spent potato compost

[hawthorns]

i have just havested my pentland javelin 1st earlies and i now have a large trug of compost. what are the best uses for this, straight into the compost bin or can i use elsewhere

[Capsid]

Dig it in to the plot/garden.

[Demeter]

Should think there is some life in it yet - I'm going to dig my used tomato compost into the bed I used for potatoes this year - more organic matter to improve my clayey soil, and as they are the same family, no rotation worries. It always seems like such a waste to put compost in the compost bin!

[lynda66]

i have a compost pile for used compost and one for fresh compost, so if i need some now i can just dig it in wherever, i haven't enough soil at the bottom of my garden so i save everything, including bonfire ash to go in with the soil, its been hard work getting it looking like soil rather than a rocky clumpy mess, but it's getting there slowly

Lynda xx

[Starchild]

Should think there is some life in it yet - I'm going to dig my used tomato compost into the bed I used for potatoes this year - more organic matter to improve my clayey soil, and as they are the same family, no rotation worries. It always seems like such a waste to put compost in the compost bin!

Noooo, Never mix compost that tomatoes have been in to stuff potatoes will go into...bad idea. Better to use bean compost. Tomatoes and Potatoes suffer with the same diseases (blight mostly) and the soil could be contaminated, even if the toms showed no sign of it.

[Flummery]

I've just taken a wheelbarrow full of my spuds compost from the buckets of first earlies down to the 2 village flower beds I maintain for Britain in Bloom. It has made a great top-dressing. The soil there is rubbish - the beds are around and under street signs and contain hunks of the concrete used to fix the posts. Any bit of spare organic matter is a real bonus.

[Demeter]

Noooo, Never mix compost that tomatoes have been in to stuff potatoes will go into...bad idea. Better to use bean compost. Tomatoes and Potatoes suffer with the same diseases (blight mostly) and the soil could be contaminated, even if the toms showed no sign of it.

Sorry - maybe I should have been clearer! I meant this years tomato compost will (eventually) go in this years potato bed (where they are now, not where they will go next year) - precisely for the reason you say. That bed won't have spuds again for another 3 years at least.

[Starchild]

Sorry - maybe I should have been clearer! I meant this years tomato compost will (eventually) go in this years potato bed (where they are now, not where they will go next year) - precisely for the reason you say. That bed won't have spuds again for another 3 years at least.

PHEW! that's a relief

[terrier]

Soil used for growing toms and spuds goes into bulking out flower growing in containers then into the flower beds after that. I don't know where it all goes but the flower beds never seem to fill up

[Marthaclematis]

I have used mine (potatoes grown in pots) to pot on some basil plants from the GC (also in pots). Is this ok if I add liquid tomato feed to top up the nutrents. I will have some more next week, can I use it to pot on marjoram and thyme?

[Sue]

Hi
I use mine to grow carrots then I use it as a mulch.
Sue

[Oleander]

I sowed some little gem lettuces in mine and they are doing really well