Paper Potter

[Colin Miles]

Are these any good?

[alan refail]

Never used one. But I looked at the website. £9.95 seems a lot to reprocess newsprint. I have always used and reused plastic pots, got free from a Parks Dept skip years ago. I think this counts as good recycling. I don't find anything resents planting out from pots or modules if it has developed a proper root system.
If you want to use newspaeper, I'm sure one of our more practical mwembers will come up with a way of making your own Potter for nowt.

Alan

[Chantal]

I have one and spent a long time making pots last year. They were good insomuch as they were easy to make but storage without squashing them was a problem. Also when potted up the compost dried VERY quickly and so had to watered a lot unless the pots were jammed together in which case they had a tendancy to go mouldy.

Despite all this I grew some good plants. Will I try again? Dunno at this point. Maybe if I have a rainy day just before I need them.

[Allan]

I use exclusively 7 cm square plastic pots, very cheap and the better grade last many years, fit 15 in a standard seed tray with virtually no gaps.I put capillary matting in the tray, wicks through the drainage holes keep the lot moist on mu capillary bench. Once running no hand watering necessary but you have to make quite sure that the compost in the bottom of each pot is pressed firmly down before topping up with looser compost.
Allan

[mazmezroz]

I was given one for Christmas a couple of years ago. It makes you feel virtuous doing the whole recycling thing but they do dry out amazingly quickly - you have to watch plants like a hawk to check they're not turning to dust!

I plant my sweetcorn in them, and they have always done really well. Means you don't have to disturb the roots, of course.

[Colin Miles]

Thanks everyone. Yes - I was worried about the watering and mustiness.