3 Ways To Sterilize Your Soil
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2021
- Can You Sterilize Your Soil? The answer is yes. In this video I will talk about 3 Ways To Sterilize Your Soil. Balcony Gardeners don't have a lot of space & often have to start seed sowing indoors. By sterilising your soil you can reduce pests & save money from purchasingnew soil.
I show you how to sterilise your soil with boiling water, how to oven sterilize your soil and how to microwave your soil. These techniques will help you make sure that your soil for indoor seed starting is pest free.
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Thank you. I'm hesitant to put soil in my oven or microwave. The boiling water method looks like the way to go.
Thank u for explaining calm and going over every detail with a little video just to visualize great vd
Am I paranoid or is there something going on with potting soil that I've not had issues with in the past? My green thumb has turned brown and I've not changed my habits. This world is crazy and with farmers and fertilizers under attack, are these policies transferring through to potting soils to prevent humanity from growing self- supporting gardens? I find it odd. Am I alone?
Just like they jacked up the chicken feed which caused the temporary egg shortage until people figured out what was happening.
Probably washed all the fine stuff out of the potting mix or have an unseen fungi problem. But they DID mess with chicken feed in the UK recently because nobody was getting eggs with the laying pellets
@@OffGridInvestor Wow, I thought it was only in America. I guess it was global.
So many diseases in my Garden, and on plants around my neighborhood in the city last year. Also bought Miracle-Gro Indoor Potting Mix that was infested with Aphids. Something is definitely going on.
I'm channeling your mojo into my garden - sorry
I'm going to try that 3rd method that seems so easy! I had some soil on a grow bags outside that hasn't had anything planted in it but was exposed to nature for a while so thanks a ton for this video!
good luck!
My old plants would always get sick somehow and I didn't know why. I hope sterilising the soil will help the new plants I want to grow! Thank you for the tips! 🪴💚
If it's fungal or a form of disease then you'd be better of throwing away that compost and starting a afresh. Otherwise, hopefully these tips will help! I have another vid where I show you how to refresh your soil too! Good luck! ❤❤
Do not excess water your plants
Give manure feed every two monthly use cinnamon and tumeric with water boil cool and dilute 1:1 ratio with water and put in soil every two weeks.
They don't want us to be independent. They're preparing for beast system. So that they could only choose whom they would allow to grow food
Thx so helpful! I’ve had a problem with fungus gnats & gotta get rid of them. It’s Short & to the point which is great!
Thanks!! This is fabulous! I am sick of gnats! I even bought ‘special’ indoor soil after throwing all my old soil away and cleaning plant roots. They came back so I will try this method instead! ❤
They are soo annoying.. I also have a video focused directly on gnats.. so maybe try that one out too for some extra tips :)
I bought Miracle-Gro Indoor Potting Mix that is compost-free, said to possibly help deter fungus gnats.. and it was full of Aphids!!
Dont throw your old soil put in cantainer then put fruits veg peels kitchen .recycling is good
Great tips I've often wondered how to prevent pests without harsh chemicals
Well I used to throw away used soil and early this year i thought about boiling water to the reused soil which I did a few months back. Now I'm trying it again but this time I decided to come and check CZcams to see if anyone has used boiling water to clean the soil. And here I found your video. So right now I just poured a pot of boiling water and it's resting in my sink to cool. Before I transplant any plant in it I will add some fertilizer and grind eggshell. This plant will be in the house over the winter. Soil is too expensive for me to buy every year.
Thank you for the tips!
Good advice! Thank you!
luv ur vibe thank you for the info !!!
I just found some lovely little mealy bugs in my soil, and I hate to dump it all - so I'm definitely trying the boiling/steaming option!! Thank you!
This was a big help!
Great video, short and direct!! I will give it a try
Please do!
This is excellent. Thanks.
Thanks for this video.
Will try the boiling water method...very helpful thank you.
good luck!
FYI, the biosecurity people at customs in Australia actually GAMMA ray any wooden objects you bring in. It is big enough to do a whole shipping container at a time. So gamma rays are the next step up the spectrum from microwave. So it really does work fine.
Great video!!
What i found is after you use boiling water, to prevent molding, put a fan on the soil to get air circulation and dry out the excessive water. Then stir after a couple days to dry moisture underneath out.
Thank you!
Loved the video and your easy manner in explaining how everything is done. Thanks for the tips! Have a great evening 💯💪🏾
Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out the video. I'm glad that you enjoyed the tips and delivery. Coming from a fellow creator that means a lot. Thank you man 💪🏾
Have you ever tried hydrogen peroxide? I haven't yet but some is on the way in the post. It apparently helps in the fight against thrips too. But I will be using the boiling water method without a doubt.
@@nothin2656 no I haven't tried that yet. In all fairness, I haven't tried hydrogen peroxide, neem oil or anything like that. I tried some products last year and my pla to reacted badly and I lost a lot. So I try and make my own stuff where I can.
If the peroxide works though, please let me know! I'd be definitely willing to give it a try 😊
@@CloudGardenerUK it will be here by the end of the week so I will soon find out. I am so worried about the thrips outbreak and I am desperate to end it. If it goes well I will give every new plant that enters my home a hydrogen peroxide and neem oil treatment as standard.
I'm also going to make some self watering moss poles to help my monsteras become one with their poles, but the risk of fungus gnats was worrying me. Your tip of the mosquito bits in the water will hopefully combat that problem before I even encounter it. And your videos have convinced me that it is time to set up my tropical fish tank once again after a decade, so excited about underwater plant life 🥰🌱. Now I have convinced myself it is a good idea, I must get my daughter on board, mother knows best.
@@nothin2656 Omg!! I just set my little cold water tank up.. hopefully it will come out the week of the houseplant tour! It's soo exciting! It's like a whole new world of plants to get! 🤣🤣🤣
Thrips sound super destructive! Just remember to test your solution on one or two leaves first and wait a day or so just incase. You don't want to loose any of your babies! Yeah the mosquito bits works like a charm. A week maximum and the cycle will be broken and you should see a reduction in pests 😊
I have a screen that I have sifted all my soil from plants that have passed away. I took out all the dead plant matter and sifted the soil. Now I need to steam the soil in order to reuse it. It’s in a wheel barrel and I’m hoping that putting, the boiling water into the soil and covering it with a tarp will do the same as covering it with the tinfoil. Thanks for your video.
Very useful, thank you 🙏
So glad it helped! 🥰
I have a big compost heap in the back yard. I want to add this compost when repotting the indoor house plants to give them some nutrition in thier potting mix. (I rarely given them fertilizer, poor things). I know there are undesired seeds as well as insect life in my compost. I hope the oven method will work to eliminate both. Plenty of moisture in the compost already. Thanks.
i used Permethrin ultra something ,just a few sec dash on the low part of the wall around my plants. not on the plants or soil.. 1.2 years ago and still no fungus gnats back. 2 rooms . had a lot 3 years ago until this. came with some free soil bags i got from a shop.. but Permethrin is strong nasty stuff so 1 sec spray close to the wall so it makes a spot and not spray painting. and stay out of the room 24 hours +. no pets close to the house. all my plants thrive and took no damage.. peppers and habaneros . still giving fruit and their seeds is very healthy today , just potted their chilldren as they starts to flower already because of indoor growing early start . spring is here in north norway now..+8C
Oh no, @2:43 THAT is forbidden casserole! 🤣🤣
Thanks so much
You're welcome!
Thank you SO very much for this video!! I live on the edge of a forest & I refuse to buy orchid bark media because it's all around me for free... just needs a little cleaning. Xo
PS. Apartment growers tip, invest in a few cheap outdoor tarp. Place that thing down before you play with your 0lants or plant supplies. This saves you hours of clean up time per year. Yes, i did the math! 😂😂
thank u 😀
Hello Jason. I wonder if the oven way to do also kills virus if left for a longer time? Thank you very much.
Do you do this to the soil you plant your big plants on? Or just for seed-starting?
Thanks bro for your tips.
No problem 👍
Can you microwave the soil if it has, charcoal, moss, leaf litter, cocofiber, ?
This new and invaluable thank you
How about solar sterilization?
I have about 150 gallons worth of soil to sterilize....
I have 1.5 acres. Can you imagine baking ALL soil in oven or Microwave or boiling.
For that small amount, I would rather go and buy new bag
I personally like the microwave method, as long as your pot fits in the microwave , just have your pre saturated not soaked soil in the pot microwave for 5-8 minutes depending on strength of microwave remove and repeat, wait a bit or place a few ice cubes in the soil to help cool down (don't want to cook your plants)
I've heard 1 minute to 2.5 minutes for 2.2lbs. And check the temperature to be 180F in the centre with a meat roasting thermometer (you know the probe kind).
@@OffGridInvestor my tines might be longer as I pre saturated the soil, it takes roughly 4mins to boil water in my microwave. I like to keep it at the steam point for 2-4 mins as my own safety to make sure it's fully sterilized, I have had to many gnat problems
Add pressure cooking to the list. Pretty-much infallable as it'll superheat and steam the soil/compost with no mess.
Good tip!
Question for you. I bought some potting mix I want to sterilize. I do not want gnats or other critters. In the past all new mix I have bought has been contaminated. So returning and buying another isnt ideal. What do you do to readd micronutrients to your soil after sterilization? I worry I will kill all benificial nutrients.
DORMANT larvae are in those bags of soil, and to re-activate you only need moisture. This is why soil sterilization doesnt work for fungus gnats, but it will kill ALL the good and bad bacteria in your soil, which isn't good either. Store bought soil need to be dry as a bone for at least 14-21 days or longer, to ensure f. Gnats larvae and their Next Gen are non-viable before adding a drop of water.
I assume this would also kill mycorhizae and you would have to add more in after it has cooled?
Im i able to sterilize coco coir with fertilizer in it then put it in my blue tongue lizzards tank?
Because of your lovely accent, I have to wonder.. 180-200°.. would that be Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Can you do this with soil that has orchid bark, perlite and horticulture charcoal already mixed in it?
Of course. Make sure it's well wet otherwise the bark might start smoking.
Got a question please; heat the soil at 180deg. F or C?
Fahrenheit. So about 82 °C.
@@melangiumno way it’d this low. 180 degrees Celsius probably.
I'm doing this because my potting soil contains topsoil, and this topsoil contains bacteria and fungus, which prevents my cutting from rooting. The third method seems easy; however, I don't know how effective it really is.
I have a bag of worm castings I usually would add to my home made potting mix. I don’t have the other ingredients to make potting. Is right now so I was going to sterilize some dirt from outside. My bag of worm castings is like a year old. Do I need to sanitize that as well? I feel like if I put it in the over, it cooks the nutrients out and then it’s pointless to add to the soil
If it was in a sealed container its unlikely for it to be infected with pest eggs, it likely only has worm eggs. I would just use it.
I have heard if you sterilise worm castings they become useless
I do prefer the hot boiling water steam method. I also add a bit of hydrogen peroxide to help and also at oxygen to the soil but still I let it dry for the most part
Do you add the hydrogen peroxide during the boiling water or later as a watering or dunk?
Adding hydrogen peroxide to boiling water won't do anything because the heat will break it down into water and oxygen. You want to use hydrogen peroxide when the plant/seed is actually present as hydrogen peroxide breaks down extremely quickly.
Fam! I'm in Australia and we use the logical centigrade and metric system for measurements, but just to confirm, are we speaking in celsius or fahrenheit? I'm guessing the former...
180 celsius will do.
They sterilize Medical instruments in simular temperature settings.
I'm looking for a gnat solution. I'm not sure I'm sold on your boiling water method, adding such a small volume of water to a large amount of compost at room temperature, would surely instantly reduce the water temperature, not to mention thermal transfer to the bowl it's in. The first 2 methods are overkill and energy intensive if it can be done equally effectively with half a kettle of boiling water and a mixing bowl. Does that make sense?
Any thoughts
Check out my video on fungus gnats.. I offer quite a few solutions, the last one will be the best if you already have an infestation
i used the third method and accidentally made a soup. i did it in a container with drainage, so do i just wait for it to all flow out?
Yup
How about the soil in my plant box?
Great, now how do you do 400 gallons.
Watched the video and glad that I have options..easy to difficult. Thank you. But I'm wondering do they get rid of these tiny almost invisible worms in my soil? I hope so.
What are those? Nematodes?
@@nunyabiznes33 i do not know?
@@lindaragsdale1656 oh OK. Doesn't matter what they're called, they still have to go! 😁
@@nunyabiznes33 Yea, i agree.. glad you confirmed my intuition, oh i remember composting tomatoes and they were all over them.. i only noticed it after composting and not turning my compost over.. any info on why tomatoes had worm's eating them?
The microwave and oven will kill anything. Not so sure about his kettle method though. It'll get a lot but I don't feel like it'll do 100%.
how about solarization?
There's no sun in England
When can you use the soil after sterilizing it?!?!?!
Will this kill snail eggs?
Your audio is very low. At times it sounds like you are whispering. Thank you for this info! Js
Looking forward to autum now 🥰
Yep, this is all true. If you want to really nuke the soil put it in a stem basket in a pressure cooker. I’ve been curious about keeping plants alive that are prone to Nectria infections. My approach is going to be twice annual Zerotol (hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyacetic acid) drenches.
Time will tell if this works. The plant I’m hoping to keep alive is Chojubai “red”.
I love these little plants but they don’t like my area.
For the oven method, another video said only 2 minutes in the oven,,, not 30. WHich is it?
2 minutes will do nothing. Unless its microwave.
Hello. !80 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?
180 Celsius and 365 Fahrenheit
My gas oven doesn't have anything less than 150 Celsius.
I think pouring with hot water can drain away the nutrients but microwave it or cook in fire without water will be good
Doesn’t the nutrients cook out if we cook it?
We can always add fertilizer later. There's no point worrying about nutrients if the soil is so full of nasty microbes and fungi that nothing would grow in it.
Cook in fire without water? Good luck when it catches alight.
As long as the boiling water remains in the bowl/bucket of soil and doesn’t drain out, I believe the minerals should be retained. Not sure about the beneficial microbes though.
Can you water the soil with Hydrogen Peroxide? It would kill all the fungus, mold, parasites and bacteria out there?
How do I sift
I purchased a small 9x7 sifter meant for animal trapping, works ok but would recommend something larger if you have a lot of plants
Just use boiling hot water.
White vinegar dish soap
I think I would try the third one. I would not want any of that in my oven or microwave for hygiene purposes.
Same 🙈 It's my preferred method
Hygiene purposes? You're STERILISING here right? That's what microwaves do, they kill everything
Of course it is covered!
I have 20 pounds of coco coir to sterilize!
180° C or F?
Centigrade
It's actually probably 180° F.
75° C and above gets rid of most microbes, there's no need to go to 180°C. Other sources also recommended 82-93° C. Higher might do more harm than good.
Fahrenheit. If it was 180°C, that would be over 350°F, and anything above ~200°F will start to release toxins, even with organic soil.
Did you had any problems with the sterilized soil?? I heard this process also destroys useful microorganisms
A microwave doesn’t kill ants because of the wavelength of the radiation, so how does it kill parasites and fungus?
by the steam.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj makes sense
Seems to kill other bacteria regardless. Here in Australia the biosecurity at customs uses gamma rays for anything wooden you bring in in your passenger baggage. So they're the next step above microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum.
@@OffGridInvestor I appreciate your reply. Thanks
Im going to add boiling water then repot. Knats doing my head in.
U must use a collar mic 🎙️. U r hardly audible without earphones 😊
i use hot water to kill all small bug and there all egg only
byeeee ;)
Kinda hard to hear
Lol u need to use hot boiling water with hydrogen peroxide 7% mix with water and lay the soil under the sun for a day dry. And your done
How much peroxide to add per liter of water?
@@nunyabiznes33 if 3% hydrogen peroxide then four teaspoon per litre if 7% then two teaspoon per litre
@@mastmolamm5604 thanks a lot! I'll try this next time I sterilize soil
@@nunyabiznes33 you can add 2 teaspoons of baking soda as well per litre
Another good antivirus spray mix one litre water one teaspoon veg oil one teaspoon non scented liquid soap and two table spoon baking SODA. MIX AND SPRAY every 12th day. Non toxic and natural
Elaine Ingham would be having a complete sh*t fit.
i got my frozen pizza stuck on there sonwwhere.. sorry.. (also yes it helped.. currently frying my soil for some reason)
*EXPERIMENTING:*
*Ijust used clorox and water for 100 gallons(20-5gal buckets)of soil to soak 24-hours, now letting it air dry for 24-hours before covering it for 1-week to 1-month!!*
Boiling water method kills the good microbes in your soil. Even if you cook or freeze the soil to kill bugs It Must have new amendments and micro nutes added or your plants will not like it at all and you just wasted a plant an time. Yes I learnt from experience. Keep it up tho knowledge shared is never a bad thing
That’s horse 💩 this definitely works yeah it takes out some things like good bacteria but you can easily add those things right back in. This method is something you have to do anyway when you buy a bag of soil from anywhere
@@E.TGropeHome yes it works But! Killing all the microbes is Bad, the microbes eat crap an shit out what your plant likes/wants/needs. That's y after the boiling water you gotta put some microbes back into the soil as I said b4 an then give the soil around 3 weeks minimum b4 you use it. You don't have to believe go do research. Good luck growmie
@@E.TGropeHome hey, do you mind me asking how you could add those? I have worm cast, does that work?
@@Myri114 good question i was thinking the same 🤔
I suppose this is at least good enough for sprouting seeds or rooting cuttings in trays before transferring them to "normal" soil.
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I dont care about plants i wanna eat it
You are. Going to get Sue
Ok for a house plant.... no good for a garden!
Couldn't stand the music. Couldn't hear what you were saying, Shame.
😥 Captions are enabled ❤
bruh no need to be rude
😂😂
I also think that no music would be better. Just a kind suggestion. :)
@Cloud Gardener UK I also found your information very helpful. I am going to try the oven method.