Like most here, I do not compost tomato and pepper plants. I also do not compost cucumber, melon, and pumpkin vines.
Actually I do not “compost” anything in a “compost pile”. I do till asparagus fern, onion leaves? stalks?, corn stalks and husks, lettuce, spinach, carrot, and radish tops, and bean vines into my garden to let them decompose “in place”, along with all my grass clippings and leaves that blow into my yard from my neighbors’ trees.
My garden gets taller every year, and my soil test last spring showed about 9% organic material. My local Ag. Extension Agent told me that was the best soil test results he had ever seen in this area.
Nothing better than the smell of great garden soil...
Leaves, grass clippings, egg shells...lots of earthworms...