What do you do with Tomato Plants when they have finished bearing fruit?and use them next year, or what?

They are not perrenials. If you have a large garden and you had no diseases, pull them up and chop them up and dig them into the soil for new organic matter for next year. Great soil enhancer for next year. If they had any kind of diseases, dig them up and burn them or if you cant burn, dispose of in garbage bag. You can save a couple of the old tomatoes for seed if you were happy with the variety. Take a rotten tomato, put it in a cup of water until it ferments a bit. The good seeds will go to the bottom and the bad will rise to the top. Take the seeds out of the water and dry. Use them next spring to start new plants. Do not plant next year's tomatoes in the same place. Tomatoes are prone to disease so moving them to a different location is best. Plant something else like cucumbers where you had tomatoes this year. But dont let them overwinter. They are too prone to airborne diseases. Pull em up and get rid of them.

What do you do with Tomato Plants when they have finished bearing fruit?and use them next year, or what?
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Reply:they go into my compost heap or get burned,
Reply:I used to compost, but it took so long to get a little soil, I now just run the lawn mower through the spent plants. I let them sit over winter where they are unless it is obvious that they have some disease. If they are diseased, you should pull up the whole plant and get it out of the garden all together. If you mean you'd like to save some seeds for planting next year, you'd be disappointed. The plants you buy at the store are hybrids and their children will not be the same as they are. The children will be puny or deformed.
Reply:no they won't bare fruit next year.. rip them out and begin a new next year ..
Reply:lol.


I'll be awaiting the answer, too... I always just tilled them back in soil %26amp; bought new next year.....
Reply:Usually, I throw them into a compost pile or trow them away. Once they're dead, they're dead.
Reply:Whatever you do don't eat them. Tomatoes and potatoes are part of the Nightshade family--the plant is very poisonous but the part we eat is not. You can till them back into the soil but if you are also putting alot of other organic matter into the soil or you will get a build up of nightshade toxicity.
Reply:you basically RRRRRIPPPPP them out of the ground...and toss them over the fence into your neighbors yard....ooops...I mean dispose of them properly...they really dont make good comp post..andmay have picked up diseases during the season soits bestto make them go far far away

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