As you probably know we shouldn’t be using peat pots due to environmental concerns, buying terra cotta pots is too expensive, what is a cheap gardener to do? Make your own homeade pots out of newspaper of course. Muddy Clogs describes how to exactly do this on her blog. My only complaint is that I didn’t think of it first.
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Other than the “Do you really just grow ‘strawberries’ in your grow box?” question. The most common question I have gotten is why exactly do I have a grow box. Hopefully I will be able to answer this question below, as for the first question the answer is yes (without the fingerquotes) Necessity: I am cheap and don’t want to buy all my plants from local nursery or garden…
The strawberry plant is doing better than I ever expected, should have some fresh strawberries in a week or two. Hopefully no one tells them it is not June…
Well the strawberry plant seems to be doing great in the $20 PC grow box. Can’t wait to try it out on my recently planted seedlings.
Whether you are trying to determine if those seeds you have been stored for 3-4 years are still good or questioning your ability to harvest seeds on your own testing germination is a great way to take away from of the guesswork and avoid disappointment next spring. The process is very simple, I believe I did the same thing in second grade during our plant section. Though that was…
Living in the Pacific Northwest there is no way to get away from these slimy creatures. Last year I only saw a few of these creatures but apparently my veggie plot must have been identified and they told all their friends since I am currently planting my second set of cilantro and lettuce seeds since they ate up my little seedlings. Now how do I deal with these creatures?…
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This looks great! Sadly I didn’t know about peat, I got so excited about all the seeds that I just bought one of those mini-greenhouse kits without considering the plastic or wondering about peat. I did manage to find planters made of recycled material though (my garden will be living on my apartment balcony).
No worries, I didn’t learn until I noticed some coconut coir what much cheaper than peat moss and went online to see what people were saying. From my own experimenting I prefer it over peat moss no contest.
I prefer the square origami pots because they sit better together inside a tray as apposed to the round. I sit at night and make them while watching TV. I even got the teenagers to do some, and that is a feat unto itself!The instructions are here:< HREF="http://www.geocities.com/newspaperpots/” REL=”nofollow”>Newspaper Pots
Well shoot, lets try that again-http://www.geocities.com/newspaperpots/Guess it’s a copy and paste.
Decided to try the other method this morning with my girls but it appears I am origamically challenged. In my defense my paper was definately different than the one on the website.
Paper egg cartons are also good, and there’s no origami involved.
I just rolled up tons of newspaper pots with Wondersoil to start my garden for next year. Great post!
Red Icculus, I am doing my best resisting to plant too much before I can trasplant them outside.
Try this – I just did a pictorial to (hopefully) make it much easier for anyone to do! People always get stuck somewhere and it’s impossible to be able to tell them where they’re going wrong through emails, so this should help.
Folded Newspaper Pots