Anyone else in the world battling with seed germination? Or is it just us? I love sprouts and microgreens because it is almost unfloppable for that initial burst of life and growth. I did say almost. We enjoy our microgreens and sprouts year round and on a daily basis. Microgreens thrive despite bizarre weather and without the challenge of weeding and mulching. Now, with all the international talk of food shortage and inflation I wonder how many people have a solution for toilet paper? It is a no brainer for me.
With the incredible rate of production of toilet rolls I have been diligently saving them up as any self respecting off-grid homesteader would! Then my ingenious husband suggested we plant them! It isn't as back breaking as shovelling dirt into raised beds or hauling out boulders. Although carefully composting each of those gazillion toilet rolls is painfully time consuming! I am trusting that the work will pay off. Hopefully soon I will report a 100% success rate and a bumper crop of produce!
While I tend to my trays of toilet rolls indoors BuckarooFarmer and eldest BuckarooBaby work in the winter sun on their respective tractors, hauling rocks. Here in the Karoo rocks multiply at an alarming rate and have a germination rate par excellance! Keeping gardens and fields cleared is an ongoing job. If Karoo rocks were gold we would leave Midas a pauper!
But back to the tend the toilet rolls. With winter fast approaching the planting season is on us. We have a slight lull, according to the moon cycle, in the physical planting of seed in dirt. But this week's job will be choosing what gets planted inside each toilet roll. Oh? You thought I was growing toilet paper? No. No! we have numerous toilet paper alternatives that do not require compost! I'm preparing my trays of toilet rolls to incubate the teeny veggie and herb seeds that I'll soon plant and germinate. Before the frost has hit we need our healthy seedlings ready to establish in all the vegetable gardens. The hope for those toilet rolls is to protect the vulnerable seedlings.
Happy germinating fellow Gardeners!
Brilliant!!! We used egg cartons and poked out the bottom, but this is so much better!
In the beginning of the season when the weather runs hot then vold, the added protection is a us!
Thanks for the idea!
I remember the egg boxes for germination. Now I use the egg boxes for other homeschooling projects. Like painting and making creatures. Because we have our own chickens the egg boxes are rather scarce.
I love this idea. From now on I am not going to throw away that toilet paper. Good evening!
I hope you have success with it! It takes a while to cut and fill each toilet roll. But I love that it decomposes and then feeds the seedling after initially sheltering it
I hope so too (^_^) have a nice day ahead.
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I must say this is a great idea I guess I have to try it out. Thanks for sharing
I hope it works for you
I hope so thanks for sharing
No better way to use dunny rolls!
noun, plural dun·nies.Australian Slang.
an outside privy; outhouse.
I dunno but I've never heard that word!
😂 So there's bush dunnys right, like big pits dug in the ground with corrugated iron around them. The classic Aussie outhouse. Terrifying. They still exist in campgrounds.
It is nice to see that someone else has tried this method. I did but noticed that I had tiny mushrooms growing the toilet rolls but not from the plastic cups. Did you experience this?
That's interesting! I haven't had that, but then I haven't been doing it too long. Thanks - I'll keep a close eye
I also think that this is an amazing idea. Soon it will be winter here, but I will try to start collecting those toilet rolls so that next summer I can plant lots of aromatic herbs there... Thanks for sharing! Good luck with your germination rate
Thanks. We're also approaching winter but our SA winter's are not nearly as freezing as others
This is brilliant! I got plenty of toilet rolls!! It's apparently easier to germinate seeds during a descending moon, do you concur?
Apparently. I haven't been so scientific as to actually make comparisons but I do know other homesteaders who have done the tests based on germinating and planting in different times of the moon cycles and the difference is huge!
It's an old wife's tale, I also heard that it works, as you say some seeds germinate during a waning moon, I have to look into it!