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Here at Will n' Rose's we do eat the products we create, and we eat them often. When we do, we are left with these great left-over product bags and the question, "How can these bags be recycled/reused?"
The answer came to me this spring while I was planning out the vegetable garden. These bags make the perfect seed starters! The different sizes allowed for a variety of plantings. The smaller bags work well to start things like sunflowers and cukes. The bigger bags can house cuttings from lilac and lavender while they root. The even larger bags, well, I suppose you could grow and harvest something out of them right on a sunny windowsill or patio!
When starting your seeds, remember to use a loose & sterile starting soil so roots can emerge with little effort. You could also layer the bag bed by putting some good composted feeding soil in the bottom half of the bag and placing starting soil in the top half; this will allow the tender baby roots to grow freely and deep with an eventual 'feast' to work down towards.
Putting the bag in sunlight for extra warmth, even closing the ziploc until the seed germinates, will aid in speedy germination. With spring well under way, put your seedling outside to take advantage of full sunlight so they grow robustly. If you choose to keep your seedling indoors for a few weeks, just remember to 'harden off' the seedling with a few hours of outdoor sunlight at first and increase by a couple of hours each day till ready for transplant.
GIGly yours,
Melissa Harvey
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