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Rolling, Folding & Smashing - How to Make Paper Pots (Gardening) (+ Video)

 



INSTRUCTIONS AT THE TOP - CHIT CHAT AT THE BOTTOM!


I have lots of seeds started under lights this year and decided I have spent enough money!  I could not spend more money for up-potting baby plants when there is a nearly free way to do it.  Here's how I make easy paper pots for gardening AT HOME MY WAY!


How to Make Paper Pots
(for garden seedlings)


Supplies needed:

  • Paper (Large sheets of paper from paper grocery sacks, packing material, newspaper, old wrapping paper would probably work)
  • Jar (no lid) with straight sides (approximate diameter of the paper pot you want)
  • Scissors
  • Tape-optional

Instructions  (See pics & video at the bottom of this post):

1.        CUT PAPER IN STRIPS.  (LENGTH of the strip is enough to wrap the jar in several layers. WIDTH of the strip is equal to the height of your desired paper pot PLUS enough paper to equal the diameter (width) of your jar.  (My strips were about 7 inches which gave me a 4 inch tall pot and 3 inches of paper to form the bottom of the pot.)

2.        ROLL PAPER STRIP ON THE JAR.  Place open jar on "beginning" of the strip of paper with the open top of the jar placed inside one edge of the paper by the distance of approximate width the jar) (Example:  If the jar is about 3 inches wide, then the open top of the jar will be placed on the edge of the paper strip with about 3 inches of paper extending from the top of the jar.  See pics below.)  Now roll the paper on the jar as tightly as possible.

3.        FOLD EXTENDED PAPER INTO THE JAR.  Holding the paper around the jar, push the first section of paper (now extending above the top of the jar) into the jar tight against the top lip of the jar. (Start with the loose edge of paper first.)  Move around the jar tightly folding the paper into the open top of the jar.

5.        CREASE THE EDGE AROUND THE TOP OF THE JAR.  Once the paper is folded into the top of the jar, crease the fold against to the top of the jar.

6.        REMOVE THE JAR FROM THE PAPER.

7.        PLACE PAPER POT ON HARD SURFACE (counter/table top) Place the paper pot on the counter so that the top of the pot is open and the bottom is sitting on the counter.

8.        PLACE THE SOLID BOTTOM OF THE JAR INTO THE POT.  Place the solid bottom of the jar inside the form of the paper pot and push to flatten the folded paper at the bottom of the pot with the jar against the hard surface.

9.        REMOVE THE JAR.  Your paper pot is finished.  

10.      TAPE OPTIONAL- You can tape the edge of your paper if it tries to unroll but I haven't had to do this with the stiff brown kraft paper OR newspaper that I have used.

CHIT CHAT & PICS/VIDEO


Back in the day, I used to make newspaper pots for starting seeds.  I didn't use paper pots for starting my seedlings this year because I wanted to use a heat mat and because I had a limited amount of shelf space so I used those cell-type seed starting trays. My baby plants are growing and needed more legroom to get bigger so I remembered back to my younger days of making paper pots and checked out the latest and greatest ideas for making some.  These paper pots are a whole lot easier than my old paper pots!  These pots involve just some cutting, rolling and smashing and they are done.  

I have some pics and a short video to show how I make Homemade Paper Pots AT HOME MY WAY!  They are easy peasy and I know you are going to be able to whip some out really fast.

Supplies:  

Paper (I had an old roll of kraft paper in my storage and some brown packing paper from Amazon boxes.  Newspaper, paper grocery bags also work well and I think old wrapping paper might work too!)

Straight sided jar (no lid)

Scissors

Tape is optional.  I didn't need any.




Place the open top of the paper at a distance from one edge of the paper.  (This distance will become the bottom of the pot and will get shoved inside the jar.)





Roll the jar tightly in the paper.


Starting with the edge of the paper, fold sections of the paper inside the top of the jar.




Crease the edges of the paper over the top of the jar and remove the jar.

Then, place the BOTTOM of the jar into the pot to crush the paper you folded inside into a flat surface.





Remove the jar and your paper pot is done.  (If you need to add tape to the edge of your paper, you can do that, but I didn't need any.)

NOTE:  Paper pots will bleed/fade ink when wet so make sure to stick tags inside the pots instead of just writing on the sides of your paper pots.

Also - here is a quick video to show how speedy these pots are to make.  I cut several strips at a time and then rolled up my pots in no time!



I shared this post at an awesome blog that is chuck full of good stuff!  See me on Harvest Mondays at Happy Acres Blog - HERE!

ENJOY!




Gina






















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