In order to provide yourself with the most necessary kitchen herbs if you don't have your own garden available, you can build a mini greenhouse yourself without having to buy tons of material first. And such a small greenhouse looks really good on the bare windowsill.

A mini greenhouse made from pots and foil is easy to build and effective

There are hardly any limits to creativity when it comes to building a mini greenhouse yourself. There is even space on the smallest windowsill to grow a little parsley, chives or your own young plants for later outdoor planting. As a material for a small greenhouse you can from disused margarine cups to suitably cut tetrapacks to fruit trays made of wood, use everything that is lying around somewhere in a normal household anyway.

Frost free? Then go outside!

If there is a little space in the backyard where the sun means well, old kitchen furniture, for example an old cupboard with one or two glass doors, has proven itself wonderful for growing plants. In suitably large containers, even slightly larger plants, such as cucumbers, radishes or tomatoes, can be grown excellently. However, the outdoor variant is only suitable if the self-grown seedlings already have something are larger, have stable roots and no longer with frost is to be expected.

Small greenhouses made from recycled material

Many of the household packaging materials that otherwise end up in the yellow bin are ideal if you build your own mini greenhouse, such as the plastic cups in the family packs for ice cream. The rest is quickly taken care of if the following is taken care of:

  • Empty and thoroughly cleaned plastic containers;
  • A roll of plastic wrap;
  • garden or plant soil;
  • seeds (bags or seed tapes);
  • scissors and hand shovel;

Prepare a small greenhouse for sowing

First, the containers should be filled with soil that is not too moist so that a small pouring rim remains free at the top and the later film cover cannot prevent your plants from growing. Certainly, when you build a mini greenhouse yourself, you don't have to pay as much attention to the soil that you fill in the containers as with a free-standing greenhouse. However, some characteristics that characterize good planting soil must still be heeded, which you can read about in a very special article from us.

Sowing in the mini greenhouse

The same applies here: less is more, so sow sparingly so that the plants that soon sprout have enough space and breeding ground. Especially at the beginning very economical watering is particularly important and only when the soil is completely dry. After the first "order" it can now be covered, i.e. put a flap or foil on it and observe. Depending on the germination time, one to three weeks will now pass before the first green tips grow out of the ground. It's quicker if the covers are lifted for a few hours a day and if possible in sunlight.

tips

Even if warmth is good for the offspring in the small greenhouse, temperatures should never be higher than 18 to 25 °C during the day or 15 to 18 °C at night. If necessary, a shading must be used if the sun is too strong.

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Garden design