“The Burpee teeny tiny starter trays are spawns of the devil so don’t waste your money...Homemade newspaper pots worked ok inside though they dried out quickly so I had to watch them more closely...”
I haven’t put them outside yet, but so far my method of using the cut-up cardboard egg crates seems to be working well.
I cut up one of those nice and cushiony cardboard egg cartons into individual cups. We have a bunch of those plastic apple sauce cups saved up. I put an egg carton section into an apple sauce cup.
Then I place the soil into the egg carton cup. I’ve been using a half of a soil pellet as my soil, and moisten it.(But compost or whatever you use as potting soil would be appropriate.) Then, I put the seed into the soil and water.
If there is too much water, the apple sauce cup catches it and I can either drain it off or let it sit to evaporate or keep the soil moistened. In either case, because the plastic cups are transparent/translucent, I can see what’s going on and adjust accordingly.
I will generally keep the soil moist with a tablespoon or so of water each day per cup.
When it is time to set out, I plan to take the egg crate cup out of the applesauce cup and plant that.
We shall see how happy my seedlings are with that experiment. They may turn out like your newspaper pot experiment.
I love your idea about the meow mix cans....but we don’t have catz...perhaps tuna cans might work. However if we don’t rinse them off real well, we might find ourselves with some catz!
“However if we don’t rinse them off real well, we might find ourselves with some catz!”
LOL! It wouldn’t be the worst thing, unless you ended up with cats like ours, they’re terrible!
Be very, very careful what gardening supplies you buy at the store. Good grief, look at what I just saw - http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-couple-indoor-gardening-prompted-pot-raid-182449463.html