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!
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