Recycle those toilet paper and paper towel tubes

Some of you may already know about this and do it, but I just heard about this recently so have been saving the tubes.

Today I took some of them and made them into little seed starting pots. They are bio-degradable and I don't know why I didn't know about this years ago, as lots of thrifty people have been doing this a long time.

When the seedlings are ready, just pop the little pots in the ground, and you won't disturb your roots. I took some pictures and the process is really easy peasy.

Here is the ready to-go-tube.

The next thing you do is flatten it,
open it back up and flatten it the other way,
so that you end up with a square shape.

Next, take your scissors and cut half inch slits up each crease line.
You will then have 4 tabs,
then you fold them like a box.

There is your little pot
ready to be filled with your potting medium.

I put mine in some sort of container that we had gotten from the grocery store, and had a domed lid that would fit over the top to keep the moisture in. I cut up the small venetian blind slats for markers, using a pencil to write on them. That works great!

My little project doesn't look as great as what Tom
of Seventh Street Cottage does,
but it will do for now.
Check out his blog as he is a real inspiration
with his cloning machine and winter sowing of seeds.

Happy Gardening

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL