My two dogs Betty (the black one) and Angel (the golden Retriever) having a showdown over a cherry tomato.
Question by Blabba S: What happens if you let your fruit rot on the ground?
We’ve been letting some of the cherry tomatoes on the vine over-ripen and fall off on their own to decompose into the ground. Will this ensure a new cherry tomato crop next year, or instead for animals to come and dine on the carcass of our fruits? Will the dead fruit fertilize the soil, or clog up room for other plants to grow (if a plant doesn’t grow from the rotted fruit first)?
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Answer by sciencegravy
They’ll rot in place, and you’ll almost certainly have volunteers next year. You might have to thin them out, you’ll have so many they’ll “clog up room” for each other.
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You will attractt the type of animals you don’t want in your garden. If the seeds are from hybread plants you will not get productive plants form them next year. I’d toss any bad one’s into your mulch pit.