Do you plant the plug plants that come in teabag type cloth liner as it is or do you remove them before planting? I thought they were degradable; however, the ones I planted in spring still have them around the roots. Thanks.
Most people find them terrible, so they remove them. I can't comment as it's something I rarely buy, and any that I have, have been in proper cells not the teabags.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I've only bought them a couple of times, the first lot were a disaster. The roots went nowhere and the "tea bag" didn't degrade. Second lot l removed the bag, much better.
Try gently to get it off. Failing that, try to damage it. They are claimed to be biodegradable and they say you can plant them. Don't. They're not. They restrict the roots and keep water out of I've found them in the soil years later or around dead plants with bone dry roots.
I've found them in pot grown plants too. The sellers plant up the teabagged plugs into bigger pots. I try to have a little poke around the soil before I buy them. Just in case.
There are several threads on teabag technology as they like to call it. It's entirely to facilitate the industrialiation of horticulture.. It is of absolutely no benefit to the gardener and even less benefit to the plant. I have had plants that mysteriously died, pulled them out and found the roots trapped in bone dry compost whilst surrounded by appropriately damp soil. You have happened up on my hobbyhorse. I will exit and fume😠
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I can't comment as it's something I rarely buy, and any that I have, have been in proper cells not the teabags.
They are claimed to be biodegradable and they say you can plant them. Don't. They're not. They restrict the roots and keep water out of
I've found them in the soil years later or around dead plants with bone dry roots.
It's entirely to facilitate the industrialiation of horticulture.. It is of absolutely no benefit to the gardener and even less benefit to the plant.
I have had plants that mysteriously died, pulled them out and found the roots trapped in bone dry compost whilst surrounded by appropriately damp soil.
You have happened up on my hobbyhorse. I will exit and fume😠