Topic: Pots from household containers, is there a catch?

[hellohelenhere]

Lately I've taken lots of cuttings, but had no plant pots to put them in. Having loads of them at my previous place (which I will pick up, 'some time'), I was loathe to buy any new; so I used plastic milk cartons and foil-lined juice-cartons, cut down, with holes made in the bottom.

Are they likely to be problematic, or do you think they'll work just as well as normal pots?

[Lauren S]

I use plastic milk containers, good results last season  :D

[kt.]

As well as using seed tray,  I also use muller yoghurt pots for starting some seedlings off.

[Lauren S]

I forgot to say....I cut around the middle of the milk container part way and then it acts like a little propagator. Little extra protection  :D

[hellohelenhere]

Ooh, clever - hadn't thought of that!

[Duke Ellington]

One of the best containers are those containers that fruits like blueberries,strawberries etc are sold in at supermarkets. They have their own lids that turn the container into a propagator and the base of the container often has holes already made. I just wash, peel the label off the lid, fill with compost and sow my seeds.

Duke ;)

[hellohelenhere]

Good idea - and gives me an excuse to buy grapes once in a while... a bit of a treat these days, as they seem to have got shockingly expensive.

[robbo]

My favourite is to use the plastic cups from vending machines. Washed and a few holes put in, they are ideal as 3" seed pots. I have over 100 strawberries, taken from runners this year, sat in these pots while I decide what I am going to do with them. A few will be planted, but the rest, I don't know yet.

  Robbo.

[Nemesia]

I fill clean ice cream tubs with compost (after eating the ice-cream) and put rows and rows of small fuschia cuttings and sometimes geraniums too. I label them properly as I like to keep the trailing ones separate.

I have masses of plant pots from past Wilko sales. The square ones are good as they fit together in the trays tomatoes or icecream come in. Makes for easier watering later on.

[hellohelenhere]

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I fill clean ice cream tubs with compost (after eating the ice-cream)

Oh, *that's* how you clean them. Haagen-Dazs make the best plant pots, I believe? Double-Belgian Chocolate especially effective, you say? Splendid!