Hip Chick Digs

City girl gets her hands dirty planting an edible garden and raising urban chickens

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Video: Newspaper Seed Pots

March 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments

We are in prime seed-starting mode and a few people had questions about making seed pots from newspaper. I decided to make a little tutorial video for reference. Here it is:

Hopefully this short video, along with my earlier post that lists out the instructions, will keep things nice and simple for you. Remember that when [...]

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Starting Seeds

February 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

This weekend I spent a couple hours having a craft party with myself, getting the newspaper seed pots formed and filled with organic potting soil. They have been planted and are neatly resting on my beautiful, old record player. I enjoyed the last of Joni Mitchell’s Blue album before closing up the record player until [...]

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Newspaper Seed Pots Again!

February 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments

I have most of my vegetable seeds all organized and ready to start growing from seed inside. It’s time to turn back to my trusty post from last year on how to make seed pots from newspaper. No special tools are required. All those old copies of the New York Times are now going to [...]

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Flops and Fertilzer

May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Unfortunately, I have to admit the first year of starting seeds indoors has been a flop. Not all is wasted. I learned some good lessons, like how long to keep the grow light on… I also managed to just direct sow a lot of my seeds when the indoor versions were taking too long.
The only [...]

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Sluggish Seedlings

April 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

This is the first time I have grown vegetables from seed indoors. Normally I am a direct-sow kinda girl, but I wanted the greater variety in vegetable options so I could focus on heirlooms this year. So I went out and bought a grow light, made my seed pots from newspaper, and got the growing [...]

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