This year I am using toilet paper rolls to start my seedlings. Last year was my first year of attempting a garden. I did start my plants with seeds, except I purchased the biodegradable containers from the garden store. This year I am being even more thrifty and using toilet paper rolls to start my seeds.
Cut about 6 to 7 slits to the bottom of each roll.
Begin to fold each tab onto one another.
Place a small piece of tape onto the last fold. You can remove the tape before planting the tube into your garden.
That is it, simple and easy! Fill each roll about half way with garden soil and place your plant seed and then fill to the top with soil. Once I had each starter finished I placed in a cardboard box that was wrapped with plastic. Make sure to keep seedlings moist and place in direct sunlight.
Now you wait! I won’t be placing my seedlings in the garden until after memorial day. Being in Ohio, we always have a chance of frost and are always advised to wait until Memorial day to do the planting.
I have planted cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, squash and zucchini. I will be building a raised garden bed this year and I will be sharing that with you also. I hope my hand at gardening this year will be better than my results last year. Do you have a garden, and if you do what do you plant? I always am open for advice and gardening tips!
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janet koons says
HI. I’m a bit of a dweeb with directions. Am I missing the part about transferring the toilet paper roll filled seedlings into the garden. Do you have that step somewhere, or did I miss it? Do you place the entire roll in to the garden with the seedlings in it?
I have always had a problem with handling the seedlings at this stage.
Thank you.
Designed Decor says
Janet, you place the entire roll into the ground. The roll with degenerate on its own.
Leslie Lambert says
Congratulations…this post was featured on Create It Thursday this week! Thanks for linking up such a fabulous idea!
PJ says
This is really clever, cheap, and its recycling.
Patty says
What a great idea. I think those toilet rolls look adorable filled with dirt.
Angela says
This is a great idea!
Thanks,
Angela
Kelly @ Eclectically Vintage says
Great idea – but if I start saving tp tubes, my poor family just might go over the edge! Mom – you want to save what?!
I lived in Dublin OH for four years!
Kelly
Ashley says
What a wonderful idea! Our springs are really up and down and just when you think it will not freeze again, it does :))) Thanks for the great idea.
Carrie says
I’m so excited to see how this turns out! I live in Vegas and we have fake grass and a rock border with some draught tolerant shrubs. I can’t wait until next summer when I will have a real yard and can try my hand at “real” gardening. My sister had built 2 raised beds at her house in Missouri and loves it!i think I’ll plant a salad ad salsa garden. I have an article torn from BHG or Southern Living files away somewhere that details making the raised beds and what plants to put where! Only 12 more months!