This year I’m trying a different way of starting our garden plants. My usual way, for years, has been dumping a trowel full of starter into a small pot and poking the plant seed in. As a result, some to the soil runs out the bottom of the pot when watered. This isn’t a big deal. That soil collects in the starter trays and is brushed out, into the garden, after all the transplanting is complete. This year though, I put used coffee filters, grounds and all, into the bottom of my starter pots. Excess water drains out, but the soil stays in. To take the idea further, I’m hoping to get the plants out of the pots by gently pulling them out by the coffee filter edges – potentially disrupting the soil and root system less during transplant.