Look into the greenhouse or a flower house of a gardener in the greenhouse of a gardener. You will see it. Possibly lurking Topsy Turvy in the corner, tried not to lower the aesthetics too much. Yes, I talk about the huge stack of plastic plant pots that inevitable – and sometimes endless – alongside the tools and the compost.
When creating an environmentally friendly garden, I really tried to find plastic alternatives, and manufacture several important non-toxic garden base-imposed chemical-free pest control and plastic tools. Plastic pots can of course be reused again and again to tense seeds to plant and young plants, but if they break or are no longer needed, they are sent to the landfill and more than 400 years to be biodegraded. According to an article about Floral Daily, the US environmental protection authority estimated that almost £ 350 million plastic containers are rejected by gardeners, garden centers and garden entrepreneurs in the USA and that only 3.9% are recycled.
Well, what if I would tell you that you never have to use a plastic pot in your garden again? And that you don't have to spend money on the alternative? This hack for DIY cardboard pots is a win-win situation for an environmentally friendly life, and now I have started, I never go back.
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How to do DIY cartridge pots
This DIY -Hack recycles all of your old cardboard boxes (every household has a flood) and transforms them into biodegradable plant pots that you can use for sowing all seeds.
I got this idea for DIY cardboard plates from the brilliant gardener and garden author Simon Akeroyd, who is known for his advice on the spread and growth of your own vegetables and for his sustainable garden tips.
Here I will do you through the simplest step by step you will ever read. As soon as you start with it, I promise that you will be enthusiastic.
What you need
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Steps for the production of DIY cardboard plates -pots
- Cut some squares box; You can use your old Amazon boxes, food delivery boxes and everything as long as there is no plastic band. You could even try this with cereal boxes. Just make sure that thicker cardboard produces stronger pots.
- Sate your cardboard in water by sitting it in a plastic tub (like this from Amazon, which I use constantly in the garden, when I saw). Alternatively, you can use a large plastic memory container.
- As soon as everything is wet and flexible, take a clean glass container – a pasta sauce or a high jam glass ideal – and roll the wet box around the glass to fold the edges below to create a base.
- In order to give a little support, I take a short length of natural, Jute sum and tie this around the box to keep it in place.
- Let it dry out.
- Lift the glass out of the box when it is completely dry.
- Add your potting soil and you can use these planters for all of your seedlings. As soon as your seeds have sprouted, you can plant the whole thing in the ground, and the box is of course biodegrading. No need to transplant or play around so as not to damage roots; Everything can go into the ground.
There are many other ways that cardboard can reuse in the garden, raised beds or as mulch and even to the compost tank. And all for free. We have as many other ideas as we can reuse objects in the garden, such as: