[Broadhaven]

I am just clearing out my greenhouse as my cucumbers have come to an end as well as peppers and my yellow toms ( which I am taking down as they have been horrible). Are they all ok to put in my compost bins?

[TheSpartacat]

If they're disease free I can't think why not?

[bigben]

I found this year after I emptied my compost bin onto one of my beds I found lots of what I thought were weeds which turned out to be tomatoes. The seeds had survived the composting process and grew really well. Lots of hoeing needed!

[Broadhaven]

Ah Bigben I have just read if you put toms in the compost they will germinate. Think they will be going in the green bin!

[bigben]

Apparently they even get them at the sewage works because they manage to survive going "though us". It is not a big problem unless like me you chucked away a glut of tomatoes that had gone soft. Then there were tons to germinate the next year.

[oldcow]

Oh no, I did put tomatoes in the compost bin too! I didn't put the plants themselves because they didn't look good; they might have been just getting like that because of the cold, but since I'm a newbie I wasn't sure.
I'm off to see if I can fish out the tomatoes out of the bin....

[Broadhaven]

I had just better grow toms that I like and that I won't be throwing away next year

[Babstreefern]

I dump my toms soil into the area where I grew my spuds as its from the same family, and will not be growing any spuds the following year.