Once you harvest the tomatoes, what do you do with the old plant?

Question

Do tomato plants keep producing tomatoes, or is do they produce only one harvest? I'm wondering if I can do something to my current plants or if I should just throw it in the compost pile. Thanks...

Answer 1

Have you never heard of fall harvest? They have only begun to produce fruit, wait until about September after they're all spent, then you can yank them and put to compost.

Answer 2

Throw it in the pile. They only produce one time per year.

Answer 3

Once it's done fruiting get rid of it.

Answer 4

Compost it... It will only be sucking up good nutrients from the soil...  

Answer 5

After you have harvested the last of the crop, compost the old plant. Cut it up and it will compost quicker. If any of the last of the toms are unripe, try putting them in a paper bag in a drawer. I have found they ripen well. Either that or put them near bananas, the ripen well like that.  

Answer 6

tomatoes keep growing and producing until a frost kills it,you can pick the remaining ones that are sort of whitish that have no blemishes and store them for weeks in your basement they will ripen but do it before first frost