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Title: Rejuvenate Your Potting Compost And How we Cope
Post by: John on April 04, 2020, 00:36

With garden centres closed you might wonder where to get potting compost for plants and hanging baskets. There’s another answer – rejuvenate your old compost. A little lesson from history as well that we can take heart in.

Read my post here (https://www.allotment-garden.org/garden-diary/6845/rejuvenate-your-potting-compost/)

Title: Re: Rejuvenate Your Potting Compost And How we Cope
Post by: GraciesGran on April 05, 2020, 09:38

Thanks, am in the process of 'sorting out' my pots.  They will get a mix of new and rejuvenated compost.

Title: Re: Rejuvenate Your Potting Compost And How we Cope
Post by: Aunt Sally on April 05, 2020, 10:30

Thanks, John.

Luckily enough, being tardy gardeners, we have not distributed our spent compost from last year’s tomatoes and cucumbers onto the flower beds. I have a big box of slow release pellets, so job done - well planned anyway.  :D

Title: Re: Rejuvenate Your Potting Compost And How we Cope
Post by: John on April 05, 2020, 10:33

Quote from: Aunt Sally on April 05, 2020, 10:30

Thanks, John.

Luckily enough, being tardy gardeners, we have not distributed our spent compost from last year’s tomatoes and cucumbers onto the flower beds. I have a big box of slow release pellets, so job done - well planned anyway.  :D

And any pathogens built up in the compost will be specific to the previous crop - like crop rotation, really.

Quote from: GraciesGran on April 05, 2020, 09:38

Thanks, am in the process of 'sorting out' my pots.  They will get a mix of new and rejuvenated compost.

That's the ticket! :)

Title: Re: Rejuvenate Your Potting Compost And How we Cope
Post by: Aunt Sally on April 05, 2020, 11:16

Good thought, John. I’ll swap the crops over  :D