Yes.

Thank you.

ANY plant material can be composted, although I'd avoid including any diseased plants unless you have a very hot composting operation. And the woodier, tougher or more fibrous the plant material the more it should be chopped up or well shredded so it doesn't take forever to breakdown and decompose.

We put our pulled out tomato plants into a special compost bin in the fall, we call it the peach pit. It's the place we dump things that take a long time to break down, such as peaches, mangos, and other pitted fruits. It rots but takes longer.

The Peach Pit!

I love it.

led-zep yep, we have a corner in the far part of the 1 1/4 acre that we put things like that plus things like morning glory and nasturtium that are taking over my garden if I don't rip them out! I put the tomatoes and squash that are usually diseased by the end of the summer. Almost everything else I compost.

There are very few things we put in our compost bin that goes out to the street! Roses, invasive things, poisonous things, blackberry plants that might pop up. Nancy

"....poisonous things...." There's no reason to exclude poisonous plants from the compost. A huge number of our garden plants are toxic to some extent. Any toxins break down quickly. So chuck on the foxgloves, tomato plants, eggplants, potato foliage, daffodil leaves, rhubarb leaves, etc., etc. without fear.