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Stupid Question: Where does all the compost go?

B3B3 Posts: 24,434
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I've had to top up the compost in my tomato containers a couple of times now. 
Where does it go? 
Does it wash away, get compacted or do the tomatoes 'eat' it?
In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,804
    Yes.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • B3B3 Posts: 24,434
    All 3??
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,804
    Yes.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • B3B3 Posts: 24,434
    Thanks @Obelixx + @philippa smith2 I suppose the small annuals and the like don't have such big appetites as tomatoes and dahlias 😋
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,804
    That would be another Yes!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,737
    MPC turns to dust so the smaller the particles the less room they take up. 
    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,531
    It isn't a stupid question.
  • B3B3 Posts: 24,434
    Thank you @josusa47 😊
    When I'm doing mindless gardening tasks, I wonder whys pop into my head. I always get an answer on the forum. A patient and tolerant lot.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 6,433
    The stuff a plant is made from comes from somewhere - conservation of mass and all that. Some part of it is carbon taken out of the air, but a lot of it is minerals out of the soil. So the plants do 'eat' some of it. 
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first” 
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