Someone clued me to freezing tomatoes hen we had too many to eat and not enough for a batch. I love it! So much easier than the vittorio strainer or food mill. I wash and core, slice off the blemishes, and freeze in a bag. When time allows or the freezer is full, just slip off the skins, whiz in a blender, and can the juice. No cold break in the finished juice and very little mess. Seems to eliminate some excess water as well. Use the tomato water for pasta cooking, or especially soup or chili water. I freeze in flat bags because im too cheap to spend a lid.

Germination rates decline as seeds age . Not so much for tomato seeds, though onion seeds, for instance, aren't viable for more than a year or two. Tomato seeds have been known to germinate after 20-25 years. Shawn You seem to have reached the stage where you could trade your seeds with others. Click on "Exchanges" just beside the header, "On-topic discussions". I'd keep a one-year supply of tomato seeds in reserve -- if you have a total failure one year as I did for tomatoes in 2009, you'll have enough for the next year. If you have "old" seeds to trade, tell others the year -- for tomatoes, most people know they're still viable. Here is a link that might be useful: Life Expectancy of Vegetable Seeds

So long as there not showing any signs of disease, its perfectly fine to compost them.

Tomatoes are subject to root diseases that tend to become more prevalent each year that they are grown in the same soil. Even those tomatoes labeled VFN are only resistant, not completely proof. All the planting advice is not to plant tomatoes in the same soil year after year. Check with your county extension service for plants that will do well in that soil for a few years, before using it again for tomatoes. Al