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What to do with tomato plants?
I have 5 huge tomato plants that I put in this spring and have been doing so well that I've had to cut them back several times.
What do I do with them come fall?
I live in Southern California near the mountains where we get a light frost for a couple weeks in the winter.
Re: What to do with tomato plants?
compost them if they are disease-free or throw them away.
tomatoes aren't perennials.
Really? Growing up, the neighbor next door always had a huge garden full of tomato plants, and I don't recall her ever replanting them. I know she would cut them way back at the end of the season, but I don't think she dug them up and threw them away. FWIW, I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley in SoCal. I'll have to stop by and ask her next time I'm at Mom and Dad's.
Now, I've never lived in California, but I have lived several places & the tomatoes *never* lasted more than the growing season. Some places do have 2 summer growing seasons, but the plants need to be replanted.
Anyways, tomatoes don't tolerate frost at all (OP mentions light frost) so that will probably kill them or severely injure resulting in prolonged death.
I left mine on the ground decaying over winter, then went over them when I rototilled.
I don't know how but I had a ton of volunteer tomato plants come up from last year. I thinned out all but a few & I'm pretty sure they're Roma or Juliet -- things I didn't plant this year.
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