I planned to buy a tall, wire shelving unit for seed starting this year, but the shelves are $35. That's not a lot of money, but more than I want to pay. Thrifting is not always do-able with three small kids so that lead me to thinking about reusing what we have around the house.
This is a wire shelf that was never installed in one of the closets. It's propped up with four of my kids'
I save yogurt, sour cream and cottage cheese containers throughout the year when I remember to keep them instead of recycle. The green leafy thing is a remaining celery end that sprouted in a bowl of water. We finally put it in dirt and I'm hoping it continues to grow.
I have been save plastic baggies to reuse over the tops of the yogurt containers to help retain moisture and warmth. I also saved all of our seed sprouting/planting containers from last year so that we can reuse them when/if the seedlings outgrow the yogurt containers.
The seeds seem to like the new setup because most of them have already sprouted.
5 comments:
i cannot wait for spring!
How very resourceful. It looks like you made some little terrariums for seed starting...so smart.
That totally sounds like me with the wire shelving. I would look at the price too and then figure out how to made do with things I have.
I know nothing about plants. I hope this is the year for a garden for real. I'm going to try your celery sprouting thing!
Talk to me about blue lights. Regular light bulbs don't work? Do you leave them on all night? I too have begun to think about seed starting- I'm already saving containers too.
Any kind of light will work. The blue rope lights were on clearance and why get plain lights when you can get BLUE? I chose rope lights because I can zip tie them to shelves. I leave them on all night. You could also get UV lights.
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