How to make peat pots for seedlings

What only today will not come up with to make life easier for modern summer residents. New tools and devices, fertilizers and growth stimulants, all kinds of seeds and products for seedlings are constantly on sale. A lot of goods that can make your land the most productive in the whole district.

And today's edition. "Site" will tell How to plant seedlings in peat potsThey're handmade. Of course, such things can also be purchased in a specialized store, but they are not cheap. And why buy, if you can do this with your own hands, and the harvest will be just as good.





In these homemade containers with peat can be placed any seedlings, be it pepper, tomatoes or even cabbage. In our case, we will dive into homemade peat pots of strawberries.





First of all, we will need a peat mix, a roomy and deep container (we will take a box from under the cake), as well as used tea bags (you can also new, if not sorry).

  1. In each bag, cut the string at the base.



  2. Then cut the top of the bag on one side so that the lower part, which is fastened by a stapler, remains intact.



  3. You can leave the tea in the bag.
  4. Fill the bag with peat mix on top. Slightly straighten, tamp and fold in the already mentioned deep container.



  5. Scissors trim the bags so that they are the same height.





Such bags can be made as much as you like, especially if you like tea, and you do not throw away the used bags. By the way, some craftsmen like this peatpots They even turn from ordinary newspapers.

Here you can dive not only strawberries, but also, for example, petunia or any other seedlings. Convenience is that such bags can be planted directly in the ground. And watering plants will be easier. Excellent replacement for purchased peat pellets.





In particular, peatpotThey have recently been very popular. However, the difficulty was that when transplanted into the ground pots consisting of wood pulp by about 35%, long and poorly decomposed.

Therefore, during planting, the pots had to be cut, as a result of which the roots of the plants were damaged. In the case of homemade pots, which we suggest to try out, this problem does not arise.