How do I grow plants in the Mini Greenhouse?

You can easily grow your own chili, tomato, strawberry and many other plants out of seeds in your Mini Greenhouse. Here is a step-by-step guide for you.

PS: If you do not feel like reading all steps, just have a look at the video down below.

Time: 10 minutes Costs: EUR 19.99

Things needed:

- 300 ml water - strawberry seeds - tomato seeds - chili seeds

tools:

- you do not need any tools to set up the mini greenhouse

Mini Greenhouse How-to:

Step 1: Preparing the pop-up soil

Carefully open the pop-up soil without damaging the packaging and pour about 300 ml of water into it. After 2 or 3 minutes the soil will be swollen and feel quite loose - if you notice that the earth in the middle is still rather solid, you can still add some water until it is perfect.

Highly important: the earth should be moist but not wet. How can you test this? Take some earth into your hand and squeeze it. If water is trickling down, it is too wet and you should let it dry a little bit more before continuing to sow the seeds.

Step 2: Positioning the nursery pots and filling them with soil

Place the nursery pots in your mini greenhouse and fill them with soil to about 1 cm below the edge of the pots. The soil needs to still be loose, so be careful and do not press it in too much.

Step 3: Sowing the seeds

Sow the seeds of your choice evenly in the nursery pots (but do not mix the different kind of varieties in one pot). Since chili, tomato and strawberry seeds are so-called light germinators do not burry them but rather cover them lightly with a very thin layer of soil.

Step 4: Taking care of the seedlings

Seedlings should be kept at a bright, warm place but they should not be exposed to direct sunlight. Keep the lid closed and only remove it once per day for a short time to let some air in and ventilate.

Keep the soil moist but not wet (if it is too wet the plants might rot).

Depending on the kind of chili, tomato or strawberry seeds it takes around 1 to 3 weeks until small seedlings grow. If they are visible, the ventilation opening on top of the lid of the greenhouse can remain open (1 to 2 cm). This makes the plant more robust.

Step 5: Planting

So when are the seedlings ready to be planted in CHARLY CHILI, TOM TOMATO or SISSI STRAWBERRY? The general rule is that as soon as the seedlings have grown 5 leaves, they can be planted in a bigger planting pot. As soon as your little plants have reached a minimun height of approx. 20cm they are ready to get planted outdoors in CHARLY, TOM or SISSI.