Worse yet, some people suggest peeling the entire peat pot off. Yet more nonsense! If you intend to remove a pot at planting time, why use peat pots at all? Plastic pots and cell packs are easier to remove and can be reused year after year, so are therefore cheaper. Use them if your eventual goal is to remove the pot. There is something you might want to tear off a peat pot, though. When you transplant the seedlings in peat pots, you have to be careful to bury the entire pot.
If the top edge sticks out of the ground, it will act as a wick and dry out the root ball. So if any of the pot does show, yes, you can tear that part off.
Let me repeat something before closing: peat pots are an added expense to growing plants from seed and one of the main reasons gardeners sow seeds is to save money. Peat pots offer no benefit whatsoever to the majority of seedlings compared to plastic pots or cell packs. It is simply wasteful to sow tomatoes, petunias, marigolds, and most other garden plants in peat pots.
Reuse and recycle other containers for their care. Keep peat pots for those seeds whose fragile roots would otherwise make transplanting difficult. The following plants all have roots that are either very fragile and therefore absolutely need to be sown in peat pots or fragile enough that they will be set back considerably if the root ball is mishandled when transplanting.
But for me, the question is are they biodegradable? I had heard of Cow Pots, and looked into them. Sure, they started from cow manure. But what they seem to have done is to wash out, or clean, anything that isn't "fibre" from the manure.
And then they go to make a pot. So it really isn't a Cow Pot, it is a fibre pot. And I would suspect if one goes looking into peat pots, you might find something similar. Lots of people don't like things to smell.
So, a manufacturer will do things to make it smell less or not at all. I think a side effect they see, is that the pot has a longer shelf life. For just about any business, a long shelf life is good.
For a supposedly biodegradable product, a long shelf life is probably not what you want. And of course , they were able to make paper from it. There are scientific papers on making paper from manure, but they all follow the same path, get everything smelly out, and what you are left with is basically pure fibre.
I ran across one web report of someone making pots from cow manure, who did not go to all the steps to remove everything that might smell. And she got pots which worked. If the shelf life is more than 1 year, they are not biodegradable enough to be used for potting plants. I think the biodegradability of pots from material like manure cows or other farm animals is a function of processing.
If it still smells, it may degrade before the end of the season. You do need to plant these pots about even with the surrounding soil. Starch is a polymer of sugar, that also has some range of lengths. It could overlap with dietary fibre. Cellulose is a polymer of sugar, that is much longer than starch.
I believe the longest cellulose fibres are from the flax plant not trees , which are actually quite short compared to flax. I used to be involved in athletic first aid, and where I ran into this is that PHS may not need to be "digested". It can just pass across the wall of the GIT as is. PHS is long enough that an insulin response may not be seen. Two things.
Sometimes seeds are too small. So you want to "make a seed bigger" by coating it with something. Quite often, the something is "dextran", a PHS based on dextrose usually from corn.
Dextran is often used in making pyrotechnics. Peat pot is the most common type - these look like a small plastic container with drainage holes in the bottom, which you fill with potting mix and plant your flowers into. Some come with an insert, so it's easy to remove those once roots start growing through them!
You can also buy biodegradable pots, but how do you make homemade peats? Check out our blog post on how we made ours from scratch! The size ranges from small miniatures for seedlings up to large containers for trees and shrubs. Peat pots are used by following the same process as most standard garden containers — add potting soil to fill the pot, plant seeds or seedlings, and water.
Seedlings in peat pots are perfect when you need to transplant your plant into larger containers or raised beds. They can grow in them until ready, so you don't have to worry about how well rooted your plants might be before transplanting them from peat pot! When using peat pellets or strips, you should start by laying them in a flat layer on top of your potting mix and then add more soil so that it is level with the peat pot.
This will help keep moisture levels even, which can be crucial in desert climates. If you're using strips, simply cut the piece to size for how deep of a container you want and use scissors to make slits around it where you'll hold onto it when placing it into the ground!
You can start seed germination in peat seed pots, but you'll need to transplant them into a larger container or raised bed as soon as they have their first set of true leaves. Regardless of whether you're using seed pots, strips, or pellets, you will need to set them into some form of a tray. Set the tray on top of the seed starting heat mat if you need extra warmth. The peat moss provides some warmth which helps the plants germinate quickly.
Just make sure to avoid placing them in direct sunlight. You can keep seedlings of most vegetables and flowers inside the starting seeds pot or container for at least two weeks. Still, after getting their first set of true leaves, you'll need to transplant them into a larger container or raised bed. When transplanting plants from pots, make sure to loosen the pot base to give roots an easier time breaking through.
Taking a razor and making some shallow cuts around the bottom of a pot or through the pellet base is essential before transplanting. This makes it easier for growing roots to penetrate through and extend into the soil where it has been transplanted. Take care not to damage roots while doing this. If they are damaged during transplanting, plants could suffer severe shock after planting!
Place newly transplanted plant deeper than its original depth now that there's less root mass exposed — about as close as how deep the plant was initially planted. Continue watering and fertilizing as usual, just like how you would wet your plants in a traditional pot garden or any type of container gardening. Peat pots are handy for planting tower gardens that have oddly shaped spaces.
When wet, the peat pot becomes flexible and easy to set into place. Yes, peat pots will dissolve over time and decompose into the soil. So just make sure not to water excessively- which speeds up the process! There's no set time frame as for when peat actually breaks down into compost. Many factors are involved: how big was each pot; what type of soils were used; how often did you water them not too much ; how closely together were they planted etc.?
This means that eventually, roots will break through the bottom of a peat pot and loosen it from its place on top of the root ball. When this happens, you'll need to make another set of fresh peat pots or use something else like biodegradable planting pellets instead. You can buy peat pots or biodegradable pots easily online. You can also get them at many local garden stores. The reason being that the latter pots dry out too much in between waterings That's what I do.
Use plastic 4-inch pots from store-bought plants. They are the right size and, unlike many plastic cups, have stiff walls that protect growing roots when the pot is handled and squeezed.
Those have always been well-sized to get plants to a transplantable size, without having confined roots. Cubes of soil holding a seedling slip out very cleanly from these, without squeezing them. Peat pots are some kind of commercial joke. You pay good money to have your roots permanently walled in. It's just peat, right? Peat is good, right? So we should make pots out of them, right? You can put your plant in the ground without even getting your hand dirty! By the same reasoning, we should be making pots out of diatomaceous earth and compost.
Yes, peat pots are "biodegadable" but, in my experience, generally not on the timescale of a growing season. Honestly, I have used a few pp's Consequently, I made sure the pots were completely buried eliminating the exposed tops from drying out the damp lower portion I say avoid these to begin with. If nothing else, PPs can create a barrier against the roots. They will have to work so much harder to penetrate through it, if they can.
Last year at the end of the season I pulled up some Bonnie's transplants that did poorly They didn't break down at all. And to peel them off the roots get all stuck to them. I hate those things. Thanks for this thread, I was thinking it was ok to plant all my bonnie plants directly in the ground with peat pots on them just like the instructions said. In the future I will rip off the peat pot and throw it in the hole. I've done it both ways, with and without the pot.
Makes no difference but at least tear out the bottom of the pot before burying to hasten the root spread. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Mehr erfahren.
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