Re-using a used grow bag
Last post 19-10-2009 1:52 PM by miranda. 5 replies.
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11/10/2009 02:27 PM
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Hi there, I have a grow bag I used for my tomatoes this season which are now finished and don't want to throw the grow bag/compost away. Can I still use it for growing something else in - I've got broadbeans and spinach which I'd like to plant in them. Is this a bad idea?
Kind regards
Fin
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12/10/2009 12:31 PM
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- BB
- Hereford
- 12 May 2009
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All the nutrients will have been used up by the tomato plants. I personally would use fresh compost for new plants. (I think it is possible to mix the old stuff with some fresh compost and add a bit of feed to the mix but I dont think it is as good as using completely fresh compost).
You can store old/used compost 'till next year to earth up potatoes.
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12/10/2009 12:54 PM
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Consider this post from last year: http://mygarden.rhs.org.uk/forums/p/18080/20134.aspx#20134
Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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12/10/2009 07:14 PM
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- realfood
- Glasgow
- 17 Aug 2008
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I always reuse my growbags for a different crop the following year, and have no problems. Growbags are far too valuable a resource not to use again. After all, you do not throw away your soil just because you grew a crop in it! Most people will have been using a liquid feed to grow their crops in a growbag. Just continue with liquid feeding for the following year.
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19/10/2009 06:25 AM
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I dry out my depleted tomato/potato compost and use it store dahlia tubers etc, over winter, however, because of disease susceptibility, I don't re-use compost used for tomatoes or potatoes to grow anything else, as I recycle all my compost and might forget that it had previously been used for those two.
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19/10/2009 01:52 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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I do the same as realfood and reuse the compost the following year. I do check for grubs and if any are found, they are put out for the birds and eaten up very quickly.
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