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    Re-cycling Compost?

    Apologies, I asked this elsewhere but have started a new thread in the hope of obtaining your views.

    I grew some potatoes in Potato sacks for the first time last year, using a mix of General Purpose/Vegetable Growing compost. This was an expensive start up cost as I don't have much room and no home created compost to use.

    I have this years seed potatoes in their chitting trays, but will I be able to re-use the compost again this year if I add some fertiliser (at the rate advised in earlier threads).

    Is 2-years about all I will get from the compost before I start risking infection?
    What do others do?

    I do not have facilities to sterilise the used compost.

    Thanks
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    I would sift it to remove any roots and add fertlizer then use it for a crop other than potatoes. That way you will reduce the risk of disease. Or you could add it to the ground/raised beds to improve the soil.
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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      Originally posted by BrianNN5 View Post
      Apologies, I asked this elsewhere but have started a new thread in the hope of obtaining your views.

      I grew some potatoes in Potato sacks for the first time last year, using a mix of General Purpose/Vegetable Growing compost. This was an expensive start up cost as I don't have much room and no home created compost to use.

      I have this years seed potatoes in their chitting trays, but will I be able to re-use the compost again this year if I add some fertiliser (at the rate advised in earlier threads).

      Is 2-years about all I will get from the compost before I start risking infection?
      What do others do?

      I do not have facilities to sterilise the used compost.

      Thanks
      I replied to your original post

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