I recently brought some flower seeds, but forgot to buy the seed trays. So I improvised and did what my grandad always does and used toilet paper rolls cut in half and placed them in a foil tray that I normally use for freezing meals in.
Also I don’t have a greenhouse but saw the idea to use a empty strawberry container here. But unfortunately I had just thrown mine out the day before. So instead I placed them inside a plastic storage container that I use as a sandbox for my kids.
My little seedlings are growing and look great!!
Hopefully they will flower at beginning of September
fingers crossed
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What a fantastic idea
Very clever idea! Thank you so much for sharing your post on my Girly Mondays link party Natasha, have a lovely day, Delhia x
Great idea for the classroom 😉
Julie @ Naptime Review
Great idea! I will definitely do this in the future.
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Have a good day!
Great idea!
Have a nice day.
Linda
Great idea, i will defiantly do that!
I LOVE THIS IDEA!!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING!!
Great idea! I think my kids would love to do this too!
Fab idea, thanks for sharing 🙂
You can plant the seedlings when they are bigger ,straight into the ground still in the toilet rolls as the rolls compost into the ground and they will still give the seedlings extra support until they do. If you only put the rolls 2 thirds into the ground and cover with perforated cling film over the top it provides a mini greenhouse and keeps slugs off
Now that is a really good idea. Tomato seeds have a new home.
Years ago, I used the same method to grow my weed seeds. it was cool! Then, when the plants were ready to go into the bigger pots, I would gently break the bottoms of the rolls so that the roots could splay out. A recommended way of doing things!
What a great idea! Will remember this next time I need seed trays!
There are so many uses for empty toilet rolls that people actually sell them on eBay