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    Depleted soil.

    I've emptied one of my indoor beds and saved the soil.
    Thinking I might be able to use it for carrots in containers, I sieved it & bagged it up.
    No doubt the soil is depleted of nutrients so I would like to know what would be best to add to it, for it to become usable enough again.
    Never mind the TWADDLE here's the SIX PETALS.

    http://vertagus.blogspot.com/ Annual seedlings.
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    What WAS in it?

    Don't add anything for carrots ... they'll grow in sand
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      I'd mix it up with a bit of manure and bonemeal and use it outdoors, or just use it for seedling compost.

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      • #4
        Carrots shouldn't need anything added really, although you could mix in a bit of blood,fish & bone. But as T_S says, they'll grow in sand, so it's not totally necessary.

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        • #5
          I have a couple of grapevines growing in the 'saved soil.
          I reckon i'm going to mix it with a half bag of potting compost i have knocking around.
          Never mind the TWADDLE here's the SIX PETALS.

          http://vertagus.blogspot.com/ Annual seedlings.

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          • #6
            I have a couple of bags of fine sieved soil that I rescued when I grubbed out some shrubs. Obviously it's going to be depleted but as the others say it's great for carrots and other long rooted types, especially when you have a clay soil like me. I wouldn't use it for seed compost as you don't know what might be lurking in it.

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            • #7
              I did similar last year. I emptied an old flower pot and used the soil in a tall terracotta pot, i then sowed early nantes and got a tasty clean crop from it.
              "He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"

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              • #8
                Earthing up potatoes growing in bags/containers ?
                Sent from my pc cos I don't have an i-phone.

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