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Seed pots1/11/2024 ![]() It will soon break down and will not harm the plants at all. These great little pots are free, of course, and another nice thing about them is that when the time comes to move your plants into the garden or large outdoor pots, you can simply plant the whole pot. But I did transplant the tomatoes rather early (when their secondary leaves had become big) into some new newspaper pots and filled them with an organic potting mix so as to give them more nutrients, as the coir is said to contain little to none. The pots last several weeks, probably long enough for the plants to be ready to go into the garden, depending on where you live. ![]() After 1/2 hour or so, I pour off what is left. I water from the bottom, by pouring water directly into the bottom of the "tray," and not onto the "pots." It spreads around and the pots take up just as much as they need. I plan to set the rest out sometime this week, if I am not too busy. All are doing well, and I have several little cucumber plants outside in the garden (in So. I planted heirloom Brandywine tomatoes, cucumbers, and a few flowers-all in seed form. (Later, I divided the pots and put them into two rectangular baking pans to make it easier to move them around as the windows in the house that got the sun changed with the time of day, but someone with a room that gets more sun might not need to do that. Our seeding pots are fully compostable They naturally break down once planted into the earth leaving no residue or trace of debris. Then I lined the whole carton "tray" with a large garbage bag to water-proof it, taping loose pieces at the corners to make it neat, and filled the pots with fluffy coconut fiber (coir) to give the seedlings plenty of soft stuff to sink their roots into. I made about 32 of them they just fit into a large carton whose sides I had cut down so they were an inch or two lower than the newspaper pots. I am glad to see this great ible, and since I have used these folded newspaper pots already, some here might be interested on how they turned out.
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