Old Gro bags

[cazsudz]

I'm clearing out the greenhouse. I have some gro bags that had tomatoes in. Most of the tomatoes got blight eventually. What can I do with the compost from the bags

a Spread on the plot ( not potato bit)
b Put on compost heap
c Bin it


Thanx for advice

Caz

[zazen999]

d - use it to start off garlic and shallots [shake it into trays and take out the main root system and use the rest]

[OllieMartin]

Why garlic and shallots particularly?
Handy because I was planning on putting my garlic in this weekend and have a couple of old growbags left over.

[zazen999]

Why garlic and shallots particularly?
Handy because I was planning on putting my garlic in this weekend and have a couple of old growbags left over.

Because I'm obsessed and they don't need many nutrients and they go in about nowish.

You could also use it for broadies, and peas, and winter lettuce.

[cazsudz]

So if I'm not growing garlic/shallots - could I put it on next years pea/bean plot?

Caz

[realfood]

I reuse my old tomato grow bags for a different crop in the greenhouse the following year. eg peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, cape gooseberries, squash etc. The blight is not a problem for these other crops. Growbags are far too expensive to only use once!

[Flummery]

I sometimes add a bit of pelleted chicken manure to beef it up and then re-use to grow my summer bedding plants - in pots and troughs. Can't abide waste!

[zazen999]

So if I'm not growing garlic/shallots - could I put it on next years pea/bean plot?

Caz

Personally, I use old growbags for sowing new stuff; rather than on the plot as sowing compost is so expensive. But, you can use it where you want.

[Ken the Chef]

I have not used grow bags that much.
Are there enough nutrients left to grow other crops? not that I have any but next year; Well who knows.

[zazen999]

Ken

Growbags have enough nutrients in them for the first month of a crop; they need tomato food after that.

I split them, and mix with homemade compost and use them in pots; and when they are done the soil is still good enough usually to grow more seedlings in; particularly stuff that doesn't need much more nutrients namely onions and garlics; and to an extend lettuce, broad beans and peas - which is usually what you are sowing at that time of the year.....but you could do what Flum does and add a handful of fertiliser and reuse for pretty much anything.