People can be strange. It was an interesting turn out on those plants. Instead of simply dumping them I planted them along a fence line and just let them do whatever. I’m not kidding, more than half of the tomatoes I canned came from those plants and they produced up until it it froze. It was interesting to watch too. I had to watch my garden tomatoes all the time for horn worms but saw that there was one cardinal that came to those plants out there and checked for horn worms. I had noticed one one morning early but didn’t pick it off and sure enough there came that cardinal and got it after I walked away.
Thereby demonstrating that old adage that a little benign neglect for plants is a good thing. So don’t kill them with kindness.
Also, Mother Nature seems to have a solution for many things.