Re: Peat Pots
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- Subject: Re: Peat Pots
- From: M* L* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 06:24:22 -0600
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At 04:54 PM 10/6/98 -0400, you 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
>
Doesn't burning styrofoam create a toxic smoke? Margaret
