Stems and leaves go into my compost bin, along with the kitchen scraps.
Old soil and root balls go into a pile behind my garage. After a pile sits for a season, I mix the compost in with it and used it in the spring for raised bed veggies, and flower/herb gardens around the yard.
Nice, those are my wife’s favorite. They put a smile on her face. Thanks for sharing.
Hello all you dirty dirt lovin dirt discussers I grow autos usually 1/3 each of “super soil”, my own rabbit poop compost and organic promix I use the old soil to make both composts and recycle it until I make the move further towards no-till that’s the program I’m running with have a good one folks
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So I have a raised bed planter my plants were in last summer. It’s a mix of soil I dug up by one of my apple trees - had a lot of worms in it so I made sure to put them in there too. Then I mixed in some coco and promix…
My question is ;
Can I reuse it this summer for my outdoor crop? Sorry kinda new to soil mix as I grow indoor with coco.
Save myself from diggin our the dirt from last summer lol. ( I hope )
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I reuse my soil in my vegetable garden…
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I would add some dry ammendment and some worm castings/ compost and re use it as long as you didn’t have pest issues.
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Okay awesome. Pulled all the main roots out. I was thinking add some more coco and bottle feed too. I’ll check out the worm castings for sure.
Had some aphids but nothing to serious
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Aphids indicate excess nitrogen, no need for bottle feed. Just keep adding banana peels and kitchenscraps, grass clippings, nettles, dandelion, hay, straw, tree leaves and so on, it takes care of itself.
Good living soil is never used up, it only sinks as your plants grow, all that’s needed is new layers of diverse organic matter on top. The more differrent stuff you add the faster it will decompose.
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Okay awesome. Thank you for the info. I’ll throw a few banana peels in now 
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I add new worm castings as well as 1 new bag of soil mixed in and take all the old roots out. Microwave to kill any larvae and back into the pots. Incredible bulk yields.
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Add an inch or two of worm castings or compost, and some basic dry amendments or a dry fert blend and plant.
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I would like the recipe on how to make those if you don’t mind? I’ll incorporate old soil with new. Then the yard or vegetable garden.
I use one of those cheap soil test kits before amending.
I add EWC and whatever is indicated as deficient.
Cheers
G
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I reuse my soil, but have to add an organic mixture to replenish the old soil. Azomite is also added to my old soil. I do that probably 3 times before I dump the old soil into my vegetable garden outside.
I put the fan leaves and softer larfy stuff into my worm farm along with vegetable scraps, coffee grounds and stuff.
Small buds from the lower branches and sugar leafs go to making butter.
My dog chews the thick stalks before I dump them outside in my outdoor compost pile.
I grow white Dutch clover as a cover crop that grows well on top of the worm castings.
Keep things in a positive happy cycle my friends!! Just harvested my cotton candy grapes by Ethos. Wish you could smell the terps!!! Amazing
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Nice planer/surfacer, got the same one
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I just add some amendments and keep on using it. My (rudimentary) understanding is that as long as the soil is alive it can be used, and if the herd dies off it can just be recolonized. I’m no scientist but I’ve had a few yards of used soil in storage for almost 3 years so sometime I’ll be able to test that hypothesis.
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i checked mine with runoff pretty high in ppm so i flushed it and reused it, lol It must of been the dirt from the NHS as all these plants started popping up, made seeds of the nhs and wanted them to be mature so many of them opened up and dropped seeds.
Why have you had soil in storage for 3 years? Get it out of storage, put a compost tea on it, and get to growing!
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I know right. Working on finding a suitable location. Meanwhile all outdoor and free dirt.
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We reuse it. 
throw it the compost pile and do it again…I mean its dirt
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