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toilet rolls for plant pots

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:42 pm
by gunners71uk
well trying to use them but the open bottom has me foxed lol

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:34 pm
by wulf
Stand them in a tray first - when it comes to planting the roots should help hold the soil together. Personally, I prefer using newspaper pots though - they've got a base and are thinner to rot down.

Wulf

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:24 pm
by gunners71uk
how long will a toilet role hold a runner bean for.3 or four weeks

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:52 pm
by Batfink
Ours have held for around 5 weeks in the past - although 3-4 is about normal.

Toilet rolls for plants

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 2:42 pm
by Kitchenwitch
We've just planted our beans out, having had them in the toilet roll inners since we planted them about a month ago; seems to work really well, and the rolls themselves are degrading nicely in the ground already. We stood them in a tray, as Wulf suggested, which sorted the open-bottomed thing pretty well, although I had to resist the temptation to pick them up for root observations quite often....!