Or, if you have spare time in the winter, you could build your own for a couple cents per thousand:
Take those Solo/Dixie cups you use, fill one (or more, depending on how many people are involved in the project) with plaster of paris. When it sets up thoroughly, remove the plaster plug, and use it as a mold to make newspaperpots. Many people making newspaper pots say they stick together just fine, but I have usually mixed a thin 'wallpaper paste' (1C sugar, 1C flour, and about a gallon or more of water) to act as an all natural glue. I make mine with enough newspaper to barely cover the bottom. When transplanting time comes, I peel off the bottom, tearing up the side a little (to encourage the roots to grow down) and stick 'em in the ground. Simple, cheap. and environmental.
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