Though gardening is not usually a staple of the Swye posts, I came across a blog post with some great ideas on how to use recycled materials to start your garden. If you’re thinking about what plants you want in your garden this spring and summer, now is the time to start some seedlings so they’ll be ready for the spring weather. Forget those environmentally detrimental peat moss pellets and say hello to some much better ways of starting your seedlings.

Check out some of the tips on recycled seed starters here including using egg cartons, toilet rolls and newspaper.

Also check out this instructables post on the same topic.

Mr. Brown Thumb weighs in with his ideas.