Have a great invention to help with gardening? Are you the self-reliant type that prefers Building It Yourself vs. buying it? Share and discuss your ideas and projects with other members.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2007
Location: NE Ohio
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This is the one we have. Made in Canada by Richter's.
http://richters.com/Web_store/web_st...=7954759.26030 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North Carolina
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Southwestern Ontario, Canada
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(Sighhhhhhhhhh.....I miss the "surprise" gardening tool/porn she'd buy me for Xmas every year...nothing huge....sometimes metal plant markers, water cans, secaturs...seeds....that kind of thing. But it was always nice to figure out how to use it before the season started....or where to put it. LOL Might just have to do a "Merry Xmas" to moi from now on. BTW...not my term to call it gardening porn or tomato porn. I borrowed that from Tomatoaddict. Thanks Terry! ![]() |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Carmichael, CA
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Did he use tape on the bottom? That looks super easy. Love it! |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: PNW
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the bottoms learned from ancient Origami masters or similar. I used duct tape on the bottom of mine and rubber bands around them. (dcarch's newspaper pots are more refined looking. I was making mine for my own use, so presentability was not an issue. Earl's method is fast, too, which is an advantage.)
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: NY
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Pardeeville, WI
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Have you looked into Cow pots? they are fiber pots made from 100% natural composted cow manure. if you plant them they fully decompose within weeks leaving you with nutrients and organic matter only - best of all the are American made! Very renewable resource involved here. They come in 3" and 4" sizes.
They may be more than you want to spend, but maybe you can talk your customers into the fact they are environmentally friendly and you are supplying the fertilizer with the plant. I'm just now putting them on the Vermont Bean website. Maybe you can get a better deal buying direct from the manufacturer if you need alot, if you're interested PM me and I'll get the info for you. |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Carmichael, CA
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: NY
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Has anyone tried using Chinese takeout boxes for seedlings?
They come in many sizes. I don't know how much they cost. Couldn't be too expensive. dcarch
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Carmichael, CA
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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I’ve seen egg cartons used for seedlings, but just for home not for sale.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E
Posts: 5,041
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The "Cowpots" do seem to fit your criteria and being in California I bet you wouldn't have any problem tacking the price of the pots onto the seedling price. Greenhouse Mega Store has a Case of 4" Cowpots (270 to a case) for $112.00.
Thats about 41 cents apiece. Just the name alone is an attention getter and they havn't been on the market that long. I'm going to trial some next season to see how they work out. There should be no transplant shock at all with these pots. Ami
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Arkansas zone 6b
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Last year I used newspaper pots made from a tin can form. I tried a few different sized cans. The cans that are a bit shorter and wider than a standard soup can worked best, but the wider pots take more space, obviously. I found that a double layer of newspaper was plenty sturdy, but took too long to decompose during the time when roots should have been reaching out into the soil. Next year I'll try a single layer. I'm curious if there are any additives in the cow pots? Or do they just press and dry them? Sounds like it could be a DIY project. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: PNW
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I used 3-layers of newpaper (double-sheet folded over a single
sheet), but I did not plant the whole newspaper pot. I remove the tape and rubber band, then unroll them into my hand to transplant, with the hole already prepared. The newspaper gets used around the edges for weed block, weighed down with rocks and covered with mulch. A press for making cow pots would be handy. Then one could use any kind of manure that one had on hand to make them (cow, horse, rabbit, chicken, llama, alpaca, etc). I wonder how long they need to dry to hold together. One could get really creative with this: mix a little dolomite, kelp, actinovate, mycorrhizae, etc into the manure before making homemade cow pots. One could even try "compost pots" as an alternative to manure.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E
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Dice you must have been reading my mind. "Quote, One could
get really creative with this; mix a little dolomite, kelp, actinovate, mycorrhizae, etc into the manure before making homemade cow pots". I was thinking on the lines of either making a dip consisting of actinovate and mycorrhizae and dipping the pots in it and allow them to dry or just adding the mycorrhizae and actinovate to the potting aggregate when the seedlings are transplanted to the cowpots or both. Just have to watch the phosphorous levels and make sure they are not to high in the pot or growing medium. Good stuff, Ami
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