peat pots

Don't do it!

I did it as an experiment this year and I think I would have had more success planting seeds in tea bags!

 

Never tried them, read somewhere that you must sink them in the ground slightly below the surface to make sure the plant gets its moisture, otherwise ground can be wet but compost in pot dry!

Is that what happened to you Waco?

 

I bought a pack of 3" ones. Worked great for sweet peas and sunflowers as the roots can easily force their way though the base and sides but I don't know if I would use them for anything else. Some pots tended to get a furry fungus or mould on them which was disconcerting but no harm came from it.

 

I have used a lot of these. As I'm poor at bending, they are very useful for planting out. I haven't had any problems, except as Frogesque says mould round them, which doesn't seem to bother the.plants. What happened?

 

I had two different types, the ones off ebay were less "tea baggy" I have just ended up pricking out into seed trays form the pots so had twice the work.

Having said that, everyone says seeds are slow this year so may be I am being hard, but still think I will give them a miss next year.

 

This is very odd, mine are quite solid, so I can dig a hole with a long handled trowel and plonk the pot in with my grabber. No danger of collapse!

 

Liz - my second type just fall appart - as well as go green.

 

i had no luck with them either. They either dried out or went mouldy, or both.

 

Save our toilet roll tubes, they just rot awayand cost nothing