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- Build mini-greenhouse yourself: space for a small greenhouse is everywhere!
- Frost free? Then go outside!
- Small greenhouses made of recycled material
- Prepare small greenhouse for sowing
- Sowing in the mini greenhouse
- Tips
A miniature greenhouse made of pots and foil is easy to build and effective
Build mini-greenhouse yourself: space for a small greenhouse is everywhere!
In order to supply yourself with the most necessary kitchen herbs, if no own garden is available, you can build a mini greenhouse yourself without having to buy tons of material first. And such a small greenhouse just looks really good on the bare windowsill.
Creativity has no limits when it comes to building a mini greenhouse yourself. Space to grow a little parsley, chives or own young plants for later outdoor planting, can be found even on the smallest windowsill. As a material for a small greenhouse you can from the Discontinued margarine cups over pas cut tetra packs up to the fruit staircase use everything that is in a normal household anyway somewhere out there.
Frost free? Then go outside!
If a little space is available in the backyard, where the sun is good, old kitchen furniture, for example an old cupboard with one or two glass doors, has proved to be wonderful for plant breeding. In appropriately sized containers can then even grow slightly larger plants, such as cucumbers, radishes or tomatoes excellent. However, the outdoor versions are only suitable if the self-grown seedlings already something are larger, have stable roots and no longer with frost is to be expected.
Small greenhouses made of recycled material
Many of the household packaging materials that would otherwise go into the yellow bin are a great fit if you're building a mini greenhouse yourself, such as the plastic cups of the ice cream family packs. The rest will be done quickly if the following is worried:
Prepare small greenhouse for sowing
First, the containers should be filled so far with not too moist soil, that at the top still a small pouring rim remains free and the subsequent foil cover your plants can not prevent growth. Certainly, if you build a mini greenhouse yourself, be careful not to pay close attention to the soil that you put into the containers, like a free-standing greenhouse. However, some features that make for a good planting floor have to be heeded, which you can read about in a very special article.
Sowing in the mini greenhouse
Again, less is more, so sow sparingly, so that the soon sprouting plantlets enough space and fertile soil available. Especially at the beginning is very economical casting especially important and only when the soil is completely dry. After the first "order" it can now go to cover, so flap or slide on it and watch. Depending on the germination time, one to three weeks will pass before the first green tips grow out of the earth. It works faster if the covers are lifted daily for a few hours and preferably in sunlight.
Tips
Even if heat is good for the sprouts in the small greenhouse, higher than 18 to 25 ° C during the day or 15 to 18 ° C at night, temperatures should never be lower. If necessary, it is necessary to work with shading when the sun is too strong.