What is going on guys and girls out there in the world wherever you are?

Hopefully you are having a nice little walk,

sipping some coffee, whatever you're doing, welcome back to the Epic gardening show.

And today I'm going to cover a topic

that I think a lot of people would like to know about because I know that I

wanted to know about it when I first started gardening and that is how do we

take potting so that we've already used maybe last season

maybe we just want to switch it out grow a new plant but we don't want to waste that

potting soil right it's not just like we plant a plant in it grow it. It's one and done and then we just throw the potting soil in the trash that seems like a complete waste and that's because it actually is a complete waste

So how do we reuse old potting soil so that we can use it again in

this season's container garden? That's the question that we're going to answer.

So first of all we need to think about what's happening to the

soil over the course of a growing season. As we know, our plants are taking energy both from the

sun and from the soil and that's why in a no-dig system or a no- no till system you'll do a lot of amending

over the top once you harvest out of that bed. So let's say you've got a bed of I

don't know lettuce and you pull all that lettuce out of the ground.

Well, if you don't amend, slowly that soil is going to be depleted of the nutrients that lettuce uses.

And of course, all plants use most, most all 17 nutrients that they need, but they do use them in different

ratios.

Something like a lettuce is going to be a lot more heavy in nitrogen than something like a tomato

that's going to use a lot more phosphorus than a lettuce plant

would. And so if you do that, if you just pull the lettuce out season after season,

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