No purchasing, storing or washing plastic plant pots when you make your own seed pots!
Collect
- Newspaper
- Long ruler or scissors
- Assorted jars or child’s stacking cups (with straight sides)
- Flour and water paste for glue
- Plastic seed tray or lunch box
- Seedlings or seeds
- Compost
Tear or cut newspaper
Measure size of strip by aligning pot against edge, plus 2-4cm allowance for folding over pot bottom.
Tear against ruler, or cut. If tearing, tear top to bottom in direction of paper fibres.
Tip: use different colours for different seeds/seedlings.
Wrap
Open out torn strips, so it is single ply.
Wrap around jar or cup, not too tightly.
Turn upside down and fold over bottom allowance
Tip: use a spot of flour glue to fix down edges
Potting Up
Use next smallest cup to squash firmly against the bottom folds, or use fingers.
Fill with compost.
Pot up seedlings firmly.
Pack into tray to secure.
Water.