to compensate for their legginess and they have just started to flower

[sarraceniac]

Well done. I must admit to being surprised. Let us know how they crop.

[Incy]

Will do. I'll try and take a picture of them later and post it on here

[FionaH]

Nice one! I didnt think it would work, goes to sho I know nowt!

[Janek]

We are anxiously awaiting the pics!

[King Carrot]

Well done - keep us updated & hope your eating some toms of them real soon.

[Shadylane]

Congratulations - early toms - fab!