RE: perennials DIGEST V2 #268

I have a question that may seem elementary, but how do you sterilize old six-packs?  Many thanks, 
Barbara

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From: 	Nan Sterman[SMTP:nsterman@ucsd.edu]
Sent: 	Wednesday, March 18, 1998 10:48 PM
To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: 	Re: perennials DIGEST V2 #268

>In a message dated 98-03-18 12:06:38 EST, you write:
>
><< If you can't find a local nursery, try a small one, then you need to put on
> that creative thinking cap and devise other containers for your plants.
> Paper or styrofoam cups would work for individual plants.  Egg cartons would
> hold small ones.  I go to the salad bar a lot and buy just a little salad
> and then hoard the containers.  Plastic cake holders are wonderful for
> cuttings, especially the ones with clear lids.  >>
>
>
>What about making newspaper pots. I saw them do that on the better homes and
>garden show. You can use any size container to roll the paper around. They
>made it look so simple. Has anyone tried this?
>
>CherrylM
>Baker, LA
>zone 8b

Oh yes, I've done it dozens of times.  The trick is to get the newspaper
pots to stand upright once they are filled and wet.  I've used a flat (the
kind you get from the nursery), filled it with the paper holders so that
they have no room to fall, and then use masking tape to tape them together
wherever they touch another pot.  Hmmm....  you might imagine that I could
have lifted the pots up and they would have looked like a honeycomb.  That
way, they all support eachother and the tape is easy to cut when it's time
to plant out the plants.  Also, just plant them with the newspaper if its
not yet disintegrated....

This year, however, I've used the clear plastic containers that
strawberries come in and old six packs that I sterilized.  Somehow, it's
just easier!

Nan

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Nan Sterman, Master Composter in Residency
Olivenhain, California
Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
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