Propagation: lessons learned for next year #4, 1 by kqcrna

kqcrna wrote:
I tried a few paper pots once and they did not do well. The volume of soil is small and they dry out too much. I even had them in a larger tray, then enclosed in a container with a lid. In spring, the lid needs to be opened and the paper pots then dry out. They did not work well for me and I won't use them again. Some folks like them, I do not.

Gallon milk jugs are my favorite. I shoot for 3 to 4 inches of soil. I work and I'm not here to babysist the babies, and I don't WANT to have to worry so much about moisture after the weather warms in spring. A gallon jug holds lots of moisture. If I run out of gallon ones, I switch to half gallons.

Also, jugs don't collapse under mounds of snow.

Karen