Rachel, John, Karlie putting seeds into loo rolls

Avoid transplanting small plants; to do this use loo paper rolls as seedling pots.  They will decay in the soil and protect the young seedlings until then.

Plant seeds in the loo pots, rope them together with string and place in a cardboard tray that you put in good sunlight.  Water them all at once.  Leave in sunlight ’til big enough to plant.

When ready to plant bury the seedling pot into the soil where it will decay into the soil.  This reduces handling and time and damage and protects the young seedling from germination to planting.

We made some loo roll seed pots  this last Friday after road gardening.  So start saving your rolls and when you’ve got a dozen or so you can put the seeds you’ve saved into them and all for a cost of $nil for the pots and the seeds.

On Friday we turned the compost bins in Peace Park to aerate them using augers, and put 7 wheelbarrows  of compost onto the road gardens and covered the compost with leaves, mulch.  One bin (Wednesday) had a broken cone and we replaced it with a spare part kindly donated by Aerobin.

And so it goes,

M