Topic: re-using seed and potting on compost

[rdak]

what does everyone do with their compost used for seed germination and potting on? Once I have pricked out seedlings from a tray, I have been reusing the tray for other seeds-- is it adviseable to do this?
When I've finished with all my seedlings, should I just keep the seed compost for next year or chuck onto the general compost heap?

[The gardener]

Providing it is not diseased I use mine in the bottom third of any containers I fill.

It saves on the new potting compost.

Plus my seed compost is 50-50 sand and compost so makes a reasonable drainage layer.

[allotment_chick]

As Gardener says, providing it is clean, I use mine for potatoes early in the season (handy as you 'earth them up' as the potting compost becomes available!).  Later on, I us it for my toms in pots or for my annuals in tubs because I'm going to feed them all well anyway.

If I have it, I add a layer or two of chopped comfrey leaves into the pots as I fill them.

AC

[cleo]

I sling it on the garden-but I`m sure it could get used as mentioned-it`s just that I buy it by the pallet load so it does not cost me that much.

stephan

[aquilegia]

depends really on what I need. Sometimes it goes on the compost heap, sometimes I use it in pots like the gardener, other times as a mulch.

[Mrs Ava]

Seed trays should be washed between uses (well, I know they should but do I...no!) and old compost gets slung into a bucket which I then use when filling my pots of summer things, or potting on last years baby perennials before they get out in the garden or I bung it on the garden, like a mulch I guess.  If it has vine weevils in it...gggrrr... then I pick through it carefully removing all the grubs, then bung it on my compost heap and hope the heat does the trick.