Newspaper seed starter pots

There's no need to spend money on seed starter pots when you can make biodegradable pots from newspaper.

Tue, Mar 24 2009 at 10:46 AM

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A Nony.Mouse Aug 07 2009 at 5:07 AM

With the paper toilet tubes, I would get two seed starters - cut it in half so you have two tubes, do small cuts on the ends so one side has "fringe" - between three and five cuts should suffice - then fold the fringe in so it will hold something at the bottom. I sometimes would put notches in the bottom two pieces of fringe so they hold themselves closed. I used to do an even simpler version of the paper folding for when I would go on car trips and ate sunflower seeds for a snack... Half the time

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I had no bag for the shells and would fold up a scrap piece of paper, sometimes from a newspaper we might bring along to keep us passengers busy into an envelope that could be very versatile. I had also made some larger versions at my work a few times when we had run out of the premade paper wine bags (I called them my "ghetto wine bags") and all of the customers were very impressed. Basically, it was just a giant envelope that was open on one end, the paper tucked inside itself, and could be forced to have a square or triangular or round bottom, depending on how you pushed on it. Best part? It never took more than twenty seconds (ten of those seconds were usually spent trying to locate a suitable piece of paper.) Yay for fun randomness.

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KBO Mar 24 2009 at 11:14 AM

I've made some with toilet paper tubes and I'm successfully using them for smaller seedlings. I just kept a box on the porch by our recycling area and threw them in there instead of in the recycling bin.