wafflycat wrote:
"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

Oh YES!!! It most certainly does))) Many, many thanks!!!