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just wondering do people put their fin ished tomato and poatato plants in their compost bins

Tomato seeds are virtually indestructible.  So if you put finished plants on the  compost with fruit still attached you will have thousands of tiny tomato plants for evermore where you dig the compost in, and that could be in a couple of years time.  Same goes for potatos, the haulms are OK, but the roots often have little babies attached and they will produce shoots the following year (or later) ... ... and so the cycle continues

and can carry blight over from one year to the next...
Tomato seedlings are a good indicator for soil temp... ready to put out squash and such like!
;D

Yes.

Burn them same as my potato tops

Quote from: saddad on May 04, 2007, 18:16:34
Tomato seedlings are a good indicator for soil temp... ready to put out squash and such like!
;D

I've got literally thousands springing up all over the place  ;D - some of them are doing really well despite the exposure & lack of water - if I didn't have so many in the greenhouse I'd be tempted to dig some up & grow them on.