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Comment by Glenda Truscott z8 on March 28, 2013 at 8:32pm

I discoverd last year when I was doing a lot of winter sowing that my lettuce did better in the milk jugs than when I planted the seeds right into the ground.  Even though I use Sluggo I still have quite a slug population and they love eating my new seedlings.  So today I started a few jugs of lettuce and spinach.

I don't think I will do any flower seeds this year.

Vicky, I really dislike styrofoam anything.  I have tried the toilet paper rolls a grow pots though and they work well.

Comment by Vicky Myers on March 25, 2013 at 10:32am

You can make newspaper pots too. I like the peat rounds for getting started under lights indoors. Then move them to cups. I have a book and those fellows use styrofoam cups and put holes in the bottom and slits up the side they claim to get the best starts. I tried the winter sow last yr but didn't get the jugs outside and everything sprouted on me too quick indoors. Our weather is ok here to just stick the seeds in ground and they come up when they are ready.

Comment by Vicky Myers on March 25, 2013 at 10:29am

Wouldn't toilet paper rolls work better than eggs? Just cut them in half and fold up one end. My egg shells all get nuked for 20 secs smashed and sprinkled all over the gardens.

Comment by Robin (N.IL zone 5) on March 25, 2013 at 9:43am

I started winter sowing but didn't try the egg idea, I have more jugs so I will see if hubby wants to help. He can carefully break the eggs for me. Maybe we'll make egg dumplings...lol

Comment by Jan Page on March 21, 2013 at 9:00am

Robin, You would have to make sure that you have holes in the bottom of your egg shells for drainage, it might work?  I wouldn't do allot of them but experiment and write good notes and be sure to share here.

Comment by Robin (N.IL zone 5) on January 31, 2013 at 3:23pm

I wonder if mixing the egg shell starters with winter sowing would work.

I haven't started yet,but hope to within the week.

Comment by Michele Lawrenson, Z6A on January 27, 2013 at 2:19pm

Welcome new members!  Who's wintersowing this year??

Comment by Michele Lawrenson, Z6A on January 27, 2013 at 2:18pm

The one thing I will do differently this year is go back to taping the containers together instead of using twist ties.  I found that using the ties left too much of a gap for moisture to escape and I was watering too often (this is supposed to be low maintenance growing right?).

Comment by Michele Lawrenson, Z6A on January 27, 2013 at 2:16pm

Sorry for my delayed response Robin.  I tried using toilet paper cores inside the milk jugs last year, but found they absorbed too much of the moisture in the container.  Dividers sound like a good idea, if a less porous material is used.  I go with the 'hunk-o-seedling' method to transplant chunks of seedlings from the containers into the garden.  The strong survive and grow into hardy plants.  Let us know if you decide to use dividers and how it works out.

Comment by Robin (N.IL zone 5) on January 14, 2013 at 5:57am

Michele, do you think transplanting would be easier if we used some sort of dividers in the bottles?

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