Can Earthtainers be brought inside for winter

[ScottinAtlanta]

I have two with peppers and eggplants. Can I just bring them in and keep eating?

[ContainerTed]

Logic should tell you that it can be done. What's missing if your plant/planter come indoors? Beyond your container and growing medium, your plants need sunlight or some artificial full-spectrum light source. I would personally add a fan to help with pollination. I grew both tomato and pepper plants inside a windowless back bedroom using 4 foot/2 bulb fixture flourescents. Now, I did have three of the two light fixtures standing on end beside the plants, and one fixture above. They were on for 16 hours per day.

Here's a pix. I had to shut off the overhead and two of the vertical lights to show the orientation of the light fixture to the plant. It was usually VERY bright in there.

BTW, the reason I put the fixtures vertical was to give the leaves more light. Overhead-only left too many shadows. The outside plants get a lot of reflected light.

Also, a good deep drip pan is useful.

[mdvpc]

The problem is you will bring into your house any insects that are in the containers. I tried that once in the greenhouse, bringing into it outside tomato plants, and had the worst aphid infestation I ever had.

[Bipetual]

I would expect fungus gnats, personally.