all the soil, all the growbags...

[KirstieSparkle]

so if the grow bags for the toms and the compost we put in the raised beds is only good for 1 year or however many months... what on earth do we do with all that soil?

dispose of it? use it elsewhere?

Sorry i have the morning off and am full of all the questions

[maverick451]

All my soil from my toms and potato buckets I tip into a large container bin and store over the winter then I refresh it next year with some fertilizer and maybe some fresh homemade compost.

I dont use it again for tomatoes though, Ill use for other things like hanging baskets etc

[roitelet]

Use to top up raised beds or reuse with some added nutrients for other crops that weren't grown in it first time round

[Madasafish]

I put all mine in a pile in the garden to be washed by winter rains.

Then I add it to the soil as a mulch (clayey soil. Been doing it for thirty years : result is nice fine non heavy topsoil.)

[Knight of Albion]

Work it into your vegetable patch. The nutrients, what there were to begin with, will be spent but it all helps add to the consistency of the soil.

[KirstieSparkle]

Totally never growing spuds in sacks again!
SO MUCH SOIL and getting the buggers out requires somewhere to empty most of it into lol

[Potstubsdustbins]

Store it over winter, come spring riddle it to remove roots etc, add growmore or blood fish and bone and reuse it.

Provided you have had no disease you can use it for anything, I have no idea how old some of my compost is and only buy a small amount of new for seed sowing purpose's as I like to know it is sterile.

This year I shall be storing and reusing round about 2000ltrs

[KirstieSparkle]

Ok... Next silly question.... Store it where? How? In what?

I genuinely need someone nearby willing to come give me.lessons lol

[Potstubsdustbins]

I store in in the dustbins and tanks I use for spuds you could use your potato bags.

[Tripmeup]

Totally never growing spuds in sacks again!
SO MUCH SOIL and getting the buggers out requires somewhere to empty most of it into lol

Get yourself a wheelbarrow if u don't have one.. Empty the bags into it, root around and find all the spuds and then refill the sack or bag with the soil...

[Nannysally99]

It's even worse in the ground Kirstie, the mud sticks to them.
We grow ours in large builders buckets, recycling boxes etc.
Getting a big dustbin to store all the compost over winter is a great idea

[Alison]

It's even worse in the ground Kirstie, the mud sticks to them.

Depends on your soil, mine is quite silty and they come out pretty clean unless it's just rained. Grew them in bags once but found it 1000 times easier in the ground with less effort on watering and feeding as well as no faffing with compost.

[Nannysally99]

We have clay soil, enough said lol

[KirstieSparkle]

Haha I sliced the bags, just used garden refuse sacks were NOT strong enough to be lifeted when filled up.... And I'm not strong enough to lift them.
If put it all in a big dustbin aren't I mixing up all the soils, just been trying to learn what goes in after each type

[Potstubsdustbins]

If you have had no disease then mixing it won't matter. I used to keep composts that had grown different things in separate as my nod to crop rotation but gave up on that some years ago.

Any that has had a problem I just recycle to the garden waste bin.