Leaving no-till pots unused for a few months?

After my no till harvest, I will be leaving town for 2 months.

How do I store my unused soil properly to be used again when I come back?

If it can stay in the light then I'd sow a green manure like a clover, keeping the soil alive and grabing some nitrogen from the atmosphere...
Otherwise I'd amend it and bag it....it will be cooked nicely by the time you are back

Air sealed bag?

If you can get the moisture right, sealed bags would be the way I'd go...

Or do nothing and reamend it 2 week before restarting ur grow

I'd have to keep it moist somehow for the microbes to stay alive?

keepsake said:

I'd have to keep it moist somehow for the microbes to stay alive?

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They don't die, just go dormant.

swedsteven has the best advive, just reamend a couple of weeks before starting again and everything will pop right back when you moisten the reamend.

I would suggest sowing a cover crop/s on them. You can just plant in the center when you want to grow weed again.

You wan to keep microbes alive and kicking. Appart from feeding our plants (and us) they also help the soil aggregate into clumps which prevents it all from compacting together every time the water runs off. Cover crops are there to feed the soil and microbes in it.
Just like anything with metabolic processes, plants produce waste (exudates), that come out its roots (part of why watering until runoff is good). These feed the organisms and communicate to them what the plant needs.

Hmm, for myself, I would say plant some heirloom seeds in there now, like a 2" creeping thyme, some lavender, pyrethrum, garlic, rosemary, sage, basil, and set up to a mister on a timer if not wicking out of a res. Drop a mulch down, and amend sooner than later..

almost all of those plants have benefits for both plants and humans and can have many uses in an IPM regime. You could come back to herbs for cooking, and herbs for fighting pests, with a medium that is fresh with new humus and roots aka EM tunnels.