Reusing Soil

I find it easy to work with. No chem build up. No "flushing". Just simple organics you could supply from home food waste. And a worm compost bin.

Every year I reuse my outdoor soil
I always mix in organics and mykos
Add about a spoon full of epsom salt also

sandhill larry said:

I do a 45 gallon mix in kiddie swimming pools. Most of them are something like this.

5 gallons buckets of

1 Mushroom compost
1 Cow manure compost
1/2 Chicken manure compost
1/2 High Cotton compost
2 Peat Moss
2 Sungrow potting soil
1 Jungle Growth potting soil
1 Scott's Moisture Control potting soil


Cups of

2 lime
2 lime, crushed
2 blood meal
2 bone meal
4 Epson Salt
4 Perilite
2 Vermiculite
16 Coffee Ground compost
2 5-2-3 Organic ferts

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why do you add so much coffee???

KrazyAnneBanks said:

why do you add so much coffee???

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16 cups in 45 gallons is not all that much. But coffee ground compost has lots of good stuff, not just N.

Have a look in the organic section at the notill threads and recycled soil ROLS. Well worth a look you should find what your looking for

KrazyAnneBanks said:

I find it counterproductive, the crops are never the same...

does everyone amend or buy new soil?

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Amend amend amend! At the end of each grow I just cut the plant down and leave the root ball in the ground so as not to disturb the environment. I sprinkle a couple cups organic tomato feed and then cover with horse and bunny bombs then bury the whole thing in at least a foot deep leaf cover and wait until planting season.
I let the dogs (I have lots of dogs) romp thru everything which breaks everything down faster and the results have improved with each passing grow. I went from main stems the size of your thumb to the size of your arm and weight went from oz's to lbs.