When i get my tomato plants, they go into a 16" pot with a drain tray for excess water. They usually atay on my deck unti fall when I move them inside. I have floo ro ceiling windows on south side of house (53') so they stay there, producing tomatoes usually through March. Then when it warms up, out they go to the deck. This year I had to keep everything inside because of heat. The river below my bluff is now a creek and coons, juveniles not adapt at finding food were turning them over, had to repot everything including a crown of thorns 5 times. I even put out a large galvanized tub of water for them. Have seen coons. possums, deer, even, coyote, grey wolves, Clyde our cougar drinking from it. My planta are safe inside except for lemongrass and catnip which the cats keep chewed down.
