"Ophelia" wrote in message
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Interesting one Bigal,
This is something i thought about, but didnt think it was worth
forking out ten quid or so for the ready made one in case it didnt
work. I was thinking the bottom of the paper pot would not be very
stable. So are there any tricks in the esign and making i should know
before I try to mke one?

I am also very interested in this. Bigal mentioned using a bottle and
pasting the paper. Since I have no knowledge of how this works, does one
not have to use paste using other methods? Is there some special way of
folding?


Take one aerosol spray can (polish, fly spray, air freshener.. whatever thay
are about the same diameter).

If you are using say, old yellow pages, take two sheets of phone directory.
Fold lengthways, but not exactly in half - leave about 1.5 centimetres
extending at one side.

Roll the folded sheets around the aerosol with the 1.5cm extending below the
base of the aerosol. I find it easiest if the paper is flat and I just place
the aerosol on it & roll that way.

Fold the 1.5cm paper extension tightly and up under the base of the aerosol
can. Tap this on to a firm surface and this is enough to form and keep
folded in what is the base of the pot. No pasting needed.

Slide paper pot off aerosol can and voila - little paper pot. Also this size
happens to be fortuitous as 24 of the pots fit neatly in a standard seed
tray.

Very useful for those of us who have failed at gardening in the past at the
stage where seedlings need to be pricked out and potted on due to natural
cack-handedness thus killing off many a seedling. Using the paper pots means
1 -2 seeds to a pot and no pricking out - just put entire paper pot and
seedling into new pot, final site etc. The pot gradually rots down.

Some pictures to illustrate mine:-

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...s001270309.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...s002270309.jpg


Hope this helps