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["Gloria Morris" <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com>]

Wow, I thought I was the recycling queen! I never thought of that use
for toilet paper rolls! That's a great idea. Yet another thing to have
people save for me. :)

I have used plastic milk jugs around tomatoes as cloches and later cut
the jug tops off, leaving just a large plastic tube around the base of
each plant - that works great at keeping the cutworms away too.

I also make little paper pots out of newspaper to start seedlings. I
make them by wrapping strips of newspaper around a large dowel and
folding the bottom of the pot. Fill them with potting soil and put in
a flat. They hold together during germination well enough, and they
disintegrate after transplanting very quickly. Of course, I don't use
the shiny ad inserts - just the newsprint.

You're right, Toni, junk is good!

Gloria

On 1/4/07, tonitime AT juno.com <tonitime AT juno.com> wrote:
> i use the twahlet papier tubes for such,too.  All my transplants go out
> with a cut tube around the base.  I never have cutworm troubles when i do
> that....then, they just disappear by the next spring.  It is that time of
> year to hang the tube bag where the family will put them in for the
> gardener.
> junk is GOOD!