5 Vegetable Plants You Can Overwinter and Grow Next Year

Water atleast once a week. Depends on how long does your soil hold moisture. If your soil drains faster and dries out in 2 to 3 days, then water every 2 to 3 days. The idea is to keep the soil moist and let it get to little bit on dry side before watering again.

I have been growing a pepper plant indoors for 4 years even during the summer. I have taken hundreds of chillies from it. It requires a lot of pruning and I have grown and gave away a lot of prunings. I've just harvested all year around.

Also if you need more tomato plants and don't have a lot of spare money (they are getting really expensive at the store), just pinch off the suckers that grow between the main stalk and the leaf and plant the sucker directly into some dirt. Keep it moist and it will root and grow into a whole other tomato plant for free!

You can also do okra, collards, tomatoes, roman lettuce, celery, cabbage, onions, brocolli, pineapples, carrots the same way as you do your peppers. I like to share my information with as many as people as I can. One day it's going to come in handy.

4:35 When you trim a pepper, there are two options, depending on what you're doing. 1, if you are going to take it indoors and keep it about room temperature, it is actually good to leave the suckers, which will improve productivity next year. Focus on taking off new foliage as this will not be able to develop healthily over the winter. 2, if you are going to leave it outdoors (for an established, woody perennial plant) then take off the suckers as they will die otherwise. This causes the plant to concentrate any sunlight it gets into the main stem, expanding the woody section and slowly growing your permanent plant.

I can’t believe no one has told me about this for tomatoes!! Can’t wait to try it this year!

I am in a 8B zone and i have over wintered peppers under my carport. As long as they can be protected from the elements they survive. Unheated garage offers even more protection and warmth.

If I bring in another plant my husband will divorce me. Pruning is a great tip I seem to overlook. The dining room is a complete jungle. If I see nats I’m going to scream. Buying sand ASAP. Thx for the tips!

I've been using diatomaceous earth for gnat control and it seems to work well even for earwigs / pincher bugs and other pests. The way I've heard it, DE is like glass to small insects and gets in their exoskeleton joints.

I have been overwintering cherry tomatoes for years. I usually keep one in a pot and bring it into the house for the winter. I enjoy a few tomatoes all winter long! But overwintering the peppers were new to me as of last winter, so I am eager to try it this year.

I live in zone 9B and always overwinter my tomatoes and peppers outside with little or no pruning. I cover them if we get nighttime temperatures in the low 30’s. I get spring and fall harvests because the summers are too hot here.

I wish I'd seen this a while back. I didn't know enuf, and left my okra, peppers, bell pepper, eggplant,tomato and friggin kale out. Which BTW they were producing like crazy. Oh well I know now, and will be sure to bring my new ones in. First time grower last year, so much info out there. Was interested in only planting things that return like I do my plants. This time I'll be ready.

Kale routinely overwinters. Kale sets seed in the 2nd spring to summer. Perfectly cold-hardy. The othets are all of the nightshade family and basically tropical...

Amazing…. ! I’m glad you mentioned tomatoes too ; )

So happy to see u here. Really thought about you and family and your farm during the California fire. Thank God you are safe.

One of our pepper plants has survived since spring 2019. I agree. It is under a lemon tree so I guess it was protected by lemon tree.

Im definitely doing this in a few weeks

I know this sounds really weird but I love my vegetable plants so much that the idea of cutting them back makes me feel sad. I feel like I'm hurting them. Because it's starting to get cold outside I brought as many pots as I could in and put them on my dining room table with a light on them. 😂 Considering the fact that I've always had a black thumb and don't have any houseplants it's crazy that I've been growing food on my patio in pots. 😂 It's definitely been trial and error but these babies I grew from seed and I'm quite attached to them.

Here in Zone 9b TX the problem is less about cold, and more about the SUN! The sun roasts everything and you have to constantly think of ways of shading your plants.

Just amazing info! Thanx Jag. Blessings to you and your family!!