From the North of England. I am 85 , my grandmother was born in 1884 and we always used the same method and used the soil over and over . A hand full of bone meal and a hand full of fish, blood and bone , and you are set for another year ! Cheap and it works !
My grandmother kept a fish barrel. It stunk like nothing I ever smelled (I didn’t fish for yrs because of it). She put all her fish heads and parts leftovers in that barrel with rain water. Also she bled her chickens into it. It had a spigot at the bottom and she would use it. She was a amazing farmer!
My Grandfather grew the sweetest tomatoes with a delicious smell in his greenhouse . I am not going to say here what he used for fertiliser.@@angelaalfred1503
Ernie died in the 80's, and had a compost pile, and I heard he had pride in his compost. I decided to throw it in the garden about the year 2000, and plant tomatoes. I got multiple grocery bags of tomatoes, and was drowning in tomatoes, in my first garden. It was actually too easy. I think it warped my thinking, that you could plant, and things grow. (lol). I also took his 20 year old seeds, and threw them out in the garden I was not using. Things grew out of control.
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I am an adult home gardener but had difficulty finding a true meaning of “weed”. A weed is ANY plant that you don’t want to grow in your garden. 😊Thanks
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Last year, I acquired a new, very large, and very deep raised bed. It was going to cost me a small fortune to fill it. But then I had a stroke of genius. My mom had numerous pots she wanted dumped out into the blackberry brambles. Instead, I dumped them into the new bed. I added kitchen scraps all winter long. When the time came to plant potatoes, I simply added 3 inches of soil to the top and planted them. I then filled the rest of the bed with straw (Ruth Stout Method) and watered everything down. I didn't spend a fortune filling the bed with soil, and the extra height of the walls keeps the straw in place over the potato plants. That bed is THRIVING! Our compost bins are always growing potatoes, so I figured they would probably do ok with a compost "bin" for a foundation layer. It appears that I was correct. At least so far.
Yup, but for the record we don't need mineral water. We can do fine with distilled water and get mineral from organic food. Water should be pure like clean rain water nothing more
This may be the best 20 minutes I've spent learning about growing healthy plants, and the science behind it. He's thorough, very well spoken, and presents easily understood, very useful information. The video is great, and shows all the details very clearly. Sharing this with friends. Much appreciated!
Okay, this entire video is gold. I have struggled so much understanding the micro-happenings of soil because it’s always taught so objectively! I FINALLY am getting it!! You are a fantastic teacher, thank you for doing as soil life does to compost: breaking it down! Adhd/Autistic people like me have accessibility to this important science when educators take time like you do!
I dumped all of my old soil from pots into a raised bed, added coco coir, dried mint leaves, some organic tomato fertilizer and azomite. Why mint? Because it smelled good 😊and I was hoping it will keep bugs away. Tomatoes grew to over 8 feet tall and had unbelievable harvest from 7 plants enough to fill a small chest freezer and more to give away.
My grandparents were gardeners their whole life. I was spoiled with good vegetables , fruits, etc. They say gardeners live a long life. My grandparents lived into their late 90s.
Great video! Years ago I co-owned a Garden Center with my spouse (1983-1995, when I divorced) We sold so many products to improve one’s garden and container pots. What I learned stayed with me. Fast forward to 2005 I returned my hands into the soil and growing primary in containers. I took my container plants to am apartment where I really used the methods of recycling potted soil. I used a large storage bin in which to basically do weekday was shown in this video, screening soil, adding compared materials, etc etc. I lived in that apartment for almost 4-years. I often tossed/turned the binned soil with dead leaves, old flowers & stems that created a compost. Being a frugal person I often repotted my plants and used old B&W print newspaper (shredded) in the bottom of an empty pot/container, topped with a few old leaves to cover the drainage holes (yet still allowing drainage) Generally I waited for spring to do my patio clean up and repotting. I never had to buy bagged potting mix. As the video details, the nutrients created within the recycled and compared soil feed my plants. Whether I grew annuals, perennials, or potted vegetables I had great success, in addition to obtaining wonderful earthworms that help to feed the soil with their "droppings" and create air pockets in the containers and the compost bin I created. I them moved to another apartment with my compost bin and plants in tow. I lived there another 10-years without the need to buy bagged soil. It's amazing how nature creates is own nutrients! My boyfriend and I are buying his grandparent's home soon and I'm so excited to build raised beds in the backyard and resume growing plants and veggies again. Sadly I want able to bring all of my plants and my compost with me, yet others are enjoying them. Again, great video!
@@stompthedragon4010 I am planning to move and downsize- it's making my heart bleed just thinking about leaving all of my bushes, peonies, peach trees and 4 huge raised beds with all the worms there...
@@sunitamay123 ah, I totally understand. We put such love and toil in, then take such enjoyment of the beauty. Peonies are one of my favorites. Only had them once. I bought a bunch of clearance pots end of summer for 50cents each. I didn't actually think they would come back but they did. A type of hardwood bush peony. I had cut peonies all over inside. I wish you well and hope you can continue enjoying some gardening.
I know a couple who rake up their leaves and place them in a black plastic bag. Placed against the house in the sun. After the winter, they then dump into their raised beds and place their starts directly into the leaf mold. No soil. Their plants grow fantastic. 😮
I had a very serious tomato nematode issue last year from re-using expensive potting mix. This year I have been placing my old mix-filled grow bags into 5 gallon buckets with a few small drainage holes in the bottom. Then I pour about 2 gallons of boiling water on top of it all to kill out soil virus and critters. It all stays very hot for some time. Then I pour it all onto a large, heavy duty plastic sheet in the garage and let it dry our a few days. It no doubt washes out some remaining nutrients thus I re-fertilize before planting. So far so good. I have harvested over one-hundred tomatoes plus Kale, Arugula, Basil and green onions out of my spare bedroom this winter so far...more coming! I use cheap LED grow lights over the 2x8 foot grow area and surround the whole thing with cheap reflective "space blankets."
I see this video is 2 yrs old and you wanted 100,000 subscribers now you have 2.4 million that’s great 😂 I really learn alot from you thanks for the info.
I’ve reused the potting soil in my 3 pots (about 5 gallons each) for years. Each Spring, I mix in some new compost in the top inch or two. I regularly add crushed eggshells and occasionally some organic fertilizer. I have tomato cages in the pots, but I don’t grow tomatoes. I grow pea pods, pole beans, cucumbers (especially lemon cukes), garlic, green onions, radishes, basil, and other small stuff. I usually use 2 tomato cages, one on top of the other for height. This really works for this lady who can’t dig anymore. Thanks for the great video!
This is the video I was looking for. I wasn't sure if I needed to remove the wood mulch from last year's planting, and now I know that I need to remove the mulch that made its way into the soil as well. Very helpful, thank you so much.
People throw all the goodness , (Lawn Cuttings, prunings , anything organic into the garbage ). It all rots down to make new compost .You forget that this is often full of fertilizer from last year.
I do this, my son is an arborist and I have gotten tree mulch to use on the garden in its rest periods to keep weeds at bay and bulk up the soil. I also grow brassicas in pots. put them in the shade house, and out into the sun each day. I use the ash from the fire box, bought lime, just a little of each, droppings from the chook house, plus bought sheep and chicken pellets. This year I have started to use more of the instant liquid fertilizer and it has cured the plants that have yellowing leaves. My spinach and silverbeet are really green. I have made weed tea, ensuring that no seeds are in the liquid. I love gardening and eating what I have grown. I only have a small garden sieve so its pretty labor intensive, but I have time. I thank you for your explanation and watching you doing it has helped a lot.
I'm in UK and have been doing just this for years. I always have bins or bags full of old compost resetting itself. People think I'm mean with money or mad but why waste it? This is really interesting to watch and thanks for proving me right. Love your advice.
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Thank you very much. At least 20 or 30 years ago I was somehow educated to bake potting soil in the oven before reusing it from year to year. I did that for awhile and will never know why. But it was ridiculously burdensome and seems to defy logic. For another few years I bought new potting soil every single season and discarded the old soil . I could kick myself. We couldn't afford that and it was so stupid. Believe it or not I"m a dietitian professionally so I"m all about nutrition ! But the marketers got to me and I was convinced I needed brand new soil every year. Now years later I'm not as ignorant; I have learned more and better. I revere soil and it's complexity. I have two enormous botanical garden- like properties and I grow everything imaginable. Your instruction aligns with everything I think is right and it's helpful to me, and I'm sure to others. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
It is mind boggling to me that someone would throw out dirt. 🤯🤯 In my large containers I add eggshells in the fall and food scraps through fall and winter. With my flower pots, in the spring I dump all the pots in a wheelbarrow and sift it all together with some amenities. And it grows really well.
Thank you. I'm a crazy plant lady, here locally, where I live in Central Georgia. I was wondering if just adding some fresh potting soil would help the old soil from other pots. You just answered my question without me having to do any real-life experiments. Like the lady in the above comment, I have ADD, and autism, with Asperger's syndrome. Mine is not that bad, and I live on my own with my 3 special needs cats. It's amazing how my fur babies understand me; and, I relate to them really well, too. Thank you for this video, and helping me to comprehend a little more about growing my plants. 😊
How can I give this more likes? !!! Thank You so much for a very understandable, relatable, comprehensive overview of soil ammending. So Cal zone 9b, coldish winters, hot summers, dry, dry, dry all the time. My soil is gonna rock this year. Thank you!!
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My grandparents & great-grandparents used all these methods very successfully. That's why I do most of them too! Glad to know you do too. Thanks for a great educational vid as always.
Very helpful. I've been throwing out the old potting soil at the end of every growing season. After watching this will change my ways to reuse the potting soil.
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I really loved watching you .I'm old school an I agree with you big time . Ppl are spending big money in the GARDEN . IM THINKING OF OPENING A GARDEN CENTER AN HAVE GLASSES . I HATE SEEING PPL GET RIP OFF ....ANYWAYS SHAREING IS CAREING .T.Y.
I did this to four planters that sat fallow for 2 years,. Also, I had been just throwing my kitchen cuttings in them. I amended the mix according to your method and Planted zucchini and butternut squash in them. There is fruit growing, No problem.
This last year we mixed old potting soil to compost that we had composted ourselves. All my containers this last summer had that mix in it and my containers did great! 😍
Your video is brilliantly informative and encouraging to novice gardeners. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Can I please add a plea for you to promote peat and moss free compost. Our planet needs bogs and moors more than our gardens do. Also I love your hat and would like to buy one for my husband, we’ve been looking in the UK a couple of years for this very hat . Could you share your source, please?
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Awesome info!! Thanks!! I just learned yesterday that it needs that fungi stuff! I'm 40 and just now getting into gardening. I never thought it was cost efficient. Especially being a single mom for 15 years and never making much more than minimum wage, no help from her father, and paycheck to paycheck all my life lol I ended up spending a few hundred of my tax return (thinking I was making a long term investment) buying everything I thought I needed. 2x8s for 4'x8' raised bed, raised bed dirt, big and little pots, potting soil, (no perlite because at that time I thought it was for looks, and hated it 😂) fertilizer, seeds, 2 started blueberries and 5 started sugar plum(?)tomato bushes. After all that money and time, all I got was 40-50 sugar tomatoes and 5 carrot's... That were around 3-4 inches long and an inch wide. Lol That was in 2016. Everything was dead within 3 months so apparently I don't have a clue what I'm doing lol
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I usually throw the contents of old pots on my compost pile and mix it in. Then I have a ready made soil mix when I sift the compost. It’s worked well so far.
This pot gardening is new to me. This recycling used pot and old soil is very frugal and preserving. Thanks. I am in the city with a small backyard. This has given the possibility of success that will effect the resources for 2 or 3 generations.
Just subscribed. Awesome video. I have a black plastic 55 gallon barrel in my backyard with plenty of holes drilled in it. I put in my yard waste and kitchen scraps throughout the year. I often add used soil from small pots between the layers as the year goes on. Worms find their way and proliferate on their own. In the spring I screen the compost through a wire mesh stucco frame. Then I add plenty of perlite and organic fertilizer before adding it to my no dig raised beds in the spring. So, the used soil becomes infused with worm castings and nutrients. I try to empty, turn and return the compost to the barrel several times a year to add oxygen. I recently started adding urine for extra nitrogen and I'm saving water by not having to flush the toilet nearly as often.
First, I want to thank you for the clarity of your speaking, as well as the speed. I often find speech video speech less than clear, and too fast, and have to repeat. Not so with you! Also, I like this advice, re re-use of potting soil. Have often done it, so glad to have this confirmation from a pro! This is better than "recycling" soil, which literally means using it for something else when it's finish it's original purpose...You know the 3-some advice "Reduce, Re-Use, Re-cycle. If material can be used again for it's original intent, there's less carbon-footprint attached. (Many people mistakenly use "recycle" when "reuse" is the meaning intended.) I look forward to hearing more of your presentations.
I learned a lot thru this video. How to drain and reuse pot soil. What to keep and remove out of the used soil. Also, talks pot pests, fertilizer, screen compost. Recycle, kitchen organic material so, that the bacteria can go to work. The elements are made available to your plant life. Compost is the best way to give your soil life and make it happy. Revitalized soil: 1 part of compost and 3 part of depleted pot soil mix. Peat Moss -helps to retain water longer. I loved this video. 🌸🌱🌷🌼🌺🥀🌹🏵
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I’m SO GLAD I came across your channel! I do live in the Southwest desert. Gardening has always been a challenge for me. And I’m really not that good at it. But I’m really hoping to learn more from you! Thank you for posting these videos!😁👍👍
Perfect last spring I spent a lot of money setting up 5 large earth pots with potting soil, cow manure, etc.obe season growing tomatoes, a few green beans, herbs.
Found you channel accidentally today. I'm subbed to many others but always learn something new. God be with you and your family during these challenging times. Being as self-sufficient as possible relieves stress & anxiety about the predicted upcoming food shortages. Thanks again. Have a beautiful day. (I forgot the question I wanted to ask, oh well, another day) 🙏🤗
Finally...!! I've been wondering about this...Thanks, I've just been putting it info my raised gardens. I about about 15, 5 gallon buckets, 4 raised beds and one recently tilled back yard area. I'm in my mid 60s and have noted that I'm no longer a energetic young guy any longer...I'm wanting to start getting more stream lined in my efforts.
I just started growing in an indoor greenhouse thing I made in the garage. I made an easily constructed frame out of 2.5" PVC pipe. 9' x 5' cube with 10, 4' grow lights hanging from wooden dowels that are 6' long. You just lay them across the top and hang the lights from them. You will likely need to order the different joints online. Lowes didn't have what I needed.... corners and T's. You can stick it together and not even glue it because it all fits pretty tight. Those LCD plant lights are great and they don't burn so much electricity. It has 18, 10 gallon bags with plastic trays. I mixed garden soil, mulch with cow manure, potting soil, organic fertilizer, a little peat moss. I used a shovel and a wheel-barrow. Now that I have seen this, I now know so much more about the soil and will probably remix this soil more like he is talking about next year. THANKS
Hi !!!!! I watched your video a few months back and followed this instruction 100%. I have never had the stuff in my pots ever be so wonderful ! I am truly grateful for your suggestions. It took me two days to hand sift everything with chicken wire and a wagon.... but it was so worth it !
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I am an old grain farmer. Farmers NEVER throw out soil. We add nutrients- usually fertilizer or manure. We often rotate crops to avoid spread of some diseases, but we often do not rotate. Sometimes we get a little lower yield by not rotating, but we still get a crop. Duane
You know it. Nature/The Universe has been reusing soil for millions of years. I think it works out. Put in a little more "good" (compost, etc.) and keep going.
THANK YOU, YOU HELPED ME SAVE A BUNCH OF MONEY, LOL. I LITERALLY ASKED MY HUSBAND, ( BTW, HE KNOWS LESS THAN I KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO PLANTING, LOL ) , IF I COULD USE THE ALREADY USED SOIL? AND BOOM, U SHOWED UP, LOL, PERFECTING TIMING😅 TY 😊 ❤
Extremely helpful. I have been reusing old soil for years even though some say you should discard them and buy new. This video showed me how be more successful. I love your straightforward approach. I'll be checking out your other videos. Thank you.
I live in Milton Keynes, UK with clay soil about a foot down. I never throw anything out - everything is composted. I do most of the things suggested but I have found using added feed has not helped tomato plants re-potted in a second pot before final repotting in pots or in the ground where the feed has been too strong for the delicate plants and the leaves show evidence of burning. I noticed the use of peat based compost. We are trying to stop using it in the UK in an attempt to restore peat areas to their original state. The video is excellent with very clear and good advice. Best wishes to all.
This is a great video !! very well explained and i watch alot of homesteaders and gardening vlogs. you are the first person to explain how to reuse and revitalize your soil. Thank you so much.
Just found your channel and became a new subscriber. Shame on me for throwing out my old pot's soil, thinking I always needed brand new. Glad to see it all can be revitalized.
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This channel is AWESOME !! And I need it !! Growing a patio herb garden...and yes I've made mistakes ...LIKE BUYING NEW SOIL EVERY YEAR !! OMG I don't even wanna talk about it !! 😫 I didn't know !!!.....
Hi Scott. Just going back through old video's to refresh my memory before spring. With the price of groceries now on 2024, we are going to my moms place and setting up a raised bed and container garden so she has access to fresh vegetables and a good hobby too without alot of work for her to maintain. Hope all is well with you and yours , we haven't seen you on much recently. Hope this years garden does well for y'all.
Youre a hoot "climb up the ladder of fertility".....but very easy to follow and beginner friendly. Thanks! I let my lawn die and am growing from seed, spme store bought, using all my limited background knowledge & tiny bit of skills to LEARN, DO, EXPERIMENT, GROW....have gained so much insight! I like your chill vibes, thank you.
On that note, I started composting on said lawn but the crabgrass weeds bermuda are still present and thus not truly a good spot. However i did find some potato starts rhst are beautiful plants now, plus i rescued some onions that are huge btw. I tend to be an accidental gardener, lol....but i dare not put weed killer on it obviously. But what should i do now? Im bot interested in pulling weeds from the compost forever. I have straw....should i cover it and start over? I am also spot killing weeds w/ round up.....but that sh!t is toxic we know......i also covered that area w/ cardboard &brown paper.....it looks so unsightly. Any tips are appreciated. Thank you
Ok,thanks....i got that round up for sidewalk cracks and edges, but it says to not to do that.... so whats it's point?! I can ot use it in good conscience. I look forward to exploring your channel more. 🌱
Moving up the ladder of fertility, I put 20-50 redworms in the pot. I let them revitalize the soil for me. This works good as long as you keep it watered and not let it dry completely out. They will die off in the winter if well below freezing, however you will find worms again in the spring as the eggs they laid hatch. It works really well. I even use them in my microgreen trays ; )
I have a worm farm for composting and have been wondering what to do with them when they multiply too much. I was advised against putting them directly in plant pots because they may eat roots if they run out of food. Have you ever had an issue with this?
I bought "1 lb" (I think? It was years ago.) of redworms once, and it turned out to be 1 lb(?) of coffee grounds with a few worms scattered in it. (Was this a misunderstanding on my part?) Then, I put them in a compost bin and was feeding them regularly, but they all "ran" away! Bad experience! I've gone several years without a place at all to garden in, but haven't felt the desire to try with the worms again. Maybe your method would be more successful for me! So Where did you get your worms, and how do they arrive (i.e. would it be almost all some substrate (like coffee grounds) and would it survive shipment to me on the U.S. East Coast)?
@@ixchelssong I live in PA and got them at a local bait shop. I would suggest that, for me they came in dirt and were sold by number instead of weight. I've seen great reviews on Amazon where I bought the worm farm for uncle Jim's worms which is also thru Amazon. I'd just be cautious ordering thru the mail when it gets hot out Hope you go for it, I'm loving it!
@@ixchelssong One pound of worms should be the worms only, they usually send them with peat moss. The worm castings kind of look like coffee grounds, so that may be what you were seeing. When you first put them in the bin, it helps to leave a light on for a few days, this will help them to stay. If they run after this, then something is wrong with place you put them. It could be too dry or too wet. Usually, people feed them too much and the food starts to go bad. This gives off heat so the worms will try to get away from the heat. If you provide a good environment, the worms will stay for ever. I have kept worms in Styrofoam cup for weeks. Once there is no food for them they will began to wander. I have worms in my microgreen trays which only has about 2 inches of soil. They have been happy in there for almost 2 years. The link below is to the top worm dealer in the country, if you order from them you should be happy they guarantee live delivery amzn.to/3N0oCVm
Scott, thanks so, so much for this video! And, you have the pronunciation and the enunciation of molybdenum spot on; it's an awkward-pronouncing word in English, I think, because we don't generally use a combination of consonants B-D. This video has answered a whole lot of questions for me. Most grateful, thanks again!
Greetings from the UK. This is a very clear and informative guide. I am growing my veg in old water tanks and realised that I needed to address soil fertility and structure this year. Everything looked a bit tired last year and I knew I had to be a bit more scientific. Very helpful indeed, food for thought and with minor adjustments think this years plants will be super happy. Thank you!
Wow, wealth of knowledge. I’ve been throwing my dirt out and buying new one- never again! Thank you so much for sharing and demonstrating. New subscriber :)
Really appreciate this video. Several of my houseplants that I repotted this a few months ago have dead soil - nothing goes into the soil, or is retained - I've been looking for ways to amend my soil, and your video is my answer! I have a pretty good idea of where you get your products, since I live to the east of 45 from you. Looking forward to getting some Azomite. I've composted for years, but, Ive never used it. I like making dirt, and having earthworms for my garden areas. Thanks Neighbor ! 😁
So exciting! I have HUGE pots and didn’t want to toss the soil! This is WONDERFUL! This is the first of your videos I’ve seen. Now I’m going to binge the others!!
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@@Toddboehly818 well, I grew up in Rhode Island but I’ve been living in San Antonio, Texas for 50 years now. Would really love to move , however, but NOT to Florida! Lol
Really learned a lot from this video. I have a large compost bin and a xeriscaped yard so I really haven't had much need for the compost. Now I will use it to revitalize my pots.
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I add “old soil” to my compost pile. Just the reverse you mentioned. I also saw you use azomite. I use a ton of that stuff. I always crack up when people say leaf litter, here in Tucson, Az I don’t see a tree as far as I can see. I always set my pots under a tree if possible so the good stuff that leaches out when watering doesn’t go to waste.
Added Drm Earth and Azomite plus a little new potting mix to my old potting soil in my deck planter after watching your video last year. The tomatoes, parsley, peppers and other things that grew were so healthy they looked artificial!! Bookmarking this video for yearly reminders of what to do. Thank you!
I recycle all of my potting soil. I have noted that quite a few folks who hot compost,do put everything into their hot compost including powdery mildew affected plants. While I haven’t been quite that brave yet,I plan to (in future years) compost everything in one pile. For my potting soil,I always break up the root ball and thoroughly mix that into my compost pile in the fall. Where I live,we already have a ft of snow and -20c temps. So I continue to add greens like coffee grounds throughout the winter as well as potting soil and leaves that I harvested for free from around my city. (To my family’s embarrassment) 🤓 but yeah, when warmer temperatures come,I water that pile and heat it up early in the spring to refill my pots! Not sure if it’s the best or most efficient way,but it’s just how I do it and it seems to work just fine. It can get real expensive to buy potting mix yearly, I just try to get my potting soil all mixed in with c9mpost and call it good 👍
I do that too! To my children's and husband's shagrin, but I've always had beautiful gardens and it saves money and adds to the soil. I do add my compost on the top in the spring and I think that helps feed the old stuff below.
I run a 55gal plastic barrel for composting and use coffee grounds for base in a semi anaerobic process where i load it up,let it get hot then process it through a sifter to aerate and return it to the barrell and it heats up again every other month, then when it won't heat up any i turn it to worm bed and they go berzerk in there while i throw all my kitchen waste in there and old potting soil . Works like a charm and never have to fertilize.
I wish you included links to sellers of the products you use. We could find them easily and you could make a little profit. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
I've reused last year's potting soil this year by filling my pots about a third to a half full with the old stuff, mixed in some slow release feed, and then the rest I filled with new soil. My vegetables sit in the new stuff, but the root system will slowly work its way down to the old stuff. I did this mainly to keep the cost of new soil down. Fingers crossed.
I had the same thing happen in my compost with some garlic this past spring; I cleaned out the fridge and there were these withered, dried, horrible garlic cloves... so into the bin they went. About a week later I saw some green shoots popping up, and there they were. They made a nice addition to my garden. Got to say, I started composting when I began keeping pet bearded dragons. You always have veggie waste from their food (squash, leafy greens of all sorts except rhubarb, small amounts of fruit) and it's been a great way of making use of it; all those scraps go into the bin (which also grows really good fishbait-worms) and the compost helps to grow more greens later; love it!
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Yay! I've always felt a bit guilty about reusing potting soil because I thought we weren't really supposed to. I do mix in some new soil or compost, so good on me!
Hello agree with most of the video have done this for years there's one plant that your not to do this to is rose roses are much more fussy they love bone meal plant into ground or pot with fresh soil loved the video thanks teacher greeting from Ireland
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I like your gardening style. I'm a newbie at this point everything is an experiment for me. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for always trying different methods. Keep up the great work.
Biggest advice for you, make sure you build up your core strength Yoga 🧘♀️ and look after your back, it’s no fun having a garden passion and a stuffed back 😔
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From the North of England. I am 85 , my grandmother was born in 1884 and we always used the same method and used the soil over and over . A hand full of bone meal and a hand full of fish, blood and bone , and you are set for another year ! Cheap and it works !
My grandmother kept a fish barrel. It stunk like nothing I ever smelled (I didn’t fish for yrs because of it). She put all her fish heads and parts leftovers in that barrel with rain water. Also she bled her chickens into it. It had a spigot at the bottom and she would use it. She was a amazing farmer!
My Grandfather grew the sweetest tomatoes with a delicious smell in his greenhouse . I am not going to say here what he used for fertiliser.@@angelaalfred1503
My grandmother was born then to, my mother was her youngest of 10 and a twin, she would be 101, my grandmother was 39 when she had her
I never junk anything small enough to rot down. All cuttings, lawn mowings , etc just fall where they may . @@GreekVegetarianRecip
thank you
Ernie died in the 80's, and had a compost pile, and I heard he had pride in his compost. I decided to throw it in the garden about the year 2000, and plant tomatoes. I got multiple grocery bags of tomatoes, and was drowning in tomatoes, in my first garden. It was actually too easy. I think it warped my thinking, that you could plant, and things grow. (lol). I also took his 20 year old seeds, and threw them out in the garden I was not using. Things grew out of control.
lol I bet they did!!
Just amazing! 1.9 million views. Just proves that people need to know how to do stuff. I plan to do more videos like this next year. God bless!
Thanks Kaye, I'm also proud of you for taking off this year and getting over 100K subs. I really enjoy your work.
Thankyou🙏
Healthy instructional video Scott ! Great Scott, he got over a Million views 🪴
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what vegetables can you grow inside your home
I am an adult home gardener but had difficulty finding a true meaning of “weed”.
A weed is ANY plant that you don’t want to grow in your garden. 😊Thanks
This is the first of your videos I've watched. I wanted to thank you for the high-quality information.
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Last year, I acquired a new, very large, and very deep raised bed. It was going to cost me a small fortune to fill it. But then I had a stroke of genius. My mom had numerous pots she wanted dumped out into the blackberry brambles. Instead, I dumped them into the new bed. I added kitchen scraps all winter long. When the time came to plant potatoes, I simply added 3 inches of soil to the top and planted them. I then filled the rest of the bed with straw (Ruth Stout Method) and watered everything down. I didn't spend a fortune filling the bed with soil, and the extra height of the walls keeps the straw in place over the potato plants. That bed is THRIVING! Our compost bins are always growing potatoes, so I figured they would probably do ok with a compost "bin" for a foundation layer. It appears that I was correct. At least so far.
Human bodies need all these minerals as well! Our soil is SO DEPLETED! Can't get it from commercial food. Thank you for sharing!
Yup, but for the record we don't need mineral water. We can do fine with distilled water and get mineral from organic food. Water should be pure like clean rain water nothing more
This may be the best 20 minutes I've spent learning about growing healthy plants, and the science behind it. He's thorough, very well spoken, and presents easily understood, very useful information. The video is great, and shows all the details very clearly. Sharing this with friends. Much appreciated!
An absolute benchmark of how to make a great UA-cam video.
Thank you.
Perfect! No more arguing with the wife about using last year's potting soil mixed in with fresh bag soil. Thank you, sir.
Okay, this entire video is gold. I have struggled so much understanding the micro-happenings of soil because it’s always taught so objectively! I FINALLY am getting it!! You are a fantastic teacher, thank you for doing as soil life does to compost: breaking it down! Adhd/Autistic people like me have accessibility to this important science when educators take time like you do!
agree. you said it better than me!
Me too! Enjoyed listening during breakfast and now I am ready to procrastinate on all the things I should be doing and go play in my garden. 🤣
Indeed!
The lied when they told you that you had ADHD.
@@onekerri1 why did who lie about adhd?
Over 2M views and only a little over 190,000 subscribers?? Come on people. Give his channel some love and subscribe!!
Thank you and amen.
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I dumped all of my old soil from pots into a raised bed, added coco coir, dried mint leaves, some organic tomato fertilizer and azomite. Why mint? Because it smelled good 😊and I was hoping it will keep bugs away. Tomatoes grew to over 8 feet tall and had unbelievable harvest from 7 plants enough to fill a small chest freezer and more to give away.
Wow. That's great.
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Where do you get coco coir? I’ve never heard of it
@@Lizzy_333 Plant nurseries or Amazon. Good luck
@@zebeart8808 Thank you!
Very good1. I'm a lifelong container gardener & this info is just what I need in my small patio garden.
My grandparents were gardeners their whole life. I was spoiled with good vegetables , fruits, etc. They say gardeners live a long life. My grandparents lived into their late 90s.
I wish I discovered gardening as a hobby when I was a child instead of just coupla years.
That sheet is way too fun! 🎉
Great video!
Years ago I co-owned a Garden Center with my spouse (1983-1995, when I divorced) We sold so many products to improve one’s garden and container pots. What I learned stayed with me.
Fast forward to 2005 I returned my hands into the soil and growing primary in containers. I took my container plants to am apartment where I really used the methods of recycling potted soil. I used a large storage bin in which to basically do weekday was shown in this video, screening soil, adding compared materials, etc etc. I lived in that apartment for almost 4-years. I often tossed/turned the binned soil with dead leaves, old flowers & stems that created a compost. Being a frugal person I often repotted my plants and used old B&W print newspaper (shredded) in the bottom of an empty pot/container, topped with a few old leaves to cover the drainage holes (yet still allowing drainage) Generally I waited for spring to do my patio clean up and repotting.
I never had to buy bagged potting mix. As the video details, the nutrients created within the recycled and compared soil feed my plants. Whether I grew annuals, perennials, or potted vegetables I had great success, in addition to obtaining wonderful earthworms that help to feed the soil with their "droppings" and create air pockets in the containers and the compost bin I created.
I them moved to another apartment with my compost bin and plants in tow. I lived there another 10-years without the need to buy bagged soil. It's amazing how nature creates is own nutrients!
My boyfriend and I are buying his grandparent's home soon and I'm so excited to build raised beds in the backyard and resume growing plants and veggies again. Sadly I want able to bring all of my plants and my compost with me, yet others are enjoying them.
Again, great video!
Thanks so much for the great comment, I appreciate it!
I recycle all my putting soil
I've had to move so many times over the years. I hated having to leave my flowers behind. Dug-up and took bushes with me a few times.
@@stompthedragon4010 I am planning to move and downsize- it's making my heart bleed just thinking about leaving all of my bushes, peonies, peach trees and 4 huge raised beds with all the worms there...
@@sunitamay123 ah, I totally understand. We put such love and toil in, then take such enjoyment of the beauty. Peonies are one of my favorites. Only had them once. I bought a bunch of clearance pots end of summer for 50cents each. I didn't actually think they would come back but they did. A type of hardwood bush peony. I had cut peonies all over inside. I wish you well and hope you can continue enjoying some gardening.
I know a couple who rake up their leaves and place them in a black plastic bag. Placed against the house in the sun. After the winter, they then dump into their raised beds and place their starts directly into the leaf mold. No soil. Their plants grow fantastic. 😮
leaf mould - ‘gardener’s gold’ we called it where I grew up. Love the stuff and so easy to make!
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I had a very serious tomato nematode issue last year from re-using expensive potting mix. This year I have been placing my old mix-filled grow bags into 5 gallon buckets with a few small drainage holes in the bottom. Then I pour about 2 gallons of boiling water on top of it all to kill out soil virus and critters. It all stays very hot for some time. Then I pour it all onto a large, heavy duty plastic sheet in the garage and let it dry our a few days. It no doubt washes out some remaining nutrients thus I re-fertilize before planting. So far so good. I have harvested over one-hundred tomatoes plus Kale, Arugula, Basil and green onions out of my spare bedroom this winter so far...more coming! I use cheap LED grow lights over the 2x8 foot grow area and surround the whole thing with cheap reflective "space blankets."
Good tip, thank you !
I see this video is 2 yrs old and you wanted 100,000 subscribers now you have 2.4 million that’s great 😂 I really learn alot from you thanks for the info.
I’ve reused the potting soil in my 3 pots (about 5 gallons each) for years. Each Spring, I mix in some new compost in the top inch or two. I regularly add crushed eggshells and occasionally some organic fertilizer. I have tomato cages in the pots, but I don’t grow tomatoes. I grow pea pods, pole beans, cucumbers (especially lemon cukes), garlic, green onions, radishes, basil, and other small stuff. I usually use 2 tomato cages, one on top of the other for height. This really works for this lady who can’t dig anymore. Thanks for the great video!
This is the video I was looking for. I wasn't sure if I needed to remove the wood mulch from last year's planting, and now I know that I need to remove the mulch that made its way into the soil as well. Very helpful, thank you so much.
People throw all the goodness , (Lawn Cuttings, prunings , anything organic into the garbage ).
It all rots down to make new compost .You forget that this is often full of fertilizer from last year.
I do this, my son is an arborist and I have gotten tree mulch to use on the garden in its rest periods to keep weeds at bay and bulk up the soil. I also grow brassicas in pots. put them in the shade house, and out into the sun each day. I use the ash from the fire box, bought lime, just a little of each, droppings from the chook house, plus bought sheep and chicken pellets. This year I have started to use more of the instant liquid fertilizer and it has cured the plants that have yellowing leaves. My spinach and silverbeet are really green. I have made weed tea, ensuring that no seeds are in the liquid. I love gardening and eating what I have grown. I only have a small garden sieve so its pretty labor intensive, but I have time. I thank you for your explanation and watching you doing it has helped a lot.
I'm in UK and have been doing just this for years. I always have bins or bags full of old compost resetting itself. People think I'm mean with money or mad but why waste it? This is really interesting to watch and thanks for proving me right. Love your advice.
Can you grow vegetables in clay flower pots
@@ellencloud9583 certainly. You just have to water more often as the clay wicks water from the soil.
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This is my first year of making a compost soil pile. I found some GIANT grubs in there! What do i do with them? Do they lay eggs on there?
Thank you very much. At least 20 or 30 years ago I was somehow educated to bake potting soil in the oven before reusing it from year to year.
I did that for awhile and will never know why. But it was ridiculously burdensome and seems to defy logic. For another few years I bought new potting soil every single season and discarded the old soil . I could kick myself. We couldn't afford that and it was so stupid. Believe it or not I"m a dietitian professionally so I"m all about nutrition ! But the marketers got to me and I was convinced I needed brand new soil every year. Now years later I'm not as ignorant; I have learned more and better. I revere soil and it's complexity. I have two enormous botanical garden- like properties and I grow everything imaginable. Your instruction aligns with everything I think is right and it's helpful to me, and I'm sure to others. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
Really excited to reuse old potting soil!. Thanks, Scott.
Love the flexibility and freedom from narrowly constrained rules expressed.
It is mind boggling to me that someone would throw out dirt. 🤯🤯
In my large containers I add eggshells in the fall and food scraps through fall and winter. With my flower pots, in the spring I dump all the pots in a wheelbarrow and sift it all together with some amenities. And it grows really well.
Thank you. I'm a crazy plant lady, here locally, where I live in Central Georgia. I was wondering if just adding some fresh potting soil would help the old soil from other pots. You just answered my question without me having to do any real-life experiments. Like the lady in the above comment, I have ADD, and autism, with Asperger's syndrome. Mine is not that bad, and I live on my own with my 3 special needs cats. It's amazing how my fur babies understand me; and, I relate to them really well, too. Thank you for this video, and helping me to comprehend a little more about growing my plants. 😊
I love that you reinforce what I've learned and also reminding me of something. lol.
Hi Scott! I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world! I've learned so much! 😊
How can I give this more likes? !!! Thank You so much for a very understandable, relatable, comprehensive overview of soil ammending. So Cal zone 9b, coldish winters, hot summers, dry, dry, dry all the time. My soil is gonna rock this year. Thank you!!
I totally agree
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My grandparents & great-grandparents used all these methods very successfully. That's why I do most of them too! Glad to know you do too. Thanks for a great educational vid as always.
Very helpful. I've been throwing out the old potting soil at the end of every growing season. After watching this will change my ways to reuse the potting soil.
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I really loved watching you .I'm old school an I agree with you big time . Ppl are spending big money in the GARDEN . IM THINKING OF OPENING A GARDEN CENTER AN HAVE GLASSES . I HATE SEEING PPL GET RIP OFF ....ANYWAYS SHAREING IS CAREING .T.Y.
Compost tea?? Oh man, that’s a whole new level! So informative. Glad I found you!
I did this to four planters that sat fallow for 2 years,.
Also, I had been just throwing my kitchen cuttings in them. I amended the mix according to your method and Planted zucchini and butternut squash in them. There is fruit growing, No problem.
This last year we mixed old potting soil to compost that we had composted ourselves. All my containers this last summer had that mix in it and my containers did great! 😍
Your video is brilliantly informative and encouraging to novice gardeners. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Can I please add a plea for you to promote peat and moss free compost. Our planet needs bogs and moors more than our gardens do. Also I love your hat and would like to buy one for my husband, we’ve been looking in the UK a couple of years for this very hat . Could you share your source, please?
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Awesome info!! Thanks!! I just learned yesterday that it needs that fungi stuff!
I'm 40 and just now getting into gardening.
I never thought it was cost efficient. Especially being a single mom for 15 years and never making much more than minimum wage, no help from her father, and paycheck to paycheck all my life lol
I ended up spending a few hundred of my tax return (thinking I was making a long term investment) buying everything I thought I needed. 2x8s for 4'x8' raised bed, raised bed dirt, big and little pots, potting soil, (no perlite because at that time I thought it was for looks, and hated it 😂) fertilizer, seeds, 2 started blueberries and 5 started sugar plum(?)tomato bushes. After all that money and time, all I got was 40-50 sugar tomatoes and 5 carrot's... That were around 3-4 inches long and an inch wide. Lol
That was in 2016.
Everything was dead within 3 months so apparently I don't have a clue what I'm doing lol
Great tips for soil success. Loved to learn these. Keep it up, we need folks who know what to do with our plants and the dirt of gardening.
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I usually throw the contents of old pots on my compost pile and mix it in. Then I have a ready made soil mix when I sift the compost. It’s worked well so far.
This pot gardening is new to me. This recycling used pot and old soil is very frugal and preserving. Thanks. I am in the city with a small backyard. This has given the possibility of success that will effect the resources for 2 or 3 generations.
Just subscribed. Awesome video. I have a black plastic 55 gallon barrel in my backyard with plenty of holes drilled in it. I put in my yard waste and kitchen scraps throughout the year. I often add used soil from small pots between the layers as the year goes on. Worms find their way and proliferate on their own. In the spring I screen the compost through a wire mesh stucco frame. Then I add plenty of perlite and organic fertilizer before adding it to my no dig raised beds in the spring. So, the used soil becomes infused with worm castings and nutrients. I try to empty, turn and return the compost to the barrel several times a year to add oxygen. I recently started adding urine for extra nitrogen and I'm saving water by not having to flush the toilet nearly as often.
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First, I want to thank you for the clarity of your speaking, as well as the speed. I often find speech video speech less than clear, and too fast, and have to repeat. Not so with you! Also, I like this advice, re re-use of potting soil. Have often done it, so glad to have this confirmation from a pro! This is better than "recycling" soil, which literally means using it for something else when it's finish it's original purpose...You know the 3-some advice "Reduce, Re-Use, Re-cycle. If material can be used again for it's original intent, there's less carbon-footprint attached. (Many people mistakenly use "recycle" when "reuse" is the meaning intended.) I look forward to hearing more of your presentations.
I've been utilizing your first method for years, now that I'm retired, I can learn more about using some fertilizers. Glad I found your channel.
I learned a lot thru this video. How to drain and reuse pot soil. What to keep and remove out of the used soil. Also, talks pot pests, fertilizer, screen compost. Recycle, kitchen organic material so, that the bacteria can go to work. The elements are made available to your plant life. Compost is the best way to give your soil life and make it happy. Revitalized soil: 1 part of compost and 3 part of depleted pot soil mix. Peat Moss -helps to retain water longer. I loved this video. 🌸🌱🌷🌼🌺🥀🌹🏵
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I’m SO GLAD I came across your channel! I do live in the Southwest desert. Gardening has always been a challenge for me. And I’m really not that good at it. But I’m really hoping to learn more from you! Thank you for posting these videos!😁👍👍
Perfect last spring I spent a lot of money setting up 5 large earth pots with potting soil, cow manure, etc.obe season growing tomatoes, a few green beans, herbs.
Found you channel accidentally today. I'm subbed to many others but always learn something new.
God be with you and your family during these challenging times. Being as self-sufficient as possible relieves stress & anxiety about the predicted upcoming food shortages.
Thanks again. Have a beautiful day. (I forgot the question I wanted to ask, oh well, another day) 🙏🤗
Finally...!! I've been wondering about this...Thanks, I've just been putting it info my raised gardens. I about about 15, 5 gallon buckets, 4 raised beds and one recently tilled back yard area. I'm in my mid 60s and have noted that I'm no longer a energetic young guy any longer...I'm wanting to start getting more stream lined in my efforts.
I have been recyling potting soil for 30 years never had a problem !
I just started growing in an indoor greenhouse thing I made in the garage. I made an easily constructed frame out of 2.5" PVC pipe. 9' x 5' cube with 10, 4' grow lights hanging from wooden dowels that are 6' long. You just lay them across the top and hang the lights from them. You will likely need to order the different joints online. Lowes didn't have what I needed.... corners and T's. You can stick it together and not even glue it because it all fits pretty tight. Those LCD plant lights are great and they don't burn so much electricity. It has 18, 10 gallon bags with plastic trays. I mixed garden soil, mulch with cow manure, potting soil, organic fertilizer, a little peat moss. I used a shovel and a wheel-barrow. Now that I have seen this, I now know so much more about the soil and will probably remix this soil more like he is talking about next year. THANKS
Hi !!!!! I watched your video a few months back and followed this instruction 100%. I have never had the stuff in my pots ever be so wonderful ! I am truly grateful for your suggestions. It took me two days to hand sift everything with chicken wire and a wagon.... but it was so worth it !
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Watch older videos, so much to learn and remember, thank you!!
I am an old grain farmer. Farmers NEVER throw out soil. We add nutrients- usually fertilizer or manure. We often rotate crops to avoid spread of some diseases, but we often do not rotate. Sometimes we get a little lower yield by not rotating, but we still get a crop. Duane
You know it. Nature/The Universe has been reusing soil for millions of years. I think it works out. Put in a little more "good" (compost, etc.) and keep going.
THANK YOU, YOU HELPED ME SAVE A BUNCH OF MONEY, LOL. I LITERALLY ASKED MY HUSBAND, ( BTW, HE KNOWS LESS THAN I KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO PLANTING, LOL ) , IF I COULD USE THE ALREADY USED SOIL? AND BOOM, U SHOWED UP, LOL, PERFECTING TIMING😅 TY 😊 ❤
Extremely helpful. I have been reusing old soil for years even though some say you should discard them and buy new. This video showed me how be more successful. I love your straightforward approach. I'll be checking out your other videos. Thank you.
Those who say you need new potting soil each year are probably the ones who make it and sell it. 😂
Fine explainations , thanks a lot.
I live in Milton Keynes, UK with clay soil about a foot down. I never throw anything out - everything is composted. I do most of the things suggested but I have found using added feed has not helped tomato plants re-potted in a second pot before final repotting in pots or in the ground where the feed has been too strong for the delicate plants and the leaves show evidence of burning.
I noticed the use of peat based compost. We are trying to stop using it in the UK in an attempt to restore peat areas to their original state.
The video is excellent with very clear and good advice. Best wishes to all.
This is a great video !! very well explained and i watch alot of homesteaders and gardening vlogs. you are the first person to explain how to reuse and revitalize your soil. Thank you so much.
Just found your channel and became a new subscriber. Shame on me for throwing out my old pot's soil, thinking I always needed brand new. Glad to see it all can be revitalized.
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Great information! Thank you for showing us not just telling us how to prepare and plant fora great harvest.
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reuse your old potting soil...if you can't trust a preacher who can you trust. Love your vids
This channel is AWESOME !! And I need it !! Growing a patio herb garden...and yes I've made mistakes ...LIKE BUYING NEW SOIL EVERY YEAR !! OMG I don't even wanna talk about it !! 😫 I didn't know !!!.....
Hi Scott. Just going back through old video's to refresh my memory before spring.
With the price of groceries now on 2024, we are going to my moms place and setting up a raised bed and container garden so she has access to fresh vegetables and a good hobby too without alot of work for her to maintain.
Hope all is well with you and yours , we haven't seen you on much recently. Hope this years garden does well for y'all.
Very inspiring and knowledgable. Have been disposing most used compost and it seemed a waste of money. Thanks for the intelligent information.
Youre a hoot "climb up the ladder of fertility".....but very easy to follow and beginner friendly. Thanks! I let my lawn die and am growing from seed, spme store bought, using all my limited background knowledge & tiny bit of skills to LEARN, DO, EXPERIMENT, GROW....have gained so much insight! I like your chill vibes, thank you.
On that note, I started composting on said lawn but the crabgrass weeds bermuda are still present and thus not truly a good spot. However i did find some potato starts rhst are beautiful plants now, plus i rescued some onions that are huge btw. I tend to be an accidental gardener, lol....but i dare not put weed killer on it obviously. But what should i do now? Im bot interested in pulling weeds from the compost forever. I have straw....should i cover it and start over? I am also spot killing weeds w/ round up.....but that sh!t is toxic we know......i also covered that area w/ cardboard &brown paper.....it looks so unsightly. Any tips are appreciated. Thank you
Yeah just get something over the weeds like cardboard. A layer at the bottom will smother the weeds and over time will become compost.
Ok,thanks....i got that round up for sidewalk cracks and edges, but it says to not to do that.... so whats it's point?! I can ot use it in good conscience.
I look forward to exploring your channel more. 🌱
I've been reusing soil for along time. Was glad to see you made a video explaining and show how this is done. Geat Job!
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You're a great teacher and your Corgi is adorable! TYVM from Long Island NY. Looking forward to Spring to get gardening again
Moving up the ladder of fertility, I put 20-50 redworms in the pot. I let them revitalize the soil for me. This works good as long as you keep it watered and not let it dry completely out. They will die off in the winter if well below freezing, however you will find worms again in the spring as the eggs they laid hatch. It works really well. I even use them in my microgreen trays ; )
I have a worm farm for composting and have been wondering what to do with them when they multiply too much. I was advised against putting them directly in plant pots because they may eat roots if they run out of food. Have you ever had an issue with this?
I bought "1 lb" (I think? It was years ago.) of redworms once, and it turned out to be 1 lb(?) of coffee grounds with a few worms scattered in it. (Was this a misunderstanding on my part?) Then, I put them in a compost bin and was feeding them regularly, but they all "ran" away! Bad experience! I've gone several years without a place at all to garden in, but haven't felt the desire to try with the worms again. Maybe your method would be more successful for me!
So Where did you get your worms, and how do they arrive (i.e. would it be almost all some substrate (like coffee grounds) and would it survive shipment to me on the U.S. East Coast)?
@@ixchelssong I live in PA and got them at a local bait shop. I would suggest that, for me they came in dirt and were sold by number instead of weight. I've seen great reviews on Amazon where I bought the worm farm for uncle Jim's worms which is also thru Amazon. I'd just be cautious ordering thru the mail when it gets hot out
Hope you go for it, I'm loving it!
@@ixchelssong One pound of worms should be the worms only, they usually send them with peat moss. The worm castings kind of look like coffee grounds, so that may be what you were seeing.
When you first put them in the bin, it helps to leave a light on for a few days, this will help them to stay. If they run after this, then something is wrong with place you put them. It could be too dry or too wet. Usually, people feed them too much and the food starts to go bad. This gives off heat so the worms will try to get away from the heat. If you provide a good environment, the worms will stay for ever. I have kept worms in Styrofoam cup for weeks. Once there is no food for them they will began to wander. I have worms in my microgreen trays which only has about 2 inches of soil. They have been happy in there for almost 2 years.
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@@GooshawnXD Thanks, I'll give it a try!
Thanks. I have a lot of pots with old dirt. So I’m going to do this,!
Great video! You got to the point promptly, didn't repeat the same thing over and over. Excellent video. I learned a lot. Thank you.
This the first video of yours I've seen. Very informative. You know what you're talking about. I will watch more. Thanks!
Loved this video. I’m constantly throwing potting soil into the “heap” and buying new mix. So simple. Thank you. From Australia.
Scott, thanks so, so much for this video!
And, you have the pronunciation and the enunciation of molybdenum spot on; it's an awkward-pronouncing word in English, I think, because we don't generally use a combination of consonants B-D.
This video has answered a whole lot of questions for me. Most grateful, thanks again!
Greetings from the UK. This is a very clear and informative guide. I am growing my veg in old water tanks and realised that I needed to address soil fertility and structure this year. Everything looked a bit tired last year and I knew I had to be a bit more scientific. Very helpful indeed, food for thought and with minor adjustments think this years plants will be super happy. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Waving from Texas!
Excellent video and all the right stuff 👍
Wow, wealth of knowledge. I’ve been throwing my dirt out and buying new one- never again! Thank you so much for sharing and demonstrating. New subscriber :)
Great video, thanks Scott! All the best from Finland!
Really appreciate this video. Several of my houseplants that I repotted this a few months ago have dead soil - nothing goes into the soil, or is retained - I've been looking for ways to amend my soil, and your video is my answer! I have a pretty good idea of where you get your products, since I live to the east of 45 from you. Looking forward to getting some Azomite. I've composted for years, but, Ive never used it.
I like making dirt, and having earthworms for my garden areas. Thanks Neighbor !
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I just found you & I am happy to get good tips.😊 I have gardened all my adult life 73 now & am growing in pots. Thanks for the info ❤😂 19:53 😅 19:53
So exciting! I have HUGE pots and didn’t want to toss the soil! This is WONDERFUL! This is the first of your videos I’ve seen. Now I’m going to binge the others!!
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@@Toddboehly818 well, I grew up in Rhode Island but I’ve been living in San Antonio, Texas for 50 years now. Would really love to move , however, but NOT to Florida! Lol
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@@robinholbrook6576 The weather here is beautiful and warm 🙂🙂🙂
Really enjoyed the video...he didn't talk too fast or too slow....great idea to reuse the soil from purchased plants .... Thank you
Really learned a lot from this video. I have a large compost bin and a xeriscaped yard so I really haven't had much need for the compost. Now I will use it to revitalize my pots.
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Good solid advice given in a clear and practical manner. Cheers Scott!
I add “old soil” to my compost pile. Just the reverse you mentioned. I also saw you use azomite. I use a ton of that stuff.
I always crack up when people say leaf litter, here in Tucson, Az I don’t see a tree as far as I can see.
I always set my pots under a tree if possible so the good stuff that leaches out when watering doesn’t go to waste.
Added Drm Earth and Azomite plus a little new potting mix to my old potting soil in my deck planter after watching your video last year. The tomatoes, parsley, peppers and other things that grew were so healthy they looked artificial!! Bookmarking this video for yearly reminders of what to do. Thank you!
I recycle all of my potting soil. I have noted that quite a few folks who hot compost,do put everything into their hot compost including powdery mildew affected plants. While I haven’t been quite that brave yet,I plan to (in future years) compost everything in one pile. For my potting soil,I always break up the root ball and thoroughly mix that into my compost pile in the fall. Where I live,we already have a ft of snow and -20c temps. So I continue to add greens like coffee grounds throughout the winter as well as potting soil and leaves that I harvested for free from around my city. (To my family’s embarrassment) 🤓 but yeah, when warmer temperatures come,I water that pile and heat it up early in the spring to refill my pots! Not sure if it’s the best or most efficient way,but it’s just how I do it and it seems to work just fine. It can get real expensive to buy potting mix yearly, I just try to get my potting soil all mixed in with c9mpost and call it good 👍
I collect leaves from the streets in the darkness😀
@@Elena-zm4fc yeah!!, you go for it! It’s a free resource and there’s no shame in utilizing what falls to the ground!
I do that too! To my children's and husband's shagrin, but I've always had beautiful gardens and it saves money and adds to the soil. I do add my compost on the top in the spring and I think that helps feed the old stuff below.
I run a 55gal plastic barrel for composting and use coffee grounds for base in a semi anaerobic process where i load it up,let it get hot then process it through a sifter to aerate and return it to the barrell and it heats up again every other month, then when it won't heat up any i turn it to worm bed and they go berzerk in there while i throw all my kitchen waste in there and old potting soil . Works like a charm and never have to fertilize.
Great video Scott! It's nice to be in your garden!
Thanks. Just beginning, after living in hi-rise for 30 years. So excited to have my own yard & garden. I appreciate the information.
I wish you included links to sellers of the products you use. We could find them easily and you could make a little profit. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
What a great video, so well explained. The compost looks gorgeous. The assistant just passed by looking cute. You have a new subscriber.
I've reused last year's potting soil this year by filling my pots about a third to a half full with the old stuff, mixed in some slow release feed, and then the rest I filled with new soil. My vegetables sit in the new stuff, but the root system will slowly work its way down to the old stuff. I did this mainly to keep the cost of new soil down. Fingers crossed.
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Best of luck and blessings to you and your green leafy friends!
I did the same also… i can tell you i have a beautiful working vegetable garden.
Super, thanks! I never throw out, but like the revitalizing techniques!!
I had the same thing happen in my compost with some garlic this past spring; I cleaned out the fridge and there were these withered, dried, horrible garlic cloves... so into the bin they went. About a week later I saw some green shoots popping up, and there they were. They made a nice addition to my garden.
Got to say, I started composting when I began keeping pet bearded dragons. You always have veggie waste from their food (squash, leafy greens of all sorts except rhubarb, small amounts of fruit) and it's been a great way of making use of it; all those scraps go into the bin (which also grows really good fishbait-worms) and the compost helps to grow more greens later; love it!
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That is some GREAT looking compost!
Yay! I've always felt a bit guilty about reusing potting soil because I thought we weren't really supposed to. I do mix in some new soil or compost, so good on me!
Love this guy! Been doing this for 20+ years and some folks will argue this method but my pots are always gorgeouso!!
Hello agree with most of the video have done this for years there's one plant that your not to do this to is rose roses are much more fussy they love bone meal plant into ground or pot with fresh soil loved the video thanks teacher greeting from Ireland
@@maurakennedy5952 have you heard that roses won't grow in soil that had roses previously?
No, you rotate crops. Soil never goes bad per se.
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Thanks so much! My patio veggies will love you.
I like your gardening style. I'm a newbie at this point everything is an experiment for me. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for always trying different methods. Keep up the great work.
Biggest advice for you, make sure you build up your core strength Yoga 🧘♀️ and look after your back, it’s no fun having a garden passion and a stuffed back 😔
@@heatherhall3452 that sure is true❤🙏🏻
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Forth Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
@@heatherhall3452 Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Forth Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?
it is just the information i needed, without throwing the old stuff away !!! thanks a lot.
Really enjoyed your video, I’m just an amateur gardener with a tiny garden, so looking forward to growing in pots!!
Hello 👋 how are you doing today? I hope 🤞 this year brings happiness, peace and love all over the world 🌎I’m originally from Canada 🇨🇦 grow up in Forth Worth Texas, currently living in Key West Florida. Where are you from if i may ask?