Turning Green
I know a lot of you can’t even start to think about planting seeds for your garden, what with you being under 6+ inches of snow but it’s definitely time to start thinking about it here! Last year was my first year ever of gardening and I didn’t know a thing about it. I had to start all my plants from actual plants and not from seeds because I started my garden in March. The majority of what I want to plant this year needs to be started indoors about 6-8 weeks before the last fall of frost.
So not only am I think about what I want to plant and what I want to companion plant, but I’ve now I’m starting to think about how exactly to start my seedlings indoors. Do I use my terra cotta pots? Or what some of those giant yogurt containers I spray painted? Soup cans? Newspaper pots? How about those leftover containers from 6-pack plants I bought… ?
How do you start your garden indoors? Have you ever tried the newspaper pots? If so… become my gardening teacher ;) Teach me how. I have so many questions!
When do you get to start thinking about your garden? Are you as excited as I am?!
Here are some fun newspaper pot tips/tutorials that I found that you might enjoy:
- Tipnut: Make Seed Starting Pots & Trays
- The Three Cheeses: The Wonders of Apartment Gardening
- Affectioknit: Make Your Own Newspaper Planting Pots
- Cracked Pot: DIY Seed Trays
- Fine Gardening: 10 Seed-Starting Tips
- Grow and Make: Start Seeds in Newspaper Pots (** MY FAV LINK **)
Tags: gardening tips, the garden
Best wishes with your garden…we’re perusing the seed catalogs…but it’ll still be months before we plant anything…I did do a tutorial on newspaper pots…you can see it here…
http://affectioknit.blogspot.com/2009/05/planting-time-make-your-own-newspaper.html
Glad you liked our newspaper folding tutorial! It really is useful, isn’t it? Thanks for the link. (And it’s nice to credit where photos are from, too. :) )