Plastic cups and gardening?

I never thought about it, as this is my first real year to garden as an adult. Besides flowers, I mean. I had thought I'd let them sprout in the little cups and put them directly into the ground. Your idea is very good, though, should they somehow outgrow the pots before they're ready for planting. How do you keep Buster out of your garden? I'm going to have to make some kind of a pole and rope barrier--Gus and Cookie have decided that's their favorite place to lay down and stretch out in the sun!

I have a number of organic rottable pots which I sometimes use. I also sow runner beans in toilet roll middles. I half fill them, put in the seed. Water, top up with more compost and water again. Then plant in position. As the plant grows the roll rots and adds itself to the soil.

I use anything I can get my hands on. Dixie cups, yogurt cups, sour cream cups, milk jugs you name it I reuse it LOL. I am very green in my garden lol.

That sounds like a good idea. We hardly ever plant anything from seed and when we do we just normally put the seeds on the ground. Almost all the time we just get the plant and stick it in the ground.

Yogurt cups? Now there is an idea I wouldn't have thought of. The only time we transfered a plant in recent memory was last year.It was one of my daughters pre-school projects. It went from the little square plastic container directly into the ground. Unfortunately, it didn't last long.

I grabbed some egg cartons from work this year. Made of cardboard, I should be able to cut or tear them apart and transplant or put them right in the ground. I put those on cookie sheets. I have a bunch of old cast iron kettles I put a bunch of seeds in to grow on my porch.

I use the biodegradable pots that you can just put in the ground with the plants in them. They rot away and leave the plant to carry on growing in the soil. You buy them in bundles or packs and they're round or square shaped, but like little pots. They're made out of a material called "Fyba", a similar material to that used in egg boxes and those biodegradable sheets you put in hanging baskets and they're brilliant. Moreover they cost less than £2 for a pack of sixteen... that's about $2.60, and they're environmentally friendly. Brightest Blessings my friend.

Hi Grandpa B, I just used egg boxes in planting my seeds and will move them to my garden once ready..I haven't tried using yogurt cups but that is something I would like to recall next gardening season!

You know me AGB I don't use any of these things or I would just be making yself a mas murderer! My daughters school though do this sort of thing so that hte kids can bring home things they have grown in plastic cups! xxxx

We usually buy plants that are already started, then we'll just put them in the ground, I've never tried to start any in the house first, sounds like it would be fun, to watch them sprout up from a little seed.

Hi GRANDPA BOB, That is a great idea, I 've never thought of that but then again I have lots of small litle plant pots that I have saved over the years. Thta will come in handy. Tamara

Good idea grandpa! When you plant them, carefully cut around the cup, leaving a 2 or 3 inch 'collar' and plant it that way. It will discourage cutworms from harvesting your bounty before you do.

I do not do that as my garden is not big enough. My dad used to run a gardening center when he was alive and his favorite seemed to be peat pots. You fill them with potting soil and they grow in the pots and you just plant pot and all. In the moist soil it breaks down and the roots grow right through it. Most of my gardening has plants already bought in those plastic trays. I did however have quite an indoor selection of houseplants in my last house because it had two huge windows in the living room. When I wanted to propagate I would use the plastic yogurt cups, they seemed to be the best size, until they were ready to graduate to proper sized pots.

i dont garden

I do not start my own seeds, because I tend to not have the time to care for them. I used to have kind of a system, with an old incubator tray, or something. We would enclose a south facing porch with plastic, then suspend this tray. It was electric and provided bottom heat, which hastened germination, and rooting of cuttings as well. Yes, I used recycled plastic containers for my gardening efforts at that time.

Plastic cups are a convenient way of gardening. you can easily arrange the pots in different design.

I use whatever I can find. If I can't find anyhting around, I go buy plastic cups. They are real handy.

Hello grandpa Bob, I don't do planting but I guess when I do, I could use your tips, with your permission of course. :)

I usually recyle avery plastic container a find around and from my own usages. And I love gardening, I acually buy a few packs of seeds and use this cups/containers for the seedlings, though after a long while I have to transfer them in a larger container. The small pots available in the gardenening market looks better but they do serve the same purpose anyway so I usu the plastic cups :-) happy day, granspa bob!