Pots with weeds in?

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• war garden 572 Posts: 664

  March 2023

  it is  called recycling. 

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• Slow-worm Posts: 1,630

  March 2023

  war garden 572 said:

  it is  called recycling. 

  As opposed to doing what with the soil? 😄

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• war garden 572 Posts: 664

  March 2023

  if you don't sterilize the soil it will have weed seeds and other issues, as for beneficial bacteria that would not be helpful  since the soil is already likely depleted from previous use. 

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• war garden 572 Posts: 664

  March 2023

  Slow-worm said:

  war garden 572 said:

  it is  called recycling. 

  As opposed to doing what with the soil? 😄

  the alternative is binning it. 

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• Slow-worm Posts: 1,630

  March 2023

  Seriously?? 😲

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  March 2023

  Rarely have I heard so much utter tosh.
  Sterilise your soil, kill your insects, exterminate the bees.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• war garden 572 Posts: 664

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  
  punkdoc  you seemed to have missed the soil in
  question was in pots most likely potting soil not
  ground soil and it was infested with weeds. 
  
  from original poster :DorsetMark 
  

  however the pots i have at the moment are full of weeds from the winter... if the soil can sustain weeds, 
  

  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2023

  So pull the weeds out. It’s called gardening. 🙄 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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