Any experience with a pot press?

Hi everyone,
I have (like so many other people) an incurable shortage of plant pots. At the moment I'm just buying time by putting four or five seedlings in one pot, but give it another two months and they will need to be repotted into individual pots. I'm using the newspaper pot method as well at the moment, but would be happier with a more permanent solution.
Now, I saw in a dutch seed-catalog a pot press, this contraption makes four pots at a time out of earth. The pots will be 4cm long, wide and high. It costs about $22,-.
Has anyone ever used a press like this? Does it work (if it does I might ask Santa for it, lol).
Hope to hear from you,
Agnes

Agnes,
I haven't ever used one of those presses, but I thought I would share this idea with you. I read this in one of my gardening magazines and it seems to work very well. Use paper towel and toilet paper cardboard rolls as seed pots. Just cut them in half or fourths for the paper towel rolls, fill with dirt put in a tray and there you go. I like it because you can bottom water so easily and it's something that you have a never ending supply of! You can also plant the whole thing just like a peat pot and since there isn't a bottom it's easy for the roots to grow.
PJ

Well normally I agree with you, who runs out off toiletrolls? Well I did! (lol). My problem is that we've moved house and we've started in march to turn a incredible pile of rubbish into a garden (we even found every single brick of a house that stood in our garden, but was demolished some 30 years ago). In september we've finished the "hard-landscaping" so this spring the garden can be planted. There are no plants there right now!
So I've got an incredible amount of seeds/seedlings/young plants on the go. At the moment I've got some 40 different types growing in my greenhouse and at least another 40 will have to be sown in februari. (Ok the trading got a bit out of hand). Also my windowsills are covered in seed trays. I've already decided that I'll be taking the plants out of there newspaper and cardboard rolls. Normally I would be putting the whole thing in the ground as well, but the way things stand I think the paper/earth ratio would be somewhat of balance. Peat pots are , besides being enviromentally unfriendly, to expensive for this amount of plants. And this press I saw should be making pots that look like peat pots out of earth. I've always been growing plants from seed, but never in these sort of quantities and with a bit of luck I won't have to anymore after this year.
My dad came by the other day and wondered if I was planning to open a nursery this spring :-).
Agnes

I haven't used the pot press ( or even heard of it) but I found a local nursery that was willing to order the 2 1/4 inch plastic pots for me wholesale (5 cents each). These are reuseable and a very good product. I just wash them and reuse ad infinitum. Seems you can't buy these except from wholesale supply...

I also get plastic pots from my local nurseries. These are used and most of the time are free. I've gotten many, many pots this way, even though I kind of feel like a bag lady while doing it. Well, Agnes, sounds like you have a lot of work ahead. Good luck, and if you get one of the pot presses, you'll have to let us know how it works.
PJ

I have one of the old plastic pot makers. I tried to make a few and found it was more work than it was worth, a lot more. The plants did fine in them. I think I am going to try the tp rolls instead. Those peat pots are so expensive and they don't decompose as fast as they like to tell you. I have some trays that they will fit nicely in. My soil can certainly use the help.