We're getting to that time a year.

We're getting to that time of year everyone where your tomatoes might actually need to come out of the ground depending on where you live and so what I thought I would talk about is if it is a good idea to compost

your tomato plants and if you do how do you actually do it.

Honestly a lot of people have different opinions on this, so take what I say here with that as a grain of salt.

It is just my opinion, this is my analysis of the situation.

So the reason that people say not to do it is because if you have

tomato blights or any sort of disease you are going to spread that disease in your

compost and then it's going to be in the soil next year and then you're

going to have to deal with it again. Now that is true. At the same time, I'm more of the mind that Charles Doubting is over in England where he more or less composts everything.

I mean he kind of just breaks most of the quote-unquote rules and honestly his compost is some of the best I've ever seen

I was physically there touching holding smelling it it's some of the best compost I've

ever seen and it's the only amendment that he uses in his garden and he composts

weeds he composts diseased plants and he's perfectly fine now I will say he is

a master in managing his pile and his heat levels actually do get up to the point

in which they would kill off pathogens, generally speaking.

But that being said, some of these pathogens,

they just don't live forever.

They're not immortal.

And so they won't really come back

to the level at which most people would imagine.

So that's what I would say and for that reason for the most part I do compost my tomatoes. Now if you wanted to what you could do is you could set up a second

heap for all of your disease plants and weeds and you could compost those out and you could

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