Recycle Newspaper into Starter Pots

Finished with your morning newspaper?

Got sales papers laying around?

Why not recycle your old newspapers into starter pots?

It's free and easy to do.

Here's how:

Take a full page newspaper.  

 Cut it down the middle at the fold.

Fold the paper in half.

 

Now fold this half in half again.

Unfold.

Fold in corner on the closed side.

Fold in the other corner.

Keeping the corners folded, take part of the bottom and fold it up to the bottom of the corners.

Then take the folded bottom  and fold it over the bottom of the corners.

Keeping it folded, flip the paper over.

Fold one side toward the middle.

Fold the other side toward the middle. 

Now fold the bottom towards the top.

Tuck the bottom into the folded area.

Should look like this so far. 

Fold the top (pointy part) towards the bottom. Should look like an envelope.

Taking the point, fold it to the top corner. 

While still fold, make a crease at the top.

Pop open the paper. 

The pot should be square with a flap.

Get your glue stick and glue the bottom flap down. 

Flip it over and now you have a free biodegradable starter pot! 

Join us next week when we talk about germinating seeds!

Homemade Toilet Paper Roll Starter Pots

Happy New Year 2015!!

What is your New Year's Resolution?

Our New Year's Resolution is  to be more Eco-Friendly, especially around the house.  Last year, Tony and I started our first vegetable garden and compost.  Great for trials and LOTS of errors.  We learned A LOT of what NOT to do.  This  year we plan to take what we have learned and improve upon it by building better garden beds, a three bin compost, greenhouse, seedlings, and more.

Our first endeavor, began with saving all the paper towel and toilet paper rolls.  Even had my parents help save them. I turned the toilet paper rolls into starter pots.  The are PERFECT for growing seedlings!

Once there is no chance of frost, take the seedlings along with the pots and plant directly in your garden.   

BENEFITS:

The seedlings don't go into shock from being transplanted.

The pots are biodegradable.   

Recycling keeps the paper towel & toilet paper rolls out of landfills.

The pots are FREE!

Here's how to make your own Toilet Paper/Paper Towel Starter Pots:

Flatten the toilet paper roll making it more of a square.

Using scissor, cut approximately 1/2" along each fold of one end.

Fold the flaps down like a box.

Now you have your FREE biodegradable starter pot.  

  

Plant your seeds, label and watch your plants grow. 

Start saving your toilet paper and paper towel rolls today!  

Next week, we will give a tutorial of how to make starter pots out of newspaper.  So save your newspaper too!