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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.