How to start seeds & make seed starting plant pots : GardenFork.TV - GardenFork.TV. Making seedling pots from toilet roll inners. Add article to favourites Ok, we admit it, there’s a bit of a toilet roll theme going on at the moment.
Following on from Sarah’s guest post yesterday on planting carrots in cardboard toilet roll inners, I just had to get my oar in too. Since the middle of November, I’ve been avidly saving toilet roll tubes, kitchen towel inners and even the cardboard inners from brown paper rolls for making seedling pots. I’ve got my eye on one of Sarah’s gorgeous paper potters to turn all our newspapers into a veritable array of pots, but in the meantime I’ve been doing what I can with cardboard.
Each year I buy thin plastic seed trays from the garden centre and every year I throw them away after use. Toilet Roll Seed-Starter. UPDATE March 2014: I see each growing season as an opportunity to do better than the last and as a result I rarely stick with one “right way” to do things.
I wrote this article back in 2007 (7 years ago) and it reflects how I used toilet paper rolls as seed-starting cells at the time. Since then I have altered the way I use them quite a bit, and since this article gets a lot of traffic each spring, I figured it was time to provide an update. How to Make Seed-Starter Pots From Cardboard Tubes.