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In general the plant is discarded once a year. The growers normally get seedlings from a specialist that grows from seed. The tomato plan contain mild toxic co

In general the plant is discarded once a year. The growers normally get seedlings from a specialist that grows from seed. The tomato plan contain mild toxic content, and is quite smelly so not even goats seem happy to eat it. Not sure what they actually do with composted tomato plants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_plants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_plants

ChoHag 10y ago
Leave it long enough to grow it into more tomatoes.
- lostlogin 10y ago
  Tomatoes are ridiculously easy to grow from seed. If you let any tomatoes fall to the ground you are guaranteed to spend every year forever after dealing with hundreds of tomato plants.
  - ChoHag 10y ago
    Until you've got enough leaves and other detritus, there won't be any ground.