What I do is at the end of the season I dump all my potting soil into a giant bin and put some composting worms in there. I then feed them all my food scraps over winter and they put nutrients back in the potting soil. Then in the spring I throw in some slow release fertilizer and rock dust and voila!

So nice to see a video on this topic that isn't long with a lot of talking. Thanks.

Excellent video! I have always thought it was such a waste to throw away old potting mix.

That works. I break the roots up and leave them in the soil, they break down extremely fast into compost and feed the soil;plants. Used potting soil can always be recharged. Also, watering with liquid fertilizer helps.

So thankful i found your videos! Yes, as mentioned by others...so straightforward and it is much appreciated

WOW! this video was REALLY helpful! and just in time!

Deep dark composts are full of nutrition, but buying them from the garden center is a little expensive, so I prefer to make my own compost. Simply leave the dead vines, branches, and leaves in the raised beds during the winter and when the temperature warms up, they should become nice and fresh compost. LOL

Legendary video! Thanks 🙏

quick and easy to the point, very helpful👍

Due to concise and precise nature of the information as well as the value contained therein and pleasant music, I have subscribed!

Excellent video!! Thank you for this well put together information!

Thank you for this video . Its really helpful.

Great video. I guess I've been doing it right..?! Once the rootball and most roots are out, I add 1-2 gallon of Worm Castings, and 2 gallons of Perlite, along with some BAS Craft Blend plant food, Insect Frass, and Dolomite lime, per 10 gallons of reused Peat/Coco/Perlite soilless mix. Then re-amend the same way as above. Saving money, and having better soil each run, is what most will experience, from all I've learned.👍

Thanks for this I was only today wondering about recycling

I'm chucking mine in the compost bin. Mercifully not too many dead plants.😂

Excellent…just what I needed to know

Thanks. That’s what I need to know.

Great info

Thanks, I've been wondering how I could revive and reuse my old potting soil.

Good my friend I like very much

Tanks to share how to reuse compost

Just a note: i use a mask and gloves when mixing any potting mix, soil, fertilizer, perlite etc since i had a nasty fungal growth in my sinuses years ago. I need surgery to remove it. There's a lot of nasties that you can breathe. Better safe than sorry.

The visual videos are so helpful! Do you make your potting soil the same way when starting new bags? I know you have listed the recipes but seeing what “1 part to 3 parts” etc is so nice! Thank you

Thank you, very informative in a novice gardener way 😊🌿

Thx for sharing

Great video though thanks 😊

Nice and succinct.

I put coffee grounds in and give it a good mix and it works just as good ,☕☕

Great video! Should I had any garden lime. Thanks

Nice tips ❤

Thanks so much for sharing this information 👍🏾

I do the same in every spring. I also keep them under the sunlight in a thin layer to dry up for a day or two.

Thank you for the video. Should this be done in the spring or fall? I have been removing the plants in the fall and leave the soil in a garbage can in the garage over the winter. Can I add the additives in the spring? What is the best way?

I cut down the stem of peppers and let it stay in pot over winter so most of the roots break down naturally... this way you dont need to remove so much stuff from the soil when reusing it in spring.

I am so glad you posted this video. I do the same thing.. I subscribed as well a few weeks back. I just love your videos very educational.. thank you..

I reuse the soil and add amenities a little water but I mix the soil in an electric cement mixer the amenities are for what ever variety of plants that I will be growing it works absolutely well. And I don't have to go out and purchase potting soils.

After a month or two there’s nothing left in the soil so I usually throw in some homemade compost and after a month I use Miracle grow.

My roots never come out that perfectly 😂!

I doing this and I like you shoes…Lol🌱

Thanks for your video! Regarding the measurements - do you just eyeball it and if I'm off with my measurements - it's not a big deal? I'm not good at eyeballing, unfortunately.

Thank you ! After doing this is it necessary to sterilize it (add boiling water, bake ,etc...)??

I am already recycling my used soil by throwing away the old root systems and adding nutrients but will after this also add calcium.

Do any of these methods work for soil that had potatoes with blight in it as i would love to use my compost again. Thanks

Очень полезное видео, спасибо.

so after every plant run i simply could repeat this process every time to continue to use it for multiple grow runs ?

I’m clueless on all things gardening and need some help. I have a couple bags of topsoil still sealed and one opened but still half is in the bag. I have these all together in the bags in a plastic bin with lid on my back porch. I’m in the Southeast so it’s starting to get warmer now. I use the soil and mix it with other stuff for my reptile terrariums and add isopods to my terrariums. Should I open the soil up and let it breath…will mold grow? Should I add anything to it? I’m so lost. Thanks :)

I have reused my pots for years...I do exactally what it shows on the bideo..the only thing I do different is pull out the old plants in the fall and refresh soil in the spring

Where do you keep your soil and keep it dry in the container?

Is it possible for ginger and reuse the mix for ginger?

Would you share how you make your compost?

Why use gloves when mixing but not at the end when showing the results? I’m learning, is an honest question. Thank you

I use composted cow manure. Is chicken better?

Actually you can leave all but the biggest stem root in but break them up...they will compost in place and add nutrients. 😊

I have a question: Why remove the old roots? Can't you leave as organic material that will give nutrients to the soil? Maybe just cut it into small pieces?

So good 🪴🌷

Gardeners Chicken Manure 1-cu ft Organic Compost and Manure Provides Organic Nutrients is also out of stock. I wonder if it's still too early in the season for the stores to carry chicken manure.

Premium products demand premium prices. At Nature's Way Resources leaf mold compost, 1 bag = 1 cu.ft = $15 {screened fine} OR $10.80 {screen coarse}. The Kellogg Fruit Flower and Vegetable Organic Garden Soil 3 cu.ft {$11.45} is currently out of stock at Home Depot and Lowes, but the 2 cu. ft {$8.97} is available. Now, for those who have are on a tight budget, would the The Kellogg Fruit Flower and Vegetable Organic Garden Soil 2 cu.ft have the same results in production on your channel instead of buy the premium products?

I loved your video, I am just a bit confused about the part where you say organic fertilizer "with calcium". It's nightime here, SO, maybe my ferts, (as in the slow release kind) that are in my greenhouse DO contain calcium, BUT, I am not sure, and I don't like to go outside in the dark here since we have bears and coyotes. SO, IF maybe they do NOT contain calcium, I DO have some lime, and also a sort of soil additive that has calcium AND sulfer in it for adding calcium to soil that a person does NOT want to be alkaline, since adding LIME can make the PH of the soil you add it to become more alkaline. Sorry that I can't just go out and look at the bags of my soil ammendments right now, but, bears....etc. I also DO have a marine based organic fertilizer and MAYBE it has a good bit of calcium from the shells of sea creatures? ANYHOW, can you maybe tell me a type of calcium rich fert? I will be growing tomatoes in my "newly replenished" soil btw. I do hope it's something I already have since even in winter, I'd been buying soil ammendments galore. Well, I guess that's my problem, BUT, maybe give me a suggestion of a high calcium soil ammendment that won't affect PH? Maybe I'm asking for the impossible?

By the time you've brought all the things your to adding to this old compost might well buy new 😅

the potting soil now so expensive

Wear a mask.

don't do it by "saving" money you might not have a crop the current year. I've got blight on all the tomatoes that I've used "revive" soil. for god damn 20£ I have to start all over again

Seems easier to just get a new bag of soil.🤷‍♂

YES, you CAN use old potting soil but it is not advised. WHY? -The soil is now contaminated with last years roots & leaves -You have washed most of the nutrients out & the plants have sucked a bunch out too. -New fresh potting soil is dirt cheap. Why bother? !

Adding all those mixtures nullifies the whole process. Just throw the potting soil out. A pointless exercise really!!

Your potting soil looks so clean?? Whenever I remove old plants from their containers, I will always find white grubs on the bottom of my pots. 🥲