Trying to buy pots to start all your plants in can be inconvenient and even expensive. I decided to make my own pots from the pages of a phone book. Yellowbook advertises that their phone books are printed with soy dyes and vegetable-based glues, so planting pots made from a Yellowbook phone book would be pretty biodegradable.
To make this project, you will need:
1) A phone book or some newspaper
2) Water
3) A cup
4) A tray to put your finished pots on (I used foil cooking trays).
First, tear two pages out of the phone book at once. Fold them lengthwise together. Now, begin wrapping it around the end of the cup.
Make sure that when you have it all the way around the cup, a bit of the outside edge overlaps at the top.
This is to give added strength to the pot later. There should also be paper sticking off the bottom of the cup.
Now fold this paper in to make a bottom for your new planting pot.
Once this is done, you are ready to soak the planting pot. Put it under running water.
After it is thoroughly soaked, take it off of the cup. Fold the overlapping edge in to add strength where the seam is.
Now you have your own biodegradable pots to start plants in! I let mine dry overnight before I planted in them.
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