I agree to a point. As potting soil, or soilless mixes age, they break
down
smaller and smaller. This will compact in the pot and air will not reach
the
roots so easily. You can do as Father Hadkell has said and it is great
advice, but for me, I'd either compost it with a lot of other organic
matierial or I would add it to flower garden beds, or I would re-use it by
also adding a very large percentage of pine bark fines to the old mix.
"Father Haskell" <fatherhaskell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Apr 27, 1:40 pm, Billy <wildbi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Tell me again, why isn't potting soil re-used? I'm getting ready to pot
>> the sweet basil in the pots that I used last year. It seems a little
>> manure would, rock phosphate, wood ash, and bone meal would have it
back
>> in shape. There were no disease problems with the basil last year.
>> Whatcha think?
>
> Discard if you had pest or disease problems, otherwise
> leach it to clear fertilizer salts and add a shot of dolomite
> to bring pH back to within 6.0 to 7.0 range. Organically
> maintained potting soils can be reused indefinitely.
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