Wool pots

Tom Daley manages it very well @flounder ....
That's rather horrible @Sheal . It must have made things difficult when you were younger - pretty much everything was made of wool back in the day.
Including swimming shorts, if you remember the Billy Connolly sketch

That was my concern @Allotment Boy . It slightly defeats the purpose if they have to go inside somehting else, doesn't it!

 

The ladies hairdressers' was all rollers, tea cups and knitting or crochet needles when I was young.
I still have jumpers knitted by my mother in the 70's, quite a lot of acrylic in them.
A lot of things got pulled down and the thread reused for something else.
Public transport was hazardous due to the risk of a knitting needle jabbing you.

 

That’s frustrating if they collapse, @Allotment Boy. When I’ve used homemade paper pots, I’ve crammed them into a seed tray so they support each other. That’s fine when they are quite small but trickier for larger sizes. I guess we will need to do the same with the wool pots.

A problem I have at the moment is that a lot of my plastic seed trays are starting to crack. I’m pondering what to replace them with. They came with my Rhino seed stands which have no shelves, the tray edges “hang” off the frame if that makes sense

 

A good source for a reasonably robust tray/module, which can be reused 5-10 times are these:
HSP 12 cell pack x 400 Black or Grey | H. Smith Plastics Ltd

H.Smith Plastics Ltd Seed Trays & Plant Pots Manufacturer UK
They may not survive suspending.

 

Any allergic reaction can alter the way you go about your day to day, I feel for you.
Believe it or not, I can knit...whereas my wife can't!

 

Thanks @infradig but I’m trying not to buy anything plastic for the garden wherever possible so ideally I need to come up with a plastic free solution. Whether I succeed or not will be another matter

 

According to my mother @fairygirl, she spent a lot of time knitting cardigans etc. ready for my birth. When it was discovered I was allergic to wool she had to re-knit everything in cotton and in larger sizes - I weighed in at 10lb 4ozs.

Thank you @flounder but it's something I've got used too. I have intolerances to various things and there's nearly always a way to compensate.

If you can knit, I'd like to know how many pots you've made so far? My father couldn't knit but was good with a needle and thread and sewing machine. He made my mother a coat in their early years of marriage.

Back on subject. I hold onto plastic food trays from supermarkets, they're ideal for growing from seed.

 

Just because I said I can knit, doesn't mean I want to! I learned in junior school. I had a crush on a couple of girls....probably why I played netball as well
FYI, I also sow, cook, clean, wash(washing machine) and iron.
Armed forces, they teach everything

 

When would you like to move in?

 

Blimey @Sheal - did they just kit you out with the school uniform when you came out....
I used to know someone whose family were all huge when born. Her brothers were both that sort of weight.
Their mum must have needed a very long lie down after having them - about ten years probably!

I use those trays too. I don't think I even have a seed tray, apart from the one my older daughter bought me at one stage, with the lid and pots etc to use as a propagator.

 

I guess my tray issue is more about the shelves than the seed trays or rather the reducing number of shelves as my trays break up. This what I have Rhino Seedrack 10 tray which is great whilst you have the right size seed trays.

I guess I could use marine ply to make some shelves or maybe a rigid wire mesh?

 

My parents wouldn't have dared @fairygirl. I hated school from day one right up until I left to work.

 

With you on that @Sheal . I was the same. My sister and I were sent to a private school [the top girls' school in Glasgow at that time] because my parents thought that was of benefit to us, even though it wasn't easy for them to afford it. I wish I'd been brave enough to tell them how much I hated it, and could I just go to the local school.

I'd think some shelving you could add to your existing one would be the best bet @Butterfly6 . I use the old wire shelving from those plastic gr'houses for all sorts of stuff - mainly my bird feeder cages. It's sturdy enough, but also easy enough to cut. The holes are around 1.5 inches. You'd probably get something similar from a DIY store. Timber would also work - you'd still have decent height between them for plants/propagators etc, as long as you could fix them in place well enough

 

Thanks @fairygirl will have a mooch round the local DIY stores

 

Just a quick update, I had many of my new plants from Gardeners World show on a potting bench, moved some today and every plant in a plastic pot has little slugs underneath. No slugs anywhere on the wool pots. A parsley I had laid on its side in a pot ready to plant and then forgotten had loads of roots coming out at all angles into the surrounding soil. I think they are a winner for me.