What do you do?

[Munch]

I grew alot of my tomatoes in large pots and containers this year. Now they have all finished I am left with several containers full of used soil/compost.

I am not really sure what to do with it all. Tempted to turn it into my empty beds but worried about disease.

What would you do with it all?

[shirlthegirl43]

I tip mine into the compost bin

[Suky]

Mine gets spread over the beds. Most bugs get killed by the winter frosts and I make sure they are beds where I won't be planting the outdoor toms next year. I have always understood that to put it in the compost bin is a waste as it won't be broken down any further and can hold too much moisture, making the compost heap too wet.

[rustylady]

Spread it over the beds. I do every year and have never had a problem.

[SarahStrawberry]

I mix it back in too, have done the last few years and it has been fine.

[Munch]

Thank you everyone xx

[Snadger]

Mine still have tatties in them! Ijust tip one out now and agian when I fancy some fresh new tatties!

Compost just goes back on to the land!

[Two_Sheds]

worried about disease.

What disease did they have?

(none? then tip it on your beds)

[binley100]

I've just read about sowing late carrots in used grobags after toms (in the GH). Going to give this a go and then they'll be tipped on the garden or in the dalek.

[jacob]

It's probably not great practice, but I tend to tip out all the soil of anything that I've grown in containers into its own huge pile and use it to cut the compost with for bulk if I've not enough compost.

This has yet to bite me. Though there's always next year.

[Munch]

All of our tomatoes got blite, which didnt really bother me that much as they were practically finished anyway. However I dont want anything to be troubled by this next year.
My elderly neighbour grew tomatoes along the same fence line as us, some went in the ground and trained up the little wire fence (quite nice as nextdoors came through the fence!)
The thing is she wants to grow tomatoes there again next year..... I have to explain at this point I dug out all the weeds that had grown for years up the fence giving her room to grow, she was so pleased. Will her tomatoes definitely get blite again or is it just a risk?
I dont really know how to tell her. she cant wait to do it again next year!

[Two_Sheds]

Blight spores can only survive on living plant tissue, so if you compost the plants properly that's OK.
The compost won't be carrying blight spores.

Everybody's outdoor tomatoes get blight eventually (I don't grow them any more, it's pointless)

[BeatTheSeasons]

I tend to distribute the grow bag soil among other beds. However, tomatoes are related to potatoes so I would avoid putting any soil into a bed where potatoes will be grown next year. This is just good crop rotation practice, not a matter of whether you could see any diseases in your tomatoes this year.