Do you have any tips for moving an heirloom tomato plant in from the garden for the winter?

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get yourself a HUGE pot and transplant it. Believe it or not I know a guy who grew the same plant indoors for 3 years and all the while it produced tomatoes.

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Tomato plants are vines, so if you get a cutting and put it in water, it will grow some roots, then you can transplant it to a small pot and start over.

Otherwise, you can just pot it and move it indoors, or, put a tarp on it overnight, and hold it down with some bricks or rocks or logs. That should preserve it down to about 20 degrees F.

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I was able to have tomatoes in late winter one year that I moved a sprout inside the house by a sunny east window. A south window would be best.
I would suggest you take off the heathly growth, that is with the stem and put it in a large planter with a stack. You wil want to keep it moist for awhile, until it roots real good. Have a stack in the planter, because the tomatoe will get spindly, due to lack of the sun light it would get outside. When it blooms you will have to use a q tip to go from bloom to bloom to pollnate the blooms for it to friut.

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I would cover it with a blanket overnight, and repeatedly do that until true cold weather sets in.
I grow Brandywine tomatoes and they often produce flowers into November.
When it's no longer possible to protect it, pick all the green tomatoes that have any yellow at all, or even light green on them, wrap them in newspaper, and store in a cool place, check them every day and remove the ripe ones and any that are going bad.
I've never heard of keeping a tomato plant through the winter, but if you want to save the seeds:
Take the best tomato that is completely ripe. Remove the seeds, put them in water in a glass. Swirl them to help seperate the seeds from the membrane. On the second day, carefully drain the water and pour fresh water in. On the third day, drain the seeds on a paper towel. When the towel is dry, fold the seeds into it (they usually stick), label it, and put it in a cool place until spring.
For heirloom tomatoes and tomatoes grown in Northern areas, start your seeds in late March.
I usually start mine using the pilot light or light bulb in the oven.
When they are up, I transfer them into deeper soil repeatedly so that they will develop sturdy stems. I usually plant them in early May.
Hope that some of this is useful! Heirloom veggies are great!