What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're discussing a very quintessentially fall and winter topic and that would be how to actually store your pots for winter if you've decided to take a break in the garden, which is more than okay. I've felt that urge many times myself, despite having the climate to grow throughout the winter.

So what should you do? The first thing you should do is clean

them, right? You don't want any potential diseases or pests to actually survive the

winter. So the best way to do that of course is to clean them out.

So you'll want to empty your containers, remove any dead vegetation. If your plants didn't have any

disease or pest issues, then that's a great opportunity to throw those into your compost pile.

If the plants were diseased in some kind of way, then you can throw them in your bonfire

pile and just kind of use them as kind of kind as kindling for the fire or just throw them out.

That's another option.

Now you can also compost the soil that was in your container.

It's usually a good idea to not directly reuse the soil, especially without amending it.

So one thing you can do is, again, like I said, throw it into your composting system,

let it work its way back through that decomposition,

recomposition process, and then you can actually mix that back

into the potting soil in the next season.

Now once your containers are actually empty you want to do a bit of a

dishwashing process. Wash them in warm soapy water you can add a mixture of 10% bleach to it. The soap and the bleach is going to remove and kill any problem

that you would have had in that container. Bugs, fungal spores, any sort of

disease or pathogen that would be in there will be completely gone.

Now if you're using plastic containers, then you just store them. I mean you can store them outside,

it's not a big deal because they don't expand and contract

like terracottomite if there's any moisture in them at all. One thing I would do

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