I'll encourage you to visit the Houseplant Forum where you will find that most of us don't think of indoor plants as fragile! You'll find plenty of help over there by posting this same question. Here is a link that might be useful: Let's go to the Houseplant Forum...click here

I can relate as far as my annuals, perennials, and tropicals. It has just been a year of "survival" until next year. What's been heppening in the garden? Nothing - that sums it up. A very limited number of butterflies and moths. The few I had were the fruit, dung, sap eating butterflies, because I fed them. The tropicals bloomed well because they can tolerate the heat and humidity. But, there are no big butterflies to nectar on them. The heat prevented a lot of bloom on my plants. Just got too hot, too fast, for them to bloom well. This last break from the heat - a short one - has at least produced more blooms on my sole tomato plant, and hopefully they will get pollinated to produce tomatos in fall. The best plants in the garden for flowering? Pyramid Bush (in the Chocolate family), a very pretty little bright pink flowering tropical; Dwarf Red Porterweed (tropical), Gerbera daisy (red/orange), Datura, Flame Acanthus - this plant just keeps on going and nothing bothers the flowers or the foliage, I love it! - Maximilian Sunflower; Golden Crownbeard; David Verity Cuphea, and Tropical Milkweed. My Verbena bonariensis, which is normally a very prolific blooming plant, has had some kind of foliage disease this year that turns the plant foliage white, and it hasn't produced near the blooms in normally does. Those it does produce don't last very long at all. The Southern Pink Moth has all but decimated my Salvias this year, and some kind of little leaf-cutting, petiole cutting caterpillars have demolished the Morning Glories. I like caterpillars, but not those that are destructive and appear in such large numbers it is literally impossible for an organic gardener to fight. It is so strange - I have a Packman broccoli that has never produced a head, but is still growing and hasn't bolted yet. ????? Even the Zinnias are not producing as well as they should, few blooms, and wonky stems. I have kept the garden watered as well as possible, and am hoping the fall will turn things around, altho I keep hearing extended weather predictions of a very warm fall. We'll see. I feel very bad for all of you who put so much work into your vegetable gardens only to have them burn up in this heat and drought. My heart just melts for you guys! Susan

garwv, of course it grew like crazy outside in the summer. A greenhouse would help. Tomato plants generally don't do well when grown indoors. The air is too dry and there's not enough humidity or light to support them over a long period of time. Tomatoes need 6 hrs of full sun to make fruit and the winter sun is very weak. The window deflects and weakens the light cast upon the plants. I've brought small sized tomato plants in for the winter and they do fine for awhile but they do go downhill and eventually die. You could keep babying the plant and maybe get a cutting from it in early spring. Btw, I do winter over peppers under lights in an unheated well lit room. They struggle but they still produce some peppers.

The brown crispy edges on the leaves can be two things, actually three. Did it have them before you sprayed it with the fungicide? if not, it might be leaf burn because of the type you used. If you're fertilizing once a week, and not leaching the soil to the point where water runs out the bottom holes, then it's probably a build up of fertilizer (salts) and your roots are also being damaged. To fix that, fertilize every other week and flush the pot with water in the week in between. It could also be lack of humidity, but if you were having some kind of a fungus problem that might not be it. Also most plants like to be watered before the point of wilting, but just before. I know it's hard to judge that, but that wilting can also cause leaf damage. I'd have to say overall it looks like a great plant for indoors...Congratulations!