Since the growing season has finally started again, this week’s blog post will be about urban farming and will show you how you can easily make some paper plant pots yourself. All you need is some old newspapers or similar paper, a small tin or cylindrical object and some scissors. These paper plant pots are ideal for your seedlings since they can stay in their paper pots when it is time for transplanting and repotting – when the paper rots, it will add some nutrients (carbon) to the soil.
- Cut the newspaper or packing paper into small strips – they ought to be a bit longer than your tin or cylindrical object.
- Wrap the paper strip around your tin.
- Now fold the bottom end of your paper tube inside around the bottom of your cylinder. Remove the tin.
- Stand your paper tube upright on the table and fold the upper edges of the paper tube inside – the folded edge will give your paper pot stability so that you won’t need any glue.
- Repeat with as many paper strips as you want. When you have made enough, put your paper pots into a waterproof tray, e.g. an old plastic tray for vegetables from the supermarket, etc.
- Fill with soil for seedlings, water the pots, add seeds and wait for your seedlings to grow into small plants. 🙂 When it comes time to transplant and repot, just take the paper pot and put it into the new big pot or your garden soil – when the paper rots, the carbon in the paper will act as fertilizer for the soil. Happy growing!! 🙂
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