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You can fold one from an old paper in case of emergency so you don't have to keep the plastic ones.
There was the scene in Perfect Days, where the protagonist sees a small plant, so he opens his wallet to get a some paper out of it. He unfolds it and it turns out to be a paper flower pot that he used to take the plant home.
And if you need one you can check the nearest graveyard. People tend to show up with flowers, plant them, and then throw away the pots. I could literally get several dozen plastic flower pots from the trash cans at my local graveyard whenever I want. There's not even anything besides flower pots and soil bags in there.
Why are you so wise? Do you have more tips like this one?
If you need fertilizer, you can go to the same graveyard and dig up the bones of someone's grandma. They have plenty anyway.
I'm not much of a gardener but I do have a frugal girlfriend who loves gardening.
What I can say is that sansevieria make decent gifts for people who are bad at plants; they don't really care much about getting too much or too little water or light. So they're great for people who forget to water their plants three weeks in a row and then water daily for a week because they keep forgetting they just watered the day before. (I'm speaking from first-hand experience here...)
Practical origami, very nice!
Interesting how he's not just using them for a temp purpose, but seemingly using a bunch of them to grow parsnip seedlings. Would newspaper really stand up to repeated waterings, though?
Paper doesn't degrade nearly as fast as you’d think, especially if its just damp and you aren’t putting pressure on it causing it to tear.
I used to use single sheets of newspaper to line my veg garden as weed barrier and they lasted an entire season no problem. I stopped because it’s hard to get newspaper now, and I don’t want to use colored ink pages.
Thanks for explaining. I still see newspaper in the supermarket.
Sadly, that reminds me that the bi-weekly, independent 'current happenings'-type paper disappeared around 10yrs ago. And this is a major Midwestern city, where it used to be quite popular.