Homemade Paper Pots

Each year I try some new adventure. The only way to learn is to try something. In my greenhouse, one could find lots of experiments! This spring, one of those experiments has been making paper pots. It's my first time trying paper pots, so mine look like I need practice! I've tried egg cartons (much too small), saving trays my neighbors buy flowers in (but of course these have to be sterilized) and purchasing little plugs (that swell up with water . . . nifty and fast but they do cost money). Newspaper pots are biodegradable (thicker you make them, the slower this process will happen I'm guessing) and organic (isn't most newsprint ink made with a soy base now?).

I'm inventive, right? I don't need a tool to make little paper pots! In fact, youtube is full of people showing you how to make your own out of glasses, soup cans, milk cartons . . .

Whether to save me $20 or just to impress me, my husband crafted a little wooden pot-maker for me. It's rough, but does the job. I don't know if it's much faster than other methods, but it presses the paper bottom nicely.