Seed pots make your own??

[Meg]

I often use loo rolls etc to plant on seedlings. Apparantly you can get a mould?? that you wrap and fold newspaper around and this makes a container to put your compost and seedling in. Any body heard/seen anything like that??

[Meg]

[flowerlady]

There are several items about to buy, but it's nothing a tin of baked beens can't do!!   ;D

[Svea]

there are some origami instructions on here too - which is what i will be trying this year (makes square pots, so easier to stand on a square tray?)

[flowerlady]

Ooo  ...    Any idea of the thread address?

[adam04]

its in the top tips section of the site.

[Svea]

http://www.geocities.com/dyanito/origami.gif

and

http://www.geocities.com/newspaperpots/

[Svea]

i just tested them  out (i should really be working!)
and the picture instruction (newspaper pots) one produces a better pot than the origami instruction one.
less difficult folding and a more sturdy pot, too

[Derekthefox]

I struggled with the origami one, but found the picture one easy and effective, although after folding perhaps two hundred pots I may feel differently ...

[Vez1]

I'm using empty yoghurt pots.

[supersprout]

Hey Maggie, if you can bear to have bags of toilet roll middles around the house where visitors are likely to stumble across them and figure you're a hardened eccenteric, they are ideal starter pots.
The mould is harmless and doesn't seem to bother the plants, even tender ones like lettuce. And for planting you can hide the top of the roll where the mould forms, then the cardboard rots away nicely.
Having laughed at peeps who collected paper roll middles in the past for plant pots :-[ I have been forced to Eat my Words  ;). They work well on my plot!  ;D

[flowerlady]

I have a re-cycle bin full of them - kept well away from the collection bods  ;D ;D

If anyone is going to make their own pots from newspaper, heartily recommend use of some form of protection for hands against the printing ink!!  ;)

[Meg]

Thanks knew you would all sort it out. How good is this site.

[iain]

Try this one

http://www.geocities.com/newspaperpots/
hope this helps

[Derekthefox]

Yes Sarah, I am an avid collector of toilet roll tubes now as well, our hall is always cluttered with bags of materials destined for various places ...

[delboy]

I have been collecting loo roll centres and have lots and lots.

Couple of questions:

1  Can they be used with any old multipurpose compost?
2  How do we stop the compost falling out of the bottom?
3  Are they ok for parsnips as well as the usuals like broad beans, runner and french beans?
4  Tell me more about the mould..

Thanks peeps

And I have been collecting the heavy duty cardboard inners from carpets that the fitters throw away - though they might be good once cut up, for carrots(keeping them higher than the carrot fly can reach) and parsnips. Any comments/advice?

[windygale]

Hi All. just found a site that might help for a mould for pots try the www.organiccatalogue.com £12.60 page 80 in 2005 mag,
hope this helps
windy

[Vez1]

OK this looks good and i have been trying but around stage 6 and 7 I am going wrong somehow. can anyone help?

[bupster]

If it's the newspaper one, you sort of unfold the top straight edges and push down to make a triangle, then do the other side.

[plot51A]

Yes, I got a bit stuck there too but just cracked it . The corners are folded up inside - I was trying to do it outside -  ??? then it immediately looks like fig 8 and you're home and dry. Thought it was only me having trouble  ;D

[Vez1]

Still not getting it, even tried derek's instructions from top tips. Oh well beack to the drawing board.