@@NoxiousGrenade no straw at all. Just soil that ii add compost and leaves to. The chickens mix that up perfectly. They remove weeds and especially love any snail eggs that might have been left. After it has been in there for say a year i dig it out and throw in new used compost. I do not even have to go through it to remove roots; chickens do that for me and in fact those largely decay.. I may mix in some new compost from my compost heap
I use 32 gallon trash cans/w lids, to store my finished compost. Whatever is left over from the current seasons use...I throw back into my 'active' compost tumblers. Some years, I have a full garbage can of 'finished' untouched/left over compost. I just wait until starting a new active pile the next season...and re-incorporate back into that tumbler. Works great for me! Thank you for your valuable input here! Cheers!🍺
You are so generous with your info! Thanks. I am only a second-year gardener and am in the process of expanding my garden a little more each year. Last year I had about 10 cloth pot this year I added 4 raised beds. Next year still deciding on what to add, I have a pretty big yard. I would love to see a video on what equipment you use like shovels & pots you know the basics for beginners and a tour around explain what you have and why you choose to do it that way. Maybe something like I wish I knew before I got started kind of video, so I can selfishly learn from your mistakes. LOL. Seriously I really appriecate everything you share on your channel. :)
Great video, Tony. I have been gardening in raised beds for 20 years and I don't throw my soil away after each season, so why would anyone throw out their used compost. Your list of ways to rejuvenate the compost are solid and similar to what we do with a raised bed. I just sent my soil to a lab for detailed analysis and it is very high in nutrients and organic content. Take care of the soil/compost and you will have healthy crops. By the way, I recycle potting mix for seed starting by putting it in large aluminum foil baking pans and putting it in my pellet grill until it the soil gets up to 90C and that sterilizes it for another use. Of course that is only practical on a smaller scale, but I only use a few cubic feet of seed mix a year.
I did an experiment this year and used pure sieved Leafmould with blood fish and bone and potato fertilizer in one potato pot and bought compost with the same fertilizer in another pot. Same good yield in both pots, possibly a bit better in the leafmould. Luckily I have a lot of aged leafmould about. After use ive layered it with comfrey leaves and I’ll reuse it for something next year - maybe even potatoes again. Nothing to lose as it’s basically free.
Leaf mould is great Gail. I make tons of it every year and still have a bit of last years left. I have a couple of videos coming on it this year but already have 3 on the channel
Speaking of making your own compost there's times when I have masses of greens (nitrogen) but little browns (carbon). Spent compost if low in nitrogen but high in carbon so I add this to the pile as a brown when I add grass clippings and garden waste/weeds. The pile gets hot and that will kill off pathogens, pests and eggs.
Very great episode, and just in time. I was just contemplating what to do with the spent potting soil and what to use to refill the pots. I’ve not heard of “nutrient lock” by overuse of fertilizer.
Thank you for the advice against throwing away soil and compost. Hopefully most gardeners are sensible and wouldn’t be so wasteful. Or so we would like to believe.
We used "fast composter" (NPK fertilizer + useful bacteria/fungal cultures) on a complete new compost filled with shredded wood and its still wet/fresh leafs. We made around 1000 Litres of compost in 7 months without ever touching it. We only added some water from time to time. When we got it out of the composter it was all turned to fine compost/soil, smelled like the Woods after a soft rain and was full with life.
We here in NZ would call it spent potting mix and I rejuvenate my used mix every year. I never have any compost to reuse it has all gone on my out door gardens. I add sieved aged hen bedding, blood and bone, rock dust minerals and rotted forest mulch and a heap of worms - my containers become mini worm farms. I reuse in the soft grow pouches I grow my tomatoes indoors in this and works very well
Just on my 2nd year of planting and noticed a BUNCH of compost to use again. I saved it and will mix it with some new mix I got this year. I am making my own on the side and will start mixing all these together to save waste. All food scraps go into the bin. Its amazing to think back to the 80's when no one reused potatoe peels or kitchen scraps for compost. It was thrown into a black plastic bag.
We reused a grow bag this year due to covid, the roots of the old tomato plants had been left in and I'm guessing they had rotted in. The tomato plants have done better then ever this year!
@@simplifygardening to be honest I'm very tempted to either remove or cut a hole the plastic tarping on the floor of the greenhouse and just grow with compost on top of the actual soil, at least then the plants would never become root bound and they would have the ability to seek water and neutrients for themselves. Less maintenance and healthier plants.
I am surprised how many people throw soil away,I take it either let the worms have a few months with it or maybe add it with the hot compost I try having on the go. Soil is never wasted by me,
@@kellymorgan4783 Nor me until I started getting the question should I just throw it away. I was so shocked and believe it or not i have been asked this over 50 times this year, Hence the video
My buckets of potato compost now have carrots and kale growing. When cold weather comes, I'll use that soil to finish the bokashi compost I'm giving myself for Christmas.
I've reused the same compost in large pots for growing overwintering potatoes and never add nutrients to it, I let the rain do it! Think I'm on my third year with the same compost :-)
O,M'G,,,,Tony for sure you should be UK's Gardener's World presenter on kidding you are more informative than the guy named Monty Don,,, all your videos are a joy to watch .. thanks Tony Ed,,,, Sierra Vista AZ,,,,,,,,,USA
We now have a few compost bins which doubles as worm farms 🤣. We grab a hand shovel full of the nutrient rich soil and worms then transplant throughout our garden pots. Thanks so much for your awesome tips Tony, so glad I came across your channel a couple years ago!
I shared your video on the potatoes you grew when you were unwell with my Dad....we were talking about it yesterday and he had said that it must be expensive to buy all that compost 😂 he'll be getting this one sent to him now 😉 thank you for the fab videos as always and glad to see you feeling better.
i used leaf and grass compost that was piled up for 20 years, i used no soil and got the best garden i ever had, huge tomatoes, jalepeno, beans, and potatoes and have always reused it
I've reused compost many times and broke up roots like you say but when I replant, I feed the plant with tomato food or whichever one is appro9and it seems to rejuvenate the compost 👍
Really good tips Tony, I never throw away used compost it either ends up as top dressing for the garden beds or added to my finished compost to use again next year
I have grown potatos in raked up piles of horse manure. Best potatos ever. Next yr I needvto add to raised beds. I will be using the contents of the cows rumens after butchering. Left in pasture for a few months then raked up!
Hey Tony, sound advice. I can't wait to lay my hands on your book. Q. I "rain" the leaves of the exotics in my glasshouse to keep Thrips manageable, but clear the dropped leaves to compost. Should I do otherwise? FYI, I use Amblyseius for Thrips, Encarsia for Whitefly and Phytoseiulus for Red Spider Mite - but natural pest control has predator/prey population cycles of remission and resurgence. I don't use artificial pesticides.
Great video Tony I'm a total novice and had been thinking about my used soil. I'm wondering if I broke it up and threw it in a composter and just threw in kitchen waste would that rejuvenate it ?.
Expensive... really depends. My neighbors toss out broken trellises, fencing, and flower pots like crazy. I have more written off plants growing happily than you could imagine. A little DIW to fix the trellises and put a few odds and ends together and honestly you can do everything for free by the end of your second year.
Fantastic information. I’m new to growing anything. Besides garden weeds until earlier in lockdown. & I think I’ve court the gardening bug. Fresh air an home grown produce are on the menu. Not succeeding at much this year ! I won’t give up just try an try again. Watching your channel an a few other’s is helping in the right direction & making me even more determined to keep going. Many thanks 😊.
Paula, Next year is going to be your year especially with that can do attitude. Jst follow along and we will make sure you have the info you need:) Its perfect now you have all winter to watch videos and really get yourself up to speed for a perfect start in early Spring
Great video, seems such a shame that some people throw stuff away in the autumn.I have container potatoes too, the second harvest will be ready in October. I use two compost bins, one like you as a storage pile and the other as a new compost. The autumn fall goes into the second bin, bit of vermicompost to give the red wrigglers a head start, and then layer it all up with coffee grounds and our food scraps interlayered with the potato/ grow bag tomato waste from the first bin being added to it periodically, I add rock dust and some organic nitrogen rich fertilizer which isn't store bought (if you know what I mean) and a bit of sulphur if I am to use it for potatoes, third year now of doing this, potatoes are scab free and plentiful.
I was just wondering what to do with my used container soils. I’m going to stir up a hot compost this weekend and plan to add my used soils/compost to it and when it is done store it for winter. Will adding it to a hot compost kill any possible pathogens if I can get it up to 160 degrees F? Great video BTW, and very timely!
@Rachel Miller Yes, 160f is enough to kill any soil pathogens that ive ever heard of, as well as any weed seeds, provided you can keep it there for a day or two.
Brilliant video, explained it so simple too a slow unnn! Great job 👏🏻 .. just starting and it’s brilliant too hear it from someone just up the road🏴🏴👌🏼🌱👏🏻
This answered a great deal of questions I had when I saw you using the compost in the buckets, the cost per bucket of potatoes just dropped drastically! I almost burst out laughing when you said "Old Dalek style bins" hahahahahahaa....my mind immediately said "Exterminate" over and over again! hahahahaha. I am glad I subscribed! I will most likely try your potato method here in Alaska next spring!
I have been totally converted to growing my spuds in containers by yourself and two years ago I reused the compost and revitalised it like you suggest. However, last year I had a lot of scab problems, which probably wasn't helped by irregular watering. Would you say the compost that had the scab potatoes in is now only good for chucking away? Always great videos 👍🏻
Thanks for this informative video! Novice gardener here, so I still have a question about this. I have a container that had potatoes in it last year, and I didn't do this rejuvination at the end of the year to the leftover compost. Now, it's already potato planting time, so can I add the additional nutrients that you mentioned (manure and blood, fish and bone) and then go right ahead and plant my potatoes in that same compost container (the manure would be store bought, so not fresh)? Does that give the compost enough time? I had always read never to plant potatoes in the same soil/compost twice, but after amending it, is it ok to reuse for potatoes two seasons in a row? Thanks so much in advance!
Epic sauce! Is what I am going to make next year with hopefully rocky ford melons strawberries and the dreaded REAPER PEPPER. Thanks so much for the tips on reusing my good soil and bringing nutrients back to the plants. Love you mate, my best to you and yours from here in North Texas!
The soil from my old pots always ends up in my compost pile at the end of the season and if watered enough I fint them to blend in easily and efficiently :)
I use fresh compost in potatoes and other plants in pots but I toss all my spent compost into my massive flower beds. Potato compost goes into a certain section of a big compost pile and invariably potatoes grow there each year. I can’t chase all of those little ones. We are in the US, at the New Jersey shore. East coast
Gardening shouldn't be expensive. I'm very cheap and get a wealth from my garden.A lot of produce from hardly any outlay. Saved seed and compost,seaweed gathering, local free manure,tons of grass clippings and veg waste.It's all good and all goes through the bio system again. Happy Gardener Dayz!
I'm still trying to understand the concept of "buying" and "throwing away" compost... Do you also throw away your underwear and buy them new every day? The whole point of composting is to not buy fertilizer...
it makes sense to re-use compost, tony. only buying the odd bag is fairly cheap ( depending on the brand ) but over the season we can spend quite a lot of money............................brian
I make a Mix : Old compost, dead leaves from last year, content of the compost heap ( loads of earth worms) and off we go.... the year after???? same thing!
Hello, I watched your video on the 235lb crop of potatoes, and have ordered the tubs from your supplier. On the video I noticed there were holes in the tubs, also did you punch out the ones on the sides also for the drainage, or was that for a reason of putting the tubs on the wood shavings. Thank You, Michael Dominy. (Member)
Michael some times they come with the holes in the sides and sometimes they dont. It depends what supplier Oaklands use, however it makes no difference just use them as they come as they have more than enough drainage
I guess if you're nervous about pest in the compost and want/need to use it for a seed starter mix you could bake some in the oven maybe spray some water on it from time to time to avoid a fire or freeze it for a couple of days and kill everything in there.
Great video Tony, i re-use my Potato Compost all the time and as long as there are no diseases that you have had, then it's good to go and i use Blood, Fish and Bone with some Chicken Pellets and it works great for me and my Elevated Raised Beds, my Bucket Compost goes into some Dust Bins with the lids fastened down to be re-used the following year. Stay Safe, Barry (Wirral)
Another great tutorial Tony... Well in mate. I'm adding mine to the raised beds to bulk fill them up... enriched and revitalised of course mate... Keep Growing Wit Yed Down Mucker!!
@@simplifygardening not bad mybe you should try and do a video on it .I'll be harvest my potatoes today I will post pictures on your Facebook group. I'm growing a coffee plant you should try it to 👍👍🇺🇸
Tony, could I just add one tub of potato compost straight to the current compost bin and incorporate it with what I've got already? It's such a shame to waste it and my current compost bin (the green dalek) is not even half full yet.
You can, but what's the point in composting the compost? If your bin is too wet then add a handfull or few if dried soil. Ideally clay soil.dried soil is free and excellent. Coco coit (dry) is more effective, but it's not free 😂
Hey man, nice video! Is there a bannana tree update video soon? I recently bought a bannana tree in the uk and i need to know who to wrap it up this winter
Want to go in-depth on composting? Check out my book Composting Masterclass. www.amazon.com/Tony-ONeill/e/B09Z79VFRB/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk
I never throw away compost. Its biomatter. I throw it in my chicken coop and use next year. Chickens pick out any weed or pest
Perfect way to treat it Ed
Smart way to do it.
I like this method a lot! Do you still use straw for bedding and just mix it in or just the spent compost as the bedding?
@@NoxiousGrenade no straw at all. Just soil that ii add compost and leaves to. The chickens mix that up perfectly. They remove weeds and especially love any snail eggs that might have been left. After it has been in there for say a year i dig it out and throw in new used compost.
I do not even have to go through it to remove roots; chickens do that for me and in fact those largely decay..
I may mix in some new compost from my compost heap
Ed19601
Thanks for the awesome tip!
I use 32 gallon trash cans/w lids, to store my finished compost. Whatever is left over from the current seasons use...I throw back into my 'active' compost tumblers. Some years, I have a full garbage can of 'finished' untouched/left over compost. I just wait until starting a new active pile the next season...and re-incorporate back into that tumbler. Works great for me! Thank you for your valuable input here! Cheers!🍺
I don't know anybody anywhere in the history of gardening that would ever throw away compost!
So many ppl do, just read through the comments
I have done out of ignorance cos someone in pub told me it would be spent after one use
I agree 100%
Haha me neither sounds nuts!
Even if you think it is worthless, you could always spread it out on the lawn.
this is just amazing ,you are very talented and blessed, thanks for this ! keep it up, you are awesome!
You are so generous with your info! Thanks. I am only a second-year gardener and am in the process of expanding my garden a little more each year. Last year I had about 10 cloth pot this year I added 4 raised beds. Next year still deciding on what to add, I have a pretty big yard. I would love to see a video on what equipment you use like shovels & pots you know the basics for beginners and a tour around explain what you have and why you choose to do it that way. Maybe something like I wish I knew before I got started kind of video, so I can selfishly learn from your mistakes. LOL. Seriously I really appriecate everything you share on your channel. :)
Nadine that video is already planned for later in Autumn so stay tuned
Great video, Tony. I have been gardening in raised beds for 20 years and I don't throw my soil away after each season, so why would anyone throw out their used compost. Your list of ways to rejuvenate the compost are solid and similar to what we do with a raised bed. I just sent my soil to a lab for detailed analysis and it is very high in nutrients and organic content. Take care of the soil/compost and you will have healthy crops. By the way, I recycle potting mix for seed starting by putting it in large aluminum foil baking pans and putting it in my pellet grill until it the soil gets up to 90C and that sterilizes it for another use. Of course that is only practical on a smaller scale, but I only use a few cubic feet of seed mix a year.
It baffled me but I had messages from ppl who was putting it out in the green waste for the council to collect
Very helpful. You have a gentle and expressive voice that makes for easy listening. Col, NZ
Glad it was helpful!
I did an experiment this year and used pure sieved Leafmould with blood fish and bone and potato fertilizer in one potato pot and bought compost with the same fertilizer in another pot. Same good yield in both pots, possibly a bit better in the leafmould. Luckily I have a lot of aged leafmould about. After use ive layered it with comfrey leaves and I’ll reuse it for something next year - maybe even potatoes again. Nothing to lose as it’s basically free.
Leaf mould is great Gail. I make tons of it every year and still have a bit of last years left. I have a couple of videos coming on it this year but already have 3 on the channel
Speaking of making your own compost there's times when I have masses of greens (nitrogen) but little browns (carbon). Spent compost if low in nitrogen but high in carbon so I add this to the pile as a brown when I add grass clippings and garden waste/weeds. The pile gets hot and that will kill off pathogens, pests and eggs.
Yes thats why I added it as number four to the list. its a great way to reuse it
Great tip Jason. What colour is seaweed on list? Brown or green
@@GladiatorReid I don't useseaweed but it is most likely a green, as it's an algae
@@GladiatorReid green, though it better fits the activator clarification
@@GladiatorReidGreen-nitrogen
Criminally underated channel.
Great information to expand this and use my worms castings to rejuvenate my existing compost.
I love the ‘WHOvian’ reference “Dalek style bins” 😂
Great to see you back on form! Excellent advice
Thanks Lizzie, its nice this is the third video since being back and I am not getting used to making content again
Very great episode, and just in time. I was just contemplating what to do with the spent potting soil and what to use to refill the pots. I’ve not heard of “nutrient lock” by overuse of fertilizer.
That's a great idea!
Thank you Tony, another great vid. Always look forward to the next one👍😎
Thank you for the advice against throwing away soil and compost. Hopefully most gardeners are sensible and wouldn’t be so wasteful. Or so we would like to believe.
I was surprised just how many people do dispose of it
We used "fast composter" (NPK fertilizer + useful bacteria/fungal cultures) on a complete new compost filled with shredded wood and its still wet/fresh leafs. We made around 1000 Litres of compost in 7 months without ever touching it. We only added some water from time to time. When we got it out of the composter it was all turned to fine compost/soil, smelled like the Woods after a soft rain and was full with life.
We here in NZ would call it spent potting mix and I rejuvenate my used mix every year. I never have any compost to reuse it has all gone on my out door gardens. I add sieved aged hen bedding, blood and bone, rock dust minerals and rotted forest mulch and a heap of worms - my containers become mini worm farms. I reuse in the soft grow pouches I grow my tomatoes indoors in this and works very well
Yes Spent potting mix is the same things. Glad to here you reuse it
thanks Tony
Just on my 2nd year of planting and noticed a BUNCH of compost to use again. I saved it and will mix it with some new mix I got this year. I am making my own on the side and will start mixing all these together to save waste. All food scraps go into the bin. Its amazing to think back to the 80's when no one reused potatoe peels or kitchen scraps for compost. It was thrown into a black plastic bag.
I always buy compost and use it only once.
Thank you for this video. From now on I'll be reusing it. Happy me x
We reused a grow bag this year due to covid, the roots of the old tomato plants had been left in and I'm guessing they had rotted in. The tomato plants have done better then ever this year!
Awesome and shows there is no need to keep buying them
@@simplifygardening to be honest I'm very tempted to either remove or cut a hole the plastic tarping on the floor of the greenhouse and just grow with compost on top of the actual soil, at least then the plants would never become root bound and they would have the ability to seek water and neutrients for themselves. Less maintenance and healthier plants.
@@micheals1992 I have no plastic or membrane in my greenhouse or tunnel im directly in the soil and compost on top
I am surprised how many people throw soil away,I take it either let the worms have a few months with it or maybe add it with the hot compost I try having on the go. Soil is never wasted by me,
Thats great and it shouldnt be Michael
People waste, due to ignorance. They just have not learned any better way.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 yes they need to be around those that understand better.
I have to admit it never occurred to me that anyone would throw it away :)
@@kellymorgan4783 Nor me until I started getting the question should I just throw it away. I was so shocked and believe it or not i have been asked this over 50 times this year, Hence the video
My buckets of potato compost now have carrots and kale growing. When cold weather comes, I'll use that soil to finish the bokashi compost I'm giving myself for Christmas.
I've reused the same compost in large pots for growing overwintering potatoes and never add nutrients to it, I let the rain do it! Think I'm on my third year with the same compost :-)
Thats great. i always refeed as it makes the difference to the yield
Thanks - appreciated how clear this was
Great video! Almost nobody discusses this.
I always keep a pile of old compost next to the fresh one, to be mixed in as Browns when needed...
Excellent way to use it
I’ve been reusing mine for years, exactly like you mention. I just stared incorporating worm castings 3 years ago. Great video!😊🌱♻️
Thats brilliant. worm castings are a great addition
Simplify Gardening 😊🌱♻️
@@ClausenWorld :)
I also do that, when i start a new bin i add a few handfulls to each level. The worms do the job.
O,M'G,,,,Tony for sure you should be
UK's Gardener's World presenter
on kidding you are more informative than the guy
named Monty Don,,,
all your videos are a joy to watch ..
thanks Tony
Ed,,,, Sierra Vista AZ,,,,,,,,,USA
Thank you so much Edwin. I am so happy you are enjoying my videos so much. It is exactly why I make them
@Happy Dace Absolutely agree with you, Tony is the best? We should start a petition! ...
Used compost goes into my worm farm along with veg/ fruit scraps , coffee grounds ,ground egg shells, and some " new" cardboard.
Perfect Marjorie
Recently I read some places that manufacture cardboard can use glues and chemicals in their cardboard. I don't risk it anymore and just recycle it.
@@I_Stack_Metal Yes but since 2018 they are all natural and no chemicals are used mate. it was a bid to cut down on pollution
We now have a few compost bins which doubles as worm farms 🤣. We grab a hand shovel full of the nutrient rich soil and worms then transplant throughout our garden pots. Thanks so much for your awesome tips Tony, so glad I came across your channel a couple years ago!
Suzy its great having you here and talking to you. Your garden is stunning
@@simplifygardening 😊 because of your tips, keeps getting better and better 👍
I shared your video on the potatoes you grew when you were unwell with my Dad....we were talking about it yesterday and he had said that it must be expensive to buy all that compost 😂 he'll be getting this one sent to him now 😉 thank you for the fab videos as always and glad to see you feeling better.
That is awesome! but all the compost i used this year came from home made compost
i used leaf and grass compost that was piled up for 20 years, i used no soil and got the best garden i ever had, huge tomatoes, jalepeno, beans, and potatoes and have always reused it
Yes that would be awesome growing medium
Wish I saw this last year when you taught me how to grow potatoes! Don’t know how I missed this one!
Well you got it for this year now
I've reused compost many times and broke up roots like you say but when I replant, I feed the plant with tomato food or whichever one is appro9and it seems to rejuvenate the compost 👍
Perfect Kat
I bloody love your videos - I’ve watched many of them 2 or 3 times. Glad you’re back and well, mate! Keep em coming!
Im glad your enjoying the content. I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to view it :)
This year I have been adding leaf mould to pre used brought soil based compost when reusing it
It has worked very well!
Really good tips Tony, I never throw away used compost it either ends up as top dressing for the garden beds or added to my finished compost to use again next year
Perfect Mothin :)
I have grown potatos in raked up piles of horse manure. Best potatos ever.
Next yr I needvto add to raised beds. I will be using the contents of the cows rumens after butchering. Left in pasture for a few months then raked up!
Nice to see you back to your normal , stay safe and healthy .
Cheers Victor. its nice to be feeling myself again
Hey Tony, sound advice. I can't wait to lay my hands on your book.
Q. I "rain" the leaves of the exotics in my glasshouse to keep Thrips manageable, but clear the dropped leaves to compost. Should I do otherwise?
FYI, I use Amblyseius for Thrips, Encarsia for Whitefly and Phytoseiulus for Red Spider Mite - but natural pest control has predator/prey population cycles of remission and resurgence. I don't use artificial pesticides.
Great video Tony I'm a total novice and had been thinking about my used soil. I'm wondering if I broke it up and threw it in a composter and just threw in kitchen waste would that rejuvenate it ?.
Expensive... really depends. My neighbors toss out broken trellises, fencing, and flower pots like crazy. I have more written off plants growing happily than you could imagine. A little DIW to fix the trellises and put a few odds and ends together and honestly you can do everything for free by the end of your second year.
Oh wow! Wes you sound like a real gardener )
Good to see you back Tony. As always , your videos are great.
Cheers Michael appreciate the support
First time seeing your video and i like it ❤
Am glad to see jon pertwee(worzel gummidge) managed to join you in this presentation!
This is the precise information I need this week!!! Cheers Tony! 👍
Perfect timing then Joanne :) glad its right for you
Thanks Tony I've been waiting couple weeks for this as can't find the answer anywhere for used potato soil.
Glad to help now you have your answer
Fantastic information. I’m new to growing anything. Besides garden weeds until earlier in lockdown. & I think I’ve court the gardening bug. Fresh air an home grown produce are on the menu. Not succeeding at much this year ! I won’t give up just try an try again. Watching your channel an a few other’s is helping in the right direction & making me even more determined to keep going. Many thanks 😊.
Paula, Next year is going to be your year especially with that can do attitude. Jst follow along and we will make sure you have the info you need:) Its perfect now you have all winter to watch videos and really get yourself up to speed for a perfect start in early Spring
Thank you for this link, Tony. This answered my questions.
Perfect Amy glad it helped
Great video, seems such a shame that some people throw stuff away in the autumn.I have container potatoes too, the second harvest will be ready in October. I use two compost bins, one like you as a storage pile and the other as a new compost. The autumn fall goes into the second bin, bit of vermicompost to give the red wrigglers a head start, and then layer it all up with coffee grounds and our food scraps interlayered with the potato/ grow bag tomato waste from the first bin being added to it periodically, I add rock dust and some organic nitrogen rich fertilizer which isn't store bought (if you know what I mean) and a bit of sulphur if I am to use it for potatoes, third year now of doing this, potatoes are scab free and plentiful.
Exactly it's perfect doing that and reusing it
I was just wondering what to do with my used container soils. I’m going to stir up a hot compost this weekend and plan to add my used soils/compost to it and when it is done store it for winter. Will adding it to a hot compost kill any possible pathogens if I can get it up to 160 degrees F? Great video BTW, and very timely!
Thats a great way to use it Rachel. Im glad you enjoyed the video
@Rachel Miller Yes, 160f is enough to kill any soil pathogens that ive ever heard of, as well as any weed seeds, provided you can keep it there for a day or two.
I put my used compost in my wormery along with food scraps to make new compost
Id need a skip of worms lol Ib already have large wormery but they couldnt deal with this lot
Thank you! I learn how to reused compos
You are so welcome!
Brilliant video, explained it so simple too a slow unnn! Great job 👏🏻 .. just starting and it’s brilliant too hear it from someone just up the road🏴🏴👌🏼🌱👏🏻
Glad it was helpful!
where are you from Hollie
This answered a great deal of questions I had when I saw you using the compost in the buckets, the cost per bucket of potatoes just dropped drastically! I almost burst out laughing when you said "Old Dalek style bins" hahahahahahaa....my mind immediately said "Exterminate" over and over again! hahahahaha. I am glad I subscribed! I will most likely try your potato method here in Alaska next spring!
Sean there are many in Alaska using this method now with great results. let me know how you get on with it and welcome tot he channel
Great advice and tips I've kept all my compost to reuse mixed with gores manure thanks for sharing Tony
Great stuff Paul. Thats the way to save it mate
I have been totally converted to growing my spuds in containers by yourself and two years ago I reused the compost and revitalised it like you suggest. However, last year I had a lot of scab problems, which probably wasn't helped by irregular watering. Would you say the compost that had the scab potatoes in is now only good for chucking away? Always great videos 👍🏻
Yes the scab was down to the drying out of the medium they grew in
Thanks for this informative video! Novice gardener here, so I still have a question about this. I have a container that had potatoes in it last year, and I didn't do this rejuvination at the end of the year to the leftover compost. Now, it's already potato planting time, so can I add the additional nutrients that you mentioned (manure and blood, fish and bone) and then go right ahead and plant my potatoes in that same compost container (the manure would be store bought, so not fresh)? Does that give the compost enough time? I had always read never to plant potatoes in the same soil/compost twice, but after amending it, is it ok to reuse for potatoes two seasons in a row? Thanks so much in advance!
Epic sauce! Is what I am going to make next year with hopefully rocky ford melons strawberries and the dreaded REAPER PEPPER. Thanks so much for the tips on reusing my good soil and bringing nutrients back to the plants. Love you mate, my best to you and yours from here in North Texas!
Cheers Kyle. I am glad you are enjoying the content
Hey Toney, I am glad to see you back! Thanks for a wonderful tips, I will definitely follow these step.
Thats great Helena. I am glad you enjoyed the video
The soil from my old pots always ends up in my compost pile at the end of the season and if watered enough I fint them to blend in easily and efficiently :)
Great its nice to see you reusing it
Wow I’ve just been buying it forever. I only used spent compost to top dress the garden. Brilliant news for me Thank You 🙏💙❤️💜
Don't waste such a valuable resource Sarah :)
I use fresh compost in potatoes and other plants in pots but I toss all my spent compost into my massive flower beds. Potato compost goes into a certain section of a big compost pile and invariably potatoes grow there each year. I can’t chase all of those little ones.
We are in the US, at the New Jersey shore. East coast
Great tip! Its is exactly what I do Sarah
Thanks again tony for a very informative video. Hope you and your family are well and keeping safe.
Thanks John. Glad you got value from the video 😀👍
Another fine video with lots of info' for me to use, cheers. Tommy
Glad you enjoyed it
Appreciate your gardening channel - great tips based on real experience. Authentic!!!
Thanks, Annie. I'm glad that's exactly how it comes across as it is real :)
Great advice Thankyou , going to reuse the felt containers I grew tomatoes in for my Xmas potatoes now.
That is perfect Andrea. Keep them working for you :)
Gardening shouldn't be expensive. I'm very cheap and get a wealth from my garden.A lot of produce from hardly any outlay. Saved seed and compost,seaweed gathering, local free manure,tons of grass clippings and veg waste.It's all good and all goes through the bio system again. Happy Gardener Dayz!
Perfect and exactly how it should be Gary
I'm still trying to understand the concept of "buying" and "throwing away" compost... Do you also throw away your underwear and buy them new every day? The whole point of composting is to not buy fertilizer...
I know, but made the video as its one of the most common questions I get asked by new gardeners
it makes sense to re-use compost, tony. only buying the odd bag is fairly cheap ( depending on the brand ) but over the season we can spend quite a lot of money............................brian
Yes Brian Its not cheap so reusing it is key
I make a Mix : Old compost, dead leaves from last year, content of the compost heap ( loads of earth worms) and off we go.... the year after???? same thing!
How much Blood, Fish and Bone do you add to each 35l potato bucket? This will give me an idea of what quantity to add to the mix. Many thanks.
Hi Tony , loving your video's, what are worm castings ? and do you buy them and if so where from ?
Hello, I watched your video on the 235lb crop of potatoes, and have ordered the tubs from your supplier.
On the video I noticed there were holes in the tubs, also did you punch out the ones on the sides also for the drainage, or was that for a reason of putting the tubs on the wood shavings.
Thank You, Michael Dominy. (Member)
Michael some times they come with the holes in the sides and sometimes they dont. It depends what supplier Oaklands use, however it makes no difference just use them as they come as they have more than enough drainage
hi great video, my spent compost goes through the compost bins or the worms bins. good as new when it comes out
Perfect Gilles :)
brilliant video and information - thanks
Perfect timing for fall planting!
It certainly is kimiye :)
I guess if you're nervous about pest in the compost and want/need to use it for a seed starter mix you could bake some in the oven maybe spray some water on it from time to time to avoid a fire or freeze it for a couple of days and kill everything in there.
Yes you could do that for seed starter mix
That's very valuable information, Thanks for sharingTony
Glad it was helpful Patrick
interesting video well done tony
Cheers Steven
Great tips to rejuvenate compost 👍🏻👍🏻
Glad it was of interest Denise
Great video Tony, i re-use my Potato Compost all the time and as long as there are no diseases that you have had, then it's good to go and i use Blood, Fish and Bone with some Chicken Pellets and it works great for me and my Elevated Raised Beds, my Bucket Compost goes into some Dust Bins with the lids fastened down to be re-used the following year.
Stay Safe,
Barry (Wirral)
Thats excellent Barry, glad your not wasting a valuable resource
Great advice Tony cheers mate, stay safe David 👍👍
Thanks 👍 David you guys stay safe too
Another great tutorial Tony... Well in mate. I'm adding mine to the raised beds to bulk fill them up... enriched and revitalised of course mate...
Keep Growing Wit Yed Down Mucker!!
Great stuff Tony. Hope all is good with you and your staying safe mucka
Thank you very much it was very useful.
Great video Tony.
Glad you enjoyed it Erica :)
My soil is absolutely matted with fine roots from (I think) the hedging... what can I do, I don’t really want to dig it all out and start again
Great video Tony I tried sea 90 minerals it's a sea salt you put in your water and feed once a week i think it made my plants more health
Oh thats interesting Mike. How do they taste with the extra minerals
@@simplifygardening not bad mybe you should try and do a video on it .I'll be harvest my potatoes today I will post pictures on your Facebook group. I'm growing a coffee plant you should try it to 👍👍🇺🇸
Hi Tony thanks for your video on compost How do I make bacterial bran. Or where to buy it ?
I use it to cover food scraps in the work bin. The worms will process everything to castings.
A great use
where do you buy your composting bin?
Educational video thanks 😊
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I never throw away my old compost I sieve it bag it up then mix it with coir and perlite then it's ready for sowing seeds and cuttings.
Love the Doctor Who reference. 😊😊
Glad you picked up on it :)
Tony, could I just add one tub of potato compost straight to the current compost bin and incorporate it with what I've got already? It's such a shame to waste it and my current compost bin (the green dalek) is not even half full yet.
You can, but what's the point in composting the compost?
If your bin is too wet then add a handfull or few if dried soil. Ideally clay soil.dried soil is free and excellent.
Coco coit (dry) is more effective, but it's not free 😂
Hey man, nice video! Is there a bannana tree update video soon? I recently bought a bannana tree in the uk and i need to know who to wrap it up this winter
Check out the bsnana playlist they are all in there. I lost the mother over the winter socheck them out
Thank you very much....
You have given excellent tips on gardening....
Specially how long compostcan be used safely or can be rejuvenate d.
Always welcome. John
Very helpful thanks