Reply To: Has anyone tried sowing tomato seeds in January ever?

[Leif]

I grow chillis and have usually started them early, and similarly with tomatoes but not so early. The problem is that days are short, light is low, and plants have to be kept indoors for a long time. They become leggy and windowsills fill up with plants. Chilli growers often use grow lamps. Maybe the solution is to one or two very early ones sown early, with the rest sown later. The. Best way to get very early chillis is to overwinter plants, not sure if that works with tomatoes. Of course a grow lamp is not cheap but it is not hard to make a grow box to hold lamps, I imagine MDF offcuts would work.