Just bag them all up and put them in the trash. Any and every tomato gardener/farmer will tell you to never compost tomato foliage/stems/roots.
So what did you grow this year? Any heirlooms? I am still staring down my green fruits and waiting for first blush. I have 7 different varieties this year, all heirlooms. Foliage disease is something I know a lot about.
I planted 11 tomato plants in late Feb...(Im near Houston). Was picking tomatoes in April.
Planted spinach among the new tomato plants and harvested till it got hot...the tomatoes then overgrew where I had the spinach. Had yellow squash and green zucchini...not much production...
Had 5-6 kinds of peppers, not much #’s but they were tasty.
This was in a 10’x10’ plot...
For the fall, I have 3 heirlooms, some spinach and yellow squash seeds from Germany and will get more pepper plants.
I already put the tomato plants in the compost but will take them out. Wonder if this ruined my compost...
If you compost properly, meaning a good balance of materials (carbon/ nitrogen) that heat up and steam when turned as they decompose, disease spores and weeds should be killed. Just turning the old plants under the garden soil is another matter and isn’t true composting. Seems a shame to waste all the good plant material IF you have a proper compost heap. Composting is facinating subject (when you get older).