I know that folks on the east coast have been in deep freeze land but here in central Texas, it has been hitting the low-80s regularly since the end of January and never got to freezing. Because of this unusually warm winter, all of the heirloom tomatoes I started from seed last spring (Golden Jubilee, Yellow Gooseberry cherry, and Break O'Day) are not only still alive but flowering and producing more than they did during the summer and fall --I got the transplants into the ground too late and so the heat put a kibbotch on production in the summer then, just as they got going in the fall, shorter chilly days hit.

I just harvested the first ripe tomato of the season -- all of the tomatoes on the vine though are small, even those going ripe but so were the ones we harvested in the fall (they are growing in garden soil bags rather than in-ground so that may be the reason).

I didn't trim the eggplants back at all as we were still picking eggplants into early January and now they are literally covered in flowers (I stopped counting at 70 flowers across 8 Astrakom plants). Does anyone know if these flowers are likely to form fruit and, if so, will the size/taste be affected? I've got another 8 starts from seed and am wondering if I should pull out the established flowering ones and replace with the starts or....