Pawpaw Project - Part 5 Paper Pots Round 2
Channel: YttriumNitrate
Date: 2012-12-18

With 200 pawpaws and 100 bare root persimmon set to arrive in the Spring, I've been busy making more paper pots. The paper pots will be used so that I can grow them for a year or two at my house and then transfer them over to the orchard without damaging their roots.

The pots I made this year out of shipping materials have degraded faster than I would have liked, so the latest round of paper pots are being made out of roofer's felt which is also called tar paper. Roofer's felt comes in 3 foot tall rolls, so after being cut in half it creates 18 inch tall pots, which should be ideal for pawpaws and their long tap roots.