Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: cadalot on September 25, 2014, 19:39
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Found this by accident on YouTube posted here so I can find again next season and to inform others that like Frugal living
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Or just see our "Richy's Paper Pots" thread on the Growing FAQs board:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=11390.0
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Have tried richies paper pots :D :D :D The dogs danglers :D :D :D
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we have been using them for years . . . kills time over winter evenings with me and my other half stocking up with them :D
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yep - at the moment I'm in a bit of a quandary - do I turn the newspapers into pots or into 'bricks' for the fire.
Probably going to be bricks for a few months - then when it takes too long to dry them I'll start the pot production line...
Cheers,
Balders
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Sounds like a plan :D
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Have tried richies paper pots :D :D :D The dogs danglers :D :D :D
after 2 failed attempts at getting parsnips to germinate I sowed in Richies pots. As soon as a hint of greenery showed they were planted. I've not dug up any as yet but the top growth is looking the best ever. I think I know what I'll be making this winter too ;)
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Interested to read that folk make paper pots over winter ... the ones I make (newspaper rolled around an aerosol can) seem to be a nightmare to store so I make mine just-in-time when I need them in the Spring.
Perhaps I'm missing a trick as to how to make-and-store?
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That's one reason I was interested in the fold out square ones as you can store them flat and open out when required.
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I only use newspaper pots for things that want a deep root run and may resent transplanting (for me that is Parsnips, Sweetcorn and Sweet peas). To that end I want tall pots (I think that Loo rolls are not tall enough), so mine are about 4" tall and maybe only 2.5" diameter.
They fit nicely in holes made with a bulb planter - pot them in, water around (like Leek planting) to wash the soil in, and that's it
(I tear off any newspaper sticking out above ground, otherwise it acts as a wick drying out the paper below ground, which then makes it hard for the roots to grow through the paper)