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snowball
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 12:57 pm Post subject: Used grow bags
Do I throw last years tomato grow bags away, add the soil to the compost bin, or can I just use them as they are?

Jb

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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 1:01 pm Post subject:
I add them to the compost. It might be exhausted by then but it's only a fraction of what goes in the compost so I reckon it's OK.

snowball
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 1:03 pm Post subject:
Thanks JB. That was my thought, but I wanted to check.

Bebo

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Location: East Sussex

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 1:18 pm Post subject:
Mine goes in barrels for growing carrots in or gets rotovated into the veg beds to improve the texture rather than to feed them (but we're on heavy clay so we need as much organic matter as possible)

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 1:18 pm Post subject:
I use mine as mulch (both the contents and the bags, although not in one piece)

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 2:15 pm Post subject:
If they still have a reasonable texture then they probably only need some extra nutrients to be used again.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 5:02 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

If they still have a reasonable texture then they probably only need some extra nutrients to be used again.

But not for the same crop.
I dont use grow bags but if I did I would rotavate them into the veg beds.

BelindaC

Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 5:52 pm Post subject:
We just empty ours onto the veg beds before digging.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 5:56 pm Post subject:
I dig mine into the veg beds. I used to put them on the compost heap, but Saint Monty said you shouldn't do that too often and it was better to dig them into the beds themselves. Last edited by Mary-Jane on Sun Mar 01, 09 6:01 pm; edited 1 time in total

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Earth

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 6:00 pm Post subject:
Ours go onto the veg patch too.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 6:05 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

If they still have a reasonable texture then they probably only need some extra nutrients to be used again.

and again, and again, but do remember the rules of crop rotation.

I use a handful of fish, blood and bone plus a bit of lime to revitalise mine.

mark

Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 2191
Location: Leeds

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 09 6:39 pm Post subject:
grow some quick growing spring salad (baby leaves or radish) in them in a corner of the greenhouse (remembering to add nutrient) then then tip them in the compost to clear space for new ones for the next batch of greenhouse crops. Mark

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