INDOOR MINI GREEN HOUSE ~ GET A JUMP ON SPRING PLANTING

Imagine you’re outside with your already 12 week old plants putting together beautiful flowerbed or vegetable garden while your neighbors watch in envy. “How do they do that?” An indoor mini greenhouse, that’s how. Buying seed in much less expensive than buying a mature, ground ready plant from a commercial grower. With an indoor mini green house you can have the same results as you would have with a commercial green houseplant, but faster. With your own indoor mini green house, you decide when to start growing. You can have beautiful green houseplants year round.

Indoor mini green houses are quite simple, but ingenious in design. A tray of individual cells that house each plant seed are covered with a clear plastic dome. This dome keeps the heat and moisture in and promotes vigorous plant growth. It should be noted, the individual cells in which the seeds are planted are replaceable and should not be reused. A fresh cell should be used each growing cycle.




Proper Placement and Heating Determine Success
Many hobby gardeners fail at growing their own plants because they misunderstand the use of these indoor mini green house units. They will plant their seeds in the proper soil and put them in the window to get sunshine. Then watch their plants emerge through the dirt, wither up and die.

Just like commercial green houses, growing seedlings in an indoor mini green house require the proper amount of heat and moisture as well as ventilation. Leaving the indoor mini green house sit too long in the sun will cause the plants to overheat and bake. Equally important is where they are placed when not in sunlight. Placing the indoor mini green house on cold cement can slow growth, as the soil remains cooler. If you have no other surface on which to place your indoor mini green house there is one green house supply company makes green house heaters for your indoor mini green house. They claim to raise the temperature of the growing medium by 10 to 20 degrees, increasing germination by as much as 20%. Visit www.veseys.com for complete information on their green house supplies.





Additional watering may be necessary but only sparingly after the initial watering at planting. Too much water will drown the new seedlings. An indoor mini green house should be used in a brightly lit area out of direct sunlight to provide stronger root systems and healthier plants that can survive the trauma of being replanted when the time is right. You can plant a variety of seeds in an indoor mini green house such as most annuals and vegetable plants such as tomato, pepper, watermelon, pumpkins as well as others. One caution though, do not start your plants too early, unless you intend them to be houseplants, as they will be ready to be transplanted outside before the outside weather is ready for them.