[cadalot]

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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[Yorkie]

Or just see our "Richy's Paper Pots" thread on the Growing FAQs board:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=11390.0

 

[shedmeister]

Have tried richies paper pots The dogs danglers

[jay001]

we have been using them for years . . . kills time over winter evenings with me and my other half stocking up with them 

[Baldy]

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

[Yorkie]

Sounds like a plan 

[sarajane]

Have tried richies paper pots The dogs danglers

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 

[Kristen]

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?

[cadalot]

That's one reason I was interested in the fold out square ones as you can store them flat and open out when required.

[Kristen]

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)