Reuse Your Old Potting And Container Soils To Save Money! Container gardening is fun, easy and has numerous advantages. One disadvantage however, can be cost. Potting soils are not cheap and even just a modest amount of container veggies can send expenses through the roof.
In this video, let’s look at two ways that we can repurpose old, spent potting mix to save money in our garden. And on top of that, let’s discover even two more ways to revitalize and recharge the soil from our old containers from last year into a brand new potting mix, just as good as any on the market!
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Thank you! This was great explained, and helped me a lot.
Can we reuse the old soil which has spoiled the previous plant roots? By adding any organic fertiliser to the soil?
Never had any luck w old soil. Plants just don’t grow as fast and aren’t as healthy even with mixing it in w the new.
Old spent soil …? All soil is old …hahaha …your new bag has old soiil in it …!
I add coffee grounds, crushed egg shells, Epsom salt, part of a bag of manure, part of a bag of peat moss. Mix well, with the dead dirt, from your containers. You will get rich soil, ready for planting, from the tired, useless container dirt.
Hi, excellent video, but what about old soil that has bugs that looks like centipede, are they good bugs? How do i get rid of them naturally? Do I discard my soil and start all over? Thanks
Can you bury kitchen scraps in the old soil to revitalise it?
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plastic is not good for health。better not to use it to grow vegetable and make compose。better to use food safe glass to make compose and use clay pot or untreated wood to grow vegetable
Thanks for the great tips!
I like to layer it into my compost bin, that good if for topping off raised beds, for potting mix add some screened compost to the used soil, and some amendments mentioned in the video. Some of These are usually already present in my compost. Nice video, good advice. Can't believe anyone would throw valuable stuff like this away.
I watch this with my son, you explained everything great, i have been gardening for many years, I take my soil with me when i move, ammending it increases amount and is a great medium for growing any garden vegetable, excellent for tomatoes and peppers in pots.
Great vid. I love your enthusiasm. And I can say from experience that your advice is solid because I've been using the same basic container mix for over a decade. In all likelihood, all that remains of the original mix is the perlite. 🙂
Anyway, I grow tomatoes and peppers in about half of the soil mix. The other half is in a large barrel-sized planter with nooks on the sides for salad crops. After my final fall harvest, I'll top the containers with leaves for the winter. The leaves decay.
In late February or early March, I remove the leaves that haven't broken down, and dump the soils into tarps, keeping the batches separate. I leave the roots in, and they just decay. I amend with homemade compost (about 1/5 of the remaining volume), a few shovel-fulls of our heavy clay soil from around our shrubs for minerals, and a couple handfuls of organic fertilizer. I mix, and then "rotate," putting the tomato soil into the salad crop planter & salad soil into the tomato pots. Then I top with unfinished compost and mulch with leaves.
By the time planting time comes around (April to May here in Ohio, depending on the crop), the unfinished compost has finished, the leaves are breaking down, there are worms galore. The transplants take off like rockets.
so I have to order all those additives? Isn't there one product to cover most of what is needed?
I'm really confused, with plants putting up 51% nutrients back into the soil, how is the soil " spent " ?
Why do you end most declarative sentences with a question mark? It make it impossible to listen to you.
The amendments he uses to revitalize the old potting soil isn’t even available in my area, so I have always added my compost. But I can never make enuf compost to treat my garden and flower pots. I keep all the grass from my 100 x150’ lot along with the tree leaves in the fall.with all that material it only makes about 8-10 wheelbarrows full of compost for the next yr.
Loved the Saskatchewan Roughrider hat he was wearing at the begining of the video.
Is there significant risk/concern of spreading seeds of weeds and/or disease unintentionally? I guess I'm more concerned with diseases, since weeds can be removed manually or suppressed with mulch/ground cover … ? Or is disease management more addressed via an IPM (integrated pest management) philosophy centered around the actual plant I'm trying to grow and ensuring it's healthy/well fed/watered etc. so that it can fight off diseases that way … ?
I've always mixed my own potting soil, and I've used the same soil in the same fabric pots for 3 years. My maintenance plan is simple: About twice a year, I top off the soil with fresh compost and peat, sprinkle in some granular fertilizer (e.g. Osmocote), mix it all up, and plant a new crop.
So far so good, no fuss, and very cost effective.
Planted tomatoes in bags this year. They had a fungus problem. Would you reuse soil?
I don't have a large farm and can't buy or afford these additions. Is there a premixture you could recommend?
Thank you….very informative!
this all requires buying new soil. where does that soil come from? how do we have regenerative soil practices within our home or use compost to have our own cycle?
Thanks for the FYI on how to reuse old container soil.
For recharging the soil with all 8 ingrediencies, what are the ratios?
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Anyone knows – typically where to find all those ingredients the guy told us, like Alfa Alafa, Rock Dust, Oyster Flakes, Canola flakes, Rock Phosphate, Dolomite Lime and Epsom Salt. I just need one or two stores' name (at most) to get those in Chicago area. Thanks for your advice.