Hi
We always save our toilet roll tubes. But don’t throw them in the compost bin, use them as pots for sowing seeds. When you need to pot on or plant out, you can plant the tube as well, as it will rot down. This avoids disturbing the roots when pricking out. Therefore, this is a good technique for seedlings that don’t like to be disturbed/transplanted. We have also heard that it reduces the chances of carrots forking, though we’ve not tried it ourselves, its gotta be worth a go…Keener and Beener
We have always done this too. It’s amazing the things that other people throw away that we find a use for in our garden
I wrap the loo rolls in old newspaper to make pots, and I propagate them unde cut-off 2litre plastic pop bottles to make a home-made windowledge propagator. If I run out of pop bottles a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and held on with an elastic bad is also good.
I used loo rolls to start my sweetcorn off last year half of them worked well but the other half never grew? I think they got too dry at some point.
Ah ha, so it seems we are in the company of some loo roll experts already! And of course it goes without saying yogurt pots. Beaner’s mum swears by using carrier bags as propagators. Put some pots, trays whatever, in the plastic bag and then just leave them outside for a bit. She then whips off the bags when the seedlings emerge. No nonsense gardening – fabulous!
Keener