Treat the leftover soil from repotting this way to turn it into new soil, rich in nutrients and free of insect eggs, and your flowers will grow like crazy
Many gardening friends have left comments asking whether the soil left over from repotting flowers can still be used again. The answer is of course yes, but it must be treated before use!
Let me teach you how to do this: old soil becomes new soil, with nutrients and no insect eggs, and the flowers grow like crazy! The soil left over from repotting can be used after these 3 steps of treatment!
Step one: Sun-dry it first
Crush the soil that was removed, spread it evenly on the ground, and sun-dry it thoroughly for two days. This will kill the bacteria and insect eggs in the soil.
Step two: Add a fungicide
After sun-drying, you are not done yet. You can mix some fungicide into the soil, such as the common carbendazim, but do not mix in too much! This will sterilise it more thoroughly!
Step three: Increase fertility by adding leftover fruit peels, vegetable leaves, and so on
After step two, collect the fruit peels you normally eat, such as orange peel, apple peel, pomelo peel, as well as some rotten vegetable leaves, tree leaves, and so on, mix them into the soil treated above, then put it all into a black plastic bag. The temperature is quite high now, so after about two to three months it will be completely decomposed. Once fully decomposed, the soil will be very fertile.
In the future, when you pot or repot flowers, you can mix one third of the well-decomposed nutrient soil into the soil to grow flowers. The branches and leaves will be lush and green, the stems upright, and the flowers will bloom non-stop! For example, Chinese rose, rubber plant, asparagus fern, clivia, Christmas cactus, gardenia, and so on.
The nutrient soil you make yourself is rich in nutrients and very suitable for growing flowers!
Friends who like to get hands-on can give it a try!
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