When I tried to pot seedlings last year I used peat pots that I bought at Lowe's. While starting plants from seed is less expensive than buying plants, the pots do start to add up in cost and some pots were really too small for starting things like peppers and eggplants or other things that you need to use a larger sized pot. I had read several articles and looked at some DIY Videos about making pots from newspaper. Some people do an origami-like approach making square pots. However the easiest is the kind where you take a single piece of newspaper, fold it in thirds, wrap it around a glass or can and then crimp the ends into the open end. Slip it off and then smash down the insides, then fill this with potting soil and you are ready to go.
Here is a newspaper pot with some cabbage seedlings.
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