How to Create Newspaper Pots for Seed-Starting

Posted April 4, 2015 11:52pm UTC by designer

source: hgtvgardens.com

GARDENING TIP

If you love gardening, you know how annoying it is when weeds begin overpowering your yard. Well, there’s a very clever solution to this problem…

Weeds cannot grow through the newspaper, and the decomposing paper feeds your soil. Best gardening tip I ever got!

Vasudha s on April 6, 2015 at 3:34 am said:

Thanks for the tutorial. Very much needed

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Mike on May 30, 2015 at 10:53 pm said:

use a coffee cup or styrofoam cup to get a taper on your paper cup so you can stack them and have some always on the ready.

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Stephen Edward on February 5, 2016 at 6:08 pm said:

Cool! Thanks!!!

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Tina on April 17, 2016 at 12:56 pm said:

And what about the toxins in the ink?

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Joanne on March 21, 2017 at 1:02 pm said:

I’ve wondered the same thing. Ill look forward to a response.

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Bugsqueak on February 1, 2018 at 3:38 am said:

Most inks today are soy based so no harm to the ground.

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Charlotte Shoopman on February 1, 2018 at 4:45 am said:

Ink in most newsprint is soy based do will not hurt you lead ink is a thing of the past

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Marilyn Jorgenson. on February 14, 2018 at 7:03 pm said:

The ink is OK, just don’t use the color pages.

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