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Post by ottawagardener on Jun 9, 2009 15:38:44 GMT -5
I use them for prestarting but I don't find that plants grow well in them? I also use them for keeping out the cutworms on newly planted beans and peas outside and for that purpose they work very well. Speaking of which I should probably shelter my leeks from cutworm mania. My cutworms like all sorts of greens not merely brassicas...
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 9, 2009 22:16:23 GMT -5
Telsing, I tried to use them a few years ago to plant tomatoes due to heavy cutworm activity, but the tomatoes rebelled and died.
I lost fewer by allowing the cutworms their fill. ??
So I stopped that practice altogether. It doesn't appear that I have cutworm problems here? I know I didn't when we lived an hour from here. But E. Ontario was the cutworm capital!!
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Post by bunkie on Jun 10, 2009 10:05:18 GMT -5
i have used the tp rolls in the past, but i mainly use homemade paper pots now. i had no difficulties with the tp rolls, except, they occassionally grew mold and mushrooms. i used to dip the tp rolls in a mixture of water and a teeny bit of bleach for a minute or so, then put soil and seeds in them. that stopped the problem.
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Post by fulenn on Jun 10, 2009 17:06:11 GMT -5
So I stopped that practice altogether. It doesn't appear that I have cutworm problems here? I know I didn't when we lived an hour from here. But E. Ontario was the cutworm capital!! I didn't know there was any place that didn't have cutworm problems. At least there is hope..... Fulenn
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Post by ottawagardener on Jun 10, 2009 18:38:38 GMT -5
Yeah, I had trouble growing tomatoes in tp rolls too? I use yoghurt tubs now and cut out the bottoms for collars when I put them in the ground. Those cutworms have impressive teeth.
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Post by hiven on Jun 11, 2009 13:31:35 GMT -5
I used the tp rolls before but the mold grow faster then the seedlings (mostly for peas) and eversince I used the plastic party cups and root trainers. I lost lots of seedling thanks to the cutworms. It has such nasty habit, cut a whole raw of tung ho and almost whole row of rocket (it did left me 3 or so seedlings to mature though). It has such nasty habit cutting not just brassicas but all sort, including spring onions, peas, lettuce, spinach,beans and flower seedlings .
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Post by ottawagardener on Jun 12, 2009 21:11:27 GMT -5
Cut worms: grrrrr. I suppose they have good taste.
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Post by hiven on Jun 13, 2009 8:15:36 GMT -5
Don't know about their "taste" ,Telsing, but the birds find them really tasty, their feeding ceramic plate is always empty... the birds came righ away after I fill their plates (of white grubs, wire worms, leather jacket larvas, cut worms and all kind of unidentified creepy crawlies .
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Post by ottawagardener on Jun 26, 2009 9:40:08 GMT -5
I love the idea of a pest bird feeder
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 26, 2009 21:20:47 GMT -5
And um..., just exactly how do you collect this gourmet birdie treat?
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Post by nastarana on Sept 3, 2009 12:03:02 GMT -5
I don't think seedlings like growing in a too confined pot. I buy roses from a well known heirloom rose vender, famous for its fantastic selection, but the rose cuttings are rooted and grown and shipped in narrow plant bands, and do seem to need lots of TLC upon arrival.
The TP tubes might work for starting a special seed which is to be immediately transplanted after sprouting.
I like to put plants out after they are to big to be of interest to cut worms, though we don't have very many of those. My sandy soil stays so dry, even with double digging, mulching, which I never neglect, and incorporationg compost, that small plants simply dry up.
Buggy birdfeeder is a good idea. Hand pick, wear gloves if you are squeemish. I used to feed hornworms to a family of bluejays. I tossed the worms out onto bare ground which was near my garden area. I went inside. Through the kitchen window I could see the jays coming and snatching the worms to take back to their nest.
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Post by lottiedolly on Mar 18, 2010 10:10:23 GMT -5
I use my toilet rolls for sowing beans as they like a deep root. I have used this system for a few years now and never have a problem. The toilet roll always dissolves when planted into the ground. I have also started my parsnips in toilet rolls waiting to for them to germinate before i plant them out.
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Post by cornishwoman on Mar 18, 2010 10:21:16 GMT -5
I have never had a problem seed starting with loo rolls,that was all I used up till 2 years ago,but the local plant nursery closed up and had a big old yard sale,when I finally turned up they were giving stuff away so I coped a bunch of seed starting trays,and pots of various sizes.
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 19, 2010 16:41:23 GMT -5
I had the cutworms try to eat through 2 feet high peppers plants... they seem to be especially hungry. Had a onion patch decimated once after I just read about how they don't like alliums... uh-huh sure.
I think there is something to avoiding narrow pots with the exception of tap rooted or deep rooted plants that are being started for transplants. They seem to need good lateral root development as well.
Cornishwoman: Cool!
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