Park Seed Garden Journal

There was a new contest in our newsletter this week for the cleverest seed-starting idea using recycled materials. The Savvy Seed Starting contest winners will be announced next Tuesday 02/24. Subscribe the Park Seed Newsletter, and you may be our next winner. The winner of the particular contest will receive a $50 gift certificate – not too shabby, especially for someone with awesome cost-saving ideas.

I've read through some of the entries – The most popular ideas seem to include reusing some type of food packaging for the seed-starting containter: the plastic clamshell containers that bakery and deli goods are sold in – parfait cups and plastic salad containers from McDonald's – the term "mini-greenhouse" was used a few times. Some of the alternative heat sources are pretty interesting too, from recycled water-bed thermostats to old Christmas lights.

Here is a picture of an example we've got going here in the office – It's a plastic egg container on the left and, on the right, one of those baked-potato containers from Wendy's!