The trip to the garden center eats up time and digs deep into your wallet. Yes, even simple seed trays cost good money. Then the potting soil and seeds are added. It's worth it. There are plenty of free alternatives for growing trays.
What can I use as a seed tray?
Empty, washed-out yoghurt pots, bleach cans, plastic fruit packaging, cut open milk containers, old soup bowls and flower pots, egg cartons or tangerine crates lined with foil can be used as seed trays. You can also quickly and easily make lots of small nursery pots out of old newspaper and toilet rolls.
What can I simply use as a seed tray?
various packaging materialsandold household items can be used as growing containers. You can also make nursery pots yourself from old, readily available material. A few examples of alternative growing pots:
- empty plastic bowls (fruit packaging)
- Yogurt cup
- Tinplate cans
- mandarin box lined with foil
- Egg cartons (side with the indentations)
- sliced milk packaging (ideal growing pot for tomatoes)
- old, discarded flower pots
- Planting pots made from toilet paper rolls
- Growing pots made of newspaper
How do I make usable nursery pots out of toilet paper rolls?
For upcycling you will need some leftovercardboard cores from toilet paper rolls, scissors and a larger, waterproof bowl.
- Cut the roll in half once
- cut one end four times about 1.5 cm deep
- Fold the tabs inwards one after the other
- Fill paper pots with potting soil
- place next to each other in the bowl
How can I make seed trays out of newspaper?
Fold half a page of anold daily newspaper into a double-layered piece of newspaper about 35 x 12 cm in size. Wrap this around a thin bottle. The newspaper should stick out a little at the end of the bottle. Fold the excess newspaper piece by piece toward the bottom of the bottle, starting with the open side. Then get the bottle out and then press the bottom of the newspaper pot in a little so that it can stand better. These potties are also placed next to each other in a waterproof bowl.
Do I have to pay attention to anything about the alternative seed trays?
If the bowls do not have holes, you must either water precisely or drill holes in them before sowingDrill holes in themPlace perforated containers on a recessed surface in which excess irrigation water collects can. With all pots, especially those made of cardboard or newspaper, you mustwatering cautiously, otherwise mold can form on them. Also place them at a distance so that they can dry well. If you use a cover, ventilate it at least once a day.
Tip
Plant bowls made of newspaper and cardboard together with the plant
Growing pots made from newspaper, egg carton or toilet paper rolls are made from natural material that can decompose quickly and in an environmentally friendly way in the soil. You should plant your plants with it. This will prevent damage to the fine roots.
