Welcome to our plot!

I'm Hazel, and in Nov 2006 my friend Jane and I took on a half plot at Hill Allotments, Sutton Coldfield - we want the satisfaction of growing and eating our own fruit and veg, and to improve our diet (and fitness!).

This is the story of what happened next...........

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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!

10 comments:

  1. Well they certainly look happy there!

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  2. Seriously impressive, and you definitely have the greeny-eco-environmental upper hand!

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  3. I'm wondering if they will sag when they get wet - but at the moment they have turned out to be very neat!

    And I can just plant the whole lot out, so less root disturbance - everyone's a winner!

    And yes, Bilbo, I feel extremely virtuous!

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  4. They look like a great idea !! I've even made comment to them on my latest blog entry .. With a link to you of course..

    Thanks for the note ..I will get to do an entry of the photography sometime :O) The vinyard pictures are froma weekend away about an hours drive from where we live ..I'll write about that some time too :O)

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  5. so neatly executed! how impressive!

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  6. Hi Hazel, heres another for you, I used old drinks cartons for mine, similar shape to yours and they sit together nicely, just cut the tops off, couple of hole in the base and bobs yr uncle! They are also built to with stand a watering.

    If im honest tho this is not my tip I found it in a gardening mag!

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  7. Good one, Jody - they will be more robust than my paper pots (and reuseable) - I'll be able to give a proper verdict on mine when I plant these out.

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  8. Thanks Hazel, I've been looking for this square paper pot link for ages.

    Johnty

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  9. Thanks hazel, I'd been looking for these instructions for ages.

    Johnty

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