Always good to see someone being inventive. I reused my plant cells over many years and often give away or swop veggie plants so get shot of the plastic ones last year. Also you can use Egg boxes the rough cardboard types, work great. I Reuse small plastic bottles to top my canes so I do not poke my eyes out harvesting or weeding, had the same ones for years.. Same goes for legths of plastic drainpipes for collaring Leeks.. I am avoiding buy plastic anything as much as possible. I do not have newspapers either..
Last summer I bought some plants from a Devon nursery that specialises in using coir pots. Great idea but I found you really have to keep them quite wet until you plant out, maybe too wet in some cases. The advice was to either plant the whole thing, pot and all, or put the pot on the compost heap and they would rot down either way. I find that nearly a year on, the planted pots are still visible. I think it only really works if the soil remains quite wet. Anyone else have any experience of coir pots?
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
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I do not have newspapers either..