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This morning while turning my seed trays on the kitchen windowsill there was not a peep of sweetcorn.

Just gone into the kitchen to make a cup of tea and their little heads are through! 

So amazing what a few hours can do.

mustve been after a cuppa

Hope you live in the deep south... can't even contemplate sowing mine until May
:-X

I'll sow in the next week or so -  I need to get some of those peat/biodegradeable pots first. For some reason, probably my fault, loo rolls don't seem to work with sweetcorn.

Get the peat pots from WILKO, they are the cheapest around. ;D

How about paper pots, Barnowl? They're working well for me, for most things. I looked up all sorts of complicated ways of doing it, including origami, but have settled on a very simple way to make them. For a smallish/mid-size pot, e.g. beans, peas, I use half of one page of tabloid newspaper. (I.e. if you spread out the centre pages, tear down the centre-fold vertically, then tear each sheet in half along horizontal midline, you'd get 4).
Then just roll it loosely round a small straight sided glass, bottle, or jar, fold the bottom over, and if you like, tamp the inside of the pot with a smaller bottle.
I then put the pots in a small box or tray with a bit of compost around them to help keep them damp (and upright). You can also put a few inches of compost underneath them if you're expecting a lot of root growth (e.g. beans, courgette) and want to give them a safety margin. :)

I tear each page into 3 to make smaller pots, around a 30ml Body Shop bottle.

Thanks, it's a good thought, but the other pots have always worked for me and at the moment I'm changing so many other aspects of my planting plan that I'm a bit  'if it ain't broke don't fix it' wherever possible  :)

It never fails to amaze me how many toilet rolls some people on this forum use, do you have bowel problems. ??? ::)

I often think what state of health I might be in if I used toilet roll tubes when you consider I generally sow around 80-90 sweet corn seeds.

By my calculations thats near enough two toilet rolls every week of the year  ::) ::) plus there are my 30 sweet peas and around 50 Parsnips, making it a toilet roll every two days.

Then when you consider my bowels only move about every three days its totally impracticle :'( :-[ ::)

I don't often ask questions so can you indulge me please and answer this one  ;)

I am in the midlands in a pretty sheltered area but they won't be going out for a long time yet!  They will spend the next few weeks on the windowsill then they will go onto the covered veranda for a few more weeks they planted out at end of May/beginning of June (weather dependent obviously).

I do mine in RootTrainers and they seem to work ok.

In answer to your question Teegee - we get through scarey amounts of looroll.  I think my son uses about half a roll each 'go'!!

Now that my two children are home for holidays our household consumption has gone up to nearly a roll a day. I'm grateful to have a few more tubes to plant things in though.

Tee Gee dont worry!! I understand where you are coming from .......but its a horses for courses kind of thing  ;D There are only two of us in our house and we both have a bowel movement everyday --sometimes twice a day each! We accumulate loads of bog rolls!!

I must say this makes me very happy to give you some information for a change!! :P

Duke

*What a topic !!* ;D

Quote from: Tee Gee on April 07, 2009, 16:56:47
It never fails to amaze me how many toilet rolls some people on this forum use, do you have bowel problems. ??? ::)

I don't often ask questions so can you indulge me please and answer this one  ;)

One word, 'teenagers'.

No idea why they have to use nearly a full roll every time they go to the loo  ::)

Jo.

And 1 kitchen roll tube = 2 bog roll tubes
;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

kept all the inner tubes from the christmas wrapping paper we used, plus my daughter's 4 rolls, get 8 out of each  ;D

Jo - snap!! And then they-next-door come to our house for a plunger!!

And TG - I've long wanted to observe upon that - like do you run a B&B??

Quote from: tim on April 07, 2009, 19:54:15
Jo - snap!!

And then they-next-door come to our house for a plunger!!

;D ;D ;D

Been there, got the t-shirt  ::)

Jo.

Buy really cheap toilet paper, there's much less on each roll. And the cardboard is nice and thin. :)

Then there are complaints about the quality  ::) Good job they don't have to use Bronco, now that would be a different story  ;D
Given up with loo rolls here, too much of a fiddle when filling with compost.

I have always been "regular" in the extreme.... punctual my wife used to call it... but as the lactose intolerance has come out into the open.... half a dozen times before 9:00am is not unknown.  :-[

I have loo roll tubes imported from Belgium, from a kind friend who collects them for me and brings them over on the Eurostar  :) :) :) :)