#don't throw your nasty sick rotten tomatoes in the compost pile!

[wowbright]

Every time I see that post going around about how no writing is wasted, gardeners throw rotten tomatoes into the compost pile to improve next year's crop ...

My immediate reaction is DON'T THROW ROTTEN TOMATOES IN THE COMPOST PILE THAT'S HOW YOU SPREAD TOMATO BLIGHT.

Like I appreciate the sentiment but clearly the person who wrote that is not a gardener.

#writing advice #I mean yes if you have a compost pile that gets very very hot then maybe you can kill off all diseases #but that is very difficult to do in a non-industrial composting situation #and IDK maybe there are areas of the English-speaking world where tomatoes don't have such delicate constitutions #but those parts of the world aren't my parts of the world and so #I freak out every time I read this #don't throw your nasty sick rotten tomatoes in the compost pile! #gardening #farming #I believe the quote is attributed to #erin bow #I don't know who that is #maybe they have been gardening for years and never dealt with this problem #or maybe they have been gardening for years and wondering why they end up with so many rotten tomatoes