Author: Sal
Paper Plant Pots: A Great Idea From the Permaculture Group
Thursday, 1st May, 2008 at 5:48 pm, Isle of Wight
We were alerted to this environmentally friendly way to grow seeds without having to use plastic pots earlier in the week and thought we’d share it with you.
Angie from the Ventnor Permaculture Group has ingeniously created paper pots for growing seeds and has step by step instructions, with photos on how to create your very own paper pots over on the Ventnor Permaculture Blog.
It’s a brilliant idea and a great way to recycle newspaper, rather than just putting it in the recycling bin.
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May 1st, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Angie, you should be running the whole green shooting match instead of those who want their name in lights or waste hundreds of thousands of tax payers money on jollies for D list celebrities.
I shall now be using this technique for my veg.
Well done you clever lady.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I’ve been making little seedling pots for two growing seasons now using a wooden eco pot maker thingy. See
http://www.ecoutlet.co.uk/shop/product_details/?product_id=150
But I like this idea, ‘cos now I could make some bigger ones.
Thanks.
Sue C
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Bertie:
Thanks but you made me blush. I am not interested in working with organisations that dictate what people want without consultation, you can only bang your head against a wall so many times. Personally I feel the best way to interest people in green/environmental issues is to chip away a bit at a time, usually by finding something that will save them money. If something like newspaper plant pots capture their imagination it may make them look at other parts of their lives and see what small green changes they can make.
Sue C:
That is great that you are already making your own pots, much nicer and cheaper. I did look at a pot maker from a different company and thought the pots that it made were a bit short and too wide. My bean pots are tall and narrow as the beans roots go down more than they spread and even better I need far less compost for them.Things like that I put away somewhere ’safe’ so I can find them easily the next year, which means I would probably never see it again! Plus the cost of it would provide me with all my vegetable seeds for 2-3 years. We will be doing an article about saving your own seeds later in the season.