When my tomato plants stop producing tomatos during fall do I pull them up or just trim them back?

In 25+ years of having a garden, we always pull them up and compost them.



Always amusing though how each spring, "volunteer" tomato plants pop up... from seeds in the compost or tomatoes that fell and rotted.

When my tomato plants stop producing tomatos during fall do I pull them up or just trim them back?
prune it back
Reply:I wait till the whole garden has died, then use my mower with the mulcher attachment, grind it down leave for compost.
Reply:Pull and hot compost or discard in the trash... most tomatoes are so loaded with tomato diseases by the end of the season that you really don't want to carry them over to the next season.
Reply:It is far better to prune them if the season promises that they are still going to grow but at the end of their season just pull them up. Another thing, it depends on how hard the fall is, sometime its from drought and sometimes from negligence so my advice is distinguish between these cases.
Reply:Depends where you are. What zone are you? If you live in a nonfreezing zone where the winters remain warm then tomatoes are a tender perennial for you so just prune out all the sucker branches and wait for them to start producing again. If you live in a zone or area that gets freezes then pull them out because they will be annuals for you and will just die back. If you don't want to pull them up then you can just leave them to decompose where they are.

Good Luck
Reply:well; NO, you have to pull them up, but I'D wait till after the first killer frost. you know the grounds hard and all white in the morning.
Reply:You have to throw them away.

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