So, I forgot it was a new week and I had to find the new thread. duh. I've been going to my CP and looking for new posts in my subscribed threads. HA HA.
dream710, you may be able to garden on your porch/balcony/patio as was suggested...there are ways, it depends how desperate you are. Or maybe there is someone you know who is willing to share their dirt with you (an ideal person would be a nearby elderly person who still lives at home--they may have all the tools, love having the old-time veggies to eat and even more, they love having the visits from your family--but they've had to give up gardening or cut back. If you don't have someone in your family, you might meet someone at a church, senior center, etc.
You may also be able to participate in a community plot garden...maybe your local County Extension office can help you find one.
Selina, there are a couple of tricks. This sounds weird but you gotta trust me.
1) tomatoes grow outside where there is wind. They need a breeze - you need to either take them outside when it's over 50 degrees (but not in the bright sunshine especially in Texas) and let them get a nice breeze) or get an oscillating fan (the kind that turns) or a little clip on desk fan and give them a nice blow every once in a while. Not wind-tunnel blow, but a nice breeze. you want to see them dance. Not break over in half, but jiggle.
2) tomato plants are special because they can grow roots on their stem. That means, when you move them from a little cup/pot to a bigger one, you can pile dirt up their puny thin stem (just pinch off the leaves if you are going to bury them, they don't mind--leave at least 2 sets sticking out the top and you are OK!) and they will grow roots all up and down where the puny little stem was.
3) if you are not growing your tomatoes in the Southernmost window you have and they are not getting great sun, you may need some extra light. either you need a grow light, or you need to take them outside. You may want to put them under a suspended bedsheet in Texas, the sun is stronger there and they will burn.
3) if you water them too much or keep them too wet you will kill them. it is better to let them get a little droopy and then saturate them completely than to water them every day. Again, if you keep them outside in the Texas sun, they will dry up REAL quick. In that case, put them in a tray of water--don't pour water on the leaves ever.
4) Don't plant seeds in potting SOIL, plant them in soil-less seed-starting mix. Miracle-grow moisture control is excellent (and it really helps with #3). I also really like Jiffy-7 peat pots and they are so cool to work with when you have kids, 'cause you put the dried out checkers in water and they expand.
I have a balcony outside this room, mine sit on a baker's rack in the window here, and whenever it's warm out, I put mine outside where they get warmth, sunlight, and wind.
OK, today is my birthday, this is my school's "reading week" which means I get to stay home but I have 2 papers, a sermon on Sunday, and some other homework to do (plus a test to study for.) So much for my birthday.
And I caught my daughter's cold!!!!
slow and steady wins the race! 
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I am so disgusted right now! I just don't understand how I can be doing everything I should be doing (and even extra!) and I show a gain!!!!! Sorry for the rant, I am really disgusted at the moment...what a way to start the day!
