Lucky You! what a nice surprise!

Tomatoes in winter are always a wonderful surprise!

I am overwintering two small container-grown tomato plants in my garage. These are plants that were transplanted into their containers last March or April. Both are small plants and they only produce small numbers of tomatoes--just a few cherry tomatoes a week, but they're better than having no tomatoes at all.

Because we have cats and dogs who spend some time indoors, I don't even attemp to grow tomatoes indoors. I tried it for a couple of years, but didn't feel like it was worth the bother. Your results may vary.

The plants in the garage get pretty cold at night because the garage is unheated, but it is pretty well-insulated. I drag the containers outside on sunny, warm winter days and then back into the garage every night. I know that if I forget to move them indoors, they'll freeze or something like a deer or rabbit will eat them at night.

Once the nights are dropping below 55 degrees, the plants don't bloom or set new fruit very well, so the fruit I'm harvesting now were set in late October or early November when the nights still were fairly warm. After an 80-degree day last week, one of the plants bloomed, but I haven't checked to see if any of those blooms set fruit.

The flavor of winter tomatoes is not as good as summer tomatoes, but they're better than grocery store tomatoes.