Start Your Garden "On a Roll"!

When is an empty bakery box not really a bakery box? When is an empty toilet paper roll more than just a toilet paper roll? Answer: When you put them together and they become a mini-greenhouse! This is actually two separate ideas that I got from two separate magazine articles, but I decided to combine them. You just need to make sure that your empty container has a little height (growing room) to get the best results. Then you simply cut the toilet paper roll in half. Stand the rolls straight up in the container, fill with potting soil, plant your seeds and keep watered, and you can get a jump on your garden. When the final frost has passed and it is time to transplant your young plants, since the cardboard roll is bio-degradable and is also open on the bottom, you simply place the plant, along with its roll-container, directly into the soil (at least that's what the article claims). It's less expensive than buying the bio-degradable peat moss pots. I can't wait to try this!