Re: Peat Pots
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- Subject: Re: Peat Pots
- From: A* D* <a*@crwys.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 05:41:53 +0100 (BST)
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On Tue 06 Oct, Thomas-Fonta Hegerich wrote:
> I gave up peat pots years ago as too troublesome and expensive. In more
> recent years have been using styrofoam coffe cups from the supermarket,
> burn drain holes with a small soldering iron and move small seedlings
> from flats to pots for further growth, hardening off etc. They are
> cheap, & reusable for several years. Being somewhat flexible the plants
> are easily removed with a ball of earth around roots. T.J.
> Hegerich N. Va Zone 6/7
>
I used soil blocks for many years,then coffe cups, now it is either
module trays or square pots which fit exactly 15 in a standard seed
tray with no gaps, no weeds in between, no wasted water, even the cheap
commercial pots last many years. Any pots like that are fine as you get
things planted out in time.
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Allan Day Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
