moving tomatoes and peppers indoors?

[hillsvale]

This year has been a dismal year for growing in Nova Scotia... I put in roma tomatoes, red peppers and jalapenos which I grew from seed. The first round barely made it with only 8 of the 30 roma plants surviving... now I have a ton of small tomatoes and peppers on the plants but no where near ready to pick, the nights are very cool now and I think its getting too cool for them to grow properly, day time temps are 17 - 28 celcius, evening is 9 and up ..

Has anyone moved their plants indoors? not withstanding that the roma plants are about 2 feet across and a spouse which doesn't want me to bring them in

Is it too early to consider this? Suggestions?

 

[wifezilla]

I don't know about the tomatoes, but I have successfully brought pepper plants inside. They will go sort of dormant but you should be able to harvest what is on the plant a little while after you bring it in. Then next season, they will go gangbusters and give you LOTS of peppers. Many pepper plants are much more productive in their second and 3rd years. I have a purple pepper plant volunteer I am going to pot up and bring in along with some cherry pepper plants. Not sure about the Big Jim peppers though. I guess I will if I have room, but I am transplanting the cuter looking ones first

 

[hillsvale]

well I dug up one pepper plant and a smallish roma tomato plant.. (its about 2' across) just to se how they react .... the perrer looks fine but the tomato looked desperate but their root systems were huge so we shall see, I do know that the monster ones will have to be harvested.

I didn't know that if I brought in the pepper plants they would go back out next year.... interesting! Thanks

 

[wifezilla]

Pepper plants are actually tender perennials.

 

[ninnymary]

Hills...I just saw a hot pepper plant that was 8 years old! The gardener covers it with some sort of clear umbrella. These umbrellas are plant umbrellas that she buys from an online nursery. Of course this won't work for you but I had never heard of such a thing.

Mary

 

[hillsvale]

Hills...I just saw a hot pepper plant that was 8 years old! The gardener covers it with some sort of clear umbrella. These umbrellas are plant umbrellas that she buys from an online nursery. Of course this won't work for you but I had never heard of such a thing.

Mary

Sounds awesome... but your right, they had better be a strong insulated umbrella for here, last year I had an extremem winter with some snow banks taller than me! lol