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Post by Alan on Feb 24, 2007 18:27:26 GMT -5
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Post by mbrown on Mar 16, 2007 9:46:07 GMT -5
Thanks for the information. I'll have to try that.
Mike
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Post by Jim on Feb 10, 2008 8:02:40 GMT -5
thought I give this one a bump with seed starting time looming...
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Post by Alan on Feb 10, 2008 23:53:04 GMT -5
Glad you bumped this up, Kim and I made about a thousand of these pots last year and they worked out really well, it's kind of time consuming to produce them but otherwise a good use of a resource which is so often wasted.
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Post by moonlilyhead on Feb 14, 2008 17:21:47 GMT -5
In the new Mother Earth News mag. is a thing on using empty toilet paper rolls as little pots. Perty neat!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 14, 2008 20:50:55 GMT -5
Moonlily, That's the second good article I've heard about in this issue of Mother Earth. Flowerpower mentioned something else to me last week.
I'll have to see if I can't find a copy on a magazine stand somewhere. Sometimes they have it in the village.
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Post by moonlilyhead on Feb 18, 2008 22:34:27 GMT -5
Blue, I can always make copies of the articles you want and send them to you.  |
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Post by robin282 on Feb 26, 2008 10:15:09 GMT -5
I made some newspaper pots--slim and 4-5" long for some perrenial flowers. I stood them up in a plastic zipper bag, and they slid nicely between flats where I had a gap not large enough for anything else.
Robin
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Post by bunkie on Feb 26, 2008 14:04:40 GMT -5
i have used the toilet paper rolls and the paper towel rolls to start seeds. they work really well, except i had a problem with mold during the first few i made. i ended up soaking them in a bucket of water with a 'splash' of bleach for maybe 15 plus seconds and them letting them dry and planting seed in them. never had a mold problem again!
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Post by Jim on Mar 5, 2008 6:54:35 GMT -5
I need to actually try this. It either try it or buy 300 small pots....ouch.
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Post by sandbar on Mar 8, 2008 19:08:09 GMT -5
I need to actually try this. It either try it or buy 300 small pots....ouch. Clark ... plastic is cheap ... 500 3.5" square pots for $45 + shipping. You can reuse them for a long time ... just sterilize in bleach water each year. www.greenhousemegastore.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CN%2DSQKTakes a long time to make 300 newspaper pots ... what's your time worth? BTW, I order the 4" round Kord pots (1000/$62). Lasts me many years ... I am making some newspaper pots and testing soil blocking out this year (hopefully), but it will be a small fraction of what I'm putting out. I reuse all my plastic unless it's broken. |
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Post by Jim on Mar 8, 2008 21:26:33 GMT -5
Sandbar,
Thanks for all the advice. I found some on ebay for cheap..plastic pots that is.
Jim
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Post by sandbar on Mar 8, 2008 23:10:52 GMT -5
Jim, you're welcome. Glad to hear you found a cheap deal on Ebay!
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