I, personally, use newspaper pots made from old telephone book pages, just wrap the paper around a couple of fingers to make a cylinder and put one piece of tape on it to hold them together. They have to be stacked close together after you plant the seeds, since they'll lean, but they're easy to water from the bottom. No need to water the surface at all. There's another way to do it, too. Use small paper or styrofoam cups with the bottoms cut out. Turn the cups upside down so the small portion is at the top and punch a couple of drainage holes on the bottom sides. Fill with planting soil and plant your seeds. When it's time to set out the transplants, use a spatula to keep the bottom soil in place to set them in the planting hole. Then just carefully lift the cup straight up and pack the soil around the root ball. Nothing surrounds your transplant then.

Toilet paper rolls or the rolls from paper towels also make great collars for seedlings. When I set out my broccoli, pepper and tomato seedlings, I cut toilet paper rolls into thirds, slit the ring and put around the seedling to protect from cutworms. A 2" high collar works best for me.

Thought I would pitch in here as I have used Snapper RER's for 15 years. It all boils down to respect for the machine. If you fill your 5 bushel bagger with grass clippings and go up a hill without at least 50 lbs of ballast on the front end, you're going to raise the front end. During the fall I actually attach the snow blade to the front end. After I empty my clippings into my dump cart, I hook up, drive to my dump site and dump. When the pile gets too high I drop the blade a bit and push it back. RER's are incredibly versatile. But, if you don't respect the machine it will hurt you. This is no different than any other piece of machinery out there. Learn it and work within its boundaries and you will be rewarded. As to hooking up a Bag N Wagon...Johntommybob, that's just really bad advice. Hooking up a $900 30 bushel capacity trailer to your rear end is not the solution to stopping the front end from rearing up. That wagon should never be used on slopes, even gentle ones. RER's have limits. Once I learned them these things have been among the most enjoyable purchases I've made over the years. These are not dangerous on hills if you know how to use them and use proper ballast and common sense.

Thoughts from an older mother: I think mothers today are making a bit of a mistake in not giving their babies enough "tummy time' ( as is it called today). What seems to me to be the lateness at which babies are rolling over "from front to back" as recorded on-line, is due to this. Having raised four children, now aged mid-teen to 30, before the "no tummy sleeping" rule, I think this new rule is the reason. My first grandchild just rolled from tummy to back at 3 weeks... and although this is very early for any era, the muscular development needed to do this is not going to happen as easily for the baby if babies are always on their backs. Reason: neck, shoulder, and arm muscles cannot get the best workout, which babies like and need to do (There is not a lot else they can do physically in their first weeks after all (when not sleeping and eating). And getting that kind of exercise is much harder for them if they are always on their backs! Perhaps the babies who do not like being on their tummies later might have liked it more if they had spent more time in that position earlier..which babies of only a generation ago did.... In conversations with other new grandmothers we are reaching the conclusion that time constantly on one's back delays the development of these muscle groups... In fact babies will be able to safely hold their heads up much sooner is they spend more time on their tummies from the beginning. So, my suggestion, when you are not feeding or changing, talking or singing to that darling baby, put him on his tummy! (Just make sure, following todays rules, that if he goes to sleep you roll him over to his back before leaving him alone!) This are just my thoughts, however, and there is no reason this matters in a big way. And certainly there are advantages to a baby who doesn't roll over, as once they can go front-to-back, and then back-to-front, they can roll off of things, as well as right across the floor! (which my eldest did withing an hour of first back-to-front roll---then pulled something heavy, which happened to be dangling from a table (10 feet away from starting position) right on to his head!) Oh the things we learn from our first children!! ( Ended up with two degrees from Ivy League schools, despite me!)