January tomatoes

[bupster]

I'm eating the last tomatoes I've just picked from a plant growing on my kitchen windowsill. Is this normal? It doesn't seem normal, but I don't know enough to be sure.  :)

[bupster]

[growmore]

 Picking Tommies in January. It's not normal, it's very unusual..But  I bet it's good  :) Jim

[RobinOfTheHood]

I need a bigger kitchen windowsill. I'm very jealous.  :o

[bupster]

The plant was 99p from B&Q and I've done nothing to it but pot it on. Must just be a good windowsill  8)

[Derekthefox]

I am definitely envious ...

[gunnerbee]

when i sorted my greenhouse out a couple of days ago, their was a couple of red tomatoes left on the withered plant, skins we a bit tough, didnt half taste good though!!!!

[grawrc]

Gosh mine were finished over a month ago.. :'(

[misterphil]

A couple of years ago I planted some white cherry tomatoes up in July with the hope of a crop for christmas. I kept them in the dining room next to the radiator and in front of the window. I got 3 toms for christmas, but a decent crop in feb. I pruned the plant right back, watered and fed it, and it started to grow again. I got  some more toms around may, pruned and fed, and then it cropped right through the summer, finally dying off in October - My wife had insisted that I put it outside as she was so sick of it by then! Overall it probably put out around 100 fruit, and lasted from July 2003 to October 2004.

A tip that I was given which worked in order to force the last toms to ripeness was to put a bin bag over the top of the plant to heat thing up...