Ed's Simple Life

In this previous pos t I was looking at newspaper seed pots and sewing some seeds in them which seems to have on the whole worked to varying degrees of success. The Chard, Cabbage and Brussels Sprouts seem to have come up ok ... however I've had less luck with the Sweet Pepper (Spanish Mixed) the pots don't seem to offer much in the way of drainage which I think has been the downfall of the Lettuce and the germination of the Peppers.  Reading around a few people have said that the ink used in the newspaper printing can have a damaging effect of the plant too. It was a nice experiment and I might do it again sometime later in the year when they can dry out better but for now I think I'm going to stick the old tetra paks.

Unfortunately today I ran out of gardening supplies but had seen a tutorial on the internet about how to make "seed pots" out of newspaper ...I was and still am to a certain extent quite skeptical but decided to give it ago as I had ran out of room in the propagator and had no more cups from work. Following these instructions I made three seed pots to start off my Sweet Peppers in (Spanish Mixed) in, although I halved the size of the paper as the pots that the instructions created were about 4 times bigger which my windowsill just didn't have the room for. I'm a little concerned that at some point the base is just going to fall out, but time will tell.  It looks like many people literally plant the pot outside and let the news paper degrade in the soil, we shall see.