25-05-2012, 05:08 AM
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First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Mar 2012
Location: England
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Originally Posted by Dan Espen[_2_]
BlackThumb writes:
Imagine you have a sunflower growing in a large pot of soil. When that
sunflower dies, how could you reuse the soil?
I read that you can mix it half-and-half with soil from a compost heap,
but I don't have one, and my Mum doesn't want one.
Could you mix fertiliser into it? Or what about crop rotation? (We
learnt about it at school, but I can't remember how it works).
It seems counter-productive to keep buying more compost, when gardening
is supposed to be economical.
Take the old plant out of the pot,
shake dirt off the roots into the pot,
add a little fertilizer,
put in the new plant.
Add potting mix as needed from the bag you keep in the
closet.
Since you're not composting, don't worry about adding compost,
that's for people with compost piles. Just use potting soil
you can buy anywhere.
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Dan Espen |
Thank you. So if you fertilise the soil, it will put back everything plants need from soil?
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