27-05-2018, 12:09 PM
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Re: Home Gardens
Originally Posted by Mags
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Thank Mups 
I empty all my annuals pots and tubs when they have finished flowering after the summer and start anew with fresh compost in clean pots in the Spring. All the old compost I dig into the garden as long as it doesn't have lots of roots or bugs in it
Thanks Mags.
I have always done the same but I confess this year I have skimped on some pots - perhaps not a good idea.
I realise some things can't be planted in the same place on consecutive years, so I have filled those tubs with all fresh compost.
A chap at the garden centre said to me you don't keep replacing the soil in your flower beds every year, so why pots?
He said to refresh it with some added compost, blend it all in and add new plant food.
My beds are so jam packed at the mo, especially with Iris which are spreading everywhere, and I don't want to bury the rhizomes by keep adding more and more spent compost.
Think the only answer will be to spread the old compost, then replant the Iris.
27-05-2018, 12:55 PM
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Re: Home Gardens
I use the old compost. Only for annuals though, not for any perennials that are going into pots.I usually half fill with old compost (check for bugs first!), stir in some slow release granulated feed then top off with new compost.
Can't spread my old stuff in the beds as they're already too high.
27-05-2018, 02:36 PM
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Re: Home Gardens
Originally Posted by Mups
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Thanks Mags. I have always done the same but I confess this year I have skimped on some pots - perhaps not a good idea.
I realise some things can't be planted in the same place on consecutive years, so I have filled those tubs with all fresh compost.
A chap at the garden centre said to me you don't keep replacing the soil in your flower beds every year, so why pots?
He said to refresh it with some added compost, blend it all in and add new plant food.
My beds are so jam packed at the mo, especially with Iris which are spreading everywhere, and I don't want to bury the rhizomes by keep adding more and more spent compost.
Think the only answer will be to spread the old compost, then replant the Iris.
28-05-2018, 10:16 AM
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Re: Home Gardens
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Lovely pics Pauline but I can't see it the hedgehog house .Here is the most respectable part of my garden.
The pig needs attention.
That part of your garden,is beautiful, I'm loving that pig,I can never find anything like that,in garden centres, I dont like ordering online,poppies are lovely, one of my fav flower,mine are only just coming out,..the hedgehog house is well camouflaged, with artificial grass,..nothing hybernated in it as of yet,i keep an eye on the floor,for tell tale signs,..i think they prefer being under a pile of leaves,what do you think?
28-05-2018, 10:17 AM
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Re: Home Gardens
Originally Posted by Nicol
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I use the old compost. Only for annuals though, not for any perennials that are going into pots.I usually half fill with old compost (check for bugs first!), stir in some slow release granulated feed then top off with new compost.
Can't spread my old stuff in the beds as they're already too high.
Ditto,i do the same.
28-05-2018, 10:30 AM
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Re: Home Gardens
Originally Posted by Nicol
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This is my garden. It's looking a bit naked at the moment as I've hacked a lot of things back because they had got out of control.
And this is the front garden....
28-05-2018, 10:31 AM
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Re: Home Gardens
Originally Posted by Nicol
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I use the old compost. Only for annuals though, not for any perennials that are going into pots.I usually half fill with old compost (check for bugs first!), stir in some slow release granulated feed then top off with new compost.
Can't spread my old stuff in the beds as they're already too high.
The soil is getting less?
They get lower despite the fact i top it up.
Where does it all go to?
I used all my old tomatoes bags this year with the result that I have little tomato plants EVERYWHERE.
28-05-2018, 10:33 AM
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Compost? What's that?
I can't remember when I last bought any. After the initial filling and siting I just use the same old stuff and rely on Miracle-Gro.
I shall miss my garden. With selling up this year this is the first time for 30 years I aren't bothering with summer flowers. It's feels weird.
28-05-2018, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Morticia
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Compost? What's that? I can't remember when I last bought any. After the initial filling and siting I just use the same old stuff and rely on Miracle-Gro.
I shall miss my garden. With selling up this year this is the first time for 30 years I aren't bothering with summer flowers. It's feels weird.
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