* start tubes

Posted on April 14th, 2010 by maitreya. Filed under Home and Garden.


Grow Great Grub has an idea for simple seed starts in cardboard tubes.  I collected toilet paper and paper towel tubes (cut in half) since I saw the idea, and here they are all filled up.  You tie a little group together for some stability, and then just fill it with dirt.  No closing of the bottoms is required.  The dirt stays in fine.  I am very pleased with myself for thinking of (or rather, remembering that Martha Stewart thought of) using a cut off juice bottle top for a dirt funnel.  The wide-mouth juice bottles fit exactly perfectly into the tubes.

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The idea is that you can just transplant the whole tube and it breaks down pretty readily.

I’m a little late with the starts, but I’ve got eggplant, poblano peppers, pattypan squash, lemon cucumbers, normal cucumbers, yellow pear tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, zucchini, and pumpkin.



4 Responses to “start tubes”

  1. meg Says:
    April 15th, 2010 at 8:01 am

    hey we’re saving our tooobs too!

  2. lisa s Says:
    April 16th, 2010 at 11:29 am

    it’s also great b/c you can write what’s in them on the side ! :D

  3. katie Says:
    April 20th, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Great idea! I did something similar but made tubes out of newspaper because I am too impatient to wait until I have enough paper product tubes.

    http://littlefooteslab.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/paper-pots-show-and-tell/

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