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Composting old compost

Wail
Wail Posts: 265 Forumite
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I am beginning to pull up my potatoes and I am wondering what to do with my old compost. Should I store it in the pots or should I dump it in the composter?

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  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Spread it round the garden, assuming you have one.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • safestored4
    safestored4 Posts: 464 Forumite
    If you can bring the pots inside a greenhouse or porch from around October why not replant them immediately with fresh seed potatoes to get a crop of new potatoes for Christmas day? Many garden centres have them in stock right now.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    safestored4 wrote: »
    If you can bring the pots inside a greenhouse or porch from around October why not replant them immediately with fresh seed potatoes to get a crop of new potatoes for Christmas day? Many garden centres have them in stock right now.

    Wouldn't that risk harbouring any blight?
  • safestored4
    safestored4 Posts: 464 Forumite
    If there isn't any blight on the potatoes presently being harvested it should not become a problem with the follow on crop. I have done this successfully for the last 3 years and then after harvesting the second crop put the compost on the beds and wash the pots ready for next years crop.

    Even if there were to be a risk the potential reward far outweighs this. The price of the seed potatoes is negligible. At present our local garden centre has Maris Peer, Charlotte and Duke Of York all on sale at 5 for a pound, so for a couple of pounds you can get a nice crop of new potatoes over Christmas and New Year and if something should go wrong, so what, it hasn't cost you much.
  • cyclonebri1
    cyclonebri1 Posts: 12,827 Forumite
    Jeyes fluid for the pots, and soil if you wish.

    You don't compost old compost, just the live roots you pick out of it.

    The life blood of the garden is "old" compost, dig it in and grow away:T
    I like the thanks button, but ,please, an I agree button.

    Will the grammar and spelling police respect I do make grammatical errors, and have carp spelling, no need to remind me.;)

    Always expect the unexpected:eek:and then you won't be dissapointed
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