Everything You NEED To Know About Biodegradable Pots! Moldy Pot Solution!

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[@GardeningInCanada]

Okay soo pots too grab. 1. Jiffy peat pots - I can’t find them on Amazon & am not comfortable linking the ones I did find because there is no veraflora certification 2. These are bigger cardboard ones. WAY cheaper than dollaramas! geni.us/rh4F4w 3. Coconut coir large geni.us/MjwZ the exact brand I am using. 4. Seed Starter Trays!! geni.us/GPX4tw I wish I would have seen these for my zinnias.

[@susiea1419]

Please don’t use peat. It locks up carbon. Now banned in the UK

[@dismurrart6648]

The link for #4 doesn't link to a product anymore

[@HollenbergR]

#2 doesn't seem to be right anymore either. I can't tell if it's just fearful sellers not wanting to lose clients who have heard about peat pots, but all of the ones in that search result say they are peat and I can't find any that say cardboard.

[@Argo53]

I have no idea what you said or what visual triggered my not-quite-right lyrics gene, but even before you flashed Flo Rida, I was singing "Apple bottom seeds, pots with the fur". Thanks for both useful information and for making me laugh.

[@GardeningInCanada]

AHAHAHAHA love it.

[@tobruz]

I selectively use peat pots for transplanting. At transplanting time remove any part that is above the soil level as they will wick water away from the pot. Also pinch off the bottom and corners to help the roots exit the pot.

[@tobruz]

The best way to determine when to water a potted plant is by weight!

[@donadams2419]

For the choir pots. You could feed them to your worms when it is ready to be discarded. Cut it up and give it to your worms.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s an awesome idea!

[@northerngirlhobbies]

Yea, cinnamon is an epic fail for the mold. I pluck it off when it appears. Seed starting is a load of work. Many don't know this. I'll be happy when everything is relocated outside after the May long weekend.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh that’s smart! Duh do the obvious 😅

[@northerngirlhobbies]

@@GardeningInCanada Haha it's seriously time consuming starting a million seeds (or so it seems). Hello from Ontario.

[@miriambartley6622]

They cant be planted steaight in the garden. You have to loosen them off.

[@susiea1419]

Try turmeric mixed with rice flower

[@DebRoo11]

Cinnamon does work for me. With and without is a very clear difference in my grow room

[@JenniferGermain-rb2xg]

had a bad experience with the peat pots, started to mold before even seeing a leaf and not good when you have asthma, immediate reaction. Tried cardboard, worked ok and just used toilet paper rolls. Kinda done with both to be honest. Have trays that I repurposed and solo cups, been using the same ones for 4-5 years so far. Need to keep and eye out for coconut core though.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh my that’s not good at all !

[@kellyesselmont2478]

I like to make newspaper pots it’s what I’ve chosen this year… I gently rip them if any roots are attached I just plant the hole thing

[@Thesaltygardner]

Happy gardening season, new subscriber

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thanks for subbing!

[@ofrecentvintage]

I've been using decomposing 12-cell seed starting trays since 2021. I'm on the fence about continuing to use them but they're definitely out there.

[@kspence5300]

I was going to skip bumping up this year and seed into larger containers to save transplant time but I’m wondering if I should now. Thanks for the vid!

[@GardeningInCanada]

What plants are you starting again?

[@kspence5300]

My main concern is my tomatoes and cucumbers. (I’ll buy my pepper seedlings at this point). I’m not doing too many flowers this year because Calgary will have watering restrictions. I’m on the struggle bus with my greenhouse.

[@philee2020]

Love this! I totally also use cookie racks & sheets for the same purposes 😅🍪 I love how you touch on the importance of surface-watering for even capillary action + when to top mist vs when to top-water regularly + circumstances when bottom-watering may be beneficial👏🏻😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yay! Thank you!

[@pilomatrixoma]

Great video! And it can be fun to try different things - I got impatient and started a bunch of zinnias wayyyy too early last year. I had to bump them all up…some more than once. Yikes. But they all planted out well and I had blooms all season long last year! In SW Ontario zone 6.

[@northerngirlhobbies]

Good to know.

[@GardeningInCanada]

You can do it!

[@debbiebolman2705]

I do that every year! The pretty pictures on the packets are irresistible

[@mikeanderson2037]

Not a fan of peat pots, they don’t seem to break down as quickly as advertised. The roots tend to spiral around inside the pot choking the plant as it matures, When I use them, I carefully remove the peat pot then when planting. I burry the remains of the peat pots in the garden. 🤷🏻‍♂️. Have you saw the hack about starting carrots in cardboard egg cartons? It’s supposed to help get proper spacing, and make thinning easier. What do you think?

[@GardeningInCanada]

It’s true the peat and coir ones take a hot minute

[@DebRoo11]

​@@GardeningInCanadaI'd also like some input on the carrots in egg cartons method 😊

[@j.b.6855]

I do use bio degradable pots for some plants. Mostly for starting melons a couple of weeks before Mothers day. But I use newspaper pots. Every week someone delivers a few sales papers, I pick them up and save them for the pots so they are free.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Brilliant that's my favourite choice for these as well.

[@osmia]

+

[@miriambartley6622]

I have been using the papr grocery bags. I can get 8 2.5 pits from a 15 cent bag. I can make them 3 inches deep which is an advantage.

[@PlantObsessed]

Kinda snorked at the boots with the fur clip.😂😂 You are hilarious.👍🏼🙂

[@GardeningInCanada]

ha! perfect I intended that. :)

[@clematis1212]

Just subscribed to your channel! Glad I found you. I used to plant those coco fiber pots and found they did not degrade quickly (as you mentioned) and I felt they also trapped the roots. So I ended up removing the plants from those coco pots and shredded the fiber and scattered it around so the birds could use it in their nests. My current favorite are cow pots, which are made from processed cow poop. Those seem to work very well. The only thing I would say is maybe they add too much nitrogen to the soil. The ranunculus that I planted with the cow pots last year seemed to have quite a lot of aphids. Other than that, they grew beautifully. So next time I would probably rip the cow pots up and only use some of the material in the planting hole.

[@mountainvalleysunshine7228]

Awesome as always! Hey what do you all think of the home made paper pots? Useing a wine bottle as a mold and wrap a Canadian Tire flyer around it has worked great for me for years, especially with the squash 😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

Exact same thought process!

[@SunnyNot]

how do you prevent the pot from falling apart?

[@ellemcclearly1800]

Good info! I thought you were saying "Geek Crew" all this time! LOL For seed starting, I am loving the ziplock baggy and paper towel method and it's going almost too well! Your video was timely, as I now have to move my tiny sprouts and some will need biodegradable pots. --Elle in Zone 8B of PNW, last frost mid-May

[@GardeningInCanada]

I am saying Geek lol it’s a play on words 😅😂

[@tobruz]

Beware: when I was a beginner gardener I tried using Tims coffee cups with holes in them and transplanted my tomatoes in the garden in them thinking they would decompose- wrong! It turns out that there is a plastic like layer on the inside of the cup that was still there at the end of season

[@ArtFlowersBeeze8815]

Isn't that just food grade wax?

[@tobruz]

@@ArtFlowersBeeze8815 at the end of season it looked like a baggy

[@ArtFlowersBeeze8815]

@@tobruz Yeah...that doesn't sound good.

[@dismurrart6648]

Further beware, for paper food containers, if the company doesn't use that plastic stuff, they use pfas.

[@marm2371]

This is my favourite channel!!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Oh jeeze thanks 🙏 that means a lot

[@lexi-vx1pd]

Oh my goodness I love your channel.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I'm so glad!

[@LoveGardening143]

Thank you for sharing mam ❤❤❤with lot of love 💞💞💞

[@GardeningInCanada]

My pleasure 😊

[@HollenbergR]

One you've surface down, if you have a set of biodegradable pots all the same height, couldn't you lay a heat mat across the top of them?

[@platesweightspeaks]

I promise, I'm just as chaotic as you are 😂 when i water anything, everything in a five foot radius. Sorry- 1.4 meter radius. This is gardening in canada after all 😅

[@GardeningInCanada]

Ha! Exactly

[@Nik.No.K]

Dude every time I try to use a biodegradable pot they just break out in white mold. Big problem where I live

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s often the case

[@yu_ba]

Hello, I am a high school student that needs help with something involving with research. So we decided to make biodegradable pots out of water, flour, and durian husks. But every time when we put our mold outside of the house or outside near our garden, um, for the next few days, there will be like these types of substances inside the pot, like moss, a bunch of brown particles that I don't even know. Do you know how to prevent these kinds of things?

[@GardeningInCanada]

What you have organics it’s difficult to controls maybe heating them prior to use would kill some stuff off? In an oven perhaps not sure if they would crack

[@yu_ba]

@GardeningInCanada THANK YOU MA'AM, I really needs this suggestion.. I haven't gotten any help so far 😭❤️

[@2013bmwf800gs]

I like Cow Pots

[@sqeekable]

Do you have the fan going from day one, or once the sprouts are up?

[@GardeningInCanada]

I wait until I have action

[@marcyschafers4203]

I have a question, when up potting peppers and tomatoes, should I put epsom salts in the soil? I am in central Alberta..enjoy your posts

[@GardeningInCanada]

Nope. If you are having BER consider working on your watering first, second look at soil pH, third consideration of Mg deficiency. It’s VERY unlike to be deficient in Canada particularly on soil that’s not used in agriculture production

[@marcyschafers4203]

BER? sorry

[@ellemcclearly1800]

@@marcyschafers4203 bottom end rot

[@marcyschafers4203]

@@ellemcclearly1800 thank you

[@brianramsey3824]

And cow pots

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@stevenl.5490]

6:11 "None of these have drainage for obvious reasons." Why is that? I was considering poking some holes in mine. Is it because they're already porous? I'm using the Jiffy peat pots. Thanks!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Nah leave they the water comes out regardless

[@artstamper316]

I love your videos; they are so helpful. I always read the comments and replies as well because there is often good advice in there. However, lately that is nearly impossible to do. I notice both on my iPhone and my Android tablet that if I read your replies when I return to the main comment section it no longer takes me to where I left off, but goes back to the top comment again. That is not helpful at all. I notice this is true of most, but not all KZbin channels. 😢

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s not good what the heck

[@artstamper316]

@@GardeningInCanada IKR? I sent feedback to KZbin about it, but who knows if anything will happen. 🥹

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thanks!

[@leahnichol6665]

I had that for a short while- a few days, then it sorted itself. I am only on I-pad.

[@pleasantpatch]

Ive seen cow poop ones in other channels. Anyone try those?

[@GardeningInCanada]

What! Are you serious haha that is awesome!

[@lookforward2life]

If I ever see them then I will try, if only because that is freaking awesome!

[@GRPermie]

@@GardeningInCanada They are called CowPots. It uses the fiber after manure is washed. The manure is used in biogas production prior. A little pricy but they break down better than peat when transplanted.

[@GardeningInCanada]

@GRPermie fascinating!

[@GainingDespair]

Is there any good brand of air pruning pots? I've tried fabric pots in the past, made it difficult to really water the plants as it would just run out the side of the faberic before it absorbed. I found myself having to submurge the pots on a 5 gallon bucket.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I have the same stuggles with Fabric. When you google air pruning pots the one that looks corrugated plastic is the one you want.

[@SunnyNot]

@@GardeningInCanada Ashley, what about those with slits at the bottom half? Are they any good?

[@mkpetersen1607]

​@@SunnyNotwatch her video on root trainers. They are one of the best tools we have atm :) if you are in America then "epic gardening" made some seed starting pots that are very similar to root trainers, but easier to use and in several sizes:)

[@makcity7850]

Pete Postlethwaite missed a trick by not selling peat pots.

[@blacksmithden]

I'm so disappointed The facebook title pic on this video was "Moldy Peat". I thought you were going to tell us a story about some crusty old gardener from a hundred years ago. ;)

[@GardeningInCanada]

AHAHAHA

[@mariannewm26]

SOS! Do you know about scale on fruit trees? Our lemon tree is being decimated! I've wiped and sprayed it multiple time... do I need to remove the rest of the leaves and fruit? Would that even help? (It's a small tree, about 3 ft) Do I dunk it in soapy water? I'll take help from anyone right now as it's now spread to my orange tree, even though I tried to keep them seperate 😫

[@GardeningInCanada]

I would remove anything infected forsure! And then what have you sprayed so far?

[@mariannewm26]

@@GardeningInCanada Thank you! Safer's Insecticidal Soap

[@conquererification]

Hack? Maybe. So you had said cover your seeds till they germinate,something I didn't do. So using cardboard it would fall off. Then I used an extra box over the clear cover and put it in the sun and all the seeds seemed to have germinated in 24 hours,

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s awesome!

[@wbshappy1]

In other words, transplant shock is to a plant like learning how to breathe while swimming to a human?

[@mariapina1973]

what is your Facebook called I want to send a picture of my soil? thanks 🙂🌻

[@GardeningInCanada]

Just Gardening in Canada! facebook.com/GardenInCanada

[@thomasswainston2821]

Dish detergent not being organic is obvious. Not obvious to me why it's insane though.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Have you seen my dawn video? Or just dish soap video in general?

[@tobruz]

Dish soap is also a detergent. If you want to use a soap solution use ivory bar soap dissolved in water

[@cuznclive2236]

YT un-subbed me. This happens when they don't like what you you're saying. Pease, be careful! May be time to think about a backup channel, just in case your science doesn't agree with their science.

[@GardeningInCanada]

uh oh that's not good.

[@anishinaabae]

weren’t you the one that unsubbed because of her opinion on glyphosate?

[@cuznclive2236]

@@anishinaabae Yes, but I did not. YT did it for me. Hence my words of caution. I was pissed, and slightly intoxicated. I've since unsubbed. Ashley provides good enough information for most gardeners, and I would hate to see her in trouble. However, I do not support the use of chemicals, especially glyphosates, Grazon, and Aminopyralids.