Recycled Yogurt Cups Hold & Protect Seedlings

Since Pawling’s Transfer Station does not recycle yogurt containers, I drill five holes in the bottoms (drilling through five cups at a time) and use them to grow seedlings.

As I plant seedlings in the garden, I cut the bottom half off the cup and use the top as plastic collars to protect seedlings from slugs and cutworms.

Undrillled cups also protect my seedlings from hungry slugs.  I cut the top two-thirds off and dig the new smaller cup into the garden, near my newly planted seedlings.  I fill the cups with beer and toss a “cup-of-slugs” out the next day.