It’s Sunday morning, it’s poring with rain and the wind is howling, pretty much what you would expect when you want to go out.
Having a gurt big greenhouse attached to the house comes in very handy on days like this, last years growbags are still there, all the fuchsia’s are pruned ready for next season, and my only remaining dahlia is tucked up harm, what’s to do ? I know I’ll recycle my grow bags, that will pass the morning constructively.
At this point I must say, if you tomatoes have had any blight I don’t recommend you do this as you will be using the growing medium for potting up your seedlings, the last thing you want to do is kill them off because you were careless.
The recycling process is simple enough, you cut open your growbag, then with your preferred tool, (mines a scoop) place the content in a garden sieve, in manageable quantities, and sieve, this process will remove most of the roots from your past crop, leaving you with a fine manageable growing medium. (Please remember as you go to add some nutrient to the mix) as the past crop will have used what was there, I use slow release granules together with some soil conditioner also sieved, I get my soil conditioner from our local recycle centre run by Viridor. If you want a more open medium you can also add some vermiculite as you go, this helps with the drainage.
The container below contains one good quality growbag, (I don’t buy cheap grow bags, they are not worth having, in my view), together with some soil conditioner and nutrients, it is reasonably dry, easy to handle and most importantly ready to use when needed, for “any repotting job”.
You will never get, all of the roots from last years crop out of this mixture, but I have found over the years I have been doing this, it doesn’t matter, “providing your growbags are disease free”.
I hope, happy reader, you find this tip useful and it produces some wonderful blooms for you, like it has for me over the years. If you find this useful please share the knowledge with others, recycleing is always worthwhile.
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easy to do and save money in the spring
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