Perfect Paper Pots!

Well I cannot tell you how much fun I’ve had this evening!

Following advice from the good people of the GYO Grapevine, I wanted to pot on the tomatoes from their 3” pots into something slightly bigger, before planting them out either in big pots here, or at the Hill in a few weeks.

Having already potted the peppers on into square 4” pots, I had these in mind for the tomatoes too, however a lunchtime trip to Wilko revealed a complete lack of pots – which scuppered the plans somewhat – they’d sold out & ‘might have some more at the end of the week’. Boo!

After some quick thinking (actually some furious frowning & glaring at the empty shelving), I remembered JB being most enthusiastic about his newspaper pots that he’d made, so I did a search on-line & found instructions to make newspaper pots & from there it was just a case of using the right size paper to make the size of pots I want.

This worked so beautifully – although I concede that the paper pots may not stand up to watering too well – but they only have to survive for about three weeks before they go on to their final positions, so I think that this one is marked up as a success - hurrah!