all right hey this is my quick and dirty tutorial on how to make awesome biodegradable uh plant seeding pots made from paper so there's a lot of people out there that may have seen these like myself but never actually knew how to do them awesome idea you can go and buy little biodegradable um seedling pots made out of manure paper all sorts of things while they're not expensive they still cost money and while i happen to have like most people lots of things like newsprint from free newspapers that show up once or twice a week and paper grocery bags and of course the spongebob uh water paintings that line line my house uh every time we do painting um so awesome way to do this a lot of people online will show you the how to do this with newsprint and what they'll do is um you know they'll take a piece of newsprint i'm just folding this for the sake of saying it's half a page right you got something like that and you can take a cup roll it around the cup all right you'll fold in the edges you'll turn the cup around without dropping it and you'll put it back in and squish it down so that you'll end up with this cool round pot thing but the bottom is kind of poorly held together so a lot of people use tape or staples or a nifty paste made from a mixture of flour and water and i really don't want taper staples in my garden and i don't want to have to get all messy with flour and water and junk um we'll save that for the kids when they're finger painting so origami wins and uh well let me show you how to do it i found my uh favorite is either uh turns out to be just a regular piece of paper eight and a half by eleven uh makes a great little paper pot this size which is perfect for uh doing your tomato or pepper starts or you know things like melons and such that uh should be started indoors but don't transplant well because the beauty is you don't have to transplant it once you've got it good and start going on there your true leaves are starting in so you're able you know you're going to want to go ahead and plant transplant it into your outdoor garden all you got to do is dig the hole put it in there and the bag will you know compost itself into the garden and you can you know tear the bottom off before you do that to just ensure that your roots will make it through the bottom um and they're you know beautiful and then there's another smaller size which i like to make which is actually about uh half of a sheet of paper or if you're just cutting them out of something like used grocery bags which is my favorite they're a little more durable super awesome 100 biodegradable compostable um already recycled once too um five and a half inches by nine inches is perfect you can't get any better than that um but just for the sake of doing it quick i'll show you with just regular sheet of paper and uh you can transpose the same thing to a half sheet of paper it doesn't matter so here we go take your sheet of paper and you're going to fold it in half hot or sorry hamburger style uh so the two long ends will come and meet each other put a good crease in there now then spin the piece of paper so that the folded edge is away from you and the two open pieces are towards you and then you're going to fold it in half hot or sorry i'm mixing these up hamburger style again and make a good good solid crease on all these because you're using them as reference lines because you're going to now unfold that now you have a center line so on that center line pretend you're making a sweet paper airplane go ahead and fold the two top edges in a triangle like this make those lines nice and defined because we're now going to unfold these two pieces and you're going to want to invert that fold so just kind of lift up a bit and push those pieces in and it should just kind of invert on its own fold lines that you just made and go inside out there fairly easily sometimes it wants to work better than others but it shouldn't be too bad for you and then you've got this you know like the beginnings of a paper hat or something right um that's what it looks like on the inside and then you're just going to take it and like you're continuing to make a sweet plain or paper hat you're going to fold one of the sides to where the end meets that middle crease line give it a good crease there and now you're going to do that again fold it over a second time same exact thing into the middle creasing okay see if you got two there one then two do the same thing on the remaining side and then flip it over we're going to do the same thing to both sides on the opposite side of the whole deal and so you get this nifty pencil looking piece of paper it kind of looks like this all right you just keep it flat on your table and you should be able to lift up and you get two wings you're just going to fold those back all right got everything together now you just open that sucker up the bottom should fold into a square and you've got this neat square pot and you can either leave the wings out um or you can fold them in like i like to do that way once you get some seating mix uh or whatever kind of soil you generally use to start your seeds in in there it'll hold those to the side for a little extra durability bam you got yourself a sweet hand-painted spongebob seating pot and you can do that with anything like i said my favorite is grocery bags either from your groceries or your home brew supply store support everyone um yeah so this stuff while it may not be absolutely free someone's got to pay to make it it shows up free to my house in one way or another and now i have renewable biodegradable super rad solution to starting my seeds and then transplanting all right bye bye all right here's a bunch that have been made up and i'll show you that uh it's really great you can even label them with your favorite non-toxic marker sharpies do work fine they're an alcohol-based ink and even being just a regular sheet of paper uh being watered and everything these hold up just great as you can see here and they'll last for the duration of your of your uh germination process and then just blend them right in the ground another cool thing about them is you can make a ton of these ahead of time while you're just sitting around watching tv or whatever and then just fold them flat and um you can even store them inside themselves but that way whenever it's time to start some seedlings you just have a bunch sitting around and that's a good good use of your paper and it composts itself into your garden and there you go um also i mentioned about non-toxic inks uh things like newsprint use generally a soy-based ink you 99 of them do you do actually have to contact or look it up per newspaper to see what they use but most of these are the soy-based ink whether it is the colored or the black and white but only on the standard newsprint the shiny glossy um advertisement style type papers they can have some bad stuff in those inks so i'd avoid those but as long as it's normal good paper and nothing weird in them you're awesome and good to go thanks for watching