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Newspaper seedling pots

You and your children may be interested in gardening and in starting your garden plants from seeds. Whether flowers or vegetables, it’s fun and inexpensive to start your own plants. It also gives the children an opportunity to watch as seedlings grow, pushing up through the earth, getting their first leaves, then getting their “true leaves” and growing stronger.

You can purchase peat pots or the peat disks that are watered and swell into seedling pots, or you can make your own newspaper pots for seed starting. This is a very inexpensive and earth-friendly way to start your seeds. The newspaper pots are easy to make, too, and the children can join in.

We have old newspapers that we use to line the rat cage, put in the bottom of our chick starter cage, or simply shred and add to the compost heap. You probably do, too. If not, you may know of someone with newspapers you can get for free just so they can get rid of them.

The pots, once filled with potting soil and then watered, are quite sturdy yet they can be planted straight into the garden where they will naturally decompose and allow the plant roots to develop.

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posted by Ann crum @ 10:07 PM